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 Hello Dreamwidth, I actually forgot you existed for more than a year. 

On the bright side, posting now feels like I skipped over the nightmarish and apocalyptic year that was 2020. I mean, if I could have skipped it I would have, but that's impossible, and it does not do to dwell on impossibilities that will only serve to depress and not spread joy. Seriously though, what the hell was with 2020. If it wasn't one bad thing it was another. The only difference was it was the whole world living through a global dumpsterfire.

I have been reading so, so, so much new stuff it's unbelievable. At the moment I am desperately waiting for my favourite current novels/manhua/manhwa to be translated, especially Trash of the Count's Family, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Solo Leveling, The S-Classes That I Raised, I Have Medicine, and a few more.

Hopefully when I come back here in the future, these will be translated and I can look back at my past self and laugh. But probably not. I just pray nothing bad happens and they get dropped.

My bag is now covered in badges. Tony's been buying me ones that he says suits me, and I ended up gluing them to my backpack/handbag. All my MDZS ones are front and center, and then the rest of the space is full of weird badges that I actually kind of like. Maybe one day I'll take a picture and add it here. Since I never leave the house (except for doctor/hospital appointments) the badges are in very good condition.

I also have quite a few bunny themed badges and stuff. Tony said to me that until I started buying the MDZS stuff he didn't realise how much I adored bunnies. He knew I loved cats, birds, and deer, but he was surprised to discover I also loved bunnies, and hamsters. Especially bunnies. He bought me a two foot raccoon plushie and gave it to me, because he couldn't find any bunnies in the shop, and that is so damn adorable it stays next to my bedside table, beside the WWX and LWJ bunnies.

Some good things that happened:

♥ NOX emulator is surprising good. I find it so much easier to play Love Nikki. 

♥ PillTime is a lifesaver. I don't have to keep remembering to order my medication and get it delivered.

♥ Flamish's NovelGrabber has made life reading novels so much easier. I can download them, add them to Calibre, and then read them with my reading settings. 

♥ I found some really, really nice instrumental Jazz music on YouTube that lasts between 4-8 hours so I can have some lovely background music while I get stuff done.

♥ I've started playing My Time At Portia. It's fun. Or at least it is fun now with a few mods for easier playtime.

♥ Tony and I have been having date nights with tabletop games, Netflix, and making more of an effort to just spend time together without the computers.

♥ Tony and I have been together for more than twenty years now. It's amazing just thinking about it. We've been together since 1999. 

That's all for now. I never intended to actually post anything, but my previous entry was just too depressing to see as a first entry.

To any strangers, and old friends reading this - hello, I hope you have a nice day, or lovely evening, and I wish you well. Also, have a hug.

~ Jaz

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So...it looks like we may be moving soon. I made a comment about not bothering to decorate this house because I hate it here and suddenly we were looking at moving houses and we've bought a moving house kit from eBay.

So far we've chosen Durham, which has got to be better than Ipswich, and it's quite like Sheffield, without, y'know, actually being Sheffield, which is somewhere I can never return to, since my whole family lives there and I'm estranged from them (at least until my dad dies, which will hopefully be soon - no, I'm not a bad person, but he is, and he really, really needs to die. Seriously.)

Anyway...Durham. It's a market town, sort of. It's rural, which we like, even though neither of us can drive, and it's chock full of interesting places to see, and loads of countryside to walk through or cycle through, and it's full of shops that have an appreciation for arts and crafts, so I might be able to get selling stuff.

I've heard that moving house can be stressful, but I've moved houses more than two dozen times in my thirty-one years, and I've found it to be quite fun and relaxing. Yeah. I know. I'm a freak. I think it's because I have no valuables other than books, of which - between my other half and I - we own nearly twelve thousand. Yup. We don't watch much tv, and other than games, we just read...and read...and read.

I have to go to bed, otherwise I'll never be able to get up in the morning. Guh. Twenty to five. --sigh--

Oh a happier note, I can type more easily now. =^_____^=

Hugs,

Jaz

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2012, you've actually been a pretty good year for me. Granted we've had some pretty crappy moments, and we've had less money and been living hand-to-mouth and can only afford to have hot water for an hour or two every other day, but hey, I've lost weight because the internet is the second highest priority, second to the electric meter and so food was shoved down to the bottom of the list (an 11kg bag of rice for £10 goes a hell of a long way). --snicker--

Even though my accident has left me with permanent nerve damage in two of my fingers I still managed to complete NaNoWriMo, and I overcame my agoraphobia and most of my social anxiety, and I'm no longer housebound.

We're lucky in that my other half has often teased me about being a 50's housewife (dammit, I'm 32, not 60+) because I cook and clean and sew and make most of our accessories, (even the little stuff like bed-warmers, hand-warmers and things that cost under £1), and I recycle/upcycle just about everything, but in the end I am a good cook, and I don't have a sewing machine because we can't afford one, but I'm dammed handy with a needle and thread, and I don't watch TV, so in the quiet moments when everything else is done I pull out projects and finish them.

I've given up smoking, mostly because I realised around May that we couldn't afford for me to smoke, even though I was only smoking four (approximately) per day, so I reached the end of the pack I had and then simply didn't buy another pack and I haven't touched a cigarette since. I don't drink anyway, so that wasn't an issue...actually, the internet is my only vice. Huh. Oh, I also haven't got a sweet tooth, and so a box of tea is much more appreciated than chocolate. --laughs--

My other half joked before Christmas that I was nightmare to buy a gift for because I download everything I want to watch (because I mostly watch anime) and I download my books from free places, and I read fanfiction, so books are out unless they're poetry books, and I'm not a fan of dining out, or sparkly stuff, or perfumes (I only really like Anna Sui's 'Love', which I tend to buy at a wholesale price once a year from eBay for a fraction of the cost in the shops), or chocolates, etc... Poor dear. He ended up buying me manga.

My relationship with Tony has suffered and then improved thanks to the rollercoaster that this year has been, and I think we're both better for it. We've been together for thirteen years now, ever since I was seventeen, and so pretty soon more than half my life will have been spent with him. It's hard to imagine a life without him, and I know he's been worried about what will happen now that I'm no longer housebound. He's excited for me, but he's worried about my safety too.

Overall, 2012 was better than the year before, and I have great hopes for 2013.

Hugs,

Jasmine Holmes

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I'm going to try and get back to writing soon. I've got definite (and bad) nerve damage in two fingers, and mild nerve damage in one, and they're finally found a painkiller that won't mess up with the medication I was already on. Yay! It makes me constantly nauseous, but hopefully that will go away after a while. The painkillers aren't at 100%, so I still have nasty pain occasionally, like when I use my right hand, but it's much better than it was before.

I'm not going to be able to churn out a 2k chapter a day, but dammit, I will be writing.

Also, the fates are laughing their bollocks off at me, because I'm getting in orders for making one-off pieces of jewellery that I am incapable of making with my hand like this without a massive amount of pain, and I have to overhaul a doll, complete with repainting and sewing and all that other fun stuff and get it completed within a fortnight.

...I've also got a temperature. --headdesk--

Hug me? Someone?

--crawls to bed--

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