#ooc

so, this visit has been a bit intense

good, but intense

Share more if/when/as you can.

G'morning. 🙂

We had company last night -- our former housemate, Rick. We had snacks and games and gifts and cocoa and so forth, and he started to go...and then settled into "his" chair for another 45 minutes while telling us the ins and outs of some computer-y thing, and we were both already exhausted. He has strong the-thing-that-wouldn't-leave vibes. We crashed pretty abruptly after he left. I am glad he visited, though.

Hi

Hey! Happy morning after, sorry I vanished last night.

How're you doing?

I'm good. Christmas is always a bitt tense, but part one of it is done

What's part two?

New Years Eve. We open gifts greater then

More so I mean

It's because we have our little family here, but usually two of us are away during Christmas for our blood kin

Ahhh! Got it.

I'm glad your parents didn't guilt you about staying remote.

Nope. I'm actually touched by that

I also finished my American Gods audiobook. Which is one of those books that I fear I didn't like as much as other people, but I'm still glad I read/heard it and I loved some of the parts of it

I wonder if it was the audiobook experience vs. the reading experience that made the difference? I adore audiobooks, but I think there are some books that work better if you have your own mind's voices for the characters.

I don't know. Perhaps reading would have allowed me to pace it better in my head? Not sure. I enjoyed a lot of the voice work of the cast so I thought the performers did a good job.

That's cool. 🙂 I have a strong overlay between Mr. Wednesday and EBG in my mind.

Ha. I can think of more than one reason why that fits yes G

Right?

"So you're a grifter?" "Yes, since the beginning.. among other things" (IIRC)

I've a fondnesss for Mr. Nancy but then when I was a kid I read a bunch of Annassi stories in a library... (Obviously made 'suitable' for a young reader)

Ha!

Have you read "Anansi Boys" yet? It's part of the American Gods sequence.

Gives story for at least 15 minutes "I told you no stories"-Wednesday "That? That was just me clearing my throat"- Mr. Nancy

I have not. May give it a shot.

Glad Rick visited. Sorry if you were looking for the lever to the trap door 🙂

Just at the very end. The rest of the visit was GREAT. 🙂

Good!

Hmm....looking for post-holiday sales on outdoor icicle lights. There are more variables than I'd counted on.

Yup

I think I might have the recipe for sleep

Cut off screens at about 11pm, drink a decaf tea. Watch something simple on the couch until drowsy, then take a Xanax

Slept ALL NIGHT

weeeeeeeird dreams though

Nice!

Did they involve sungod robes and women hurling pickles?

Another one where I am in a place that just isn’t right. Husband and I moving into an already crowded home filled with generations of strangers, and only I realize that something isn’t right. This isn’t where we live... we had ... a house! Or our own? I can’t quite place it... but it’s all vaguely OFF

Then I followed a cat to a crawl space that gave a peek (I couldn’t fit though I half expected that I Might turn into a cat to fit? But alas I was Mortal) and I could see HOARDS of Egyptian artifacts

And I came up, a member of the house got mad that I saw it and a chase ensued, all the while that FEELING that something was wrong in me head, so I tried pinching myself... sure enough no pain

And I woke up

Just moments ago so it’s all fresh still

Okay, that's VERY dreaming.

But I slept ALLLLLLLL night

I envy you