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Yeah i know, i suck...

This year has kind of been a year where i've tried to really achieve things...important things. While my current career path hasn't changed, other things have. I moved to a different store within the company i work for (a supermarket known as Somerfield, which will soon be known as The Co-operative) after being threatened with a knife at my previous one (although that wasn't the only reason, that particular store sucked and they pretty much used me).

My fellow colleagues at my new store treated me a thousand times better. I actually recieved some genuine recognition for the effort and time i was putting in and they made me a supervisor, payrise included (although i'm still skint most of the time lol), which was nice. My confidence rose again quite significantly as a result.

Three weeks ago i did something i thought i'd never do and it may not mean all that much to most people but for me it was probably the biggest thing i've achieved in my life to date - I passed my driving test - after 30 lessons and at the first attempt, with only 6 minor faults. In about 3 weeks time i should have a car. This is massive for me and will only change my life for the better, including broadening my further career options and seeing friends and family more often.

Unfortunately, while this year has probably been the best year i've had since i left University, for my loved ones around me things have been especially tough. My step-father (who has earned the right to be known as my dad, even though technically he is not) and all of us entered the month of September with the unfortunate knowledge of the fact that he had a brain tumor.

Initially this was really hard to digest for myself and my family. He is one of the nicest, most compassionate human beings i have ever had the privilege of meeting and having in my life who certainly did not deserve that to happen to him. Thankfully he had a successful operation to remove most of the tumor, but as the remaining part of it was situated on the stem of his brain they could not remove it (brain damage or worse would've been likely if they'd tried). So he is undergoing both radiotherapy and chemotherapy to remove what remains. Initially his treatment did not go well but after surveying other options and methods he is now responding well and looks stronger and better and more positive every time i see him. I can only thank the God above that he is ok and recovering well.

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This has pretty much been my year in a small nutshell. Why am i coming on deviantART to explain all of this when i have been away from here for over 12 months? I don't know. I guess there's a small part of me that hopes that people out there still care. I realise that i probably haven't been the friend or person that everybody thought that i was. I just didn't think about deviantART much. I never forgot the friends i made (and hope i still have) but i really needed to focus my mind elsewhere.

If i have let people down, i'm sorry. I'm just telling it like it is. People who know me well enough probably know that sometimes i like to bear my own soul to the world anyway, lol.

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Sonic the Hedgehog? Yeah he's still awesome. I'm nowhere near as obsessed as i used to be though, which will probably come as a huge relief to some...I very much enjoyed seeing old friends and meeting new ones at the London Expo a few weeks ago. It was nice to be in a place with people who didn't judge me and let me be myself. So thanks to all who came with me and shared the experience! Maybe next year i'll cosplay (oh dear Lord...), but as who i dunno yet. Me 'n ~Squeak83 are mulling over some ideas for next year.

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I have recently done a quick re-design of Danno, although you may not recognise him when i get round to posting him up.

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To all who still care, i thank you. To those that did care but don't anymore, i don't blame you!

I'll hopefully see you all soon.

Signing off.

Best wishes.

Danny.