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The insomnia appears to have resolved. I think. I went to bed late because I ended up watching Critical Role, but I slept soundly for seven hours, and then had a two-hour nap before work without any issues (other than I got really cold, for some reason). So, yay for that! Insomnia sucks.

Today was kind of a not-much-happened day. I got my hair cut (no pictures, sorry) and am quite pleased with the result. I sort of knew my hair had soft curls, but the kind of minimal styling I've always done to it usually let to it hanging straight. No longer! So now my hair curls, which feels super weird. I got used to thinking of myself as someone with straight hair. I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't have the kind of curly hair that people with actual curls complain about, with frizzing and hairbrush issues. Still, it's definitely not straight. Which, I suppose, is fitting, since I'm not straight either. ;)

That aside, I went home and played a video game that I am basically terrible at, called 7 Days to Die.( In which Phnee goes on at length about gaming and zombies )

After the video game came a nap, and then work, which has been very work-like the whole evening and into the night. It finally started winding down about an hour and a half ago, when I was able to head out to grab something to eat (the nap resulted in a poorly-planned meal, alas, but I think I needed the sleep more).

So there you have my wild adventures of the day.

Current Mood: working
Crossposts: http://mousme.livejournal.com/1215089.html

After literally years of hemming and hawing, last weekend I decided to create a Steam account. There was a sale on Borderlands and Borderlands II, and a Twitter friend was excited about having people to play with. I figured $5 for a game was perfectly acceptable, given my current financial woes, and signed up. There followed a very frustrating hour of trying to get Steam to load, trying to get Steam to accept my money, waiting for Steam to update, and then waiting for my slow-as-molassed-uphill-in-January internet connection to actually load Borderlands II (14 hours total for 5GB or so. Ridiculous.). After that, there were updates to load. You get the idea.

There ensued a week of business bordering on insanity, and I didn't actually get to try the game until Saturday. My friend V. was very patient in the interim, then hopped online to play with me.

( In which Phnee is really bad at FPS )

So that's the story of Phnee Tries to Play First Person Shooters. Possibly not as hilarious as it seemed to me when I started writing it. ;)

Current Mood: silly

Had a lovely gaming night last night, but as a result was up until 1am, when my usual bedtime on an off night is usual more like 10pm. Got home and slept on the sofa so as not to wake

pdaughter, but she ended up sleeping badly anyway, which sucks. I didn't sleep especially well either, as I'm always subconsciously worried about falling off the sofa when I'm asleep and tend to wake up every 30 minutes to an hour when I do that.

I am feeling the effects of yesterday's shovelling, too, probably unaided by the time spent on the sofa. Had weird dreams about my family and my godparents visiting at or around Christmas and each wanting to avoid the others because they'd had a falling out which no one would explain to me. It was a bit distressing.

I didn't end up making a proper plan for today, so I'm feeling useless and stupid. I still have a list of things to do while I'm home, so I will try to get myself set up to do more tidying in the bedroom, take the dog for a walk, and maybe go to Costco today instead of tomorrow the way I'd originally planned. I'll discuss it with

pdaughter and see what she thinks.

Yesterday I cleaned the coffee pot as it's been leaking and doing other worrisome things. It's very clean now but it appears to still be leaking somewhat. I am at a loss as to what I can do differently so as not to have small puddles of coffee at the base of the pot. :/ The bathroom and kitchen are clean, at least, and I did get most of the shovelling done. I should try to get out on the balcony again, but I think I missed my window of slightly warmer weather in which shovelling would be easier. I'm just praying for not as much snow for the next week so that we'll have time to breathe in-between snowfalls. I also got salt/de-icing stuff from Canadian Tire which will hopefully help keep the front stoop clear.

I was listening to the iProcrastinate podcast yesterday, and apparently there's an Excel spreadsheet made by someone in the North of England to help with the "un-schedule." I'm going to try to find it and see if it works for me. Thus far I've been jotting it down on paper in list form, but I find that system a little inflexible for the inevitable moment in which I remember three things I've forgotten to put into the schedule. I seem to end up with a lot of arrows and asterisks.

Okay. I've done the cat litter and made coffee, so my morning isn't a total failure, but I'm not really doing as much as I should (mostly because I've tried to squeeze in this LJ update). I need to take the dog out and maybe get in a shower before getting dressed, and then try to be more productive. I feel like I'm being lazy.

Bean is getting help putting all his new Playmobile (or "Playmobimol" as he calls it) together. He sounds very excited. :)

Current Mood: tired

Not from today, but I forgot to post these at the time.

ADD!Supervisor: "Good job on [$thing] everyone!"

Anglo!Coworker: "Gee, thanks. Do we get cake?"

ADD!Supervisor: *grins* "Maybe."

Me: "THE CAKE IS A LIE!"

Excitable!Puppy & Geeky!Coworker: *collapse in hysterical giggles*

ADD!Supervisor & Anglo!Coworker: *give me an identical "buh?" look*

Me: "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."

Excitable!Puppy & Geeky!Coworker: *stop breathing due to hysterics*

And THAT'S how you can tell who the gamers are in your work place. I enjoy doing this far too much. It's almost always with ADD!Supervisor, too, because he walks RIGHT into the set-ups.

ADD!Supervisor: "Okay, everyone, POP QUIZ! Someone calls in with a bomb threat to the building. WHAT DO YOU DO?"

Me: "I waste it with my crossbow!"

Geeky!Coworker: *snerk*

ADD!Supervisor: *glares* "No, seriously."

Me: "Uh, kill it and take its treasure?"

ADD!Supervisor: "Come on, be serious, here. I'm trying to brainstorm."

Geeky!Coworker: "You forgot to roll the body and check for traps."

ADD!Supervisor: "I give up."

Me: *to Geeky!Coworker* "How much XP you think that was worth?"

Current Mood: amused

:::Back-dated entry:::

Spent a fantastic Thanksgiving, after getting a later start to the day than I planned. I made brownies, and while I thought I had enough time when I popped them in the oven, I got a serious surprise when the brownies refused to cool. Refused, steadfastly.

So I ended up being late for the Thanksgiving dinner/potluck being hosted by

longpig and

wererogue. I arrived there in time to catch the end of some cartoon on Adult Swim, and then we were treated to two episodes of Venture Bros. Joining us were

gats,

miseri,

moonandtree and

sorceror.

Once the TV watching was done, we set up a game of Arkham Horror, noshed on very yummy Thanksgiving turkey and other edibles (cookies and carrots from the garden, pasta, the World's Best Salad, and many other delicious things), and gamed until well past 23:00. We won, too, although it was a close thing.

We staggered home, and I collapsed into a tired heap, but alas I was too wound up and too full of delicious food to fall asleep right away, and thus it was a VERY short night. Worth it, though.

Good times.

In other news, I am overbooked in the foreseeable future. Again. Gah.

Current Mood: tired

Oh my GOD!

Props to

urban_homestead for pointing me to this gem of political commentary.

An excerpt:

GM: OK, the bugbear attacks you. What do you do?

OBAMA: I send one of my 672 henchmen after it.

MCCAIN: OK, seriously. Why does he have so many henchmen? I'm a level 72 ranger and he's only a level 8 paladin.

OBAMA: Well, if you'd bought the Grassroots Organizing and Oratory/Colgate Smile proficiencies you could min max it so that you...

MCCAIN: Why is he even IN this campaign? I thought this was supposed to be a high level party.

OBAMA: Well, maybe some people got tired of the grim and squinty "Matterhorn, son of Marathon" shtick you keep doing. Dude, could you be any less original?

MCCAIN: Oh my god, I did not leave my left nut in a tiger cage in the Tomb of Horrors to spend my Friday nights mopping up after the new kid.

I especially love Kucinich's lines. :D

Current Mood: hee hee hee!

I came to the realization sometime toward the end of March/beginning of April that many of my priorities have changed along with my new job and new interests. One of the sadder realizations I had was that I no longer really have the interest in gaming that I used to.

I still like roleplaying, don't get me wrong. It's just that I no longer feel good about setting aside huge chunks of time for it at the expense of all the other things I do in life, especially not when I spend so many of my weekends working now. While I get to spend time with my friends while gaming, it's also four to six hours of time in which I could be seeing other friends whom I haven't seen in a really long time, or in which I could be simply hanging out with my friends *as ourselves*.

The same appears to be getting increasingly true for online gaming as well. I'm only involved in one game online these days, but the amount of time it requires is slowly but surely beginning to take a toll. I find I'm no longer especially passionate about it, which is unfortunate. I still like it, and I love the people I game with (well, some of them, anyway, most of them the ones I also know IRL), but I'm seriously starting to wonder if I'm not just staying there out of a sense of obligation, which if we're honest does all of us a disservice. I'm taking up valuable slots in the game which could be given to other, more enthusiastic players who would post more reliably. I have a tendency to disappear when work gets out of hand, especially when I'm on night shift (like last week and this coming week), and often enough that forces people to wait for me, or work around me, and that's not fair to anyone.

So it looks like I'm going to have to do some serious thinking about all this. My IRL game is going to come to a natural end by the end of next month, and after that I won't be actively involving myself in any others. That's not a problem, regrettable as it is to give up what was an important passtime for me for so many years. The real question is whether or not I should still be involved in Skywatch. It's a wrench, because I've been in that game for close to seven years, and I've got a lot invested in it. Hell, pulling out now would seriously mangle a number of plans that I have with other players, and that's a major consideration as well. At this point, I can't tell if it would be worse to stay in and not be giving it my all, or to pull out and leave people and plotlines in the lurch, no matter how gradually I try to ease out.

Meh. Thinking about these things at 3am is never a good idea.

Current Mood: conflicted

I almost never post on Saturdays, even when I'm posting regularly. However, since my goal is one post every day this month, I shall break myself of this habit of non-posting. :)

Today was an unproductive day from a getting-things-done perspective. On the other hand, I slept in, which was entirely accidental but apparently overdue. I awoke at 10:30 instead of the planned 8:00, and as a result didn't do any of the "useful" things I was going to get done in the morning. The Paternal Unit was very kind and came to fetch me so I could have breakfast with him and the Maternal Unit, whom I hadn't seen since last Saturday, and likely won't see again until much later this week. Unlike many of the people I know, I truly enjoy spending time with my parents, who on the whole are very nice, clever, well-adjusted, fun people to be around. They have their quirks and eccentricities, naturally, and we do rub each other the wrong way at certain times and about certain topics, but on the whole we get along very well.

The afternoon was spent gaming with

forthright,

curtana,

sorceror and

gats, and I had a splendid time. The in-game plot is moving forward and has been gaining momentum since last session, and there has been a good amount of character development, which is always my favourite part of the game. I am now two sessions behind in my write-ups of the session, but with any luck I'll be able to catch up before the next game, which will be (we hope!) in two weeks' time.

I then had dinner with the Parental Units, who have been kind enough to lend me their car for my grocery shopping tomorrow. I have lots of heavy stuff to buy, and so it will come in very handy indeed. I have yet to look into CommunAuto, but something tells me I should probably get around to that soonish.

Tomorrow is looking to be pretty packed. I have to do my grocery shopping, do some minimal cleaning around here, and generally run some errands in the morning. In the afternoon,

fearsclave and his lovely non-LJ-using wuh-mun will be in town visiting with

ai731 and

baronscartop, and they have invited me to join them, which I predict will be lots of fun. Still, it's looking to be quite busy all around.

Current Mood: busy

I am mildly appalled that I seem to already have used "I kill it and take its stuff!" as a title for a previous LJ entry. Only mildly.

The New!Shiny! aspect of the PS2 has worn off, luckily for my sleep pattern, but I am still having a lot of fun with it. However, the railroading goes against my RPG-trained heart. I am slowly but surely learning that it's okay to run in circles, waiting for critters to attack you so that you can go up a level before getting to the next big scene. The thing is, it feels wrong to me to kill critters simply for the XP and the treasure they always seem to have secreted about themselves, no matter their size. Gaming is about adventure and story, not about XP!

Oh well. I comfort myself with the notion that, since I have no control over where the story goes, it's okay for me to kill things in order to see what happens next. Otherwise, my characters get their asses handed to them by the Big Bad Bosses who crop up every so often.

What I would really like to know, though, is where all the Level 3 Sphere Locks are hiding. I have Level 1 spheres, Level 2 spheres, and Level 4 spheres, but have been unable to find Level 3 spheres, which means I am stuck and unable to level up in certain ways. I am irked, but not incurably so. I just have to find ways around it.

I am off to kill more stuff. I have seven sphere-point-things to go before I can properly beat Yunalesca, and these characters aren't going to level up by themselves. :D

Current Mood: chipper

I got myself a PS2.

Yes, am now officially a computer gamer. Or whatever it's called.

Final Fantasy X is very, very pretty. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to save my game, which means I've had to go through the entire beginning sequence four times now. Before you ask, I did in fact RTFM, and the FM sayeth that there should be a "saving sphere" every now and then that I must use. I just haven't seen any so far. Either I'm blind, or else I just haven't got far enough in the game for it to warrant saving. I'm slightly annoyed by this, but thus far that has been outweighed by the shiny. :)

Um, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

*goes back to RTFM again*

Current Mood: geeky

I have been infected with the plague, either courtesy of Arthur or

xypharan, I'm not sure which. Thus far, luckily, it has limited itself to a sore throat and mild congestion, so I suppose it could be a lot worse. I'm not thrilled about the sore throat, since most colds with me tend to end up in laryngitis. Given that I work exclusively with phones and radios in a fairly loud work environment, this is Not Good™. Oh well.

Work proceeds apace. No news from the RCMP, but I plan on following up on that by Friday if I have no news at all.

Haven't been posting much, but stuff has been getting done. Yesterday was remarkably unproductive, but I plan on compensating for that the rest of the week. The micromanagement is getting re-fitted, I think, to something more workable. Again. *sigh* Well, live and learn.

Had a great weekend, however. Band practice kicked ass, although I was tired and out of sorts and probably not all that pleasant to be around. Spent the afternoon doing absolutely nothing at my parents' place, which is apparently something I needed. I've been alternating between reading two books, which is something I used to do a lot.

Sunday was busier, with Meeting in the morning, and

curtana's Mutopia game in the afternoon.

longpig and

xypharan guest-starred, since they were visiting from Toronto. It was quite nice to see them again, and I hope they'll be able to visit again before

forthright finds a high-profile job somewhere far away.

We played a game of Arkham Horror, which was a great deal of fun. There are far too many fiddly bits involved in the set-up and how the game is played, and with eight players it took a lot of time to play. However, it was a lot of fun. We cut the game short because of the time, and because poor Arthur woke up and refused to go back to sleep. Also, those of us with jobs the next day were sort of keeling over from tiredness.

Still, good times. :)

I am off to make myself some tea.

Current Mood: sick

There must be some way to organize myself in such a way that I can go to the gym the way I'd planned. I am definitely going to yoga today, but I ended up not going to do the first part of my workout yesterday, and while I thought I could do it before yoga today, looking at my watch now it doesn't look like I'll have time for that.

I feel very guilty for not going more often. I asked for this for Christmas, and I want to go. I just can't get myself out of bed at an hour in the mornings which would make that feasible and still get all the other stuff done that I need to do. In order to do everything I need to do in the morning and still go to the gym, I'd probably have to get up around 7am. Right now, if I'm lucky, I get up at eight. Usually it's closer to eight thirty, and I wander through the morning feeling as though I'm wading through molasses.

Then I tidy up, feed the cats, run my errands, and suddenly it's time to go to work.

I don't have time on the weekends. Sunday mornings are taken up with a meeting, Sunday afternoons are blocked off for gaming, Sunday evenings are reserved for my parents. Saturday morning and early afternoon is band practice, which essentially cuts my day in half, makes me have to write off my morning, and leaves me with part of Saturday afternoon and Saturday evening free. Saturday afternoons and evenings are my only time off in the week, the only time I ever get to see my friends, and I don't especially relish the idea of sacrificing that in order to go work out, as silly and selfish as that may sound.

So that leaves me with no time to myself at all, and even less time to go to the gym. My parents paid for it, it was a present, I want to go, and I don't want them to feel as though they paid all that money only to have me ignore it. That's not it at all, and I really don't need the extra guilt these days. It's not like I don't walk around with enough of it to begin with.

I don't know what to do about this anymore. I'd try to buddy up with someone as a way to force myself, but most of the people I know have lives and aren't going to the gym in the middle of the morning. They go when normal people go, in the evenings or whatever, when I can't go.

I need an extra few hours in the morning, or else some magical way of being able to cope with only five hours' sleep, which I can't do right now. Hell, I've tried lately, and my body just. won't. let. me. If I set my alarm for seven, I'll switch off the alarm clock and sleep until eight thirty. Eight thirty is my default wake-up time: even on days when I haven't set my alarm, that's when I'm up. If I were going to bed earlier, then waking up earlier wouldn't be a problem, but if that were the case I would also not be on this schedule to begin with.

Do the words "catch-22" ring any bells?

In conclusion? Argh!

Current Mood: moody
Current Music: R. E. M. —All The Right Friends

toughlovemuse introduced me to video games last night. She showed me a game called, I think, "Dragon Quest," and let me play it for a while. I think she was a little amused by many of my reactions.

1- Let me start out by saying that it was a great deal of fun to play. I am glad I don't own a gaming console or a computer powerful enough to play games, because you'd never see me again.

2- The game went counter to most of my upbringing.

toughlovemuse kept telling me to run places, and it made me twitch, because, well, running indoors is bad. So I kept trying to walk places, except that walking is more unwieldy than running thanks to the gaming console.

3- Apparently being a hero in this game entitles you to rummage through other people's stuff and break their things if necessary. You are encouraged to go into people's houses and public places, and just go through their stuff and take whatever you want.

toughlovemuse laughed very hard at me when I cringed and didn't want to do that. After all, the game NPCs are very understanding about the fact that you're the hero and can do whatever you want.

4- NPCs have extraordinarily short attention spans in this game. Mind you, since I've only played a few hours of WoW apart from this (I refuse to count the one time I tried playing Resident Evil and couldn't get my character to do anything except walk into a wall and get eaten by a zombie), I have no idea how much I should expect out of any given NPC anyway.

In conclusion, though, it was fun, and I'm looking forward to trying to get to the end of the story at some point. Or at the very least get to the end of my current quest. I've already died twice, once because I hit the wrong button. :P

Okay, now I'm *really* going to get breakfast, and then I have to get some writing done. I have 45,000 words to get written, or thereabouts, in the next two weeks. Wish me luck!

Current Mood: amused

I haven't been posting much of substance here lately. The problem with having tons of stuff to post about is that I rarely have the time or energy to actually post any of it.

( Thanksgiving! )

( Okay, now Tarasmas )

I've been off work for a week. I don't actually feel like anything has happened, although not working for a week has thoroughly mangled my sleeping patterns. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, for some major financial cataclysm to occur to stress me out completely.

The next big thing to write about is last night's Thursday game. I've been waiting for about five years to be in on one of the infamous Thursday games, and last night I finally got my chance. Sadly, I'm late for a lunch appointment with the Paternal Unit, and I won't be back at the computer until tomorrow, so it'll have to wait. Suffice it to say, for now, that the game rocked hardcore, especially getting some "real" phone calls from both

karine and

shenlo playing NPCs in the game. It was very awesome. Thanks guys! You really added to the tone of the game.

Current Mood: AcK! I'm late!

Look at what he did: ( Her name is Marla... )

ETA: Hmm. Odd. It doesn't show up in my entry, even though I saved it in my LJ pics. Weird. I don't think I borked my html. Is anyone else having trouble seeing the picture?

ETA 2: Okay, seems to be fixed now.

Current Mood: amused

Elizabeth Peters is an evil, evil woman. The more I read, the more I want. I got my hands on a copy of "The Falcon At the Portal" and it just about broke my heart in twelve separate pieces. Wah! Nefret! Wah! Ramses! Waaaaaaah!

:::gets stabbed repeatedly in heart by cruel, merciless author:::

I can't begin to imagine how hard it must have been for her to do that to her characters.

owldaughter is entirely to blame for my current heartbreak: she introduced me to the series.

In other news, work is work. I have so many things going on these days that I have no time at all to post about them, and more stuff is piling itself on top of that, and yet I still have to wedge sleep in there somewhere. Sleep-deprived!Phnee is not a fun Phnee, let me tell you.

Let's make a grocery list of stuff that's taking place in Phnee's existence these days:

( This got long... )

Anyway, that's what I'm up to these days (and in the near future). I had a lovely chat on the phone with

joane and

shenlo later on. I looked up their number on canada411.com, since for some reason I didn't have it. I'm not much of a phone person as a rule, but I thought it was high time we have a voice-to-voice conversation as opposed to just an online chat. Not that those aren't a great way of communicating, but sometimes it's nice to hear people's voices on the other end of the line. Also, I got to squee in person about Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, which is all to the good. :)

Now I'm going to bed. Might post a poll about the aforementioned filter first, but then definitely bed. :)

Current Mood: bleh, it's still hot

Okay, so it's Sunday night, but I'm well within a 24-hour time limit, so I figure I'm okay.

I've been feeding Saash and Grimshackle this weekend, since the Baron and Baroness (that would be

baronscartop and

ai731 were out of town. They should be back any minute, actually. While Saash still hides under the table when I come in ("Fuck you, you're not Mummy!"), I am pleased to report that Grimmie has warmed to me considerably, and no longer flees as though being pursued by an army of kobolds. We even had a nice cuddle on Friday evening when I came in.

And now I shall drop LJ names like it's going out of style:

Spent today with

curtana and

forthright and met the heir apparent for the first time. They're both in fine fettle (

curtana is looking especially good these days —motherhood appears to suit her), and young Arthur is not only a very handsome baby, but he was also quite well-behaved for most of the day. By the time evening came around he got a bit tired, and dinner was something of an issue (his grandmother helped out there, which was very nice), but on the whole he's an admirable young man. Soon he'll be old enough to roleplay. Mwahahahaa. We were joined by

miseri,

sorceror,

the_lich and

gats (though he came much later, after work).

So the day was spent catching up, swapping old gaming stories, and generally having a good time. We ordered Chinese food, and

gats brought cherries, which was a pleasant surprise. Actual gaming comences in three weeks' time. I am greatly looking forward to it. Also,

curtana and

forthright's new apartment is really quite a nice place: it's pretty large, has lots of natural light, and the linoleum in the kitchen is blue.

In anticipation of not having the car in about two months' time, I am slowly re-acquainting myself with Montreal's public transit system. I know certain parts of it well, mostly the metro, but I have to learn about new bus routes now that I and so many of my friends have moved around. I rather like the public transit system, for the most part, even if it does take me three times as long to get to some places. I can sit and read (unless it's rush hour), and it's cheaper than having a car, and I don't have to stress about parking.

Now, since my load of laundry appears to be done, I shall head to bed. G'night!

Current Mood: mellow

Hee hee hee!

I especially like #26. "Like, avaunt!" *hair flip*

525 things Mr. Welch can no longer do during an RPG.

Current Mood: amused

Band practice went well yesterday. No massive high like last week, when we kicked the butt of the intro to "Enter Sandman," but we got a lot of work done anyway. Re-visited songs we hadn't played in well over a month, and they went pretty well, all things told.

ai731's new guitar sounds very very sweet on certain songs, and definitely gives a new feel to the music.

We are teh awesome.

I want to get myself some new drumsticks. The ones I have are okay, but after trying some of

gmarc's, I have been converted. :)

Canada Day went by in a blur, between

miseri's housewarming and

owldaughter's concert. The housewarming was quite a success: food and good people, and much shouting about well-loved topics (books, movies, gaming, politics, and weird pet antics). The concert went really well, though the crown prince got sick halfway through, which sucked both for him and HRH, and we got seated behind the Loud And Bouncy Family Of Doom, which made it very difficult to enjoy the music in full.

I discovered last year at

luvenditti's birthday that I can no longer watch fireworks directly anymore. I keep having to look down every thirty seconds, or my eyes start streaming. I think it's definitely time to have my eyes checked for strain and to see if I need a new prescription.

I also had a very nice time with

grrscary yesterday. Just about all our friends know each other, but she and I managed never to have a conversation in three years or so that we've been navigating the same social circle. I'm not sure how that happened, but we fixed it yesterday. We went to "Cha Noir" on Wellington, which is a nice little tea place I wish I'd known about when I lived two blocks away, then skedaddled downtown to watch Superman Returns. I think I loved the score of the movie more than anything else. I kept singing "Su-per-man!" in my head whenever the trumpets sounded. I love the new Superman. I am not going into squeeing fangirl mode over it the way I have over some movies, but I enjoyed it tremendously. They did a very good job with it.

We went for coffee again after and spent the next three and a half hours talking, mostly about gaming. 'Twas a very good time. I'm only sorry we didn't do this earlier.

Today, food shopping.

Current Mood: content

I’m going about my life wrong. In lots of ways. However, I think I can fix at least one thing about it right now, and that’s how much time I spend away from home. Between work, line dancing, playing with Random Colour, and the social life I seem to have sprouted somewhere around this time last year, I’m very rarely home anymore.

This is bad for many reasons:

1) I have no down time. I haven’t been able to recharge properly in weeks, possibly months. I need that "me" time at least once a week in order to be even-tempered and good-natured, and just the naturally awesome Phnee that you all know and love. Ahem.

2) It’s all starting to feel like work. The line dancing, the band, seeing friends. See point 1). I don’t want the activities in which I take pleasure to start to feel like obligations, like chores. Honestly, I want my leisure activities to remain leisure activities. I don’t need artificial sources of stress when I already have enough natural ones.

3) The cats are getting more neurotic. They like having their Mummy home, and I miss spending time with them.

4) I have less time to keep the apartment tidy. I did a good cleanup on Labour Day weekend, but once-a-week maintenance is generally required. So.

5) I’d like to have a significant chunk of time set aside to devote back to my roleplaying. I’ve been neglecting the two games I have going, and I want to get back into the swing of things. I haven’t touched my home computer in days. This isn’t the most important reason, but I enjoy the roleplaying a great deal, and so I want to put by some time to be online.

All this to say that, as of the middle of September, I will be keeping my Sundays to myself. There will be no volunteering at the club on that day, and I will go there to dance only if I feel like it. I will spend the day puttering around, regaining spoons, and using the computer and cleaning. Nothing more.

Exceptions might be made, but they will be exceptions, not the rule.

That’s my resolution for the week. :)

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