Sorry to hear about the hardship. I'm glad you were able to scrape by, and find a full time position! I'm really happy for you and your family. I hope your daughter starts talking. It takes time but once she does... She won't stop XD That's what I hear from other people with kids anyways.
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LOL I'd be ok with her talking up a storm at this point. It's just so frustrating for all of us with her not being able to communicate her needs easily. It's one of those things where you know intellectually that it just takes time but the emotional toll getting there can be just so high.
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Adversity can and did make you stronger, congrats!
Thank you for your giveaways.
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Thank you for the giveaways! Best of luck with the move! :)
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Glad things are starting to turn round for you, long may it continue.
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Congrats on the steady job, that must have been a huge relief!
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definitely. Really though, I think I'm still in shock, it really hasn't set in yet. It's been about a week since I found out and it's about 2.5 weeks before I start and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it and get it to really feel real.
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Thanks. Yeah we have FMLA - the family medical leave act. My company did not offer any paternity leave at all while I was there. Although they allowed 2 weeks paternity after I left. FMLA is federally mandated (although my company tried to say how nice they were to give federally required leave) saying that you can have up to 3 months of unpaid leave and not lose your job to deal with family issues. I ended up using all my vacation and sick time helping my wife because she didn't have the easiest pregnancy (high risk pregnancy). After our daughter was born my wife was diagnosed with a chronic disease which gives her chronic debilitating pain and really impacts her strength, and energy/fatigue levels, that in addition to post-partum depression saw me use up all of my FMLA time, and not have anything left to deal with the emergencies and problems that crop up with a normal 3month old (at that time) let alone within a household where the only other caregiver for the infant has a disability.
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Just a bit of me saying thank you back to the SG community.
I haven't been in a position to give back to SteamGifts for a while now. At least not mentally. I was forced out of my job shortly after my daughter was born because my wife was having problems recovering from birth and being able to take care of the baby on her own. This was causing me to have to miss work and so the environment became toxic and I was forced to leave before they pushed it far enough to axe me...
Anyways I haven't had steady employment for the last year and a half and was dealing with depression in all of this. When you can't provide for your disabled wife or for your kids it kind of really takes it's toll on you. We've managed to scrape by thankfully and I've finally been offered a full-time position. If all goes accordingly by about this time next month my family and I will be set up in a new city and state, me with a new higher position and healthy income, and things finally looking up again.
During this time, SG was one of the few things that I had going to look forward to that wasn't also wrapped up in conflicting emotions and guilt. So I just wanted to be able to give back a bit. Unfortunately I'm still flat broke, trying to coordinate a move and coax my daughter to start talking so everyone will have to settle for bundle leftovers at least until I'm a paycheck or two in.
Ok, that's enough of my sob story. Sorry for the wall of text.
Now to the reason that everyone is actually here. The gibs!
Level 1
Soul Saber 2
PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist
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Level 2
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure (2 copies)
Forward to the Sky
Running with Rifles
Lara Croft Go
GTA Vice City
Manhunt
Passpartout: The Starving Artist
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Level 3
Blackwake
Stories: The Path of Destinies
Fairy Fencer F
NBA Playgrounds
L.A. Noire. (Including an opportunity for extra Gibs!)
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Level 4
Hearts of Iron IV
Outlast 2
Max Payne 3 (Including an opportunity for extra Gibs!)
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Level 5
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI (Including an opportunity for extra Gibs!)
More to come in the future when I'm not tired, and have figured out a good way to add a nice table.
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