Archive | December, 2010

Snow!

Snow!

That iPhone camera is surprisingly good. :D

This photo was taken through a lightly tinted window pane, btw.

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Five important things…

I know that my brain needs certain things to function right and still tend to forget to them. Or I ignore then. Or (internally) whine about them.

One day I will remember. Without having to prompt myself.

One day we’re going to have world peace.

  1. I cannot meditate while laying down. Some can, I cannot. I tend to doze off. Doesn’t keep me from trying, but for me the sitting position is perfect.
  2. Five minutes of meditating a better rejunivating effect than a cup of coffee. Plus, it grounds my mind and quiets the yammering voices/thoughts every human has.
  3. The cleaner my personal space, the clearer my headspace.
    Ergo follows that unorder and dirt have a bad influence on my mood, whereas cleaning up tends to clear my head, too. Starting to clean is the second best thing I can do to clear my head when upset – straight after calling a friend to talk (preferably about something unrelated).
  4. I’m very visually oriented. If something’s looking cluttered or half-arsed or inconsitent, I sooner or later will start hating it. Things must fit together! Things must be clean and sleak!1 If they’re not, I tend to get upset at them, try again or avoid them.
    Things that must be done must be Sleek & Elegant – that’s very important.
  5. I’m going to feel hungry and sluggy all day if I forget my thyroid medicamentation. Really, it’s scary how much difference they do. Luckely I’m rarely forgetting them these days, because I learned to put my pills onto my glasses right before I go to bed. *g* It’s all about how to trick yourself.

Bonus thing: That teeth guard I got? It rocks. Bestes thing ever. My jaws don’t hurt in the morning anymore!

Footnotes:

  1. That’s a reason I’m an Apple drone – I need a consistent, sleek design in order to use something.
    Hell, I’m more forgiving of bugs in functionality than of UI hickups, which is why my affair with Linux was shortlived.
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[WoW] A Rite of passage (5 months ago)

Rite of Passage, Dela

Told you Dela just barely passed hers…

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[WoW] A rite of passage

Abanest: A rite of passage

Unlike Dela, Abanest actually managed to snag a PROPER sized horse to exchange for her Deathcharger.

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Niemandsland

I love travelling, mostly for the time you’re neither here nor there, when you’ve left but not yet arrived. Sitting here on the train, watching the schemes of the world rushing past, seeing the lights of towns resting far away, feeling the promise of my destination.

I love coming home.

I guess that’s why Traces of Chaos at its heart is a story about coming home – the why and the how and about what happens when the simple act of going home becomes such a neigh impossible task.

I do pity Siendes somewhat – she never had much of a home in her life.  Neither her career nor her personality ever lend themselves to the kind of lowkey sentimentality that’s necessary for having a home instead just a place to sleep. But despite this Siendes did manage to build herself a home once, before her choice of occupation got her abducted for twelve long years.

Now Siendes is on her way home, too. But unlike me, who has a pretty good chance to just step of the train in an hour or two in order to be home, poor Des cannot know if she will ever arrive or if she will die somewhere in the Niemandsland. Not even I know if she’ll reach her destination before her final hour and well – I’m writing the damn thing.

And while I love the inbetween of the train-rides, I really doubt I’d enjoy that kind of travel with all its uncertainities.

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