Where did the time go?
Somehow it's been nearly a month since I updated. Ok, I actually know where the time went: I spend the first couple of weeks struggling with a low-grade fever-y thing that never really developed into anything, but just wouldn't go away. Then I had friends come to visit for a few days, which involved several days of frantically trying to make my house look clean and tidy and generally like a functional adult lives there, then the actual visit, then several more days of sitting around staring into space and being totally exhausted.
I am now, however, vaguely functional (just in time for All The Hogsmeade Weekends, as it turns out). And the exhaustion was totally worth it - I had a great time with my friends, and we managed to do a lot of fun stuff, even with having to take my health/energy levels etc into account. I'm sad that I've been failing at LJ, though; I'm sorry, you're all awesome, and I'll start being better about commenting again. *hugs for everyone*
Oh yeah, and Tourney of the Hand went well. It was heaps of fun, as always, although I was starting to get sick towards the end and was struggling a bit. But now I know that I have excellent paper plate mask making skillz. And a picture that I actually drew not only got votes (which is all I could ever hope for, and super-exciting), but placed third. Actually third. Granted, there were only five entries, and two of them were pretty MS paint-y, but given my complete lack of art skills, that's still strangely thrilling to me.
In other exciting news, I am totally leading my parents to the dark side, and it's awesome! Game of Thrones has finally been on pay tv here, and I managed to convince Mum to record it and to watch at least one episode. She was pretty reluctant, but after my oldest stepsister said that she'd enjoyed the show, Mum agreed to watch it. Once. Her reaction? It was good, and she's going to watch some more :)
And I was blithering on to Dad about how I was going to make him watch the show sometime, and out of the blue, he was like, I should probably read the books first then. And I was like, O_O. But I leant him the first book and he thought it was good, and he wants to know what happens next :)
I'll make geeks of them yet! XD
I am now, however, vaguely functional (just in time for All The Hogsmeade Weekends, as it turns out). And the exhaustion was totally worth it - I had a great time with my friends, and we managed to do a lot of fun stuff, even with having to take my health/energy levels etc into account. I'm sad that I've been failing at LJ, though; I'm sorry, you're all awesome, and I'll start being better about commenting again. *hugs for everyone*
Oh yeah, and Tourney of the Hand went well. It was heaps of fun, as always, although I was starting to get sick towards the end and was struggling a bit. But now I know that I have excellent paper plate mask making skillz. And a picture that I actually drew not only got votes (which is all I could ever hope for, and super-exciting), but placed third. Actually third. Granted, there were only five entries, and two of them were pretty MS paint-y, but given my complete lack of art skills, that's still strangely thrilling to me.
In other exciting news, I am totally leading my parents to the dark side, and it's awesome! Game of Thrones has finally been on pay tv here, and I managed to convince Mum to record it and to watch at least one episode. She was pretty reluctant, but after my oldest stepsister said that she'd enjoyed the show, Mum agreed to watch it. Once. Her reaction? It was good, and she's going to watch some more :)
And I was blithering on to Dad about how I was going to make him watch the show sometime, and out of the blue, he was like, I should probably read the books first then. And I was like, O_O. But I leant him the first book and he thought it was good, and he wants to know what happens next :)
I'll make geeks of them yet! XD