stunt_muppet

so unfortunately I've done that thing again where I forget to talk to people for weeks, and then I avoid going back to talk to them because I'm embarrassed that I've missed any updates they gave, and then I get stuck in that loop for a while.

The wedding went ahead in September, so I am now officially An Spouse. People ask me what married life is like but since The Husband was already living with me and we've been cooped up in here since before the wedding, it's...pretty much the same as not-married life. Except now we get to reference 'my wife' or 'my husband' in conversation and goggle at that for a bit.

The wedding itself went about as well as it could have considering the circumstances - most of Husband's family couldn't come along with a great deal of mine, and a few could come to the outdoor ceremony but not the indoor reception. The reception in particular wound up with about 30 people, when we had initially planned for around 80. but we had guests, and the guests had a good time, and the venue gave us some nicer food and drinks since we had fewer people than our original estimate, and. You know. It would have been nice if we could have had our wedding in a normal, non-plague year, but it was still a joyful day in a year short on that.

Since my normal job is managing travel and there’s not a lot of travel happening, I’ve had stretches of time with little to do. Which on the one hand is very nice! I like it a lot better than the alternative where I was doing the job of two or three people and tearing out my hair! But after a while it mostly made me listless since I couldn’t be far from the computer in case there >was something I had to do, to say nothing of guilty and also vaguely worried I was going to get fired once I was ‘found out’ (despite no indication of that occurring). Fortunately in the meanwhile I’ve been placed on detail to another department that is giving me more to do, to the point where the new department would apparently like to poach me from my current one! With a pay raise! It’s nice to feel wanted.

(Of course that also means having to formally apply through the incredibly slow and opaque application system, but I can put up with that for a pay raise, I think.)

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As for what I've been up to in between all that, I wish I could say I’ve been writing but I have not. Not for lack of trying. Doesn’t help that while I’ve been playing plenty of video games and watching things, I’m either not finished with them or they’re not the kind of thing I’m really inspired to write about. Which isn’t to say I’m not enjoying them! And one thing I have been trying to do is make sure I’m spending my time specifically doing things I enjoy, like playing video games, instead of just staring at a computer in a half-hearted attempt at writing. Which is also why I haven’t been on much, lol.

Working on my balcony garden has made me discover that I really like gardening, actually. I’m no garden guru yet (I just lost a plant recently because I forgot I had a spray to fight powdery mildew until said mildew had already killed the plant, and I keep overwatering my rosemary), but last year I got a periwinkle plant that bloomed and seeded and I managed to grow three more healthy, blooming children from its seeds. It feels good, watching them grow. Seeing them inch up and spread new leaves and open their blooms little by little helps to mark the days; that in turn makes me feel less adrift in time, less like I’ll blink and it’ll suddenly be two years or five years or ten years later.

(I managed to revive two dying winter plants too! One of them even has new buds! I’m so proud.)

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Things I’ve been into:

Super Mario Odyssey (I love 3D platformers SO MUCH OH MY GOD)

Animal Crossing New Horizons (I am still playing it every day because I don’t have every one of Flick’s bug statues yet and I want them)

New Pokemon Snap (I had no real opinion on Bidoof before playing this game but now I love them very very much and think they’re great)

Horizon Zero Dawn (A game that makes me want to go hiking despite having done that like. Twice.)

Carrion (An indie game from Devolver Digital where you play as a horrible carnivorous meat creature attempting to break out of its containment - like The Thing but the titular Thing is you. It’s very gross and a lot of fun!)

The Murderbot Diaries (Halfway through Rogue Protocol and oh god I hope nothing bad happens to Miki don’t tell me if it does)

Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Husband has been showing me a best-of selection of season 1-3 and it’s been interesting finally seeing some context for the gifsets people post. Also Major Kira My Beloved.)

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Despite the link up top I have not managed to rewatch Muppet Treasure Island and I really should fix that.

Today is my day off work after several days of helping with floor moves (translation: hauling heavy merch around to revamp the store layout). I am a bit knackered after all that and don't feel like doing much. 

There are people renovating my bathroom, so ideally I should be out of my house so's I can get out of their way.

There are four things I could do here:

1. Something responsible, like go out with my dad and car shop because my baby is, unfortunately, starting to have engine trouble that will cost more than she does. As much as it breaks my heart not to have her, it's probably time.

(Of course, Dad also insists that my next car be one with a manual transmission, which I barely know how to drive. I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually, but those times in between that I spend stalling it trying to get it out of the driveway are not going to be fun.)

2. Do something equally responsible but homebound, like insurance paperwork or trying to clear some of the mountain of paper and crap out of my room, because god knows that's an ongoing effort.

3. Bugger off to the bead shop (which is 45 minutes away) and gaze covetously at more beads I don't need. And also ask the folks working there if they know a way to seal paper beads without getting some expensive enameling, because I've got a sheet of wrapping paper that is way too pretty to throw out but I don't want to buy a whole big tub of UTEE if I'm only going to use it once.

4. Try to write. Because, you know, that's gone great over the past few weeks. (Hint: No it hasn't.)

On the one hand, having more hours at work means I've got more financial leeway, but it means on my days off I'm way more tempted to just tear off for the malls or the movies.

I have done some drawing, though! I'll get pictures up later tonight, probably.

Also I haven't been journaling very much have I. I'm still alive! Hi.