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[anotheranon]

Starting to feel a bit more productive. Today, after a long avoidance, I decided to update the Hussar pattern and website; added to both the home page (additional info on original object at the end) and the dress diary - there's even a new picture! :)

I hope to also finish a pagelet of my Miyakes in the next week or so, once I find out the pattern numbers for everything!

Also going through pictures from my Memphis trip; some of them make me rather melancholy because of the people who are missing :( Wish I could focus on the positive, on the people I DID see....

Going to go read, do laundry. I feel a bit lower than I thought :/

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[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Your website for the Hussar jacket is wonderful! Can't wait for updates and progress reports!

And as for your feeling blue about the family visit, I think that's pretty normal. I feel the same after family reunions - so many family members are no longer here - it's kind of a wistful sadness, a remembrance of good times gone by, and thoughts of the inevitable reminiscences that always happen at such gatherings. Also when I go to my old home town I get the same feeling when I see familiar locations. All part of the process of life, I guess. I think when we are older we tend to think about these things more - I never was this way when I was young! Maybe I appreciate people more, dunno.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

The thing was, the visit was GREAT - but it was also the first time my entire immediate family has been together since my dad's funeral and it was rather painfully obvious that he wasn't there. The photos just drove the fact home :(

I know I sure do appreciate my family more than I did when I was younger - all those seemingly insurmountable differences of interest, values, etc. seem to even out a lot.

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, boy do I understand. It was a long time before family gatherings felt any way near normal after my dad died. My mom and I talk about dad sometimes and we say that he's been gone so long it feels like things have always been this way - just her and I (well, and my brother and sister too) but it's been like this for so long it's finally normal. Then we stop and remark that it seems like it was just a year or two ago that he died. It's weird how something can be so far away and yet so close after 27 years.