The Day About Letting Go
Added at 6:58am and filed under Not impressed, bff
I thought you were all great. I thought we were all friends.
I feel stupid. Again. And desperately, humiliatingly hurt. But at least I know who you really are now – albeit three years too late.
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The Day with Girl Gamers Suck
Added at 12:37pm and filed under Geek Speak, awesome, gaming
Introducing my latest project – girlgamerssuck.com.
You know me. I like games. I often don’t have time to play as much as I would like – and when I do play, I’m often kinda crap – but I’ve grown up with gaming and I love it. It’s part of my childhood, part of my life and undeniably part of who I am.
I have loved the last six months I’ve been writing for AeroPause. Having skirted the world of online game geekery for a number of years – SHH.com aside, obviously – its been wonderful to fully immerse myself without the guilt or hang-ups. The guys I ‘work’ with are all kinds of awesome, and I hope to be there for many years to come. And it’s spurred me to run with an idea I’ve had for as long as I’ve been online – a gaming site for women.
Yes, there are loads already (although – in my defense – there wasn’t ONE when I first thought of the idea!). But they’re generally all pretty . . . meh. See, I don’t do pink. I don’t care about girl power. I also don’t care about pony games or dream weddings and I don’t play MMORPGs, either. So I’ve ended up creating what I hope is a gaming site for people who genuinely don’t give a shit about gender. People who wouldn’t mind exploring some of the psychology around gaming, as well as keep abreast with selected news and reviews.
It took forever to think of a name. I originally didn’t really want to focus on the ‘girl’ or female aspects but to be honest, it’s impossible for me to drive the message that girls can game without that focus – which is where my idea comes from. I didn’t want to rip off any other girl gamer sites with a similar name, but I realised that I also didn’t want to drop the female aspect – which is why I seemed to keep coming back to the sarcastically titled girlgamerssuck.com.
So please – come visit me! Comment and contribute. Is there anything you’d like to see on there – anything I’m missing? What do you like? Dislike? It’s been forever since I launched a new project from scratch so please tell me your thoughts and help me get this thing off the ground!
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The Day I was Ill. Again
Added at 12:29pm and filed under Oh Mama, awesome, bff, family, health
Ugh. I’m ill again.
I think I recall crowing last year that I managed to miss most of the flu/coldy things floating about. My Fate God heard me, laughed outrageously, and has been making me pay ever since. Bastard. It feels like I’ve spent the last three months coughing and spluttering. I wouldn’t mind, but the cough is this disgusting, phlegmy gross mess that makes people cross the street to avoid me and my voice wouldn’t be out of place in a porn movie. Whispering in low, husky tones is amusing for about a week, but after that it just becomes tedious.
Anyway.
Thankfully though, I was phlegm-free for Christmas. Which was lovely by the way. S’s holiday started early thanks to three millimetres of snow we had the Monday and Tuesday before Christmas which somehow justified a school closure, and although that meant I didn’t get my leisurely rest on the first day of my own holiday, it meant that we got two extra days together – yay. Father Christmas brought everything S wanted (which was a fucking miracle, by all accounts – he was not easy to buy for this year) and his extended family got him everything else. This year he’s obsessed with football, mainly Tottenham Hotspur and Cardiff City, so his bedroom now looks like a teenage boy’s thanks to the football bed linen, trading cards, football shirts, balls and Tottenham Hotspur-logoed alarm clock. I don’t mind admitting that I get a little pang of regret when I look in there now; although it’s wonderful that he’s growing up, forging his own personality and likes and dislikes, but it feels like it’s all too fast.
As for me, I was very lucky this year. I received many books (including Stephen King’s new one, and the Ant and Dec biography), DVDs (Michael McIntyre, Russell Brand, George Michael, Grey’s Anatomy, 24, Steve Coogan) and games (Assassin’s Creed II, SingStar Take That and with Christmas money I bought the Batman AA Collectors’ Edition, Lips #1s and pre-ordered Bayonetta). M also bought me some ‘fancy’ walking boots and a decent all-weather coat, now that I’m at one with nature and am forced to – sigh – go walking with D, neither of which I have to send back ‘cos I think they’re gross. Score! One brother got me Zelda: Spirit Tracks and the other cash towards my Paul McCartney ticket (mental note: write that up soon) and two Guitar Hero figurines which are totally awesome. Heh. And the gifts we bought for our loved oones seemed to go down well, too. Which is always the best part. :)
Best of all? We managed to get through all of Christmas without putting anything on a (groaning) credit card. That is definitely a first!
Christmas Day itself was low-key but lovely; M cooked, S and I ate, and my in-laws joined us for lunch. Not for a second doubtful about Santa or his origins, Sam spent the entire day in raptures over his gifts and playing with everything – which meant I spent most of the day opening brightly-coloured boxes and untwisting those INSANE wire thingies that seem to hang on to every child’s gift in the universe. Between Christmas and New Year we visited friends and family and generally dossed about, and then for New Year we had our BFFs up from Brighton to stay, which was – as it always is – incredibly awesome. We christened one of M’s Christmas gift – a top-of-the-range slushy maker! – by making fruit slushies and loading them with vodka, washing down platefuls of antipasta and tortillas. A perfect way to chime in the new year, and no mistake.
As for 2010? I don’t really do resolutions, but I am hopeful. I’m proud that I’m significantly smaller than this time last year, and I would like to keep that up, but I’m trying not to obsess. I’ve, inevitably, gained a bit of weight of Christmas but a) who hasn’t and b) who cares?! Like I’ve said previously, I joined a gym in mid-December and – chest infection pending – I hope to get back into some semblance of regular exercise soon. Otherwise, I don’t have any particular promises I wish to make/break. All I hope for is a happy, healthier, financially-stable year, and to keep on loving my boys more with each passing day.
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