Quiet blog / life update
This'll be a barebones blog update - no fancy graphics. Just wanted to acknowledge that there haven't been any posts for a little bit, and that'll likely continue until next month as well. It's not because I'm tired of blogging, just that... 2025 isn't being very kind to me.
Without going into too much detail, my mother passed away earlier this month. This was a complete shock and surprise that absolutely no one expected, and the whole event happened in a matter of seconds out of the blue. Given I only lost my father about five months ago, this has been a truly surreal and incredibly sad time for myself and my sisters, as we now face a parentless life much, much earlier than we thought we would.
I made a eulogy post of sorts for my father after he passed away but it's unlikely I'll do the same for my mother. Not because I didn't love her - quite the opposite, actually. My mother was the most important person in my life and the idea of even trying to form words on a page for everything that she meant to me seems like a nigh impossible task. I am in fact meant to be doing just so ahead of her funeral for IRL reasons, but I've been pushing it back for days now because it just feels like a mountain to surpass.
I have some already booked time off next week, after which we'll be heading back to the old home country for the funeral and some additional time around it. That means that not only am I going to be a bit distracted mentally to really form blog posts worth reading, but also I simply won't have the means to. Therefore, this blog will be a bit quiet till next month. I have a few things I want to post about but, well, we'll see when I get around to it.
Just wanted to give a very brief update to explain where I may have been and why I've been a bit quiet online, for anyone who might have this on their RSS feeds.