Four-Day Weekends
I ended up doing not much that was productive over the long weekend. Which was, incidentally, an amazing gift to myself. I'm not often lazy these days, and after the weeks of stress (especially with the Boy Cat's illness), I really needed it.
Boy Cat is home again. On a ton of pills, and has a cat-long suture up his middle. So no Portland for us this Thanksgiving. He's only today starting to be a little more himself; tail up, sleeping on the cat toy, wanting outside. We're still not great with giving and receiving pills, but he gets three every twelve hours, so whatcha gonna do? It's good to see him with a bit more attitude and energy. It makes me think he might actually make it. Even yesterday I wasn't so sure.
Thanksgiving was a day of cooking and playing Dragon Age. I pulled together a feast that ended up being really damn awesome, even if it was mostly unplanned. Turkey (which came out SOOOO succulent!), oyster-cornbread stuffing, cranberry-orange relish (that only I eat), harcort verts with vinaigrette, mashed potatoes and rolls. And pumpkin PIE! I looked in the fridge this afternoon only to discover that we're almost done with the turkey, the taters are long gone, as is the pie, and there's only a little bit of stuffing left. That means I done good, because everyone ate the leftovers. A rarity in my house.
Finished Dragon Age. Started it a year ago-ish on the Xbox, then decided I didn't want to wrangle the machine away from the Dude every time I wanted to play, so I bought it for my computer back in April (or whenever my computers were stolen and I bought a machine that could run games). I don't often play boxed games anymore, mostly because my free time is taken up with writing, but I made the exception this weekend, staying up very late for a couple of evenings to accomplish it.
EXCELLENT ENDING! I won't spoil it for anyone, but I was really impressed with how they did it. Kudos to Bioware and EA Games for some really awesome entertainment, storytelling and RP goodness packed into a computer game (though as a veteran gamer, I don't think RP means what most of the gaming industry thinks it means). For a time waster, Dragon Age was an awesomely entertaining one.
Now I'm on to Mass Effect (the original). Cause yeah, behind the times on games. Fable III is also out, and that may be on the holiday gift-giving list. P. has made mumbles of wanting it for his own playing pleasure.
P. and I braved a movie theatre at a mall yesterday and caught RED. I found it to be fun and engaging, and everything The Expendables should have been if only Expendables had been saved by a lack of pretension and an abundance of humor, in general as well as toward itself. Besides, Helen Mirren was, as always, fabulous, and Brian Cox was a delight. Heck, it was just a fun, whacky, blow-shit-up film.
So yeah, good weekend. Low key, much needed, and I just wish I'd slept a bit more. But I always wish that. As the Dude says, "Mom, I can sleep when I'm dead." I guess I ascribe to that a bit. I'm just getting a little too old to pull late-nighters these days. The brain just doesn't work the way it used to on little sleep. This getting old sucks, except for the gaining +4 in Wisdom thing.
How was your weekend? Have you all embraced the holidays?
Boy Cat is home again. On a ton of pills, and has a cat-long suture up his middle. So no Portland for us this Thanksgiving. He's only today starting to be a little more himself; tail up, sleeping on the cat toy, wanting outside. We're still not great with giving and receiving pills, but he gets three every twelve hours, so whatcha gonna do? It's good to see him with a bit more attitude and energy. It makes me think he might actually make it. Even yesterday I wasn't so sure.
Thanksgiving was a day of cooking and playing Dragon Age. I pulled together a feast that ended up being really damn awesome, even if it was mostly unplanned. Turkey (which came out SOOOO succulent!), oyster-cornbread stuffing, cranberry-orange relish (that only I eat), harcort verts with vinaigrette, mashed potatoes and rolls. And pumpkin PIE! I looked in the fridge this afternoon only to discover that we're almost done with the turkey, the taters are long gone, as is the pie, and there's only a little bit of stuffing left. That means I done good, because everyone ate the leftovers. A rarity in my house.
Finished Dragon Age. Started it a year ago-ish on the Xbox, then decided I didn't want to wrangle the machine away from the Dude every time I wanted to play, so I bought it for my computer back in April (or whenever my computers were stolen and I bought a machine that could run games). I don't often play boxed games anymore, mostly because my free time is taken up with writing, but I made the exception this weekend, staying up very late for a couple of evenings to accomplish it.
EXCELLENT ENDING! I won't spoil it for anyone, but I was really impressed with how they did it. Kudos to Bioware and EA Games for some really awesome entertainment, storytelling and RP goodness packed into a computer game (though as a veteran gamer, I don't think RP means what most of the gaming industry thinks it means). For a time waster, Dragon Age was an awesomely entertaining one.
Now I'm on to Mass Effect (the original). Cause yeah, behind the times on games. Fable III is also out, and that may be on the holiday gift-giving list. P. has made mumbles of wanting it for his own playing pleasure.
P. and I braved a movie theatre at a mall yesterday and caught RED. I found it to be fun and engaging, and everything The Expendables should have been if only Expendables had been saved by a lack of pretension and an abundance of humor, in general as well as toward itself. Besides, Helen Mirren was, as always, fabulous, and Brian Cox was a delight. Heck, it was just a fun, whacky, blow-shit-up film.
So yeah, good weekend. Low key, much needed, and I just wish I'd slept a bit more. But I always wish that. As the Dude says, "Mom, I can sleep when I'm dead." I guess I ascribe to that a bit. I'm just getting a little too old to pull late-nighters these days. The brain just doesn't work the way it used to on little sleep. This getting old sucks, except for the gaining +4 in Wisdom thing.
How was your weekend? Have you all embraced the holidays?