Absentee List 3

[Blackrosefencer]

I just wanted to let you all know that this week is going to be a bit crazy. I'm drowing in a sea of paperwork at work AND at home. As I said, I'm taking this class and I'm doing really well with it and it's not too hard. But this week is my 7 day work week beginning tomorrow. So it's going to be a bit hectic. Between wedding planning, this class, and working 7 days, I can't guarantee I'll be able to do much posting and if I do, it'll be one character at a time. But I'll definitely lurk when I'm not busy so I stay caught up with posts and I'll post when I can.

On a side note, I just have horrible writer's block where Inferno is concerned right now. See, what happend was.....I skipped over a lot of the posts in that scenario intending to go back to them once I posted for my other characters, but then I got tired and went to bed. Then, next time I posted I had to read everything I skipped and discovered that I was further behind than I realized in that part of the story. So now I think it's best to just assume that he was shot down while he tried to apprehend Starshadow and went and got repaired. Once I get through this crazy week, I'll have him reemerge from the CR chambers and just jump back in from there. I don't think it's hurting anything plot wise to have him sit out for a bit.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

Thanks for the FYI, Blackrose. Don't drown in all that work, ya here?

[Blackrosefencer]

lol @ OOP.

I'm back from my long week, but then I had another long week after that. I had one day off which I used to get ahead on some work, but then I had to work again for a few hours. So I'm working on another 6 day week. I'm off to a concert tomorrow (Judas Priest...I'm SO psyched!) and then off dress shopping with one of my bridesmaids Friday. Then Ren faire Saturday. But I'll get in a post eventually. Arachnitron I can probably fit in before the concert since it'll be short and sweet, not much dialog to respond to, but Dinobot I have to read over stuff again to make sure I got everything.

[DarkSpark]

Hi guys, I'm on vacation now BUT my back is giving me grief, so I'm gonna wait for the next post for Night Terror's character before posting for my gang again, hopefully my back will feel better tomorrow or in a day or so (taking meds & trying to stretch, sorry about this, just can't concentrate well enough til the pain subsides).

[una]

Yikes! I hope your back heals, DarkSpark!

[Phoenix]

Sorry to hear that, DS. What happened to your back?

Back pain does suck. Quite a few of my patients have it, some have even had back surgery. And I will let you know that I certainly don't envy anyone with back problems. I actually injured my lower back while giving birth to my youngest and two years later I still have occasional set backs. But it really has gotten a LOT better than it was. For several months after having her, I couldn't sit down without being in horrible pain due to the injuries to my coccyx (tail bone). I still feel discomfort if I sit for a while in uncomfortable chairs or if I don't use proper positioning.

Using NSAIDs like ibuprofen/motrin can help reduce inflammation in the affected area, ice packs and heat packs work for some (heat more so for swollen areas whereas ice will help numb an area). Just be careful about putting anything very hot or cold directly against the skin, so I recommend wearing a t-shirt in between or maybe even a towel.

I hope you feel better soon!

[DarkSpark]

Hey guys, thanks for the well wishes, taking it easy and stretching/walking this weekend has helped me out BIG TIME (that and advil...Thank god for pain meds XD). It was nothing super serious, just painful, too much so to sit down long enough to concentrate on writing anything. However, I plan on getting a new mattress (the cause of the problem I think, my bro had similar lower back issues until he ditched his old mattress for a new foam memory one), and hopefully that shall be the end of my back problems (unless I pulled a muscle at work or something & the bed had nothing to do with it XD).

That being said, I am gonna try to get a post in today for my preds if I can find the time before mattress hunting, so hopefully I won't be delaying you guys any longer, thanks for your patience. Just as a heads up though, I won't be roleplaying on Friday because...Halloween is my Christmas!...Except for actual Christmas but you get the idea, I'll be too busy eating sweets, watching horror flicks, and scaring thieves...Er....Greeting trick r treaters that day "eyes go shifty"

[Blackrosefencer]

Hey guys, thanks for the well wishes, taking it easy and stretching/walking this weekend has helped me out BIG TIME (that and advil...Thank god for pain meds XD). It was nothing super serious, just painful, too much so to sit down long enough to concentrate on writing anything. However, I plan on getting a new mattress (the cause of the problem I think, my bro had similar lower back issues until he ditched his old mattress for a new foam memory one), and hopefully that shall be the end of my back problems (unless I pulled a muscle at work or something & the bed had nothing to do with it XD).

That being said, I am gonna try to get a post in today for my preds if I can find the time before mattress hunting, so hopefully I won't be delaying you guys any longer, thanks for your patience. Just as a heads up though, I won't be roleplaying on Friday because...Halloween is my Christmas!...Except for actual Christmas but you get the idea, I'll be too busy eating sweets, watching horror flicks, and scaring thieves...Er....Greeting trick r treaters that day "eyes go shifty"

Glad you're feeling better. I swear by Icy Hot. I'm pretty active what with fencing and bow shooting all the time, not to mention I have a very physical job and I tend to go out running from time to time. I always have a tube of Icy Hot around for pulled muscles and general back pain (I have chronic back pain thanks to a spinal deformity). I love it! The commercials do not lie.....it really does get icy to dull the pain and hot to relax it away. I have no idea how it does it! But it's amazing! In fact, I used it tonight on my neck. My neck feels great now!

Anyway, Halloween is also a big deal for me. It's not only my favorite holiday, but holds great significance for a lot of other reasons. I will most definitely be scarce this weekend. I'm hoping to get a post for Arachnitron in before the holiday and maybe bring Inferno back as well, but it depends on if I'm able to fight off this sinus infection....I'm miserable right now and I will NOT be sick on Halloween. I won't!!!

[Wintersong]

Alright for certain in the next few weeks I should have more time to post if the next episode starts sometime in the next month or so. I'm nearly to the end of my classes thank god so I likely can sneak more time to post or at least keep track of what the heck has gone on. Yes, I've shamefully lost track yet again with what's going on and am kicking myself for not having foreseen this unfortunate timing sooner. But that's life and for sure this time I will be in the next episode. I hate missing the best parts of this story and have only skimmed over some recent ones.

Hopefully, I can become far more active again since next Semester I only have four classes and it shouldn't be much of a work load. If it is, I'll try and set some time aside to at least get a post in a week if I can. Sooooo sorry for all these absences guys but life seems to like to throw me unexpected curve balls. I can see why some people hate it.

[Blackrosefencer]

I'm sorry everyone. I haven't forgotten about the game....I'm just trying to finish up this class I'm taking and the holidays were a little hectic. My cousins turned 21 last week- right after the Thanksgiving holiday (which if you don't live in the USA all of that means absolutely nothing to you)! So there was a lot of family stuff going on. I was hoping to jump in with Dinobot and have him alert Rattrap to the fact that Megatron was signalling again- I figured he'd be watching the monitors- but between the time of me reading that post and then getting online after work to respond to it, a bunch of other people posted which I had to read and then I got too tired.....but now so much has happened, I don't really know where to fit him in. I know he's supposed to be pretty important to the story line right now so if there's something you want him to be doing, feel free to assume that he's doing it. You can even write that into your posts or have him respond to situations appropriately if I disappear for a bit. I'm trying to keep up, but homework keeps happening.

I can post Tuesday- it's just that I have assignments due Monday so I need to get those done.

[Wintersong]

Hey guys I'm still around. I ended up busy somewhat last week and ended up coming to visit my dad for New Years this week since he works in another state from where I live. Unfortunately, internet connection is shotty and usually barely have much to make much of a post. Skip me if you already haven't, just say Spineback replied to Megs of a "yes sir" or something along those lines and that Wintersong arrived at the meeting with Rattrap and Whitegrazer. I'll catch up Monday when I get back, see you guys then!

[Phoenix]

As a couple of you already know, we're going to visit the in-laws in Belize. We're leaving early tomorrow morning and coming back in the evening of the 20th (a Tuesday). In the meanwhile we should have some limited computer access while there so we won't be disappearing completely.

[Wintersong]

*feels like a broken record*HOnestly, I might as well have a record for saying this so often but my schedule for school was not quite what I expected so I've been trying to get into the groove of things the last few weeks and I haven't had any chance to look at recent posts. I am, to say the least, completely behind and not sure what the heck I can do from here since it's been a few pages and not even sure what's going on now. Also all last week I wasn't feeling well at all, between feeling nausea and dizzy I also had a bought of just feeling utterly tired the whole day and could barely stay up by the time night came around. Hopefully when the next episode comes around I'll have myself back in order.

[DarkSpark]

OOC: no worries Wintersong, though if you do find time to post, all ya need to recall really is that Megs put Spineback in charge while he was away, Tarantulas was shot, BA & Quickstrike went off alone, & Starshadow is busy being locked up in the brig waiting to be studied and/or interrogated lol.

[Optimal Optimus Primal]

Wintersong, it may have been a few pages added but there hasn't been a lot going on. DarkSpark covered the Pred stuff. All the Maximals have done so far was Rattrap, Whitegrazer and Wintersong meeting Dinobot, Landslide and Ironclaw at the location of the exchange. A little chit chat happened while they waited for the Preds and now the Preds have shown up. Not much for Wintersong to do at the moment but stay vigilant because Inferno is missing when he was supposed to be tagging along with the others, and be suspicious of all that other under-handedness Predacon hoohah. They just exchanged Nexus for one of the disks. Now they'll be exchanging Optimus for the other. What could possibly go wrong? At any rate, Blackrose has been hit and miss with her posts, too, and Phoenix has been on vacation since the 11th, so things haven't been running as smoothly anyway. Hopefully you can jump back in, but if not, we understand. RL first. Thanks for the heads up.