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Life Update and Beyond

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Some of you may have noticed, I’ve been absent for a couple of months.  That is because my mom unexpectedly passed away in the early hours of January 4th of this year.  I made a post on Instagram about my taking a leave of absence.  My last living grandparent passed away a couple of weeks after Mom. My fur baby, who turns 15 this year, had a lung infection soon after my grandparent’s passing.  It was caught early, and now she’s nearly back to her old self.  I guess life wasn’t done because my dad tested positive for Covid-19 and passed it to my fiancée.  Luckily, I didn’t test positive and could take care of them.  Needless to say, 2023 thus far, has not gone as planned.  We are still navigating this new normal, and every day is different.  We can’t thank everyone enough for the outpouring of love and support in so many forms.  That is the update as of now.  In unrelated news, I have some fun collaborations in the works and will be back to a more regular posting schedule.  I am also working on our first vlog.  Admittedly, the video is taking far longer to make than anticipated.  I had been meaning to start a vlog series ages ago and never got around to it.  Hopefully, you will all get some value (or at least entertainment) from them.

Peace & Love, always!

While I was Away

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I know I’ve been away for a couple of weeks.  I’m still recovering from whatever this bug is that’s going around.  I also lost someone very close to me, and it still hasn’t really sunk in.  Every day I keep thinking that this person is going to call, and that it will have been a horrid April Fool’s joke…but I know it’s not.  This person was my aunt.  Not by blood (we’re cousins), but I consider her my aunt.  She had done so much and had been such a huge supporter of everything I ever did.  We had planned to take a trip together over summer like we did–oh it’d have to be about 10 years ago now.  If there is something I have learned from her passing, it is to really step up and take care of myself.  While I do not have (and hope to never have) diabetes, it does run in our family.  So does heart disease and cancer (thanks genetics), and she passed from diabetic complications.  For those of you out there who are diabetic and do not manage it, please do.  The outcome is not worth it!  Your life means something to someone, and if you are too lazy or just plain don’t care, it’s very selfish.  I’m not saying that my aunt didn’t take care of herself on purpose or that she planned this, because she didn’t.  I am saying that if you have any sort of health problems, make sure to stay on top of it.  See the doctor(s) regularly and tell them EVERYTHING, even if you think it’s insignificant. 

Sorry for the rant.  I realized that I was probably not making sense anymore and needed to stop.  At any rate, I am back now, and will have a couple of posts per day to make up for the past couple of weeks.

Stay beautiful!