Happy New Year Friends,
We are well into a new year, I'm trying to get my barrings back. Been working on this blame post for like three months now. So to do that let's begin the first post of the year by talking about the end old year. Yes it's another general life update post. ><
Holiday Fun
Christmas was good this year. A few days before Christmas we went holiday light looking. I got to see Fangirl and we exchanged gifts. Her gifts to me included a Mystery Box from Geek Mountain that had a cute new friend inside:
I named my cute demon dog Cujo. Christmas was good despite this marking the first Christmas without my feisty Mamaw, which meant we didn't even venture out of the holler. We actually spent the beginning of the day up at my Granny's cause My Aunt and Uncle were up there and she wanted all three of her kids in the same space for Christmas. So I enjoyed seeing a lot of my relatives. We later went back to our house had our Christmas where I now have media for days:
I got all of main Ghostbusters universe now, Mighty Morphin Era of Power Rangers, hopefully I don't cry seeing Tommy. Got six Lord of the Rings universe movies hopefully I'll have a better watch experience with The Fellowship of the Ring than first time, the surrounding events might have led to me losing my voice lessons. It was a good holiday.
Some down sides to the end of the year. I learned I can't have grapefruit. My sister called before she came wanting to know if we like oranges and grapefruit. Mom said she couldn't have grapefruit and informed me I couldn't due to one of my meds which she also takes. It unnerved me cause I've been taking it for years without knowing this. Good thing I don't eat grapefruit on a regular basis.
Then my internet went out... again. The New Year came with it's sparkliness, which soon gave way to my least favorite time of the year... January. The day after New Years I was on the hunt for a place with WiFi because the deadline was looking for a short story contest I had wanted to enter. Yeah right when I was turning in it the Monday before New Years is when the internet went out. I managed to get it in, sadly did not place. The Monday after New Years, a day before my scheduled appointment, the technician calls us early saying he's coming. It was the same one who came in November. It turned to be something else that had broke due to age so he just replaced everything. He said I should be good for a while.
Winter Woes and Nerdy Niceties
The first month is the worst for me cause it's when we get with the most likely brutal winter weather where I live, and yup she was bad this year, though managed to avoid the ice that came through all around us, sadly the tail end of the system hit us with snow a few days later. Mom and I got sick during this time, yeah so much fun. Luckily while my mental and physical health took the usual blow I had some shows to binge to help deal which included a Dystopian rabbit I went down thanks to Avril Lavinge. That's a post for another day, but all I binged: Hazbin Hotel, Fallout, Countdown it got me through into February, where the cold and snow kept lingering. I did have job success in acquiring a new long term client.
I put together my Lego Animal Crossing Celeste Set. I decided to continue watching Casual Nerd Reactions reaction to the first four series of Doctor Who. This was such a peaceful day. Just building a Lego set listen/watching a dude who just enjoys crap. He even finds joy in episodes that some fans normally pee on! That is such a rare thing I feel in fandom most times. Often times I enter a fandom group to mainly gripe and moan sessions. I just want to enjoy things. I managed to finish my set fairly quickly as I finished the Rose Tyler companion era of Who, where I realize I'm a year older that Jackie Tyler was in that one episode now...
I was going to post a stop action I did of this build in conjunction with this post, but BOB is being a turd. I'm lucky he's behaved enough for me to write what I have.
Spring Warmth
With the coming Spring the March days have brought warmth and a little boost to my mood.
I was finding little joys again like documenting bench graffiti at the laundromat. I discovered a new bookstore right near there who's sales I believe go toward the local library. My first trip I found some great free cart offerings and purchased a couple books inside. It was great I definitely want to return.
Currently been having a weird time, it's PMDD time and most the first week has been mild mental health wise compared to others, but still dealing with mental health spikes. Sunday I woke up crying feeling and caged in, then my mood lightened. Monday irritability spikes over little things, and just tired despite multiple naps including one uber deep nap. Which is annoying cause I had wanted to write and finish this post. Been watching movies on Tubi and at random watched Van Helsing, D.E.B.S, and White Chicks. I haven't seen these movies in a bit, and discovered something hilarious all came out in 2004. Wasn't planned just happened. See trying to find those little joys.
Ok finally done!
I've puttered around on this fraking post moths three months. I'm sick of it. Hopefully I can move on to other posts I planned now. Have a a great week guys!
*Thrifty Geek*
