Hallo.
So, news time in the Prophyt household.
What to say, what to say.
Let's start with Jobness:
I'm working 4 days a week. What, you say, is preventing me from updating the LJ-verse on my life? The other three days are normally spent in one of the following fashions: With kandi; with elf; with elf and kandi; alone gettting some TV series time in; or doing some housework or somesuch. When not at work, I spend only about an hour on the computer at a time, unless I'm writing or doing some Camwork. Since I spend all day at work online, I normally do not have any taste left for it when I get home. I can no longer LJ post from there, which means I only really look at this to say, "Hmm, which friend has said what?" and go away again.
I like my job, I like my new hours, something has to give, so normally it will be posting here.
Elfness:
The elf is good, mostly. She's got a lot of stress at work, but she seems to enjoy that. She knows what she has to do everyday, and likes to get it done. She is really enjoying having kandi around, when their schedules mesh up. Today we spent a few hours discussing where we want to move things, and getting some actual housework done. The laudry room is all set up now, just have to get the craft room set, and we can set up the guest/puppy room again. I am currently typing this while doing gynormous amounts of laundry, but I'm feeling good about being productive. Oh, and btw, gynormous is apparently a word, because my spellchecker hasn't given it the red underline. :P
Kandiness:
For those who haven't heard, there is a new girl in our life. Like the last few, she came to us by the way of the Cam. She is, however, unlike anything we've ever dealt with before. She is the fabled poly unicorn (also known as the hot bi femme), and has fallen for us as much as we've fallen for her. I put my collar on her, and she's given herself to us. Still, she's independent enough so as not to ever be a burden, yet needs us enough that we never feel we are putting her out. She doesn't ever attempt to be another queen in the castle. Elf is always listened to, cared for, and we are very communicative with each other. A friend of mine pointed out that I like to fall in love. What she failed to mention was that I like to stay in love, too. Kandi doesn't give me that feeling that I'm just waiting for everything to go wrong, and that someone is going to come along and piss in my cheerios.
Kiddness:
Both of my kids still suck at school. They are both teenagers, and really only interact with us for dinner, and when they need something. Sometimes we force them to do horrible group activities, but they aren't all that interested anymore. They lead their own lives a lot. As for their thoughts on Kandi, it went something like this: Jennie is a friend they like to have around, and they think of her as another teenager. The Cam people are all strangers that are familiar, and they don't care much for the invasion on the house. We've cut our days a month in half, so they seem to have chilled out a bit. Kandi, well, they think of her as another kid. She's rather seamless when she's here, doing dishes and chores without being asked, and as long as they don't point it out to elf that kandi is doing THEIR chores, then they don't have to do them. We were sitting down to dinner with elf's mom and kandi one night, and Llanya made a comment that she was happy that most of the family was there. All we were missing was a Jennie.
Friendness:
I find it odd that the people I see around me now are the people I consider friends. They aren't the same people they were last year. Oh, those people are there, but more and more I feel like we are a satellite friends anymore. Sort of circling each other, waving from a distance, and comfortable if we happen to share the same space. None of my work friends work there anymore, though I do keep up with some of them. My Cam friends... well, they are satellites most of the time. Except for a couple of them (Kat and Ray), I feel like I'm intruding when I chat them. Hell, when I got to afters last night, I really felt like I was interrupting something by being late. Everyone is on these strange shifts at work, or just very filled up in what they are doing. It'll settle out a bit in the future, but I'm pretty sure before it does I'll have a different circle. I don't put up long with being an outsider.
PS - This isn't a 'woe is me' rant. This is just a statement. I really don't have a lot of woe in my life right now.
Gameness:
I went back to how I used to run things, and everyone seems to be having a much better time of it now. People who want individual plots come to me for them now, and sometimes I'll just toss something in someone's lap to keep certain things going. I don't try and keep everyone interested, because honestly its impossible. I have plots going, and if people want to get involved, they will. Anyone who feels left out simply hasn't tried to get involved. This wont make some of them happy, but you know what? Since I get downtimes or obvious interest from 1/5th of the people who show up, those are the ones I'll give something to. The rest seem content to simply follow the story, or get involved when forced to. Everyone seemed to have a great time, so I guess its working. I stopped forcing it, and poof, all is good.
Lifeness:
Life is pretty golden for me right now. Sometimes I feel guilty because things are working out so well. Sometimes I get that odd feeling that I just want to stop living at this exact moment, because how can there be anywhere to go but down? Then things get better yet again... and I keep going.
Hope some golden is in everyone's life, somewhere.
Paix, peoples.
What to say, what to say.
Let's start with Jobness:
I'm working 4 days a week. What, you say, is preventing me from updating the LJ-verse on my life? The other three days are normally spent in one of the following fashions: With kandi; with elf; with elf and kandi; alone gettting some TV series time in; or doing some housework or somesuch. When not at work, I spend only about an hour on the computer at a time, unless I'm writing or doing some Camwork. Since I spend all day at work online, I normally do not have any taste left for it when I get home. I can no longer LJ post from there, which means I only really look at this to say, "Hmm, which friend has said what?" and go away again.
I like my job, I like my new hours, something has to give, so normally it will be posting here.
Elfness:
The elf is good, mostly. She's got a lot of stress at work, but she seems to enjoy that. She knows what she has to do everyday, and likes to get it done. She is really enjoying having kandi around, when their schedules mesh up. Today we spent a few hours discussing where we want to move things, and getting some actual housework done. The laudry room is all set up now, just have to get the craft room set, and we can set up the guest/puppy room again. I am currently typing this while doing gynormous amounts of laundry, but I'm feeling good about being productive. Oh, and btw, gynormous is apparently a word, because my spellchecker hasn't given it the red underline. :P
Kandiness:
For those who haven't heard, there is a new girl in our life. Like the last few, she came to us by the way of the Cam. She is, however, unlike anything we've ever dealt with before. She is the fabled poly unicorn (also known as the hot bi femme), and has fallen for us as much as we've fallen for her. I put my collar on her, and she's given herself to us. Still, she's independent enough so as not to ever be a burden, yet needs us enough that we never feel we are putting her out. She doesn't ever attempt to be another queen in the castle. Elf is always listened to, cared for, and we are very communicative with each other. A friend of mine pointed out that I like to fall in love. What she failed to mention was that I like to stay in love, too. Kandi doesn't give me that feeling that I'm just waiting for everything to go wrong, and that someone is going to come along and piss in my cheerios.
Kiddness:
Both of my kids still suck at school. They are both teenagers, and really only interact with us for dinner, and when they need something. Sometimes we force them to do horrible group activities, but they aren't all that interested anymore. They lead their own lives a lot. As for their thoughts on Kandi, it went something like this: Jennie is a friend they like to have around, and they think of her as another teenager. The Cam people are all strangers that are familiar, and they don't care much for the invasion on the house. We've cut our days a month in half, so they seem to have chilled out a bit. Kandi, well, they think of her as another kid. She's rather seamless when she's here, doing dishes and chores without being asked, and as long as they don't point it out to elf that kandi is doing THEIR chores, then they don't have to do them. We were sitting down to dinner with elf's mom and kandi one night, and Llanya made a comment that she was happy that most of the family was there. All we were missing was a Jennie.
Friendness:
I find it odd that the people I see around me now are the people I consider friends. They aren't the same people they were last year. Oh, those people are there, but more and more I feel like we are a satellite friends anymore. Sort of circling each other, waving from a distance, and comfortable if we happen to share the same space. None of my work friends work there anymore, though I do keep up with some of them. My Cam friends... well, they are satellites most of the time. Except for a couple of them (Kat and Ray), I feel like I'm intruding when I chat them. Hell, when I got to afters last night, I really felt like I was interrupting something by being late. Everyone is on these strange shifts at work, or just very filled up in what they are doing. It'll settle out a bit in the future, but I'm pretty sure before it does I'll have a different circle. I don't put up long with being an outsider.
PS - This isn't a 'woe is me' rant. This is just a statement. I really don't have a lot of woe in my life right now.
Gameness:
I went back to how I used to run things, and everyone seems to be having a much better time of it now. People who want individual plots come to me for them now, and sometimes I'll just toss something in someone's lap to keep certain things going. I don't try and keep everyone interested, because honestly its impossible. I have plots going, and if people want to get involved, they will. Anyone who feels left out simply hasn't tried to get involved. This wont make some of them happy, but you know what? Since I get downtimes or obvious interest from 1/5th of the people who show up, those are the ones I'll give something to. The rest seem content to simply follow the story, or get involved when forced to. Everyone seemed to have a great time, so I guess its working. I stopped forcing it, and poof, all is good.
Lifeness:
Life is pretty golden for me right now. Sometimes I feel guilty because things are working out so well. Sometimes I get that odd feeling that I just want to stop living at this exact moment, because how can there be anywhere to go but down? Then things get better yet again... and I keep going.
Hope some golden is in everyone's life, somewhere.
Paix, peoples.