Welcome to the newest edition of "Eph's flimsy excuses" with an overview of my plans for the next months. Actually I planned to write this earlier but I caught a fat cold on Jan. 28 (my birthday!) and it just doesn't want to leave!

Like mentioned before my husband now works at Bonn, with appr. 4 hours of commuting every day. So far the train has a failure quota of 40%, with delays of 5-180 minutes each. Our quality of life suffers enourmously from his lack of free time and the very different sleeping habits.
On the 21st we have a first appointment to view an appartment at Bonn. If that one isn't good we'll have to keep looking. We will cancel our current flat for the end of May and we hope to find a new flat quickly enough to get the move done in April or early May.

That means no real updates (especially Seekers and Sims) prior to June at best. I know I said March but at that time we still thought my husband would find a new job quicker! With a heavy heart, Dolltopia is also on hold until after the move.

Currently there is a new Dolltopia Outtake every few days (thus a short story), in which the dolls prepare themselves for the move. I don't need elaborate sceneries for that and can concentrate fully on the characters. Also, real live writes the best stories. ;)
In my opinion there are some very funny short stories, some hints at the later story and even some heartache. I will publish quite a lot of them since I write a scene for each important doll right before wrapping them up for the move - and I have a lot of dolls!
The photo gags will also recieve a few updates. I don't know if everyone can laugh at them - I'm more of a storyteller than a comedian, after all. ^^

Living Dead Dolls FashionWhat few free time I have right now I mostly spend on making sewing patterns for doll clothes and testing them. (For some weird reason I chose the Living Dead Dolls for my first fashion collection, of all things.) When I don't sew I tinker and craft.
Trust me, after the move there will a landslide of new content for crafts and handiwork of all kind.

After the move I also want to introduce some new sections and I promise most of them will be absolutely not about dolls. ;)
(To be honest, quite a few of them will not be available in English, though. But some will.)

XrayIn the end, let me cry about my leg for one last time: cry, cry!

I guess it's about time that I acknowledge to myself that it will probably never be the same again. I still have pain in the foot and lower leg and the way I walk is still awkward. I'm curious to see if it will become somewhat better when I'll have more time for walking again after the move, since I gained quite some weight and lost muscle power due to all the stupid lying around - when I had lost so much previously by walking! Currently I mostly sit around doing scans or sewing and barely get outside.

In a few months they will decide whether the plates will be taken out again sometime or whether they'll stay in forever. The doc also told me  that thanks to this I'm very prone to get arthrosis at a very young age.

Here's my x-ray from September, especially for all those who whinged at me for being in hospital instead of making updates, and for those who think one nail should be good enough to fix it. Woohoo!
(Those holes in the shinbone are from the external fixation, two of the six pins went through that point.)

To be honest: Arthrosis be damned, I would prefer if the plates stay in. Apart from the neccessary surgery: Would you trust your leg after the 16 screws are taken out and the bones look like Swiss cheese?