alone, home

[jazzfish]

For the first time in longer than I care to remember I have the house to myself for days at a time. uilos has gone to Portland to pet sloths; I could have gone, but at the time of planning I had thought I might be in Portland last weekend (or maybe the weekend before) for train gaming. That didn't happen but I'm still glad I stayed home. It's good to be on my own for awhile.

I don't really understand the "need to be on my own." It's not like uilos is particularly demanding when she's here. But ... I just feel freer, more able to be myself and do what I want or need to, when there's no one else around.

And I've mostly been using it for zonking out and being brain-dead, which is a thing. Hadean Lands, Zarf's sublime text-adventure from late 2014, is out on Steam, and I've been replaying that and enjoying the heck out of it. And shooting things in Assault Android Cactus, and seeing the Canada Day fireworks from my balcony with a few people. And going over to hang out with... hm.

A couple of years ago I went out once with a fascinating woman named Erin, and then she was busy and I was busy and we never got back in touch. I unexpectedly ran into her again months later, when we saw The Last Unicorn with special guest appearance by a very tired-looking Peter Beagle, and we made vague plans to get together again. Those turned into actual plans and we had a very pleasant evening wandering around New Westminster near Xmastime 2013.

For those of you keeping score at home that was a time when I was burning out something fierce, for a wide variety of reasons that don't bear re-exploring at this juncture. And so I never got back in touch with her after that. By the time I could start thinking about possibly doing so it was not quite a year later, and I figured I'd just lost out.

A couple of months ago my friend James started dating someone who he was absolutely head-over-heels for, and, yep, same Erin. And she was in town this weekend (she's way off north for a summer internship-like thing), so I got to re-meet her. That was surprisingly pleasant. I'm looking forward to seeing a bit more of her this fall when she's back in town more often.

It's been good to relax a bit.

Comments

[novel_machinist]

We've been vegging out too, it's been sorely needed.

[jazzfish]

Hear, hear.

[thanate]

Goodness, yes, the thing where you're the only one awake in the house/apartment/whatever is totally a thing. It doesn't happen very often around here, but there's just an invisible stress let-down of not having to worry about other people. (I can only do it for a while, or I end up sliding into depressive mode, but up to that point it's glorious.)

Also yay friends. :)

[jazzfish]

*nodnod* I wish I could explain it, at least to myself, but yes. That.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Time alone is soooo valuable. Hooray for getting some time to relax and be on your own. Hope you enjoy it tons.

[jazzfish]

Thanks! It's been pretty decent.

[ckd]

I am also in Portland this weekend but without any sloth petting. (Unless that's an UrbanDictionary euphemism for giving people massages, which I suppose is a possibility.) I'm having a good Westercon.

[jazzfish]

heh. Best of my knowledge it's not a euphemism. And now I am a bit sorry to have not gone down; would have been good to stop in at Westercon for awhile.

[ckd]

It would have been good to see you, too. I've been spending a fair amount of time either in gaming or playing games elsewhere (when it was closed or I was with badgeless people) because I have fewer social connections, and therefore fewer social obligations, than I'm used to having at most cons these days.

[jazzfish]

Huh. Side effect of being on a different coast?

[ckd]

Side effect of going to a new-to-me set of local/regional cons, yeah. I probably would have been to more than one west coast con (last year's FOGcon) if the travel from the east coast wasn't such a pain. (For that one, I cheated and piggybacked it on a work trip to Mountain View....)

Not that it's all that easy to go the other direction either, but there's more than just cons to pull me back to Boston. :-)

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

Where in Portland are these Sloths? I'll be there this weekend and that might make a great trip for the toddler.

[jazzfish]

(ack, just saw this, apologies!) Rainier, I think she said? I'm not sure exactly.