Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

Been five days since my last post. While I've been reading my friends list, I haven't felt like posting. Lots of points in semi-random order:

* Less than five days until I go into the hospital. I've gained some weight back, but not too much. More than I'd like, but still within the range the surgeon wanted me to lose. I keep thinking "this will be the last time I can ever have..." and how can you resist eating whatever that is? I'm really depressed and down. I wish I were excited about this, but it's a "have to" not a "want to" situation. I don't want to fall over dead in the next few years, so... no choice.

* Part of my depressed issue is likely period-related. Where the hell is it?! It's now nine days late. (No chance of pregnancy.) If I get it when I go into the hospital, I'm going to be pissed. I don't want to have to deal with it then! Sigh. Damned body.

* I'm starting to have stress bad dreams. I expect them to only get worse the closer Monday gets.

* Work sucks. I'm taking three weeks off for this, but in our group there's no reduction of amount of work or deadlines because of vacation -- so I have the same work and the same deadlines, with three weeks less to do it in. Way to let us enjoy our vacations. Most people in my group work though theirs.

* I read a Harry Potter fanfic for the first time in years. In Loco Parentis by Dolores_Crane. I loved the first chapter of it, though the second and third less so. It's everything I usually wouldn't have liked, but it was so well written that it worked. Hermione POV. Hermione/Harry (though it's minor). Snape/Harry (mostly in the background). It was a more realistic look at muggles at Hogwarts. At the end it became a bit preachy for me, but all in all, I liked it a lot.

Boy do I miss Snape/Harry. I don't think I've had an OTP since then. I think Snarry was what sparked my enjoyment of age and power differences in fic relationships. There was so much good HP fanfic back when I was in the fandom. I should poke about and see if there's more good Snarry out there (or heck, reread the older good stuff, it's not going to be like I remember it).

* This is an odd time. Usually I'd be wishing for Friday to get here, especially when that Friday was the start of a three week vacation, but this time I'm wishing the week never ends. At least I got good RP tonight, probably the last of it until my mother flies home in two and a half weeks.

* I'm reading the best book, but it's so long, it's taking me forever to finish (yay!). 24 hours in and I'm only just over 50% done (it's 1,000+ pages long; for comparison, the first Game of Thrones book was 800). Usually a book takes me 10-12 hours to read. Stormlight Archive (Way of the King) by Brandon Sanderson. From his website: "I’ve written hundreds of thousands of words worth of worldbuilding for it". You can so tell he has all that worldbuilding done. It's amazing. And man, I'd kill to see all his notes about the world.

Tomorrow can't be Monday, it just can't, I can't go back to work no no no you can't make me arg...

Sigh.

Lots of things happened today. Heck, I started RPing before 8 AM, what a great thing! But all I can think about is work tomorrow. I know I'll get through it, I know I've done countless Mondays already, but being out for so long makes it so hard to go back. :/

Tons of good RP, from Greyspell to new-to-me zombiewitch to the usual happy fun TLF crew (or at least a subset of them) to a rocking new person on IC Twitter, with assorted other scenes thrown in in between. (Boy how I remember the days when I could go DAYS without finding a single scene!) XPing between RP was god awful (almost two and a half hours, three instances, and I couldn't get from 44 to 45...), but other than that it was such a good day.

Etsy is a wonder for gift shopping, I've ordered a handful of different things for family folks. I like sending (and getting) gift cards best, but sometimes you need non-card things, too.

RP ended on an (IC) sad note tonight, which is of course sad, but good too. The fact that RP can make you feel so much is great, even when it's a bad feeling.

...I feel like I'm babbling on to try to stop bedtime/morning/work from coming, so I'll end this here. Good luck getting through Monday, everyone!

World Cup ended today, boo. Too bad it's only once every four years! Was so nice to watch something all of the world was interested (except much of the US).

Big Brother started tonight last Thursday, woo! My favorite show, and I was wrong about the start date. Yay for Hulu!

I'm so undecided. I want to buy the 24/7 access to Big Brother again this year, but every year I drag my feet at doing so. It's only $15 a month, so even if I watch it a little it's worth it.

Don't want to go to work tomorrow. Boo.

Can't. Stop. Watching. Kitty!


itsbacon, hope you're okay! We missed you today! *hugs*