part of this 'remodelling' thing I'm doing to myself at the moment is to reacquaint myself with some hobbies or aspects of hobbies that I stopped because of financial issues or other more trivial concerns

Standing order starting this Friday
more boardgaming
going to cons (quite possibly solo but I think I'm okay with that)

and as part of this I've decided what my next 2 reffing projects are going to be

After my pathfinder ends (a break I hope) but Rappan Athuk (am buying thebook with some of my works xmas club money in December)

and after that I'm going to ref a Middle Earth Campaign (in Pathfinder or whatever we're playing at that point)

Sorting out what MERP and lord of the rings material I have and will start 'studying' ... well I already started today

quite happy with this and got some other stuff running through my head regarding these projects but still at 'thinking stuff up' stage

J

There is a barrier in this weight loss thing it involves (inmy case at least) pain

My torso hurts, around my belt line hurts, I feel tired and not headachey exactly but a kind of 'detatchment' it's worse at work and I'm gonna have my soup and wholemeal inna mo

It's times like this when I wonder why I keep doing this it happended when I started a year ago and I went though it again after christmas (XMASSSSSSS *shakes fist*) and I'm going through it again now

The thing is

I remember a time when I used to wear a t shirt Suit jacket and Jeans and pull it off well

I remember  a time when I didn't feel self conscious going out

And I remember a time when I felt really good about myself all the time

And regardless what my 'dark side' says I've never stopped believing that I can regain some of what I've lost

So screw him

(and although it's a little more tired than usual)

Onward :)

BTW they called my glasses are ready - will pick up tomorrow

J

It's official I'm having my midlife crisis (on infinite earths ;)   )

If I drove it would be a car (or Bike) but I don't so it looks like comics

Setting up a standing order again, Marvel and DC and sorting through my existing comics for the strips I want to concentrate on to fill gaps - been looking at collected editons of titles like Avengers and FF and the issue coverage is fantastic

So that kicks off at the end of this month

Also

Me and Rob are working on a combined Mutants and Masterminds world, mostly M&M but with just a touch of Marvel and DC characters (quite enjoying the thought of that)

Also

although I have said in the past that I didn't fancy the whole cinema thing (not that I went much before) but I really fancy ging to see Iron Man 3 and as I am watching Star Trek (most recent movie) at the mo I want to see Star Trek 2 and I the other blockbusters as well so thats going to change as well

Was thinking about getting into heroclix as well but after some research and locating the current up to date rulebook (all 213 pages of it) decided that al I want to do is locate figs for the M&M

The Comic Mart that I went to last summer (which was rubbish) has moved to a hotel in Hockley (just round the corner) noww when I went before i went looking for Doctor Who stuff but didn't look at the normal comics gear so gonna have another look

And a new con comes to Nottingham (Nerdfest) on the 5th October

oh and I'm gonna start wearing glasses (for monitor work and some reading) so thats new

So while I'm going back to Work on Monday (and as I have to deal with fallout from the welfare reforms as wel as the normal crap) I'm not looking forward to it but am not dreading it and will start looking forward to my next break in about  8 weeks (Southwell Folk Festival)

All is well

J

half way through my break and I have done ... virtually nothing

well, wrote and ran my game last week (went wel I thought), started one collection based project and had some thoughts on some other stuff

Tomorrow it changes, tomorrow I will have 7 days until I'm back at work and 7 days to get everything I wanted to get done...done

So Alarm back on tomorrow and treating it like a work day as far as getting up breakfast is concerned and walk down to work then back to the flat and start clearing/cleaning the flat

got this weird quiet determination thing going

we'll have to see exactly where I end up but lookiung forward to the journey - for today got some paperwork to catch up on

J