Back... sort of.

I've been off this site for a while due to the fact I've been insanely busy going to school to become a veterinary technician. I am a study bug. I get called Hermoine and Topanga by my husband, best friend, and roommates. And anyone who knows me and hears this is unsurprised. I tend to hyper focus on one thing so I can be the best I can be at it. My husband insist Topanga is more accurate because Topanga gets a B and she has a FIT. "Doors get kicked and the cat gets sulked at" so yeah that's probably true. I study a lot, I know what I'm capable of, I don't compare myself to others, and I hold myself up to this standard that I have in my head... when I fail I get irritated. When I fail it's typically because oh a person shouldn't hyper focus when they have friends, family, and a well life. It's not healthy and when I don't do the unhealthy thing I don't do my absolute best and it annoys me because why shouldn't we do our absolute best and succeed at everything we do forever in all aspects of our life... yeah it's stupid. Anyways I'm on my veterinary assistant externship until mid June and then I'll taking a sequence off to play catch up in other parts of my life and I'll start back up in August.

We're planning on buying a house between now and when our lease is up in... September or November... I need to look at that. So I've been obsessing over house porn on Zillow trying to find the perfect house in our budget in a neighborhood that best suits both of us. This might end up meaning not in the city. I love the city while the husband likes the country, BUT we might get a better deal if we don't just look at the city. We have to find a 4 bedroom since my best friend Iris (the one who helped write Mission Iruka) now lives with us and Scott's dad will eventually move in with us (after his roommate and friend passes. And I would like an open floor plan and a nice bathroom and well some very specific crap that I can't really put to words. I don't want to have to refurbish my house except a minimal amount because yuck that is not my idea of "quality time" as my biological "mother" used to call it. I will hire somebody to make those changes before I will do them because I hate it that much. Anyways so that will be consuming a lot of time.

I'm also going to work on 2 books that are about a third done (one is a side story to Coffee Cake) and the other is related to "Business As Usual" which was originally a KI story. There is a 300 word short I'm working on for the queer sci-fi group that I belong to which is for a contest. I'm debating on if this will be in Love and Syria's universe or if I will write something fantasy based on an idea my daughter suggested. I'm going to be writing something for the KIFest LJ group's next contest and possibly one other fanwork.

On top of this I'm going to be traveling to NYC the first week of June. My husband's company is getting together and well I feel it's a good way to support my husband's career. Yeah it's very 50s, but it works and when it's reversed he does the same. I feel companies are far more invested in their people if they know and like their families. That and I really like his coworkers and bosses. I genuinely trust his bosses not be dicks which is crazy because I don't normally, but both are genuinely good people especially one of them. Anyways going to NYC and will be there for a week, hell if you live in NYC and want to get together let me know.

I'm also going to Vegas around the beginning of August. The husband is going for a conference and well I have always wanted to go with him, but something always comes up. It's also a good time to hang out with his coworkers (and associated significant others all of whom I find charming and wonderful). Again if you want to hang then let me know.

Then in September I'm going to Yaoicon. Which will be after I start school, but it's during the online portion so meh I'm going for a week.

In October two of my friends are getting married and I'm the... er Matron of Honor for one of them. So, I'm going to go to Fort Collins, CO and probably spend a week or two there being a proper help with setting things up again while doing my online classes.

Finally around the end of October I start classes again so I'll probably disappear for awhile again after that. Until then I will try to be on a bit more frequently. I glanced at journals and art (not all sorry) and thank you for all the faves and watches those still make me incredibly happy. I deleted everything in that area though so that I can start fresh and not come here and feel like I should reply to things that are a year+ old or well conversations I've totally lost track of at this point. I like you all and I feel like I was avoiding things because I felt overwhelmed by the fact that I hadn't responded to those things. Well starting fresh so hopefully that will help.