Hullo uloggers and steemians! :)
Urgh, I've been awake since 2 this morning. Not for any particular reason, but I woke up and could not get back to sleep so I just resigned myself to getting up... and not using my quiet hours wisely. Stardew Valley had an update! ;)
So I played that for a bit before my son woke up and stole the PC-connected TV to watch the Shaun the Sheep Movie for the gazillionth time. Ahh, children. My go-to repeats when I was young was the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Movie, Footrot Flats, and Braindead (Also known as "Dead Alive" - horror comedy, but I was a crazy kid.) At least I was slightly more varied. We have watched Mr Bean's Holiday and the Shaun the Sheep Movie, both at least twice each day, every day, for the past couple of months.
The boy and his appropriately styled hair today, akin to that of an evil horror movie child.
While watching the sheep traumatise an animal worker, I had the overwhelming urge to wrench open the laptop and finally replace the 4gb of RAM with a lovely 8gb stick. I didn't care when I bought it. I intended for it to be my Story Box, for writing only. Alas, I then discovered Steemit and it became more than just a Story Box. I have little patience at the best of times and the slooowwwww of 4gb with Windows 10 and being unable to multitask was driving me mental. All fixed now! Maybe I can actually socialise now! (Unlikely, just opening Discord invokes a weird anxiety in my gut.)
Even when I was an ICQ, MSN, AOL messenger addicted teenager, I was more of a one-on-one type of person when it came to chatting. If someone I was talking to dared add an extra person to our chat and transform it into a group chat, I would become silent and watch the chat flow from the sidelines, not speaking at all until it became a one-on-one chat again. It's not just internet chats either; I'm the same in physical circumstances. One person? Woo! More than one? I'm that silent person standing there awkwardly, pretending to not exist.
So, I'm sitting here writing this with an overly strong mug of vanilla and honey infused chamomile and hoping the concoction helps with my sleep tonight. While it smells of honey and vanilla, it tastes like pure chamomile and I'm struggling to swallow it down. Deep breath. Gulp it all down at once. There we go. (I'm not a tea person but trying to learn to embrace herbal things)
Today was rather trying and I didn't get any work done. I'm hoping to be more productive tomorrow, and if I wake up at 2am again... I will be more responsible about my time usage. At this rate 2am is likely the only time I can get -any- writing down and out of my brain. I should make a new body-clock for myself and embrace it.
(Mildly hyperbolic, but a tempting solution all the same.)
Buttttt, maybe not tonight - I could use the extra couple of hours. Beginning soon! Goodnight, Steemians. :)
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Hey you! Hope you slept better. I am not a natural socialiser either, never have been. Hate the phone. Chat via keyboard ok. But I avoid discord, partly because I don't want to get too distracted but also a bit due to not socialising thing!
Hope you get to watch something else soon. I could handle shaun the sheep but Mr Bean...!!!!
:)
Awww, I love Mr Bean! Though twice a day is a bit much. ;) Shaun the Sheep is lucky his movie has a somewhat decent soundtrack. We found this Tom & Jerry / Willy Wonka mash-up on Netflix earlier, and after 20minutes of complaining, a scene drew him in and he was transfixed for the remainder of the movie... I'm not sure if that's good or not. Oompa Loompa songs every day!
(The phone is my bane. )
LOL! No wonder you need to escape through your writing! :)