I need a fairy godmother.
Apr. 27th, 2012 06:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Scratch that. I wouldn't be curing cancer, or feeding the hungry or doing anything other than enjoying my hobby. Why should I expect other people to give me their money just so I can play? (Plane and rail tickets alone would cost a few grand. Not to mention things like passports, visas, event expenses, and so forth. Or getting enough time off to travel. As it is, I have to fly back to NJ in a week so I can go through the contents of the attic and figure out how much of it I want to ship out here because my sisters ganged up on my Dad and he's selling the house and moving into a condo. (Airfare, car rental, boxes, postage....)
Sigh. One can dream....
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Date: 2012-04-27 06:23 pm (UTC)Of the options, Moscow takes the longest (I have to fly to New York and go east), but I could at least meet up with some Sengoku.ru member(s) and travel to the event with them. This was "Sanjiro's" proposal when we first chatted about this after their event in 2010. (Can we say getting thoroughly pickled on the train? I knew we could.)
There's no way I can do it this year anyway. I don't have enough vacation time.
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Date: 2012-04-27 04:18 pm (UTC)Do not envy you having to go through your dad's stuff. We've had to do that three times in the past 10 years--when my grandfather died and they sold that house, then my grandmother died and the family sold her house, and then my parents downsized to move back down to Texas to be near my brother and the grandkids.
Got a lot of furniture/art/power tools, but hauling it up north was a major effort, plus it was an emotionally wrenching job. I fear I am overly materialistic and my feelings tend to get tied to objects.
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Date: 2012-04-27 04:43 pm (UTC)