my cat hasn't really let me out of her sight since I returned
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shadarasif I try and think about this as a ~Real~ Post it'll never happen, so instead I shall name it something else and it'll end up as one anyway xD
An Abbreviated List of Things What Happened During Bestie Week
(aka I went and stayed inhafnia's yurt for a week and it was great)
- Watched Gid (one of the cats) slowly become BRAVE about being in the same room as me (at the start he'd walk around the corner, see me, and immediately flee! by the end he was Mostly Okay with being in the same room as me so long as something was between us) (Jenn says he was very ??? about me being GONE since he'd finally accepted that I existed in his space. xD)
- Went BLACKBERRY PICKING for purposes of making jam and also jam tarts. Discussed the consequences of going too deep into the blackberry brambles and what sort of curse would be laid upon one when eaten by the brambles. I forget how we said it'd be broken, but not by true love's first kiss probably. xD Inconvenient, and all that. Figure that blackberries are probably unseelie, though, so... Plenty of stuff to play with if one wants to be silly.
- I tried disc golf, due to Max really loving it, and was informed that I was Very Good at picking up physical skills and that it was impressive that by the end I did actually make par on one of the holes. xD It was fun! I'm unlikely to get into it, but definitely something I'd agree to do again if someone offered.
- Went to THE BEACH. <3 The Pacific Ocean my beloved, the entire reason I brought a hoodie on this nice summer vacation, because I know how the Pacific works and the marine layer did indeed mean it was CHILLY and also mostly overcast when we were by the sea. It even started raining, a fine mist, as we left. But hey, we got to see tidepools! Finally! Meant to get to them last year but didn't have the time. Absolutely worth it. I have so many pictures of the sea. I waded through the sea and got splashed up to my thighs a few times, which was to be expected, and was like "wait perhaps part of why you keep noticing when you step on the little dead jellies and I don't is that my feet are kind of numb from the water" at Jenn. Scrambled around on rocks, admired birds, all sorts of good things.
- Tried shooting some guns, because Max owns some and likes teaching people, and it was neat! Had fun with it, enjoyed figuring out how the sights worked, target shooting is neat. We also found some chicken-of-the-woods, bright orange against the green of the trees and the sorrel-covered ground, and that was a fun surprise.
- Went for a HIKE by which we mean a longer-than-expected walk on trails that had fairly gentle grades, just y'know like 6 miles of them instead of the intended maybe 2 miles. xD Turned right instead of left right after the parking lot, and thus the bit of the woods that was the intended loop was instead at the very end. (Apparently this has happened to Jenn before with this specific trailhead. Somehow this did not prevent it from happening again.) Could've turned back sooner! Didn't! Jenn sort of died and I was like "aha I see that I have indeed recovered from the hysterectomy, excellent" about this. Very pretty! Also the hottest day I was out there, which helped nothing but I was all "y'know I don't really mind it being like 90F because it's not HUMID" and Jenn was like "it is still Too Hot in the sun though", which was fair, because it was significantly nicer in the shade.
- Was fed VEGAN ICE CREAM, my beloved (got CHOCOLATE because I am tired of fruit flavors due to how often sorbets are the vegan option xD it was very good chocolate ice cream!)
- Went and met another friend who lives vaguely in the area, talked about D&D a lot, had a good time just hanging out. Important to see friends and talk about silly things and the like!
- Spent a bunch of time chilling and reading, tbh. Nice to just be present together and get to hug and lean on each other and enjoy being in the same place and all that. <3
- Played the character creation part of Baldur's Gate 3 for the very silly reason of planning to do a playthrough where Jenn's streaming it for me because I will never play this game on my own but I will have a lot of fun playing it with her and also seeing if we can get a Nice Lesbian Romance out of it. xD Which means: I get to do character creation and make a completely different kind of character than Jenn usually does. She was like "I don't know what I expected" when she saw that I'd made a dragonborn. (I like them a lot! They're fun! And BG3 is balanced so that you can pick everything based on #aesthetic if you want so long as you aren't doing a hard mode, so...)
- Saw some local bookstores! Did not buy any books! Also went to a local game store and did not buy any games! But it's good to look and see what there is, even if one doesn't buy it outright... (Did buy some yarn-themed wooden earrings for my best local friend, after sending them a photo and going "blue or gay" about it because those are obviously the two color possibilities for them.)
- On the way back my second flight was delayed by two hours, which meant I ended up spending a bit over an hour sitting on the airport floor watching Jenn stream Blue Prince because she'd just unlocked a very late-game puzzle. Delightful, silly, good way to spend the time. xD And then I was on the correct side of the airplane to watch the eclipse through the flight, which was in the air (and thus above the cloud layer) from pretty much when the shadow started covering the moon to when it was almost at its highest coverage. Didn't see any reddening of the moon, alas, but it was still really fun to see an eclipse whilst in the sky myself.
- Got home at 1:30am and my cat was just THRILLED to see me again. She's always affectionate when I get home, even when I've just been gone for work, but it's much more dramatic when I was gone for so long; she kept climbing on me and nuzzling me while I was trying to sleep, which means I didn't sleep particularly well but is incredibly cute. She's curled up next to me (well, like a foot and a half away from me) on the couch now, happily asleep now that all is right with her world again. <3
And hey everyone loves some photos! Have some photos!
( vacation photos under cut (the sea, the woods, nothing else; what else is there in the end?) )
An Abbreviated List of Things What Happened During Bestie Week
(aka I went and stayed in
hafnia's yurt for a week and it was great)- Watched Gid (one of the cats) slowly become BRAVE about being in the same room as me (at the start he'd walk around the corner, see me, and immediately flee! by the end he was Mostly Okay with being in the same room as me so long as something was between us) (Jenn says he was very ??? about me being GONE since he'd finally accepted that I existed in his space. xD)
- Went BLACKBERRY PICKING for purposes of making jam and also jam tarts. Discussed the consequences of going too deep into the blackberry brambles and what sort of curse would be laid upon one when eaten by the brambles. I forget how we said it'd be broken, but not by true love's first kiss probably. xD Inconvenient, and all that. Figure that blackberries are probably unseelie, though, so... Plenty of stuff to play with if one wants to be silly.
- I tried disc golf, due to Max really loving it, and was informed that I was Very Good at picking up physical skills and that it was impressive that by the end I did actually make par on one of the holes. xD It was fun! I'm unlikely to get into it, but definitely something I'd agree to do again if someone offered.
- Went to THE BEACH. <3 The Pacific Ocean my beloved, the entire reason I brought a hoodie on this nice summer vacation, because I know how the Pacific works and the marine layer did indeed mean it was CHILLY and also mostly overcast when we were by the sea. It even started raining, a fine mist, as we left. But hey, we got to see tidepools! Finally! Meant to get to them last year but didn't have the time. Absolutely worth it. I have so many pictures of the sea. I waded through the sea and got splashed up to my thighs a few times, which was to be expected, and was like "wait perhaps part of why you keep noticing when you step on the little dead jellies and I don't is that my feet are kind of numb from the water" at Jenn. Scrambled around on rocks, admired birds, all sorts of good things.
- Tried shooting some guns, because Max owns some and likes teaching people, and it was neat! Had fun with it, enjoyed figuring out how the sights worked, target shooting is neat. We also found some chicken-of-the-woods, bright orange against the green of the trees and the sorrel-covered ground, and that was a fun surprise.
- Went for a HIKE by which we mean a longer-than-expected walk on trails that had fairly gentle grades, just y'know like 6 miles of them instead of the intended maybe 2 miles. xD Turned right instead of left right after the parking lot, and thus the bit of the woods that was the intended loop was instead at the very end. (Apparently this has happened to Jenn before with this specific trailhead. Somehow this did not prevent it from happening again.) Could've turned back sooner! Didn't! Jenn sort of died and I was like "aha I see that I have indeed recovered from the hysterectomy, excellent" about this. Very pretty! Also the hottest day I was out there, which helped nothing but I was all "y'know I don't really mind it being like 90F because it's not HUMID" and Jenn was like "it is still Too Hot in the sun though", which was fair, because it was significantly nicer in the shade.
- Was fed VEGAN ICE CREAM, my beloved (got CHOCOLATE because I am tired of fruit flavors due to how often sorbets are the vegan option xD it was very good chocolate ice cream!)
- Went and met another friend who lives vaguely in the area, talked about D&D a lot, had a good time just hanging out. Important to see friends and talk about silly things and the like!
- Spent a bunch of time chilling and reading, tbh. Nice to just be present together and get to hug and lean on each other and enjoy being in the same place and all that. <3
- Played the character creation part of Baldur's Gate 3 for the very silly reason of planning to do a playthrough where Jenn's streaming it for me because I will never play this game on my own but I will have a lot of fun playing it with her and also seeing if we can get a Nice Lesbian Romance out of it. xD Which means: I get to do character creation and make a completely different kind of character than Jenn usually does. She was like "I don't know what I expected" when she saw that I'd made a dragonborn. (I like them a lot! They're fun! And BG3 is balanced so that you can pick everything based on #aesthetic if you want so long as you aren't doing a hard mode, so...)
- Saw some local bookstores! Did not buy any books! Also went to a local game store and did not buy any games! But it's good to look and see what there is, even if one doesn't buy it outright... (Did buy some yarn-themed wooden earrings for my best local friend, after sending them a photo and going "blue or gay" about it because those are obviously the two color possibilities for them.)
- On the way back my second flight was delayed by two hours, which meant I ended up spending a bit over an hour sitting on the airport floor watching Jenn stream Blue Prince because she'd just unlocked a very late-game puzzle. Delightful, silly, good way to spend the time. xD And then I was on the correct side of the airplane to watch the eclipse through the flight, which was in the air (and thus above the cloud layer) from pretty much when the shadow started covering the moon to when it was almost at its highest coverage. Didn't see any reddening of the moon, alas, but it was still really fun to see an eclipse whilst in the sky myself.
- Got home at 1:30am and my cat was just THRILLED to see me again. She's always affectionate when I get home, even when I've just been gone for work, but it's much more dramatic when I was gone for so long; she kept climbing on me and nuzzling me while I was trying to sleep, which means I didn't sleep particularly well but is incredibly cute. She's curled up next to me (well, like a foot and a half away from me) on the couch now, happily asleep now that all is right with her world again. <3
And hey everyone loves some photos! Have some photos!
( vacation photos under cut (the sea, the woods, nothing else; what else is there in the end?) )
