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darchildre) wrote2021-05-20 10:03 am
darchildre) wrote2021-05-20 10:03 am
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Things:
- I'm having a bad week. Nothing is really happening to cause it, I suppose - it's either continuing stress and depression from All of the Everything, or it's the beginning of my normal yearly summer depression - but it sucks. Mostly, I am tired and irritable and everything seems like much more of a hassle than it needs to be, especially talking to other people.
- Also, the chronically dry skin on my hands which I've had problems with since February and which had been improving somewhat, has now started cracking badly in several places, so on top of everything, my hands hurt all the time again.
- In less depressing new, remember how I ordered some yarn recently? Well, I had waited on it for a long time without it moving on the USPS tracking site, so I emailed the yarn company to ask what was up. They told me that my package had been lost and that they'd send me a replacement via UPS. Which arrived on Monday and turned out to be two identical packages containing the same yarn. So now I have 10 extra balls of yarn that I have to figure out something to do with.
- The only media thing that has been holding my interest lately has been Critical Role, and watching that has filled me with a desire to play D&D specifically, as opposed to any of my other games. Since playing with other people in general feels like a stressful nightmare right now, I have started a new solo game. To streamline things a little, I've set up the game in a private Discord server, using the Avrae bot, which is a new-to-me solo gaming experience. I'm enjoying it so far. I played for about three hours last night and it went pretty well - I do still have to do some outside prep, but it's nice not having to look up spells or monster stats because the bot will do that for me. Fortunately, solo rpgs seem to be turning out to be like Stardew Valley, in that they are things I can still do and enjoy, even when I'm depressed.
- I'm having a bad week. Nothing is really happening to cause it, I suppose - it's either continuing stress and depression from All of the Everything, or it's the beginning of my normal yearly summer depression - but it sucks. Mostly, I am tired and irritable and everything seems like much more of a hassle than it needs to be, especially talking to other people.
- Also, the chronically dry skin on my hands which I've had problems with since February and which had been improving somewhat, has now started cracking badly in several places, so on top of everything, my hands hurt all the time again.
- In less depressing new, remember how I ordered some yarn recently? Well, I had waited on it for a long time without it moving on the USPS tracking site, so I emailed the yarn company to ask what was up. They told me that my package had been lost and that they'd send me a replacement via UPS. Which arrived on Monday and turned out to be two identical packages containing the same yarn. So now I have 10 extra balls of yarn that I have to figure out something to do with.
- The only media thing that has been holding my interest lately has been Critical Role, and watching that has filled me with a desire to play D&D specifically, as opposed to any of my other games. Since playing with other people in general feels like a stressful nightmare right now, I have started a new solo game. To streamline things a little, I've set up the game in a private Discord server, using the Avrae bot, which is a new-to-me solo gaming experience. I'm enjoying it so far. I played for about three hours last night and it went pretty well - I do still have to do some outside prep, but it's nice not having to look up spells or monster stats because the bot will do that for me. Fortunately, solo rpgs seem to be turning out to be like Stardew Valley, in that they are things I can still do and enjoy, even when I'm depressed.