Around this time last year, I'd made an announcement for the gacha we were making. Shortly after doing so, Linden Labs banned gachas. Go figure! The Leather Collar is available now, with several HUD-driven add-ons to choose from. I'll make a post about that later.
For now, I want to talk about what's happened in the past year.
I forget if I've said this on this site in the past, but I was a caretaker for my father in law. My then-fiance and I moved into his house in 2019 to help him with his failing kidneys. We'd both given up our well-paying jobs; my fiance had to get a job closer to his dad's house, and I stopped working entirely to help with the old man's health.
Fast forward to August 2021... The old man had to get heart surgery to fix one of his valves before finally being approved to be put on the kidney transplant list. There were so many
tests to make sure he could handle it. He went through surgery fine, and was in recovery for about a week. The last conversation I had with him, I told him to be good for the nurses, and he laughed that big, long, hearty laugh that was infectious. The last conversation my husband had with him, the old man told him, "I'm proud of you, son." The next night, he had a stroke. The doctors waited a week to see if he would recover, but ultimately there was too much damage to his brain. If he would have recovered, he would have been worse off than when he went to the hospital - and he would have resented us. We said our goodbyes on September 22nd, and let him go.
Our wedding had been scheduled for 3 weeks later. We reserved him a chair right up front. I barely remember a thing.
So for the past almost-year, we've been doing our best to move on. My family came and helped us clear out all the medical equipment. We ripped out all the 60-year-old carpet and put hardwood down. We're still working on renovating the rest of the house and repairing things around the farm. I've been focusing on learning more things in Blender, started taking commissions for mesh work, I even wrote up a class to help others learn the basics. Husband got a few promotions at work. Overall, things have been fine.
I miss having dinner together and talking while Star Trek plays in the background. I miss the witty banter when the old man was feeling crotchety. I miss poking fun at him about going to Hooters with his childhood friend. And while I don't miss all the doctor and hospital visits, I do miss getting to spend the day with him out of the house.
I hope you get to spend more time with your loved ones. I hope you get to share your feelings, work through all the trauma, and truly heal.
I'm not really sure how to end this... But thank you for reading. I'll be working on getting everything updated to this site in the next few days, and plan on using this more going forward. If you are subscribed, I'm sorry for the spam of emails you might get, haha!
Anyway, thank you for your time. I'm excited to get back into this, and I'm sorry if I made you cry. I hope you have a wonderful day <3
xoxo, Spriggy Doodle
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