Saturday afternoon updatage

Yesterday went pretty damned swimmingly, all things considered. Had lunch with firewillow who was little more than a zombie, poor thing. I'm always amazed at how she manages to remain upright in spite of everything. She re-introduced me to bubble tea at the local Tea Stop, where I had an Iced Milk Papaya Bubble tea, which really was extremely good.

I left her shortly thereafter, and wandered (as usual) over to Le Mélange Magique, because I just can't help myself when I'm around there. Now that I actually know a lot of the people there, I really like hanging out in that store. I've even sort of become used to the smell of incense, even if it gives me migraines (not all incense: I like pine-scented incense and any fragrance that isn't too "heavy" if that makes any sense).

I met up with 'Mu there, and met another Mélange regular named Catherine, who was a total sweetie. She asked me to come by after I'd finished my banking stuff, and I promised I would then ran off to meet blackbuffet at the Gamers' Guild. I spent a frustrating hour and a bit there, first off waiting for him and the Guild President to finish their game of "Munchkin" (which is a card game, if you were curious), and then waiting at the bank while the extremely inefficient teller tried to give them signing authority over the bank account. As it turned out, my presence was entirely superfluous, but I guess if I hadn't been there they would have needed me, the way these things go.

So, nearly an hour late, I rejoined 'Mu at Mélange, and we sped off to St. Denis street where she introduced me to the wonder that is Lush. I'm not really big on cosmetics and bath stuff (I don't have the patience for it), but this stuff was truly remarkable. First off, it was very hard to believe that it was soap and not food (especially the stuff that looked like cheese and the stuff that looked like chocolate). I bought myself a lavender bath bomb which I intend to use either tonight or tomorrow night to see if it'll help me sleep better. Am enthused.

After some deliberation, I managed to coax her out to dinner. We decided on a restaurant called "Primo Piatto" which is a delightful, if expensive, Italian place near her home. Of course, we neglected to remember when we went that it was not even five o'clock, so naturally the place was closed.

We repaired to her apartment to wait for the restaurant to open, and played Scrabble, during which she absolutely wiped the floor with me. I suck at Scrabble, and play maybe once a year, but it was fun. RC was there, and in an absolutely pissy mood. I'd forgotten how disagreeable he can be when he puts his mind to it, and it took all of my willpower not to beat his head in with a side table. I honestly don't know why she stays with him, especially with all the manipulative crap he pulls. *grr*

He got even pissier when we changed our m9inds and decided to go to Kam Shing, because it wasn't as expensive. He'd wanted us to bring him back some bruschetta, and we had foiled his plans. Whatever.

We called up firewillow to see if she wanted to come, and left her a message, which she sadly got far too late. I guess next time we'll coordinate better.

As it turned out, once we had left the apartment and were on our way to Kam Shing, we had a lot of difficulty finding parking, and so 'Mu saw this as a sign and decided we should go to Bâton Rouge instead. *giggle* So that's what we did. 'Mu called her annoying fiancé to tell him of our change of plans, which got him even pissier, but luckily there wasn't much he could do about it. Once 'Mu had vented a little bit about how pissy he was, we were able to get a really nice quiet booth and ordered dinner.

First off, let me say that they make *really* good babyback ribs. Dinner was most excellent, although certainly not a three-star French restaurant (but you don't get those in Canada, obviouslY). We chatted up a major storm, covering everything from parents to children's books and God knows what else. We didn't even notice the time go by until we looked around and noted that the restaurant was almost deserted.

It was midnight.

So I drove 'Mu back home amidst mock-complaints that she had wanted to read her book so she could finish it and start another one ("and I'm a slow reader!"), although I felt vaguely guilty because she did have to be up at 9:30 to go somewhere.

Still, I think we both had a good enough time that there were no true hard feelings.

Puttering around...

Am considering doing some light bogganing today (God, I love that word!). Do a few dishes, maybe pop a few articles of clothing in the wash.

I have to wash my hair too. Haven't done that in a few days, and there's a LARP tonight. I may take a nap, too, as I'm really still quite tired. Don't know if I'll be able to sleep, but I have a book to keep me company just in case.

Work on aparecium_rpg proceeds apace. I have made two character questionnaires (mostly based on forthright and curtana's roleplaying questionnaires as well as out_lines's questions).

firewillow and I have also hashed out a rough draft of the rules we plan to use (nothing major, mind you), and all the mod and community LiveJournals have already been created. Now we need to brainstorm about some of the moderator-induced plots we have in mind (this is the major difference between this RPG and reparo), and figure out how the hell we're going to make our calendar make sense given that this is the end of January.

*facepalm*

Am hoping that once things settle down for both of us healthwise and personal life-wise, the effort will get more cohesive and this lovely little RPG will get off the ground. I'm looking forward to it.

A very productive day

So I slept until noon. Puttered around on the computer until about 4pm, then had a nap. Woke up at eight pm, too late to go to the LARP, so I came back to the computer.

Yessir, a very productive day in the life of Phnee.

On the plus side, I did get to see this which was positively inspiring. Many thanks to abiku for pointing it out to me, although I think he got it from somewhere else. For those of you who like me still have dial-up access, be warned that it does take a while to load.

Am feeling much better today, overall. Talking for seven hours straight yesterday with 'Mu was a big pick-me up, and I only feel bad because she can't be given a taste of her own medecine. That woman is marvellous.

Sleeping for a really long time helped as well. I will be taking my little white sleeping pill soon and heading back to bed. Am pondering using my lavender bath bomb, but I have to figure out a way to make my tap stop dripping if I want to have a warm, pleasant bath. See, it drips in a constant stream of cold water, which makes any bath go unpleasant quite quickly.

Hopefully, once that small problem is solved, I will have a relaxing bath and sleep like a baby. Easier said than done in my case, but it is my ultimate goal to become completely healthy and well-adjusted one of these days. :)

I tried to do that pie-chart of my moods that longpig has, but it told me that it doesn't work if your entries are friends-only or otherwise protected. Blast. I also use too many of my own moods instead of their choices for it to make any sense. Double blast.

I missed Buffy tonight, obviously, since I have no television here. I've spent the last few Saturdays at my parents' place, and watched Buffy there where I got sucked back in. Can anyone tell me what happened in the latest episode? *pleading look*

Yurgh.

Ate too many noodles. Am more stuffed than a goose at Christmas. Stick a fork in me, I'm done.