*Librapounce*

Sounds fun! I'd be jealous if I had time to read. ;)
Actually, I don't much feel like reading, even if I had the time. My brain is still stuck on Shadowheart, and doesn't want to leave the characters behind (my usual last-volume syndrome).

Huzzah!

...

I'd hate to be the poor sod who has to pick up all of this glitter...

-X

*dances in the glitter*

Today is a gray, drippy day. Inside, knitting Christmas prezzies, with a fire going and X-Files on the tv.

I feel kind of like this. First, I feel like I'm so grown-up and responsible, because I have a stepladder and do no longer need to climb onto the kitchen counters to reach the high shelves, and I have spackling paste and a table and towels and other "adult-like" possessions. And go back to my mother's place, determined to get up early the next day, and clean windows, and buy a vacuum cleaner and paint, and stock the kitchen, and rip the wallpaper off the living room walls and go to the Christmas market and do a million other things. And then I find the internet is working, and before I know it, it's 3 AM, and I stumble off to bed, and don't get up again until 1 PM, and can't be bothered to do a single one of these things. Not to mention the state of my room here. It's such a mess that it's a miracle I can even walk from the door to the bed. As it is, every time I open the door, I get hit in the face by a Ravenclaw banner.

At least I have taken down that Ravenclaw banner now (which was supposed to hang on the inside of my door, but had come loose on one corner. Actually, all of the banners had come partially loose last night, as if they knew they'd need to be taken down soon.
But my room still looks like a battlefield.

Nephew's scarf is getting quite long. Watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

*drops into Mint*

Wow... think my dad has the feeling I'm lonely... he keeps calling me, and inviting me for walks and such... But with between 40 and 50 hours at work per week.... My weekends are sort of lovely in their solitude (and crammed full with crazy things to do...)

He is seriously getting worse... might be good for him to see someone about this obsession.... He tells me daily to contact my sister (because if I talk to her, it takes some of the tension off him..pfff), he waits for me at work (and with my current overtime that's a lot of waiting) and then drives behind me.... He, in fact, is driving me bonkers... This is driving my relocation urges ever further...

It is....  and the worst part is that I know what would stop this behaviour.... either me getting married or living together with a bf....  And as I am no where near getting either one of those (and frankly, not even sure whether I want something like it at this stage in my life with everything that's been going on), I'm no where near stopping this...

I mean, he'll call me at work and if I don't pick up, he'll keep calling until I do... Had a meeting couple of days ago, he kept calling, ended up picking up and asking whether it was urgent, he said no and then started blabbering on some topic, had to hang up on him in the end... Seriously, if this continues much longer I'll start disconnecting my phone..... He even calls me on my work-landline... arghh...

Yeah, I'm lucky to have one right here in Linz (though it's tiny, so I don't expect to stay long. Especially since I have to go by myself.)

Magpie wrote:

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way wrote:

It is....  and the worst part is that I know what would stop this behaviour.... either me getting married or living together with a bf....  And as I am no where near getting either one of those (and frankly, not even sure whether I want something like it at this stage in my life with everything that's been going on), I'm no where near stopping this...

I mean, he'll call me at work and if I don't pick up, he'll keep calling until I do... Had a meeting couple of days ago, he kept calling, ended up picking up and asking whether it was urgent, he said no and then started blabbering on some topic, had to hang up on him in the end... Seriously, if this continues much longer I'll start disconnecting my phone..... He even calls me on my work-landline... arghh...

*huggles*
I wish I had any advice to offer...

Don't worry.... I wouldn't know what to do except for staging a fake wedding, and I'm certainly not contemplating that!! Hahahaha!

So, looking at my holiday plans, how about actually having a moot at your place Magpie? Maybe the last weekend of February? (i.e. just before you start work again) Just a wild idea. I just looked and the plane tickets wouldn't be too expensive...

Sahi wrote:

I only found out that the Midwinterfair was this weekend

Heh, we just found out about it today as well (saw some outdoors advertising). Would actually have been a decent day for it for once, with reasonable weather. Then again, the one time I went to the Midwinterfair I was rather underwhelmed by it.

Sahi wrote:

So, looking at my holiday plans, how about actually having a moot at your place Magpie? Maybe the last weekend of February? (i.e. just before you start work again) Just a wild idea. I just looked and the plane tickets wouldn't be too expensive...

*ponders if he can fit this in somehow as well* Is there any airline which flies on Argentina or Chile from Vienna? *hopeful* (*is in wild travel planning mo(o)d(e)*) (A week earlier would be better (i.e. slightly less unrealistic), though.)



Oh, and g'maen Nefermiw! Good to see new faces pop up in the Mint (and on the board in general). :)