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i have needed a break since the holidays and end of the semester.
i am just now beginning to feel sane again (although my read on that is debatable).
this is likely to be a long post.
xmas was hectic.
we had my folks with us for a few days after xmas, but we were all so wiped out we didn't do a whole lot. we were mostly content to talk theology and enjoy each other's company. and that was nice all by itself.
we had the mortal coil group over sunday after xmas and i spent a lot of saturday preparing so that i wouldn't have to do any thinking or serious food creation on sunday. there are vegetarians involved so a certain amount of thought is required. we had chips and salsa and veggies and dip and some other stuff out to snack on. for dinner i made fresh baked bread, beer cheese soup and herb-roasted butternut squash, green pepper and onion tossed with bowtie pasta, pine nuts and crumbled feta. it was yummy.
gaming was a bit frustrating though, because we basically decided to scrap the mortal coil system and switch to something called the shadows of yesterday. we spent about half our time together analyzing the gaming system instead of playing and some of that was interesting to me, but most of it was boring. i just don't have the level of experience with game systems that most of the other players have and i can't really participate much in a conversation like that, nor do i have the frame of reference to make listening to it very interesting. on the other hand, i am GETTING more experience. so that's good. long and short, mortal coil has a system for conflict that is too clunky for the type of game we are playing and we need to move to something more flexible.
for new year, ross and i had planned to go up and play board games with the st. cloud crew, but ross was feeling overwhelmed so we wound up going to heather keiweg's for a while and then coming back home to watch movies, eat snacky stuff and get really sentimental around midnight. i popped some champagne left over from the xmas mimosas and it was really quite nice.
since then, i have been in recovery mode. i have felt anti-social and exhausted and have pretty much been ignoring anyone i could get away with ignoring(YES i am ignoring you. NO it's not personal). i have been in the negatives on my alone-time quota for approximately 4 months now and i think i'm about half-way caught up. i am debating about game tonight as i am obliged to be social tomorrow.
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i am just now beginning to feel sane again (although my read on that is debatable).
this is likely to be a long post.
xmas was hectic.
we had my folks with us for a few days after xmas, but we were all so wiped out we didn't do a whole lot. we were mostly content to talk theology and enjoy each other's company. and that was nice all by itself.
we had the mortal coil group over sunday after xmas and i spent a lot of saturday preparing so that i wouldn't have to do any thinking or serious food creation on sunday. there are vegetarians involved so a certain amount of thought is required. we had chips and salsa and veggies and dip and some other stuff out to snack on. for dinner i made fresh baked bread, beer cheese soup and herb-roasted butternut squash, green pepper and onion tossed with bowtie pasta, pine nuts and crumbled feta. it was yummy.
gaming was a bit frustrating though, because we basically decided to scrap the mortal coil system and switch to something called the shadows of yesterday. we spent about half our time together analyzing the gaming system instead of playing and some of that was interesting to me, but most of it was boring. i just don't have the level of experience with game systems that most of the other players have and i can't really participate much in a conversation like that, nor do i have the frame of reference to make listening to it very interesting. on the other hand, i am GETTING more experience. so that's good. long and short, mortal coil has a system for conflict that is too clunky for the type of game we are playing and we need to move to something more flexible.
for new year, ross and i had planned to go up and play board games with the st. cloud crew, but ross was feeling overwhelmed so we wound up going to heather keiweg's for a while and then coming back home to watch movies, eat snacky stuff and get really sentimental around midnight. i popped some champagne left over from the xmas mimosas and it was really quite nice.
since then, i have been in recovery mode. i have felt anti-social and exhausted and have pretty much been ignoring anyone i could get away with ignoring(YES i am ignoring you. NO it's not personal). i have been in the negatives on my alone-time quota for approximately 4 months now and i think i'm about half-way caught up. i am debating about game tonight as i am obliged to be social tomorrow.
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