Catching Up

Alright,

So how do I sum up what happened over the 3 years OD was gone?

2014

I was dating Cynthia during 2014. It was a nice year.

I got 2 cats. First I got Cosmo from a local shelter. He was just a kitten.

Then about 2 months later, I found Gizmo. He was a stray kitten out in the woods, half starved little bastard. I took him in. When I took him to the vet, he had every problem under the sun -> Fleas, ear mites, ticks, worms, mange… but I got his health up and now he’s  happy fat cat.

 

Cynthia and I (2014)

Cosmo

Gizmo

Cosmo (left) and Gizmo (right)

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2015

Cynthia and I broke up.

I wrecked my car. It was my fault. =(
I still miss that car to this day.
Now I’m driving a hand-me-down car from my sister, she sold it to me for $1000. It works great, but I was attached to my old car.

I moved closer to my home town, to be near the family. My parents moved down from Alabama to my home town. So now I am near my parents and my younger sister. My older sister is still in the Tampa area.

The rent is a lot cheaper here too.

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2016

My company lost it’s contract in November 2016, but the new company that got the contract hired anybody who wanted to transition over, so I am still working on the same website.

We lost a decent chunk of employees though, as not everybody wanted to transfer over to the new company. My boss decided to give huge raises to everyone who stayed, which was nice.

I paid off one of my student loans. I’ve only got one student loan left.

I became a vegetarian. I hate it, but I can’t stand the thought of eating animals anymore.

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2017

Can’t say too much has happened here. I’ve been streaming games more often on Youtube, and got involved in some communities on Discord. So I guess I’ve been socializing more.

My youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbgquWTbihQC2pJQ_o60Uyg

I’ve been working on my video game code, as always. That never changes throughout the year.

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I don’t know if I still have it in me to write in a diary/journal anymore. Shortly before OpenDiary went down, I had been checking the website every day. I was addicted to it, for sure. Even the first few months after it went down I would open a tab and browse to OD, just to remember that it was gone.

I’ve lost motivation in my life. I have no direction. As a consequence, I never finish anything. I keep starting projects, but never finish them. I’ve been pondering these last few months how I can get my inner fire back, but I don’t know what to do. I use to use my anger to motivate myself, but it doesn’t seem to be enough anymore.

There, I guess that will have to do for now.