First Shopping Spree in Months!!!
Not that I'm exactly the shopping spree type, but it's nice to have enough cash on hand to buy more than one or two things at a time. Stocked up on vitamins, also bought the back brace I've been told I should likely get; wore it while I was at work - a Saturday shift seemed the best way to break it in. Once I got it adjusted properly, it fit like the proverbial glove: since it covered me from just below my breasts to right above my hips (my torso seems tinier than I thought), it really covered a good spread of my back. Also, it felt really comfortable: I came home with my back feeling less tired than it very often does after a Saturday.
Before I headed out for work, I took in some of the Halloween stuff: took in the stake lights, also the pumpkin pails and the spooky fence that lined one side of the driveway. Chilly weather returned today: cool breeze had me pulling my snuggies on before I went to work (can't risk getting chilled while I'm working, even while moving around as much as I do).
Quiet evening once I got home: finished reading Rachel Caine's "Dead Girls Dance", the second in the Morganville Vampires novels (it was a two books in one volume); loving the twists and turns, loving the level of realism that she instills in it. You could see people making the kinds of compromises they make, if vampires walked among us and had holed up in one small town. Continuing in the spirit of reading things I might pass on to the used book store, started reading "Assassin's Creed: Renaissance", which I'd bought ages ago. Never have yet played any of the games, but the operating word is 'yet'; just need a faster computer, and if this one comes to the end of its lifetime, I might opt for something a bit more gaming-friendly. I miss running about killing virtual things. The recently released Fallout 4 looks gorgeous, and the post-apocalyptic Boston that comprises the setting intrigues me *very* much, and I've wanted to play a zombie game for some time now.
Sadly, I've got an corner of irritation in my heart: hasn't happened on my Facebook timeline, but I've heard from others that they've had trouble with people snapping at other people for posting things other than the tragedy in Paris. While we do need to keep the people of Paris (and I've heard, in Lebanon as well, since a terrorist attack happened there the day before the Paris attacks), life still goes on. Dwelling too long on tragedies can, I've found, cause something similar to 'compassion fatigue', where you find yourself having a hard time bringing yourself to assist someone, after you've had repeated appeals for assistance from the same quarter or multiple quarters all at once. You have to care for yourself, even while caring for others. And one needs balance in all things, especially in times of darkness: you need things to lighten that darkness.
Before I headed out for work, I took in some of the Halloween stuff: took in the stake lights, also the pumpkin pails and the spooky fence that lined one side of the driveway. Chilly weather returned today: cool breeze had me pulling my snuggies on before I went to work (can't risk getting chilled while I'm working, even while moving around as much as I do).
Quiet evening once I got home: finished reading Rachel Caine's "Dead Girls Dance", the second in the Morganville Vampires novels (it was a two books in one volume); loving the twists and turns, loving the level of realism that she instills in it. You could see people making the kinds of compromises they make, if vampires walked among us and had holed up in one small town. Continuing in the spirit of reading things I might pass on to the used book store, started reading "Assassin's Creed: Renaissance", which I'd bought ages ago. Never have yet played any of the games, but the operating word is 'yet'; just need a faster computer, and if this one comes to the end of its lifetime, I might opt for something a bit more gaming-friendly. I miss running about killing virtual things. The recently released Fallout 4 looks gorgeous, and the post-apocalyptic Boston that comprises the setting intrigues me *very* much, and I've wanted to play a zombie game for some time now.
Sadly, I've got an corner of irritation in my heart: hasn't happened on my Facebook timeline, but I've heard from others that they've had trouble with people snapping at other people for posting things other than the tragedy in Paris. While we do need to keep the people of Paris (and I've heard, in Lebanon as well, since a terrorist attack happened there the day before the Paris attacks), life still goes on. Dwelling too long on tragedies can, I've found, cause something similar to 'compassion fatigue', where you find yourself having a hard time bringing yourself to assist someone, after you've had repeated appeals for assistance from the same quarter or multiple quarters all at once. You have to care for yourself, even while caring for others. And one needs balance in all things, especially in times of darkness: you need things to lighten that darkness.