[Gpdd] Misc-- she's back from the DEAD

[Kimi San]

And I do mean the dead. 

Hello, everyone, it's Kimberleigh (or did people who knew me know me as 
Kimi? Dear heavens I've forgotten already). If anyone remembers, I'm Chloe's 
mom, and I STILL have yet to finish Palace of the Piggle (though I swear, 
I'm working on it). I'm finally back on GPDD, I stopped being on it after a 
while and I probably ought to check and see if my old email addy is still 
subscribed... 

I just wanted to tell everyone where I've been and why I haven't finished 
the story. Because I felt awful about that but... well, you'll see in a 
minute. 

For starters, almost on the heels of my last post to GPDD in September, my 
baby sister got killed in a car crash. My entire family was devastated and 
seclusion followed for quite some time. Just when it seemed like I was 
getting better, a man who was my brother in all but blood got killed in an 
even worse car crash. This past month, we had to put down the forementioned 
sister's cat, he just wasn't coping with life, especially life without my 
sis. Then we had to put my mom's horse to sleep (we've had him for 20 years) 
from spinal cancer. It's been a terrible year, and that's why I haven't 
finished the story, haven't kept in touch, have all but dropped off the 
planet. I've been trying to cope and my writing has suffered horribly, I 
used to be able to sit at the computer and compose for hours... now I stare 
at the screen and can't think of a single word. I just have had too much on 
my mind. But by golly, I pulled a B in three of my four classes at the 
University and barely passed Japanese. So I deserve a little credit, my 
brain hasn't atrophied entirely!

I didn't want to just put some sloppy ending on Palace of the Piggle. I 
wanted to really finish it and do a good job of it. But for so long my muse 
has been absent and the sort of simple joy that is vital to that story has 
been all but a distant memory. So I promise to finish it, and I've even 
worked on it some, it's just coming very slowly because I refuse to do a 
shoddy job of it, especially after almost a YEAR of waiting for the ending. 
With all that anticipation you guys deserve a bang-up finish.

To (hopefully) make up for the horrible wait, I plan on making a web page 
for the finished story, in its entirety, with illustrations. Color 
illustrations. And a nice background. 

But anyway, I just want to say, Chloe and I are back. (SHE is fine, thank 
heavens!). We've both gained weight from this ordeal (I worry about her 
sometimes... that'll be my next post probably, how do I get her at a healthy 
weight because she's NOT allowed to die ever!) and we're both kind of 
depressed and lonesome, but we're hanging in there and she's trying to 
remind me that I have more important things to worry about, like her, DUH 
mom. Life does go on. Painfully sometimes, but it goes on. And we deal, and 
we heal, and we um... eat oatmeal? I dunno it rhymed. 

So hello again everyone, and hello to the first time for new faces, um, I 
swear I'm not this gloomy usually, only in the face of multiple tragedy. I 
am even rumored to be funny on occasion. ;)

squee squeeee,
Chloe and Kimi

p.s. they are suddenly carrying oxbow food at a local pet shop, so I bought 
a teeny bag to try it since you guys have always had so many good things to 
say about it. I'll tell you how she likes it.