Dude. I go to a blind school, and me and my friends just finished the best session of RS games mega play through tonight. It was so fun. There’s popcorn crumbs everywhere. Oh yeah, and on top of that, a few friends of mine are making TTS videos again. They’re ridiculous, but they were hilarious.

My spouse and I have been living without electricity since Wednesday when a record-breaking windstorm took out the power lines in huge chunks of our mid-size city. Our neighborhood was actually the hardest hit, and we've been living in the dark, eating cold food we saved from the dead fridge and put in a cooler, with (thankfully) a gas fireplace to keep us and our cats warm while the majority of the house's heat is electricity-based. The cats have been super stressed throughout the ordeal. The power company's estimate for when electricity would be restored kept getting pushed back. Tonight we were scheduled to leave town for the weekend for our first family get-together with my in-laws in two years, and we were very worried about leaving the house for two days in the middle of all of this. But as we were packing this afternoon by the light of our flashlights and camping lanterns (with me of course tripping over everything and having a very hard time generally with how bad my vision is)...THE POWER CAME ON! We thought it would be at least another day or two. So we were able to leave with much less worry and now we're at a cabin in the mountains for some nice holiday family time and we don't have to worry about our pipes freezing or our cats going crazy in a dark, relatively cold house. Yay!

Just started two weeks vacation from work. My fiancé and I were going to spend a couple days in Niagara Falls together, but cancelled because we’ve had a spike in COVID cases here, and don’t want to risk it, as we’re visiting our families for the holidays. I’m hopeful COVID doesn’t prevent me from finally seeing my nieces whom I haven’t seen in two years. So I’m disappointed, but hopeful the rest of my Christmas plans will go through.

I'm alright, I woke up about an hour ago and am going to eat some rubarb crumble and get a fanta.

I have to go to the dentist next year to get a tooth removed and am a bit nervous about that but don't want to talk about it please, I'll deal with it in my own time.

My nan's 70 and had/has bowel cancer, she now has a stomer, and i worryabout her from time to time.


She's alright, I just worry sometimes.


Having said that; it really sucks that i wasn't tought how to be indipendent from a young age, perents who wrap their kids up in cotten wool should be tought how to take care of blind/disabled kids, hwen I get my own flat, from my grandparents dying because housing here is shit, I won't know how to clean a bath, wash the floors, clean a tiolot, clean an oven, use the washing machine/tumble driver, I know how to wash up, and the basics when it comes to cooking and i nkow i can learn this stuff on the internet and i will but it still isn't a good thing.

Wow, writing this stuff down helped :)

Thanks for the post!

Been having fun making the back-end for a multiplayer mobile game in my favorite programming language (Rust) The idea is to pair it with a yet to be developed front-end iOS application and use both, along with some other projects, as a portfolio of things that I've made completely blind, in order to try to impress once I start applying for jobs in October next year.

Isolation doesn't bother me much, as I'm an introvert, and aside from my previous job back when I could see, I had almost no social interaction with anyone in real life by choice. The pandemic isn't affecting me the slightest, not only because fortunately I haven't caught the disease yet but also because staying home was already normal for me.

I only resent not being able to play World of Warcraft properly for the sake of nostalgia anymore, as it was the game that I played the longest by far, and also the last game I played before going blind. I developed a screen-reading add-on for it but eventually realized that it wouldn't make it that fun to play, in addition to forcing me to update the add-on every time a game patch breaks something, so I gave up.

After 7 years of blindness I finally feel that I'm beginning to learn how to have fun in spite of this disability.

I'm flying back home in a few hours to see my parents for Christmas.

This will be the last time I see snow.

I'm also reconnecting with my best friend from childhood.

thanks for asking! I’m extremely confused about how things are going for me right now. I’m in a general state of somewhat misery, sprinkled with moments of average mood or positive things. My husband and I moved from our old living space in one state to the basement of his relatives in another state. I am completely blind and feeling extremely limited and isolated in this environment. It’s also incredibly difficult to figure out our systems of living and patterns of daily activity in a multi – abled, multi-generational household. On top of that, Covid is definitely intensifying things, as I’m sure it is for everyone. I had been feeling a bit of relief from the misery because I had planned a trip for early January to visit my old state where my family is, and just in the past week or so I’ve had to look at the reality of canceling/postponing. And how are you?

I just got my state ID, and applied for a guide dog!!!!!! *explodes from excitement* also going to “see” Christmas lights with my friends (I’m manifesting how the lights would look bc I just like hanging out with them)