I have been doing so many things! D:

[spindizzy]

This is the post I started writing on Friday and then got horribly distracted from because I have been BUSY AS ALL HELL THIS WEEKEND.

Ey up loves! I continue to exist, I survived the midnight showing of Star Wars, although my thoughts on it are about 2000 words long and show no sign of slowing down OR answering the question of whether I like it or not, and I'm going to visit Jill tomorrow. Weirdly, I'm more tired today after a decent night's sleep than I was after the midnight showing? But sure, fine, I have a busy day today, so of COURSE I'm sleepy. I'm getting the train up to Jill's with her present (that I haven't wrapped yet), a bunch of notebooks and fauxdori stuff that I promised her, and a toy rabbit (that I haven't finished all of the pieces of yet). So. You know. THE USUAL. Lex is off visiting his mum, and then next week we're going to visit mine, which is throwing me off because in my brain there's another three weeks till Christmas. Friends: THERE IS NOT. On the plus side, I've made the body of the rabbit, which is the bit that would've been a pain in the arse to post because it's round, so I've got that out of the way.

Apart from that... Not really done much? I spent most of yesterday dossing about on the sofa reading Finn/Poe fic as a mild middle finger to JJ Abrams, then going through my old diary pages while a woman on youtube talked about productivity and writing. Unfortunately, she mentioned that she believes in the Law of Attraction, so now I need to find a NEW productivity and writing lady to be soothing background noise. (If anyone has recs, let me know? If you have any that are writing and ADHD, that's even better, because the closest I've got is How to ADHD.) I'm sorry to anyone who has me on Letterboxd for adding half of the movies I saw this year in one batch! And I'm sorry to anyone on Goodreads who happened to catch me adding ALL OF 2014 to my shelves, because I think 2014 was part of the two years I just avoided the living hell out of Goodreads because, y'know, Amazon. Plus I booted up Pokémon Shield because I was worried that I was going to miss my window to get a long cat or whatever the special thing about the gift Meowth is, and the game is REALLY CUTE. It can be the subject of a DIFFERENT post, but so far I am full of squee.

So yeah, I've finished no one's presents, I have lost all of my christmas cards, and I am ready for a NAP.

... I want to tell you that I didn't get around to posting that because I did in fact go for a nap, but I'm 90% sure that I was writing that at work and just slowly falling asleep on the desk. WHOOPS.

So current state of the Susan: I went to visit Jill! I spent most of the weekend sitting on her sofa crocheting the rabbit that I promised her and her housemates for their baby! (Somewhere, my mum is trying to insist that he's not a baby, and all of us are like "No, the adorable toddler is a baby.") It's really nice to see the baby and his family, because everyone is so calm and patient with him? And explain things to him so that he doesn't freak out? It's really sweet and a little bit heartbreaking, because I know that I couldn't do that and none of the kids in my family had that growing up. But also: THE RABBIT IS SOMEWHAT FINISHED, in that I still have one arm to finish, but apart from that was at the stage where I could just shower Jill in bunny parts and leave her to frankenstein it together somehow.

And we watched SO MANY THINGS! We went to watch Cats at the pictures, which was 100% not as weird and horny as the internet wanted me to believe. Source: we watched the nineties version of Cats this weekend and it was MORE weird and horny than the movie. And Muppet Christmas Carol, i.e. the best christmas movie! And a couple of comedy specials, including Nanette, which Jill described as more of a TED talk with Sad Gay Energy than a comedy show, and she isn't wrong. You all told me that it was good and a difficult watch, and you were NOT WRONG.

As for Christmas... Still in denial that it's this week, but I have at least got presents for Mum, Jill, and Lex, and let Lex field any of the other ones. I have a pact with a couple of my mates that we'll buy each other Steam games for each gift-giving opportunity, so that's easy enough, it's just... Brain. Effort. What? So I'm quite tired, is what I'm saying here, and SO GRATEFUL that I don't have to go to work until the new year. The extent of my plans are "Go to visit my mum, don't get into a fight with anyone, at some point build a nest out of blankets and game consoles and refuse to leave it until 2020." Yes, I have in fact not looked at my diary in a fortnight, that's why I'm completely unmoored in time. Whoops!