Rewinding, the cold/flu/general ick that overcame me by Christmas Day started to peek it's head into the light on Sunday, but really established itself on Monday.
Even so, I spent Christmas Eve very differently from previous years... I ran six hours of DnD games (a two hour, then a four hour)... which was fun. And they were both Christmas related games (ish)... plus I was able to both run for people I've only ever played with and let people who usually run games at the comic shop actually play, both of which was fun.
Christmas Eve night was the traditional ordering of pizza (although I went to pick it up, since it's a) just down the road and b) $10 cheaper that way) and watching of Arthur Christmas.
And, as I mentioned, I slept crappily that night. But all of that has already been documented.
Boxing Day I did... functionally speaking, nothing. I mean, I got up, I had breakfast, I caught up on some YouTube viewing, but otherwise, not much of anything. It didn't help that I still felt crappy, and the weather decided that Christmas week was when it needed to get progressively hotter and awful.
Actually that was mostly the blueprint for the latter three days of this week. Feel crap, hide inside where it's cool, do nothing.
I made a brief sojourn outside on Thursday morning to buy cold and flu tablets, but that was it.
At least the cold and flu medicine improved things a little... even if I'm still not sleeping properly. And I did develop one of those "wet" coughs (yeah, I know how gross that sounds, it doesn't improve on this side of the screen, let me tell you)... but as of right now, I'm actually able to breathe through my nose, so improvements have happened.
Granted, I'm still partially deaf in my right ear, and that won't be fixable until after the end of the first week in January when the specialist returns to work... so yay. And by yay I mean fuckbuggerbollockshit.
Interestingly, this goes on record as only the second worst Christmas due to illness, directly behind the year from when I was a kid where I started the school holidays with chicken pox and ended them with German measles and Christmas was about the point at which I was at the tail end of the first one and the start of the second one.
Oddly, the only real memory I have from that year is not being able to play outside with the other kids on Christmas Day and instead sitting in somebody's loungeroom (I honestly don't remember who... my aunt and her dirtbag second husband maybe) playing a very early hand held electronic game (but don't ask me what it was).
Weird the shit you do and don't remember.
Anyway... I still feel somewhat like crap, but less crap than earlier in the week.
Thankfully because I wasn't feeling well I managed to avoid missing DnD.
Bouncing merrily down the hill to today.
Today's weather goes in the basket marked "changeable and stupid", for being cooler and windy this morning, followed by muggy and a little too warm this afternoon.
Both Ma and I declared that we didn't need much of anything from the supermarket... and I didn't think we bought all that much stuff, but still managed to come away with four bags of stuff between us. Maybe the checkout boy just didn't pack stuff as efficiently as he could, I dunno.
Afterwards, we came back here, I unpacked, then Ma wanted to grab some money from over at the Village, plus we needed something resembling breakfast, so we wandered over there, came back here, made fun of the bumper December magazine from Coles (somehow we never saw it until three days before the end of the month) and it's "243+ recipes and tips"... yeah, tips is stretching it a bit at times.
From there it was off to Marion to finally go and see a movie.
Marion between Christmas and New Year may have been a mistake... I mean it's been like two days since the stores opened again, you'd think people would have gotten it all out of their system. Seems not so much.
And nobody had any decent leftover Christmas stuff... I know that's partially because some of the places started selling it off by mid December, and I'm convinced the other stores just put what didn't sell this year into storage and bring it all out again next year.
But, to coin a phrase, I can't even with people. Look where you're going, pick a lane/direction/life goal/plan and stick to it. Urgh.
So all I came away with was superglue to stick my "not Lego" Christmas wreath together (it falls apart too easily, and honestly it doesn't need to disassemble into that many pieces at all), and that was it.
I did however run into two people I know... a fellow DnD'er and their small child making a beeline for the movies (they were running late and it's legitimately only because we crossed paths as they dashed past the bottom of the escalator as we were getting off that we exchanged more than a wave at a distance... and then I saw the other chiro from my chiro. And I had one of those moments where you think "hmm, they look a little familiar", then you think maybe they said hello at a distance, you check behind you to make sure they aren't actually talking to other people and then finally you realise who they are.
Yeah, that's who I am right now.
What can I say, it's been a trying week.
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