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prunesquallormdOnce again, no gaming tonight. Tomorrow we're going to vet our new potential member in a neutral location (one of the few bearable pubs in town, called The Bridewell because it was originally a police lockup). The few brief emails I've exchanged with him suggest that he's not a complete crazy (well, not in the bad way. Crazy in the good way is fine) but it's nice to make sure before I invite him into my home. Saturday night is going to be pseudo-Thursday, in the hope that Tarek's recent spell of extremely poor health will pass enough for him to join us.
I do love autumn, and I don't mind winter at all, but eek, the dark mornings are just horrible, and my energy does have a tendency to go through the floor. It's not like I sleep well anyway, but I need so much more sleep in the winter and I just seem to get less (I suspect I'm very much not alone there).
Oh, and talking of winter, I also suspect that I'm not alone in my complete and utter dread of a far-too-rapidly-approaching Christmas. To be honest, I'm seriously considering lying to my family and telling them I have to work between Christmas and New Year so I can just nip off on Boxing Day and have to suffer as little of the family gathering thing as possible. Honestly, it was always bad but my mother's deteriorating memory makes her so less able to cope with everyone descending on her, however much people try to help. She just ends up getting stressed, then everyone else starts getting stressed (if they weren't already), and then it just gets even worse. And that's on top of the issues I have with my brother. It should be fine for a day or two, right? You'd think. I just bite my tongue and let him treat me like a child for a couple of days and then it's over for a year. Except that when he's stressed and unhappy (which - having broken his right arm at the elbow and been unable to work for several weeks - I think he probably still will be) he takes it out on me and, really, I wouldn't talk to anyone (including him) the way he talks to me sometimes.
So yay, tis the season to be jolly. Awesome.
On the plus side, I'll be able to see my nieces (and of course, I only see them once a year too) and they're very sweet. I just have to figure out what to get them. Last year they were both rather into Tintin, which is nice and easy, and I think they liked the Asterix book I gave them too (I'm bad and tend to think of them as a joint entity, so I try to think of things that they'll both like. Given that Ellie's going to be 12 at the end of December and Hannah is 9 in a month and a day, I guess I won't be able to get away with that for much longer). Perhaps I'll try that again.
But before all that, there's the rest of October, which I love, and Halloween, which is one of my favourite times of the year, so that's nice :). Ooh, and there's Whitby at the beginning of next month, which should be nice.
Not much more to add.
Right now I'm rereading Lirael by Garth Nix. Lots of magic and necromancy and Walking Dead (he never calls them zombies but you know, ZOMBIES :D). Not the best writer in the world but his world building's rather fab and he does tell a good story, so. Kind of perfect reading for Halloween.
I should probably read some adult fiction at some point soon (it's not like I don't have enough of it), I just haven't been in the mood recently. No doubt I will be at some point soon enough.
This is VNV Nation. It's nne of my faves.
And an early Depeche Mode song. This gives me so many warm, fuzzy feelings :)
*hugs* I hope you're all well :)
I do love autumn, and I don't mind winter at all, but eek, the dark mornings are just horrible, and my energy does have a tendency to go through the floor. It's not like I sleep well anyway, but I need so much more sleep in the winter and I just seem to get less (I suspect I'm very much not alone there).
Oh, and talking of winter, I also suspect that I'm not alone in my complete and utter dread of a far-too-rapidly-approaching Christmas. To be honest, I'm seriously considering lying to my family and telling them I have to work between Christmas and New Year so I can just nip off on Boxing Day and have to suffer as little of the family gathering thing as possible. Honestly, it was always bad but my mother's deteriorating memory makes her so less able to cope with everyone descending on her, however much people try to help. She just ends up getting stressed, then everyone else starts getting stressed (if they weren't already), and then it just gets even worse. And that's on top of the issues I have with my brother. It should be fine for a day or two, right? You'd think. I just bite my tongue and let him treat me like a child for a couple of days and then it's over for a year. Except that when he's stressed and unhappy (which - having broken his right arm at the elbow and been unable to work for several weeks - I think he probably still will be) he takes it out on me and, really, I wouldn't talk to anyone (including him) the way he talks to me sometimes.
So yay, tis the season to be jolly. Awesome.
On the plus side, I'll be able to see my nieces (and of course, I only see them once a year too) and they're very sweet. I just have to figure out what to get them. Last year they were both rather into Tintin, which is nice and easy, and I think they liked the Asterix book I gave them too (I'm bad and tend to think of them as a joint entity, so I try to think of things that they'll both like. Given that Ellie's going to be 12 at the end of December and Hannah is 9 in a month and a day, I guess I won't be able to get away with that for much longer). Perhaps I'll try that again.
But before all that, there's the rest of October, which I love, and Halloween, which is one of my favourite times of the year, so that's nice :). Ooh, and there's Whitby at the beginning of next month, which should be nice.
Not much more to add.
Right now I'm rereading Lirael by Garth Nix. Lots of magic and necromancy and Walking Dead (he never calls them zombies but you know, ZOMBIES :D). Not the best writer in the world but his world building's rather fab and he does tell a good story, so. Kind of perfect reading for Halloween.
I should probably read some adult fiction at some point soon (it's not like I don't have enough of it), I just haven't been in the mood recently. No doubt I will be at some point soon enough.
This is VNV Nation. It's nne of my faves.
And an early Depeche Mode song. This gives me so many warm, fuzzy feelings :)
*hugs* I hope you're all well :)
