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rosa_heartlilyThe other day when I was in the garden, I noticed the ground under one of the shrubs was quite bare. In a few weeks, there will be leaves and flowers aplenty and you won't be able to see the ground - but right now it needs Something. 'Primroses would be just the thing,' I thought. In Tesco today I bought two trays of primroses - one white, one pink! Weekend task is to plant them out.
Got a phone call from daughter asking if we'd like to baby sit grandson #2 for an hour on Friday. Normally we'd jump at the chance but I'm in the office on Friday because husband has appointments tomorrow and Wednesday, so I've had to switch my days round. :( She's going for her first scan for grandchild #3, just to make sure everything's progressing properly. Grandson #2 will just have to go along. He won't have a clue what's going on, anyway. And sil will be there, so at least daughter won't have to manage on her own.
Had a meeting with my spiritual director. Lots of church-talk, of course. They got me to think about what I want the new Rector to be like. The word that comes most to mind is 'open' - open to the gifts of laity, open to the gifts of diversity, open to the truths in the Bible, open to the facts of science. It was a helpful exercise.
Otherwise, I spent the day at my desk poking at the training materials for a PM qualification I'm going to take later in the year.
Oh, also got to watch Dave continue his journey with FFVII. He fought the Turks - Reno <3 <3 - and got to Cosmo Canyon. Absolutely the best music in the whole game! And he now understands Robs references to 'lifestream' and why he's wearing a blue cape and dark glasses :D Lots of people in the chat got upset with his pronunciation of Nanaki - he said it differently to how I read it but at this point, who knows? So, he had a bit of a rant, which was probably the purpose of the comments because he is VERY easy to wind up :D
Dave chose Barrett and Red XIII, and then Cait Sith, for his party, so in Gongaga he met Zack's parents but didn't understand the significance. With Aeris in the party, of course he'd have got more story. But as Rob pointed out, he has to play it his way, which is how we all first experienced FFVII back in the day. I still aim to get through my first playthrough of any game on my own - and if I do look up one or two things, it's after I've tried everything I can think of to get through. I certainly don't use a full walkthrough unless I do a second playthrough. And it's a VERY long time since I did a second playthrough of anything because there's so much new stuff to play!
When I replay FFXVI I won't bother with a walkthrough. I had no problem getting through it the first time and I'm not trophy hunting, so there's absolutely no need.
No Fenyx tonight, and probably not tomorrow, either - but I think there's football on Wednesday, so I'm hoping to finish off Aphrodite's section then.
An early night wouldn't be a bad thing. I got woken up at some ungodly hour by the police helicopter, which sounded as if it was hovering right over our house, then again at 4am by police sirens. A nice solid night would be lovely!
Got a phone call from daughter asking if we'd like to baby sit grandson #2 for an hour on Friday. Normally we'd jump at the chance but I'm in the office on Friday because husband has appointments tomorrow and Wednesday, so I've had to switch my days round. :( She's going for her first scan for grandchild #3, just to make sure everything's progressing properly. Grandson #2 will just have to go along. He won't have a clue what's going on, anyway. And sil will be there, so at least daughter won't have to manage on her own.
Had a meeting with my spiritual director. Lots of church-talk, of course. They got me to think about what I want the new Rector to be like. The word that comes most to mind is 'open' - open to the gifts of laity, open to the gifts of diversity, open to the truths in the Bible, open to the facts of science. It was a helpful exercise.
Otherwise, I spent the day at my desk poking at the training materials for a PM qualification I'm going to take later in the year.
Oh, also got to watch Dave continue his journey with FFVII. He fought the Turks - Reno <3 <3 - and got to Cosmo Canyon. Absolutely the best music in the whole game! And he now understands Robs references to 'lifestream' and why he's wearing a blue cape and dark glasses :D Lots of people in the chat got upset with his pronunciation of Nanaki - he said it differently to how I read it but at this point, who knows? So, he had a bit of a rant, which was probably the purpose of the comments because he is VERY easy to wind up :D
Dave chose Barrett and Red XIII, and then Cait Sith, for his party, so in Gongaga he met Zack's parents but didn't understand the significance. With Aeris in the party, of course he'd have got more story. But as Rob pointed out, he has to play it his way, which is how we all first experienced FFVII back in the day. I still aim to get through my first playthrough of any game on my own - and if I do look up one or two things, it's after I've tried everything I can think of to get through. I certainly don't use a full walkthrough unless I do a second playthrough. And it's a VERY long time since I did a second playthrough of anything because there's so much new stuff to play!
When I replay FFXVI I won't bother with a walkthrough. I had no problem getting through it the first time and I'm not trophy hunting, so there's absolutely no need.
No Fenyx tonight, and probably not tomorrow, either - but I think there's football on Wednesday, so I'm hoping to finish off Aphrodite's section then.
An early night wouldn't be a bad thing. I got woken up at some ungodly hour by the police helicopter, which sounded as if it was hovering right over our house, then again at 4am by police sirens. A nice solid night would be lovely!
