girlofprey

Hello. I'm mostly posting negative things at the moment, aren't I. I am good and I am happy, mostly, and the world is good in whole patches. And I love Yorkshire, and I love England, I think it is the best country in the world still, in a very biased way. I just wish you could express that sentiment at the moment and not feel like you're encouraging racists somewhere. I do heritage things and go to heritage events, and then I also feel like "hm".

I went to Harlow Carr, it was beautiful. The carbonara at Lucia's is still A+. I went to my MN's birthday and it was lovely to see him, and lovely to see him spending time with my YN too. I got my YN's cold on the way back, and I've had that all week which has been annoying, but it has been a very mild cold where I didn't feel like I was dead or even wish I didn't have to go to work at all, and now it's mostly gone. I got my hair cut on Saturday, which I've been meaning to do for weeks and am very pleased about. And I went to see Birds of Prey on Saturday, and I liked it, and I think I like it more and more the more I think back on it. I am still into fragrance. Then I discovered Penhaligons. They have a store in Leeds. A permanently empty store with only one lonely-looking shop assistant in it. The expense is eye-watering. I have £80 to last me the next two weeks to payday, and that's without buying any perfume. Valentine's Day is this week. I like Valentine's Day, mostly for the special chocolate and red things they bring out. My dog ate some chocolate this week too. Some special rhubarb chocolate I had bought. Took it out of my bag, neatly unfolded the foil, and ate it. Then went in my bin for some more chocolate I threw out weeks ago. We took him to the vets. He's fine.

Also I have been watching this other chatty husky. He's the friend of the other one. They're both very good.

Spoilers for Justice League I guess, but oh my god, this post.

I just don't have time for anything anymore.

I get up, and I usually have a few hours to myself in the morning. I have found that playing video games in the morning, when you are fresh and haven't been worrying about other things and are ready for adventure, is the best time to play video games, but even then three days out of the week I have less time for it because I need to have a shower and wash my hair. Then I go to work, and I essentially leave the house at 12 and don't get back till 8 - so, 8 hours. And that's when, so far, my trains have almost always worked out. By the time I get in my mum's usually timed dinner for then, but even by the time I've eaten and gotten changed it's like 9 o'clock, and then it's like "right, I have three hours to do EVERYTHING." Which is, all of the stuff I used to spend all day doing, and then anything else that's new that I actually need to do. And then, even though I don't always stick to the 12 o'clock bedtime, I really need to go to bed, so I can be up ready for work the next day, and not sleep in, and have time for a shower if I need one, and have time to play video games. And that is my day.

What I have been doing is reading comic books/graphic novels, and I have to say that it's as expensive as I thought it would be, and that DC is better than Marvel by a mile. I can't even believe it. The way people talk, I always assumed actual Marvel COMICS were the fun, light-hearted ones, but I read two and they were so full of angst and self-obsessed characters and CONSTANT WISE-CRACKING, THE WISE-CRACKING, I CAN'T TAKE IT. And then I read a Batman and Robin book - which was mostly about Dick Grayson and Jason Todd and all the other Robins - and it had an actual plot and a bad guy and they went after the bad guy and things happened and it was amazing. I super recommend it, by the way, it was Batman and Robin Eternal, but it's in 2 volumes and each of them cost about £30. I'm super into Dick Grayson though. All those Tumblr posts about him were not wrong. And also Jason Todd and Harper Row and Cassandra Cain, and I suspected I would like Midnighter, and then he turned up and he was great.

I went into town early today to get some new work trousers before my kickboxing class, and the way there my bus blew a tire, and then when I was in Marks and Spencers a woman knocked over a whole display stand and there was broken glass all over the floor, and it was like I was just surrounded by calamities. I did get an awesome hat and saw some donkeys though.

I kind of wanted to mention the other day, when the silent news in front of me was just epic and amazing and awful all day. The head of Intelligence in America quit, and UKIP have probably misused EU FUNDING, and Hillary Clinton spoke at a charity event and her hair looked sad and it was awful. The nihilistic part of me that just hates the UK and the whole world for all the choices it's making sort of enjoyed it (except for the Hillary Clinton part, her hair was genuinely emotional), sort of enjoys watching things burn, but also, omg. Wow.