11-15-2007, 12:10 AM
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 | Travelforum Member | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Hey all
Wow - what compliments!! I forwarded this link onto my girls when I read it as I was almost in tears (sad, but true!). I can't believe you all think so much of me - and my writing!
I have been extremely busy with the new job and with trying to get Dad's affairs in order - hence my disappearance from the forum and my inability to reply to emails! Life has just taken a crazy turn and I'm just going along with it for now.
As for how I am doing? Well, I'm okay I guess. I don't think about Dad as being gone forever - that's too much to handle so I block it out a lot which probably isn't healthy but it's my way of coping. The only way I can describe it is to say that I feel like I'm living some sort of alternate reality. It's like I'm living in a dream like state - just going through the motions and not really taking anything in. It's all very surreal and bizzare.
I stopped closing myself off to everybody about a two months ago now - more or less when I started the new job - and since then things haven't been better - just a different sort of normal (if that makes sense). My friends have been fantastic. My family has been...well...difficult to say the least but that's a whole other story and one that's probably not appropriate for the forum.
And as for the final JBR which has been on hold for many months - I'm pleased to say that I have gotten back into it as a distraction and it's almost finished - for those of you who can even remember what happened seeing as it was almost a year ago that I posted the last one!
Again, I want to say thank you for all your support and thoughts and encouragement. I can't thank you enough.
Much love
Ali x
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