Oh hey, everyone! Happy New Year.
While I’d be lying if I said I was wall-to-wall busy, at least in a way that would have kept me from updating here, I have definitely been very distracted. Things got financially hairy there for a while. They may still yet again, but for now I’ve reached a weird little harbor: I’ve got a new odd job that may keep me for a while, and I’ve got a one-off gig for a friend that I’ve already been paid half for and when I get done, I’ll get the other half. That’s going to be my backup-slash-emergency fund. The odd job will be good for day-to-day financials, of which I have very few at this point, and also for adding to my savings. So I’m not panicking like I was. If you’ve never had money woes, you can’t really appreciate how much of your brainspace they can take up. I hate it. Hopefully I just went through my final year of things being That Bad. We’ll see.
We’ve just seen the U.S. debut of The Damned. Well. I haven’t seen it. The way things have been going, I’ll likely wait ’til it’s on DVD; there’s a movie theater in town, but it’s a bit farther than I would want to walk. If I already had a bicycle, that would be one thing; I can now afford the occasional movie excursion. The bicycle is coming. I just haven’t figured out how I’m going to make that happen yet. I have a few options, all with their unique pros and cons. But after I get it, I can start thinking about functioning a bit more normally as far as going out and doing stuff.
I’m certainly not going to wait until I’ve got a guy to do things with. There’s a vaguely possible candidate but, true to my general pattern of unavailable men, he’s in Canada so I can count on maybe seeing him once or twice a year unless we start dating, and even then it wouldn’t be often. I can at least look seriously at getting a passport now — the first time I met him in person, a passport might as well have been on the moon for me, so my change in fortunes affects that too. But this is counting my chickens before they hatch. I’ve seen signs that he’s interested? But he’s a weirdo, in a different way than I am a weirdo, so it’s hard to tell for sure. I do not say that to disparage. I mean, Rory’s a weirdo, and we all love him for that. Nothing wrong with being a weirdo. In general. But meanwhile, I’ve gone to movies by myself before. Restaurants too. It didn’t kill me. There’s also a library in town and I’ll be hitting that too.
I could even, hypothetically, restore my Rory collection and add to it. I probably will. I still have his autographed photo and some DVDs and that Entertainment Weekly edition with him and Thor on the cover. Also that miniature Hound helmet and the enamel pin. I’d like to snag the Game of Thrones box set again. I might do that for myself as a birthday present, since that’s coming up next Friday. (Fifty-one. Kind of anticlimactic.)
Hope you are all doing well. I see my visitor count hasn’t dropped any, and it’s nice to see that you still stop by. I’m not going to make any promises about upcoming updates, but that’s at least a thing I want to do, if that counts at all.