So…it’s been a bit. Normally I don’t really feel up to giving a drawn-out update of my life, because generally my life is boring and you all likely hear enough of my whining about my dissatisfaction with it every other post anyway. But I’ve dropped the ball on my monthly blog post goal for this year, and actually, there’s been a little bit of a reason this time—sort of the same reason as last year, when life was so overwhelming I couldn’t find the words or motivation to reach out, but this time, this exact afternoon…I need to take another opportunity to lay out the last few months and shake my head at them and wonder how it came to this, anyway.

There’s going to be some squicky medical talk and some facepalming, likely more on your end while I giggle weakly at my own follies, but if I’m going to pay nearly as much for surgery as I did for this website, then darn it, I’m going to journalize and no one can stop me.

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