What have I been doing the past few weeks? Feeling generally unmotivated and blah and ready for winter to be over. I'm tired of everything outside being dead and cold and muddy. But until such a time when the awesome restorative power of life lifts me up and makes me thrilled once again to be alive, here's how I've been killing time:
1.) Baking a lot more than usual.
Particularly bread. I've never made bread from scratch before. Fresh bread is freakin delicious and beautiful, but I don't think I'll continue to do it except on rare occasions. Why? Well, homemade bread doesn't keep too well. Like maybe only three days tops. And I've found it really difficult to eat an entire loaf of bread in three days. Not that I didn't put in my best effort.
2.) I finished my Lego Tower Bridge.
Perry had been helping me until the third level of the tower and then it sat on the dining room table untouched for about a month. So I finally decided to finish it this week that I was off of work and...I did. The End. It was my first Lego building experience of any kind and the end product was cool, but I don't know if I'd want to do it again. I felt kind of like a trained monkey at a certain point. Just following directions. Very very long directions. I got the same kind of satisfaction as I would assembling a piece of furniture, but there's a reason I don't assemble furniture for fun. I think if you're designing Legos into something original (as in not following direction) it could be a cool hobby, but not that way I was doing it.
3.) I've continued to exploit my Amazon Prime subscription to the best of my ability. When I'm doing fairly stationary chores like cooking or washing dishes or ironing I like to have something playing on the laptop in the background (I don't have TV, remember?). Normally it's the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live or Modern Family or Paranormal Witness. Guilty pleasures are great for making lame chores less lame. Anyway, thanks to Amazon, Veronica Mars is now my newest guilty pleasure. And all the seasons are free.
4.) Watching The Last of Us.
Notice how I said watching and not playing? Perry did the playing. He got a PS3 for Christmas and this was the first game he decided to play on it. It's very suspenseful, and story driven so it makes it great to just watch.
I did not like the ending. This game has been out for, I don't even know, a while? so I feel like I could write very specifically about it without spoiling anything, but I won't. I feel like the reason they made an ending like that was to make people say "Wow, how different, how revo-freaking-lutionary! What a plot twist. Never saw it coming." However, the last 20 minutes just made me feel completely alienated from the main protagonist whom I was supposed to be sympathizing with/caring about for the past few hours and made me feel like the entire game was just a waste of time.
I did tell Perry how if it had been a book and not a video game I probably would have really liked the ending. There's complicated layers to it. But there's no narration in this video game like a book would have. The main character just turns psychopathic. Oh, sorry. Spoilers!
5.) Listening to a lot of 80's pop.
On a completely different note, I feel like there's about to be a major shakeup in my family life sometime soon. I don't want to say anything definite because nothing is definite at this point, but with all of the possibilities of big change, I feel like at least one of them is going to happen. I just hope it's a good one.
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