It's been 11 years now since I joined the Temp. I joined like every other Pokénoob during a massive Pokéflood that caused GBAtemp to close off from guests. I joined so I could bitch about SoulSilver (Japanese release, might I add,) not working on my M3 Real and to possibly find a means of fixing that. I couldn't even read the game, but damn did I want to play it before any of my friends had the chance to play it. So I joined the Temp to accomplish that extremely silly goal of mine. This was just a throwaway account that I had no intention of using outside of a few posts here or there, never once could I have expected to become such a massive part of this community. I am truly happy that this account didn't turn out that way though. Despite everything, I am still active and my life is so much better compared to when I first made this account.
Today's Lilith picture is actually going to be a Sarah picture! This one was a commission by Jaqbee!
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I married my best friend
When I normally make these blogs I talk about what's happened in that year. Last year I covered the rather tragic nature of my life at that time. I had gone through a lot leading up to that point and I was still dealing with recovering from that pain. So it brings me joy to say that this past year has been far better for me. I had gotten married to the love of my life and best friend, @FatalAryia . She was a massive inspiration in my life and if not for her, I don't things would have turned out the way they have. She helped me realize that I do deserve to be happy and that life has meaning to it. Her kindness and love had inspired me to care about myself and about my own life. I love gushing over her so much! She means so much to me and I am so happy that I get to wake up every morning and see her! She's been the greatest thing to happen to me this year and I married her! I actually married her! Fuck, I am so excited to be able to just say that she's my wife! So yeah, I love this Human, she's the best Human.
General life changes
The final months of 2019 were extremely rough for me after starting a new life with @FatalAryia. Those months I was struggling with the Walmart store that I had transferred to because the store was horrible. Most of those months can be summed up with, they sucked and I am glad that my Christmas gift to myself was quitting that job on Christmas night. From there I was able to start a new job at Amazon throwing boxes either on or off a truck. I actually really enjoyed that job way more than I expected myself to. There was something just relaxing about the job that did wonders for my mental health. It wasn't very good on my body and I was constantly in pain due to the job, but my mental health was better. Not sure if that's a good trade-off but I didn't do the job for very long before switching to my current job. Currently, I am working in a sales job selling cellphones in Walmart for a 3rd party vendor. It's a pretty decent job and I loved the people I've been working with. I don't care much for customers, but my supervisor is a cool as fuck guy that I consider to be a friend. I am not sure where this venture into sales is going to go, I am still considering quitting but I have a lot of issues I need to clean up before quitting as quitting now might be more costly than staying for a bit longer. Still, this change in my life has had its ups and downs, but I am happy that I am doing something different with my life and that I do have more options compared to before.
Talking about my health
I've talked about my health before, this year brought a lot of new concerns about my health and those are being looked into. I really don't have a lot of details to give since my previous blog, so I guess it's worth addressing the changes in my attitude about my health. This year brought a sudden realization that I didn't want to die anymore. I simply stopped being suicidal, stopped wanting to hurt myself, I actually started caring about my health and wellbeing. I came to the realization that I need to care about my health because I want to live and grow old with my wife. So with that change, I've started taking better care of myself. I started cutting out more alcohol from my life, so much so that there are bottles of alcohol well over a year old now that haven't been touched since we've moved into this apartment. I've cut back on how much I eat during the day (partly by choice and partly because whatever is wrong with my health has killed my appetite.) My wife is helping me with physical therapy to help with the pain that I've been dealing with. I am also more actively working with my doctor to deal with my health. I am doing everything possible to make sure I can grow as old as possible and spend as much time as alive as possible!
Who's the snake?
So another year and another new character, who's the snake? The snake is Sarah Redfield, my scalie sona that was introduced last year. They are an agender and asexual snake that is a massive weeb and loves technology. Compared to Lilith, they are more of a character than a simple stand-in for myself. They aren't really a replacement to Lilith and I am not going to be changing my screen name to Sarah Redfield either. I just felt like it would be fun to use Sarah more since I love their design and the character philosophy they have. So don't worry about losing everyone's favorite Cubi, I am still Lilith Valentine and that cubi isn't going anywhere!
Today's Lilith picture is actually going to be a Sarah picture! This one was a commission by Jaqbee!
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