lithera | What a weekend

Been awhile since I talked real life here, so here you go! My fantastical weekend.

Friday - It was Gatekeepers night! It was great fun but also amazingly intense. It was the sort of thing that sticks with you for a little bit. (Beware the perfect day, my friends. It always comes back to kick you - hard.) My character, Svetlana, reconciled with her ex-husband and started making plans for the future. There was a battle and he was killed. She ended up sacrificing her power, his power and their son's power to bring him back. It was ... well, it was much like taking Superman, Wonder Woman and I can't think of a decent comparison off the board right before the huge summer cross over event. It will likely make it much harder for all of the characters still remaining in the coming sessions but I can't imagine having made any other decision in character. I don't think I'm saying good-bye to her forever, because, well, this /is/ a comic book game but she'll be focusing on keeping her family together for the next long while.

Then, she'll get around to building particle beams and plasma rifles and tesseract cannons and some sort of crazy phase shielding. She would have been a great mad scientist, or even a not mad gadgeteer. It'll be awhile, though. Can't say it won't be hard to let her go, though.

Saturday - I was too much stuck inside my own head from Friday, so I decided to go to the Highland games with Kris, Brian and Ian. Tina and Luke met up with us there and we wandered around in the sun listening to pipers and getting a little sunburnt. Then we went to Bellingham and watched Triangle, which was better than I thought it would be. I got to spend some time around some of my favoritest people and generally be a happy camper.

I'm doing a lot better at accepting me for myself again. I have cycles with it. A friend mentioned a few months ago that how generally touchy feely I am is indicative of how comfortable I am with a room or a person. This is typically true but there are certainly exceptions. (Too complicated to easily explain here and I'm still working some of them out for myself.) Either way, it has reminded me that I like hugs. I like holding people's hands. I like leaning against people. I generally, if possible, prefer to touch people when talking to them one on one. Saturday was full of that and it was a little like coming back to myself.

Sunday - I got my hair re-shellacked. I also took off like three or four inches, not that anyone other than me can really tell. The biggest change with it is that it slides over my shoulders more easily now, which is a little annoying but at the same time, my head it lighter and I've gotten rid of all of the dead, dry, broken parts. And I'm all red and purple again! I should get it off of my scalp just in time for SDCC.

I'm so excited! I get to go to San Diego next week! Eeeeeee!