CynthiaWVirginia
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Joined: 2/28/2010 From: West Virginia, USA Status: offline
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I get very depressed from October through February (too many "ugly anniversaries" lumped up together), I just can't get into the holiday season. I'm trying...watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas helped. bo's aunt is dying from lung cancer, and we were told on Friday that she was likely to pass on this weekend. His mother is bad off and is very demanding. Life is a bit rough right now, but...if it ain't one thing it's another. Life happens. At least bo's surgical nightmares seem to be finally behind him. I've been playing my new Pokemon X game, my son has Pokemon Y, and bo bought himself several games as well. I've gotten "friend codes" from others in the Kinky Pokemon Nerds group over at Fet and have been exploring their Safari Zones (think of three cute animals in each friends' zone that may not ever show up on my own game otherwise...and some animals are CUTE!). For the first time ever I've been successful at "Masuda method" egg hatching and have gotten two of my shinys this way. Triggering hoard attacks again and again to make a shiny show up, as other players recommended, has worked for me, but I'm a complete failure at "consecutive fishing" to get shinys, cuz my startle reflex is too intense; it makes me pause a moment and then most of the fish get away, breaking the chain. A friend of ours has caught several shiny Pokemon this way and said, "NEENER NEENER NEENER!" Drat. The only way I got some of my own back was to Masuda hatch one of the starters (a Chespin) and turn the guy green with envy. Christmas is going to suck this year. I'm too tired for it. The friend who lost everything several years ago due to a divorce has her own place now and has no Christmas decorations; the highlight of my holiday season is going to be going through my half dozen plus tubs of Christmas decorations and putting aside some to give to her next week. bo will be putting up two more floor to ceiling book cases up for me soon, so...my energy will be spent finishing my VHS and DVD tape inventory (over a thousand) as well as going through all of my books (I'm giving away many but will still have a "vast" collection) to get them up on shelves and out of storage crates. I'll be happy when this chore is finally over and my hands are no longer raw from scrubbing off cases and book covers. (Mutters something about carpal tunnel going back down when all this writing in notebooks is over, lol.) What I really want to do is sew, but with all the table space filled with books and movies... I left a sewing machine over at bo's house. Yay! With a little bit of luck, two faux leather fabrics I bought to make into floggers to practice florentine (going to put an eye out or break my glasses, most likely) are at bo's house instead of home where my house would...eat them. I have stuff put aside for a friend of my mother's who is away on vacation (three biblical study type encyclopedia sets), several boxes of old homeschool books and story books for bo's neighbor's kids, a box or two of my friend with some X-mas decorations in them, some stuff for the Salvation Army, some old soft cover and paperback books for the recycling center, and boxes of movies and stuff for two nearby nursing homes. I might have to root through all of these to ensure everything is where I think it is, and my flogger material isn't hiding somewhere it shouldn't. (I need to buy some Gorilla Glue, and I wonder if that wooden towel is still in my minivan, aargh.) We have been asked to host someone's annual New Year's Eve BDSM party. It will be good to see familiar faces. Anyway, if the weather is foul...likely only a few people will show up. The second dungeon room has ugly carpet. I know I should focus on everything else that I am happy about...but I wish things could be perfect. I had to cancel spaying two of my female cats because one of the newer ones chased one of my ancient cats, who fell from a high place while trying to escape and knocked a fang way out of whack. I had to take her to the vet to have it removed ($150, ouch). Last night one of the new cats went into my bedroom and howled "I'm HORNEY! Here I am, come get me and let's do the nastsy!" several times, wrecking my sleep. Putting a pillow over my head didn't help. I can't wait to shut her up by getting her fixed so I can once again get a full night's sleep. I'm a very light sleeper; if I had put her in the basement I still would have heard her yowls enough to be kept awake. Am very tired and blathering. (I'm going to shut up now and go to bed.)
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