The Life Updates Thread!

[aretoo]

Congrats, Celes! biggrin  

[God-Raped-Me]

Holy moley! Last time I was here was 2011! I had a friend remind me that Gaia was a thing. I think most of you are probably friends on Facebook with me but for those of you who aren't here's a little update!

GTR and I now have 4 kids, was going to be 5 but there were heart problems and we weren't able to keep the baby. GTR has a full time amazing job as a chef, and the boss wants to pay for him to get his seal. We finally have a dog, and have had her for 4 years now, she's the best dog in the world! I went to university after college and never got to finish because of baby #4 who's a girl and we named her Evey, I had that issue where the pelvis gets weak and it ached all the damn time. There was risk of splitting the front of it where the cartilage is apart so I had to take it easy. Still haven't finished, it was my BA of Psychology and I'm 5 courses short, basically a semester short. Since my last pregnancy my body has been going downhill, I get sciatica pain but don't have it, or at least it's not showing up on the MRIs and my back is ******** from god knows what, so ODSP here I come... It was recommended that I go on it.

Other than that there's not too much more, we're moving again... Landlord is selling the house we're in but hopefully with this next place we'll finally be able to save up for a down payment for a place of our own in about a year and a half. So it's a boo and yea kind of situation all at the same time. I'm not a fan of the place we're going to. So that's it.

Hope life is going well for everyone else!  

[Kaz Likes Cookies]

So sorry to hear your body is falling apart!

Life update: Graduated college with my BA in Journalism. Worked as a reporter for 3 years and now I'm a copy editor/news editor (yay being in charge) at two dailies. Got married about a year ago now. Have two cats and a horse. (all rescues.) Going on year 3 in our one-bedroom apartment, but wouldn't have it any other way. Saving for a house plus now getting to pay health insurance this year is kind of difficult especially with the pony. But overall life is good.  

[Sentama Lin]

Goodness, it's been a bit of a while since I've checked in here, and I'm surprised of the slight bursts of activity that's been going on and about. There's a lot of things that have gone down since my last time here and, well, now:

• Since my last thread made in... 2012? That's seven years. Goodness. Professionally after a bad case of shingles and just constant stress, I've made moves. After I moved in with my (now) ex, I kept working and things continued to be stressful, I came down with Shingles. That year I made it a point to quit.
  
• I joined a startup marketing social media solutions to human resources department and, while I was good at it, loathed the office work. I missed being in a restaurant, but... It was better pay, and I got to see my ex more. Until, well, he got more abusive to me. I went to a pretty low place with a few deaths in the family in the Philippines and no emotional help from someone that should've been there, even though it wasn't his fault. Eventually I broke up dramatically with him by grabbing my bags (I never unpacked from my last funeral), throwing my keys to the apartment on my living room floor, and went to the airport.
  
• For a while I lived back with my parents, doing work remotely until the company I worked for was bought and everyone was laid off. I spent some time just recovering, then decided to apply to be a Flight Attendant. Got the job and I'm still doing it to this day, flying around the domestic United States and, whenever I get a chance, going around the world.
  
• Consequently that makes me a bit harder to reach, find, pin down, or contact. Other relationships started deteriorating because now I couldn't adjust to what other people considered normal. I tried to mend relationships as best as I can but it caused more stress. Broke it off with a long friend of mine who, for a lack of better word, needed more from me than I could give.
  
• I occasionally do furry art now, though in my opinion I'm pretty mediocre. But I've made my own Telegram sticker pack so that's a start.
  
• I try to be online more and connect, because at least I can have people around when I'm all alone in a hotel room.
  
• Things are good! Different, but good. Incredibly different.
  

Anyways, that's what's been going on. I'll probably peek back in here once in a while, definitely more often than seven years at a time. Retroactive happy birthdays, congratulations, condolences, sorries, and other things and proactive of the same sentiments until the next time I come on!  

[ranchlamb]

I hardly chat on here. So for me I got a new bird to be a companion for my other bird. The kids are excited. We will have to work with her a lot to gain her trust.  

[WiskersThCatfish]

i could have swore it was less then five years since i replied to this thread, but here we are

first, to Celes, and Kaz and the others who have poked their heads in: good to know you're still plugging away

to GRM: dang, all that medical stuff is a real drag, I hope things have been getting better, as I do for everybody

to Lin: hey, long time no see! i'm glad you dipped in here to make a post! it confirms a lot of what I've been observing from afar through facebook and stuff, i'm really glad to know that you've found some things to keep you up during the hard times, i hope that everything is still going well

as for me, nearly six years since that last update, i feel... a lot different, turning thirty really settled me down, i think i managed to do a lot of emotional growing up in a really short amount of time, and as a result, even in comparison to my last post, i'm feeling really stable and happy

i uncovered my asexuality about three years ago, and i've been in a relationship with a nice lady for the last couple years too; the pandemic shut me down for a while, but now i'm vaxxed up and probably going back to my shitty job soon

i hope everybody has weathered 2020 alright, talk to you again soon heart  

[Celestial Burden]

That's pretty dope! Man, five years ago was a bop. A lot has changed.

I don't know if I ever talked about being ace in here, but I've id'd as ace since middle school, and fully embracing it as an adult was really game changing for me. I hope you have a similarly affirming experience!

Went back to school and got a second B.Sc. I've left education and moved into the video game industry where I wanted to be to begin with. My partner and I own a very nice home. All in all, significant improvements.  

[Xikrai the Risen]

Hellooooo! It's been an awful long time. I was reminded of this as I was cleaning up my Google passwords and decided to keep this one saved. A lot has happened to me.

Graduated college. Commissioned in the Navy as a helicopter pilot. Got stationed in Japan. Met my wife. Have 2 kids. And now I'm back stateside getting out of the Navy and trying to get into life is a civilian.

I must admit the time spent chatting I'm this guild is foggy at best, but I do remember this being the highlight of my time online back in middle/highschool. Can't believe how long go that was now.  

[ace_dragon28]

Amazing and congrats bro! That was over 10 years ago and it just warms me to see you coming back for an update.

I remember this guild for that dice logo xd && wow, lots has transpired since I started here. I went from being a child unaware of my own trauma and toxic life style, to now: I have a job and supports in my life that are truly phenomenal.

The good news for me is returning to Gaia and zomg is still around rofl  

[Kyla_Ewens]

biggrin I live in a house now instead of a large egg...so there's that