Not long until the holiday season is well and truly upon us. I just have this week of work to survive (two more days of which are long days, boo), followed by a day and a half next week… and then a bit of peace and quiet.
Andie and I are having Christmas here this year. It will be nice to just be able to relax without all the usual familial obligations. Not that there's anything wrong with those — I think I probably wrote last year about how I actually still rather enjoy Christmas with the family out of nostalgia's sake more than anything — but sometimes it is also nice to just be able to chill out, safe in the knowledge that you have absolutely no commitments whatsoever.
It will be a nice break. The end of this year has been… tumultuous. Not for any real specific reason from a personal perspective, though as I noted in the vlog at the weekend, my mental health has taken a bit of a hit over the last few months in particular. I'm talking more broadly; I know quite a few people who have been suffering for various reasons, and the political state of the country has a lot of people very uneasy, too. Me, I still don't really understand it all and suspect that despite all the chest-beating and roaring that things will probably just muddle along the way they always do.
I'm planning on just having a nice time over the holidays, doing as little as possible. I've got games to play, things to write, videos to make, and I will probably continue with all of those things over the festive period, since I'm here. It's a shame I don't have more time off — I used all my holiday earlier in the year, but it resets in January — but I'll take what I have and I intend to make the most of it!
In the meantime, I'm secure in the knowledge that I've got all the Christmas shopping done, it's payday on Friday and we've got a nice little Christmas bonus in that pay packet. Of course, January will bring with it the return to the grindstone, but for now that seems a long way off and thus not worth worrying about too much.
That and I'm playing Lamunation! ready for coverage in the new year. And dear lord that VN is a fever dream and a half. Really looking forward to writing about it… though getting something coherent out of my head about it is going to be a challenge, I feel! 🙂
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