2017 in review (nearly a week late)
So it's been awhile since I posted anything. The game I've been playing (Township), let me know last week that I'd played every day for 100 days. My, how time flies when you're obsessed! I'm not a gamer! I generally play solitaire type games of mahjong and occasional boughts with various incarnations of Temple Run but that's usually it. I downloaded Township because it gave me free points in something else that I've long since deleted from my Kindle and immediately got hooked. Like staying up waaaay too late and even setting my alarm a couple of times in the middle of a work night to do something on it. So yeah, that's what I've been doing for the last 3+ months. *hangs head* But my shame is a sham because I'll be taking a break in a moment to update something!
I meant to do this update on New Year's Eve Day but I fiddled around with various things (not just Township! I was watching movies and catching up on TV shows!) but when I tried to go online I found out my internet was down. It stayed down for several hours and by the time it came back it was time to go to bed (and catch up on Township). And then all this last week I've been working my ass off because the store finally came to the realization that they'd been carving off the hours store wide just a little too much. And since our fiscal year ends in about 2 weeks and we're really under in hours they've been practically begging people to take more hours. I'm always up for that but since I had the first 2 days of the week off and my 10 days of vacation starts TODAY!, if I wanted to get in 40 hours it meant 4 really long days. And I took them.
So anyway, the year in review. 2017 is a little bit of an anomoly for me in that this is the first year in quite some time that I haven't ended with an agonized sigh and a fervent hope for womething vastly different in the new year. I'm actually fairly happy. I'd be happier with a full time job (even though I generally get 30+ hours each week) but I realized several months ago that I didn't want a full-time job at the expense of giving up the one I already have. I've spent too many years hating the job I had and I don't want to do it now even if it means I'm about to sign back up to do the plasma thing to make things easier financially. The salary I make right now would actually be quite adequate to live on if I hadn't run up the credit cards the last time I was unemployed (which I swore I would never do again but there you go).
Anyway, I like my job, I like the company I work for, I like the people I work with, I like my apartment, I have a car that works, good friends and groceries for me and Phoukathecat. I am a simple creature and life is good. For those of you have expressed displeasure with the passing year - I hear ya and I've been there and done that. I hope the new year brings you better things.
I don't really have any family left - none that I've seen or even talked to in years - but like I said, I have friends. I got a nice handful of lovely Holiday cards and some presents. I got a little box of fun things from
dine right around Thanksgiving (which serendipitously also happened to be my birthday. (
dine, the pink lemonade flavor oil made some really yummy lip gloss and I have to keep rescuing the tiny chicken from Phouka who manages to find it no matter where I stash it.) I got a lovely hand painted picture frame from
spasticat and from a lady at work I got a bottle of what I'm calling Puerto Rican egg nog (even though there are no eggs). It has coconut cream (not milk), sweetened condensed milk and lots of rum. It's thick and decandently rich and I can practically feel my blood sugar rising with every sip so I have to stretch it out. But it is oh-so-good! Also,
dine gifted me with a year of Dreamwidth! I've been chomping at the bit to play with it and this weekend I'll do just that. I dropped my paid membership with LJ over a year ago for fairly obvious reasons but money was a little too tight to pay for a DW membership. Thank you
dine! That was so thoughtful of you!
I started my vacation today. 10 days! I have no firm plans whatsoever. Today is a total slacker day. I managed to sleep in - all the way to 5:30 am! I lounged in bed and alternately read, played Township and fended off Phouka who was indignant that breakfast was so late. When I finally crawled out of bed I fed the cat and then myself. I cooked nearly 1/2 a pound of bacon and ate the whole batch with a small stack of Lemon ricotta pancakes with homemade raspberry syrup (all relatively low carb if not really healthy). Then, between playing Township (what? I told you I was obsessed!) I watched a little TV. I both love and hate to watch Treehouse Masters. I'd love to live in a treehouse (and they do make some gorgeous ones) but the main guy (I think his name is Pete Nichols?) isobnoxiously doofy in the extreme and extremely irritating to watch. But he is an artist when it comes to luxury treehouses. I was also perusing the low carb recipes in the tabs I've kept open on my Kindle. I want to learn to make low carb eclairs and cream puffs with real pastry cream in them. Apparently making pastry cream is really quite simple. I also want to add a few low carb crackers to my repetoire including some sesame crackers. I've got a nice bag of sesame seeds I'm dying to use. I love darn near sesame anything.
And in conclusion: Over a week ago I responded to a meme in
dine's journal about icons. So here I am, finally answering it and passing it on.
Reply to this post with "PORGS!"* and I will pick three of your icons for you to talk about in your own journal, and then keep the meme going by making this offer on your post.
These are the icons
dine asked about. I haven't had to do anything like embed media in forever so I hope I don't screw this up.
This was a miscellaneous icon I picked up on LJ when I was in my icon heydey. I thought I wouldn't get that much use out of it since I'm more of a cat person but I find myself using it when I want to express affection or thanks.
Witch Griselda from the Bugs Bunny cartons. I made this icon. I created it when I started posting about my lotions and potions creations and needed something appropriate for the subject matter.
This icon was made as a blank by the talented and generous mystic_mirth - who I believe isn't really active anymore. I have quite a few of her icons and I love them all but this is one of my favorites. My name was added by the lovely
myln. She's so talented with fonts and at my request she added my name to 3 different ones and they turned out so much better than anything I could have done. I use this gentle little pink pig and rose whenever I'm feeling happy and contented. Just look at the expression on that little pigs face! If that is contentment I don't know what is.
If anyone wants to play just drop me a comment. I promise I'm not going to disappear again. At least not for awhile. Now that I have a paid account to play with again I'm going to have fun!
Crap, I forgot that the formatting is borked on my DW. I'll need to contact TPTB and get their help to fix it now that I'm back.
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