Category — Microblog Mondays

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On the last day of the year, I cleaned up my to do list and got ready for the work week.  I played a lot of Shuffle Cats, crossword puzzles, solitaire, and Sudoku.  We watched the first Lord of the Rings movie because we missed our yearly tradition of watching all three films between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.  We ate appetizers for dinner.

I never got out of my pyjamas.

It doesn’t look very exciting when you write it out like that, but it was the perfect way (for me) to spend the last day of the year.  Nothing big.  Nothing grand.  No champagne or fancy party.  Just everyone piled into a bed, eating chocolate, fighting orcs, and waiting for the ball to drop.

How did you mark the last day of 2017?

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We don’t celebrate Christmas, so I live vicariously through all of your Internet postings.  I love hearing about Christmas traditions.

Like do you go away or host it?  Hang stockings for decoration or fill them?  Church or no church?  What are you eating today?

Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?  And during gift opening, do you go one person at a time so everyone can watch other people open presents or do you open gifts at the same time?  Are you ever surprised or do you pretty much know what’s under the tree?

So tell me about your Christmas (or grab a good idea for next year if one pops up in the comment section).

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I read a post that rang true for me about why introverts hate spontaneity.  I am probably the least spontaneous person I know.  If I went to Ollivanders, he’d hand me a wand that is made out of cement.  Completely inflexible.

Of course I dipped into the comment section and there were people arguing that they are introverts who love spontaneity and the two aren’t mutually exclusive.  Of course, they aren’t, but the original argument rang true for me.  I need time to mentally psych myself up for interacting with people, and I need to know when I’m getting my downtime.  I can’t commit to one without knowing the other.

So, do you like spontaneity?  And are you introverted or extroverted? (Though I know someone will argue that we’re all a little of both.)

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I have found my dream store.

It’s an Alice in Wonderland-themed store aimed at giving you a very Alice-like experience from the moment you attempt to enter the building.  Yes, the Alice-themed store in Oxford sort of brings you into that Wool and Water world, but… not like this.

The issue is that this store is in Japan.

That is the problem with Atlas Obscura.  It tells you about these really cool spaces in other parts of the world, and then crushes your heart when you realize that you may never get to experience it.  It’s a store, after all, and by the time I make it to Tokyo, this place could be closed.

What cool spaces have you read about on the Internet that you want to visit?

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I love Dungeons and Dragons.  I haven’t played since high school, but I listen to other people’s games via YouTube, Twitch, or podcasts.  Josh doesn’t see the joy in listening to someone else’s game, but you get the story AND you don’t need to do any of the work.  I’m a listener not a contributor.  A D&D taker but not a giver.

I don’t know why I don’t play since I clearly like listening to games.  I guess that there are things I like to participate in and things I like to only observe.  And while there are local or online D&D games I could join (and I sometimes feel a twinge of jealousy when other people tell me about their ongoing campaigns), I don’t.

What is one things you only like to observe but would never want to do?

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