Where's Nicole?
I feel like I've been pretty much gone from almost everything for a little while now. The new year has begun with my absence. Not without reason. The past few weeks have been pretty busy for me, with a decent balance of good and bad. Decent in that there's more good than bad.
First, the bad: I've had some weird health issues. Stuff that I thought was minor was, apparently, not quite so minor as I'd thought. Nothing huge and disastrous either, but stuff requiring appointments and tests and meds and some changes to routine. Nothing I want to talk about beyond this little paragraph really, no matter how close we are. Some of it's just gross. Some of it is disappointing. None of it is anything I'll feel comfortable discussing.
Second, the good: we got a new car. I'm sure you already know that. It was a minor distraction, really. Just a few days of planning and paperwork. And an hour or two untangling some stuff with the insurance. But it does account for a couple of absent days. And there's also been other good stuff, like going out with the family over the weekend (which was wonderful). And making my first successful ice cream (peanut butter, for my mom's birthday). Also, ya know, I've been getting a lot of work done...
Third, the distracting: given the not-so-great news and frustration with some things (scheduling and technical issues with game, responsibilities piling up on Shangrila), I've been ducking into avoidance mode. Yeah, I spend a lot of time there. I'm really enjoying SWTOR, which gives me a nice easy out, but even when I'm not playing that, I've been spending a lot of time hiding in other things, just being alone for a bit. You're thinking, "But Nicole, you've been alone for a while. Come back to us already!" And yeah, I think that, too.
First, the bad: I've had some weird health issues. Stuff that I thought was minor was, apparently, not quite so minor as I'd thought. Nothing huge and disastrous either, but stuff requiring appointments and tests and meds and some changes to routine. Nothing I want to talk about beyond this little paragraph really, no matter how close we are. Some of it's just gross. Some of it is disappointing. None of it is anything I'll feel comfortable discussing.
Second, the good: we got a new car. I'm sure you already know that. It was a minor distraction, really. Just a few days of planning and paperwork. And an hour or two untangling some stuff with the insurance. But it does account for a couple of absent days. And there's also been other good stuff, like going out with the family over the weekend (which was wonderful). And making my first successful ice cream (peanut butter, for my mom's birthday). Also, ya know, I've been getting a lot of work done...
Third, the distracting: given the not-so-great news and frustration with some things (scheduling and technical issues with game, responsibilities piling up on Shangrila), I've been ducking into avoidance mode. Yeah, I spend a lot of time there. I'm really enjoying SWTOR, which gives me a nice easy out, but even when I'm not playing that, I've been spending a lot of time hiding in other things, just being alone for a bit. You're thinking, "But Nicole, you've been alone for a while. Come back to us already!" And yeah, I think that, too.