Technically started the game June 13, 1969–yep I know the exact date–entered game combat 9 months later–ironic since I was born on an Army base with an Army Ranger who survived Vietnam
I have relocated 14 times in my life–maybe that is why I am so good at Tetris?
The longest I have lived anywhere was 22 years
Lost dad just before level 40
Mom conceded the game when I was at level 52. I was in the darkest place I had been in in decades. I was sitting in my half bath bath floor, crying, trying to figure out what I had done to make my then girlfriend (aka Jobe) go silent on me yet again–wasn’t anything I did, it is a manipulation tactic she uses–assuming that everything wrong was again my fault, and preparing to walk into the side of the next moving freight train to pass behind my house. That’s when mom called…I was told she gave away my sizable inheritance–that I sorely needed–to my golden child brother, and if it had not been for my dad I would not be here…I was conceived pre Roe and her and a girlfriend had planned to drive to another state to be rid of me. Learning that information I blocked her everywhere and have not spoken to her since. She tried to use my ex as a flying monkey to gaslight me and change what she said, but I have a photographic memory for conversations and I know what was said…I guess I am lucky that no train came by that night.
If you follow me you know my dreams and hopes have been a shambles for a while now. You also know that my shop is my one clear goal at this point, and it is currently on schedule to be up and usable by Fall.
I am currently 189 pounds lighter than at my heaviest.
Doc says my blood pressure is that of someone in their twenties–I take no blood pressure meds.
I am down to an 8/10 pant 😊
I collect tins, and funny lapel pins
I am spending my level up day on the road transporting Buttercup from the public swap point back to my place.
I am starting to find random silver hairs
For about a year now I have avoided music as a lot of stuff reminded me of Jobe, but I am randomly listening again.
I am coming up quickly on the three year mark of living alone
I’m in the best mental and physical health of my life…took long enough 🙄
I guess that’s it for now.
Maura out
