Winter Blues
I find that I don't like this time of year, and I'm not sure how much I can actually blame Christmas. I mean, it's a disruption to the routine, but it's not inherently bad. It's usually pleasant (even if it commonly means online places are relatively dead for a couple days).
But even all that aside, the weeks around the solstice are hard because of the deepening winter. I find it a lot harder to motivate in the morning. I get home and it's already dark. I miss out on what daylight hours there are by being indoors. There is a distinct psychological effect to short days, even this far south. Bleh.
I met with the other HOA board members earlier this week. The coffee house we were planning to meet at was closing, so we instead chatted at a bar/restaurant across the street. I can't say we accomplished much, save sharing some thoughts on the situation. None of it's good, of course. @whee. The "best" part might be that we can't expect any work to be done until the snow melts off mostly, which means we might have our January HOA meeting prior to that. And we'll be doing elections there. I'm torn on that. On one hand, I want to get out of this, not be responsible, and stick my head back under the sand. On the other hand, I want to make sure we get through this, and I can't do that if I'm not on the board. Meh. We'll see. We're still trying to wrangle more information out of our property manager, but that's gotten to be like pulling teeth.
I was summoned for jury duty yesterday morning. The bailiff sat us in a room and explained this was for county court and would last at most a day. Then after about half an hour or waiting, the attorneys and judge came out and the judge announced something to the effect of "well, we just had a meeting and all agreed this case isn't ready to go to trial, so you are all excused." Easy enough, though I wonder why they couldn't have decided that 24-hours earlier and saved us the hassle of coming in altogether.
It looks like offline RP will be Saturday afternoon. Then there's usual WoW raid time that evening, though I haven't seen anything specific scheduled. I assume we'll try to finish out Trial of the Crusader. Busy, busy.
Last night, I sort of crashed. By the time I had dinner, I simply didn't have the drive to do anything online or off. The up shot, I suppose, is that I got two or three hours of "extra" sleep, though I don't feel much different for it. It bugs me to do this, though. It's not just missing out on a couple emblems of frost on WoW, but the sense of failure to accomplish anything fouls my mood. I tend to get that way even when I spend an evening just talking and not playing on the MUCK. I guess it's a pet peeve of mine.
Let's see... I have most of my holiday stuff taken care of. I'll need to pick up some ingredients for Christmas creme brulee and a pie to take over to my parents'. I do have some trouble believing Christmas is just a week away.
But even all that aside, the weeks around the solstice are hard because of the deepening winter. I find it a lot harder to motivate in the morning. I get home and it's already dark. I miss out on what daylight hours there are by being indoors. There is a distinct psychological effect to short days, even this far south. Bleh.
I met with the other HOA board members earlier this week. The coffee house we were planning to meet at was closing, so we instead chatted at a bar/restaurant across the street. I can't say we accomplished much, save sharing some thoughts on the situation. None of it's good, of course. @whee. The "best" part might be that we can't expect any work to be done until the snow melts off mostly, which means we might have our January HOA meeting prior to that. And we'll be doing elections there. I'm torn on that. On one hand, I want to get out of this, not be responsible, and stick my head back under the sand. On the other hand, I want to make sure we get through this, and I can't do that if I'm not on the board. Meh. We'll see. We're still trying to wrangle more information out of our property manager, but that's gotten to be like pulling teeth.
I was summoned for jury duty yesterday morning. The bailiff sat us in a room and explained this was for county court and would last at most a day. Then after about half an hour or waiting, the attorneys and judge came out and the judge announced something to the effect of "well, we just had a meeting and all agreed this case isn't ready to go to trial, so you are all excused." Easy enough, though I wonder why they couldn't have decided that 24-hours earlier and saved us the hassle of coming in altogether.
It looks like offline RP will be Saturday afternoon. Then there's usual WoW raid time that evening, though I haven't seen anything specific scheduled. I assume we'll try to finish out Trial of the Crusader. Busy, busy.
Last night, I sort of crashed. By the time I had dinner, I simply didn't have the drive to do anything online or off. The up shot, I suppose, is that I got two or three hours of "extra" sleep, though I don't feel much different for it. It bugs me to do this, though. It's not just missing out on a couple emblems of frost on WoW, but the sense of failure to accomplish anything fouls my mood. I tend to get that way even when I spend an evening just talking and not playing on the MUCK. I guess it's a pet peeve of mine.
Let's see... I have most of my holiday stuff taken care of. I'll need to pick up some ingredients for Christmas creme brulee and a pie to take over to my parents'. I do have some trouble believing Christmas is just a week away.
*hugs* So.. what makes a christmas creme brulee? Is it dyed red and green? ;)
ReplyDelete1) It's become a tradition that I make creme brulee for Christmas. 2) Yes, actually. ;) I use red- and green-colored sugar on the top. Sometimes in a tree pattern.
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