DAY 8 - Was it really 15 hours ago...?
Mar. 30th, 2024 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilyI woke up at about 7.30am and had my usual Saturday morning ritual of a bath followed by proper coffee and crumpets. I got downstairs at about 9am and it's now 10.30pm but it feels like this morning was yesterday! Days like this are good in one sense - I know I've had a properly restful day - but bad in another because time screws with my head and I'm not 100% sure I'm in the same day >D
Daughter, sil and grandson #2 arrived at about 12.30pm, closely followed by my parents. We were a bit disappointed that grandson #1 didn't come, too - he had a shift starting at 3pm but sil would have driven him to work. But teenage boys will choose bed over anything else, I suppose!
Anyway, we had fun giving the baby too much chocolate and cheering him on with his 'very-nearly-walking' efforts. He's such a sunny baby - no doubt his little sister will be a right little misery guts :D But still totally adorable, of course!
Daughter and sil have more or less given up trying to buy a bigger house. With two lots of nursery fees, their outgoings will be too high for a lender to take them on, at the moment. So they're thinking of extending the house they're in.
Grandson #2's nursery send daughter a photo of him 'reading' a book, with the comment that he was turning the pages himself, which she was rather non-plussed by. Of course he was turning the pages - that's what you do with a book! Then a few days later she saw something on the news about kids trying to swipe books because they don't know how they 'work' and the penny dropped. I'm a technophile myself, but I will never lose the love of a book in my hand - and I pray grandson won't, either.
After they'd gone, I played a bit of FFXVI, then went downstairs to watch 'Austenland' and have a take-away tea with husband. Then back up here for some more FFXVI. And somehow 15 hours have passed - but it's been a very restful day.
In FFXVI, I am now at Level 50 (started at 47) and have all the Eikons. I find the Odin battle much more satisfying than the Titan one. I know Hugo wanted to rule the world but he was also grieving, whereas Barnabas is a smug, self-deluded arsehole. I also cleared out some Class A hunts whilst I have Joshua with me - I'm saving up the Class S ones for the end game.
'Austenland' was a bit slow to get started but I think it worked. I'm not usually one for romances but I can't turn down anything connected to Austen :D
And I've been thinking a bit more about 'Barbie', and the expectations of Western society. The fact that I actively resist, or even seek to upend, societal norms means I'm just as influenced by them as if I was trying to live up to them. This is a Troubling Thought.
Daughter, sil and grandson #2 arrived at about 12.30pm, closely followed by my parents. We were a bit disappointed that grandson #1 didn't come, too - he had a shift starting at 3pm but sil would have driven him to work. But teenage boys will choose bed over anything else, I suppose!
Anyway, we had fun giving the baby too much chocolate and cheering him on with his 'very-nearly-walking' efforts. He's such a sunny baby - no doubt his little sister will be a right little misery guts :D But still totally adorable, of course!
Daughter and sil have more or less given up trying to buy a bigger house. With two lots of nursery fees, their outgoings will be too high for a lender to take them on, at the moment. So they're thinking of extending the house they're in.
Grandson #2's nursery send daughter a photo of him 'reading' a book, with the comment that he was turning the pages himself, which she was rather non-plussed by. Of course he was turning the pages - that's what you do with a book! Then a few days later she saw something on the news about kids trying to swipe books because they don't know how they 'work' and the penny dropped. I'm a technophile myself, but I will never lose the love of a book in my hand - and I pray grandson won't, either.
After they'd gone, I played a bit of FFXVI, then went downstairs to watch 'Austenland' and have a take-away tea with husband. Then back up here for some more FFXVI. And somehow 15 hours have passed - but it's been a very restful day.
In FFXVI, I am now at Level 50 (started at 47) and have all the Eikons. I find the Odin battle much more satisfying than the Titan one. I know Hugo wanted to rule the world but he was also grieving, whereas Barnabas is a smug, self-deluded arsehole. I also cleared out some Class A hunts whilst I have Joshua with me - I'm saving up the Class S ones for the end game.
'Austenland' was a bit slow to get started but I think it worked. I'm not usually one for romances but I can't turn down anything connected to Austen :D
And I've been thinking a bit more about 'Barbie', and the expectations of Western society. The fact that I actively resist, or even seek to upend, societal norms means I'm just as influenced by them as if I was trying to live up to them. This is a Troubling Thought.
