Dora being derpy
This is Dora being derpy. ^___^ Just wanted to share. Good night!
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Remembering Christmas
One Christmas, I gave my friends wooly socks and toothbrush kits from my favourite airline. They told me off for giving them ‘freebie’ presents and said my new nickname should be ‘cheapie’. That hurt.
It was my first Christmas in Australia. I was thirteen. British Airways made lovely quality kits back then and those in particular I was reluctant to part with because they were souvenirs from special times in my life, spent with my family. I wasn’t upset with my friends then, though in hindsight, I should have been. I wouldn’t care for that kind of friendship these days.
When I go gift shopping each year, I’m reminded of that time. As I choose presents for loved ones, a little bit of me is preemptively sad at the very real possibility of rejection and ridicule. In defense, I get cynical about the holidays, Western society, capitalism; caught in the conflict between the Christmas I still believe in and the Christmas I worry I’m buying into just to maintain social expectation.
With each year comes another opportunity to overwrite the past. I am happy tonight because my shopping is almost done, and I have worried less this year than before. Christmas gets closer to being my Christmas, as I spare only a small thought for my thirteen year old self.
Only slightly, though
I am too tired for gaming tonight. Can you believe? I can’t believe. It’s really nice to just lay in bed and think – think of my watermelon vine, daydream of herbs and fruit.
Lately, it’s been difficult to write. Can one be inspired yet filled with ennui? There are many things I wish to write, but feel the weight of wondering what makes what I have to say worth saying. Then my head compensates by deciding my thoughts are no more or less worthy than anyone else’s, so I can write whatever I please. But by then, I’ve spent so much time thinking about it that I’m sick of writey stuff and ready to play games.
I can hear my clan on voice chat in the other room, smell my cat’s fish breath from this end of the bed. This is a slightly unusual evening.
Terraria – A basic overview for noobs
Aside from Skyrim, I’ve also been playing Terraria, also known as “2D Minecraft”. One of my mates just bought a copy and asked why there wasn’t any starting documentation for it. Well, there is documentation but you gotta know where to look. I thought I’d write something about starting and where to look for info. Here you go…
(Picture totally stolen from 3FL.)
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