spindizzy | Monday, 12 December 2022

HELLO INTERNET. I tried to write this post not in bullet points, but that is clearly for the birds!

I am okay! I'm basically becoming the "Pingu angrily slapping a love heart on a card" image when it comes to taking care of myself, but I am doing the stupid care tasks. Gold star for Kathy Parr.

Got a new laptop! It runs so fast! Like, my old laptop had gotten to the point where turning it on and opening discord could take half an hour, and this one loads in literally minutes. I can play PC games again! This is wild! As part of that, found a rich vein of low-brain games.
- My favourite is Mini Motorways — draw roads to link buildings of the same colour, everything is great until you need to merge roads. No thoughts, head empty, only ponderings of why the most efficient way to prevent traffic breakdown in this game is to segregate every district for as long as possible like it's a YA dystopia.
- I've also been playing a couple of Devcats games, mainly A Building Full of Cats and A Castle Full of Cats. They're hidden object games where your goal is to find cats, and it's interesting seeing just how abstract it can get and still register as a cat to me. Oh, and they've got a game called Sudocats, which is proving my theory of "I'd be able to do sudoku if the numbers were replaced with symbols" correct very nicely, thank you.

I'm not saying that it's cold in Nottingham, but the door handle snapped off LexGarrett's car when he tried to open it.

Went to visit my mum this weekend! It was nice! Did some computer trouble-shooting, got washed by the cat, collected new and Interesting family gossip. sithe called my entire damn bloodline out when I was telling them how it went: "I remain amazed no-one in your family has a channel 4 show about them yet."

Current craft projects: knitting Lex's christmas present! I have unravelled it for the tenth time, so at this point I need to figure out how to insert lifelines or bust. And the stuff I need to finish up my dress form has arrived, so I've got that ahead of me!

House is a mess. I really need to just pick a spot and go, but everything that's out is either stuff I need to do something with, or something that I don't have a home for yet. Might dedicate the nothing days between xmas and new year to putting everything the fuck away, see how far I get.

Been getting in my feelings about how I've done NOTHING this year on the writing front. Which makes sense, because I've always done my writing in places that aren't my house, and covid basically put the knackers on that, but... I dunno, I thought maybe I'd be back to it by now.