Update
So, I'm still here.
I see that since my relationship started in the first week of February, I've made a total of three longer posts here on LJ. One about some weird dream, another about the closing of the comic book fan fiction community IRC channel, and a third one about the Alice movie.
It's been hellabusy. (That's busy*10^27) We're closing in on five months together and we're in the process of moving in together. Most of our stuff got moved in with a van two weeks ago but there's still some minor stuff left. My old apartment (where I've lived pretty much all the while that I've known all of you who are reading this -- hanneloore has known me longer since we go way back to high school and lostkun and cyriael met me online in '96 so they just sneak in before I moved here in '97) has the last rent day on Monday, so I need to do some end cleaning to it this week and make sure it's in a condition to be released. (I'll probably fail because cleaning isn't exactly my forté but ah well.) It feels a little nostalgic to leave a place that's been your home for thirteen years, but like I've been saying for years now, "I grew out of that place five years ago". Meaning it was way too small for me and I really should have moved out before now, but -- well, inertia. Because of the amount of material things I possess (which I'm both proud and not-proud of, in various contexts) moving is hell, and I've half tongue-in-cheek hoped that I would only move two more times over the rest of my life: 1) when I move in together with someone and 2) when we need a bigger place to raise kids. Well, I managed to hang in there and not move until I could synergize it with number one.
I can tell you, it's a pretty big change to move from 23 square meters to 79 square meters. Our new living room is pretty much the size of the single-room apartment where I slept, cooked and worked before. And in addition to that I now have a separate room for kitchen, separate room for sleeping, separate room for a study. And a sauna. It feels like I'm living in an apartment for real humans now, as opposed to a place for students which are some kind of subhuman creatures who don't need a human-rights-compatible living arrangement. :D I'll try to get you people some pictures soon, once all the boxes are unpacked and/or cleared out.
I haven't gotten a lot of other stuff done over the past months than work and relationship stuff. It's still that early phase where we spend every moment together so I haven't gotten a lot of gaming or reading or hobbies done. My comics reading backlog is like three meters high or something, for not having read any of the stuff that's come in the mail for almost half a year. I had a shot at being in the local comics anthology this year with an eight-page story drawn by a current Marvel artist (whom I'd hired to draw the story for me a couple of years back before he broke into the business) but I didn't have time to letter the story so fail. :( None of my novels have moved forward this year so far. I'm only getting this LJ post written because she's on a trip to Belgium with her dad. :D But it's still awesome to be together with her -- some things are more important than reading and writing -- and I'm sure things will even out over time and I'll make some more time for myself and my hobbies.
Some pictures behind the cut.
Outi and me.
In March we went on a 24h Baltic cruise, and the ice was so bad that we actually got stuck in the middle of the Baltic for an unintended 60h cruise with free food the whole time. The staff said they hadn't seen a winter this bad in 20 years. It was awesome.
In April we went to the local fair.
She takes me outdoors, which is good.
The first thing to set up in a new home is a home network. Outside, the weather is typical Finnish dreary. On the windowsill, symbolic important things to bring to a new apartment. Knight Rider, Star Trek and MacGyver. :D And in the closet, X-Men comics. :)
I see that since my relationship started in the first week of February, I've made a total of three longer posts here on LJ. One about some weird dream, another about the closing of the comic book fan fiction community IRC channel, and a third one about the Alice movie.
It's been hellabusy. (That's busy*10^27) We're closing in on five months together and we're in the process of moving in together. Most of our stuff got moved in with a van two weeks ago but there's still some minor stuff left. My old apartment (where I've lived pretty much all the while that I've known all of you who are reading this -- hanneloore has known me longer since we go way back to high school and lostkun and cyriael met me online in '96 so they just sneak in before I moved here in '97) has the last rent day on Monday, so I need to do some end cleaning to it this week and make sure it's in a condition to be released. (I'll probably fail because cleaning isn't exactly my forté but ah well.) It feels a little nostalgic to leave a place that's been your home for thirteen years, but like I've been saying for years now, "I grew out of that place five years ago". Meaning it was way too small for me and I really should have moved out before now, but -- well, inertia. Because of the amount of material things I possess (which I'm both proud and not-proud of, in various contexts) moving is hell, and I've half tongue-in-cheek hoped that I would only move two more times over the rest of my life: 1) when I move in together with someone and 2) when we need a bigger place to raise kids. Well, I managed to hang in there and not move until I could synergize it with number one.
I can tell you, it's a pretty big change to move from 23 square meters to 79 square meters. Our new living room is pretty much the size of the single-room apartment where I slept, cooked and worked before. And in addition to that I now have a separate room for kitchen, separate room for sleeping, separate room for a study. And a sauna. It feels like I'm living in an apartment for real humans now, as opposed to a place for students which are some kind of subhuman creatures who don't need a human-rights-compatible living arrangement. :D I'll try to get you people some pictures soon, once all the boxes are unpacked and/or cleared out.
I haven't gotten a lot of other stuff done over the past months than work and relationship stuff. It's still that early phase where we spend every moment together so I haven't gotten a lot of gaming or reading or hobbies done. My comics reading backlog is like three meters high or something, for not having read any of the stuff that's come in the mail for almost half a year. I had a shot at being in the local comics anthology this year with an eight-page story drawn by a current Marvel artist (whom I'd hired to draw the story for me a couple of years back before he broke into the business) but I didn't have time to letter the story so fail. :( None of my novels have moved forward this year so far. I'm only getting this LJ post written because she's on a trip to Belgium with her dad. :D But it's still awesome to be together with her -- some things are more important than reading and writing -- and I'm sure things will even out over time and I'll make some more time for myself and my hobbies.
Some pictures behind the cut.
Outi and me.
In March we went on a 24h Baltic cruise, and the ice was so bad that we actually got stuck in the middle of the Baltic for an unintended 60h cruise with free food the whole time. The staff said they hadn't seen a winter this bad in 20 years. It was awesome.
In April we went to the local fair.
She takes me outdoors, which is good.
The first thing to set up in a new home is a home network. Outside, the weather is typical Finnish dreary. On the windowsill, symbolic important things to bring to a new apartment. Knight Rider, Star Trek and MacGyver. :D And in the closet, X-Men comics. :)