curious caribou

The report of my death was an exaggeration

I haven’t had the time to make a blog post because I was genuinely just living my life and enjoying my summer break. Now that I’m back to work and sitting at a computer for half the day I find myself with more than enough time to write. So here we are.

I guess I will try to just do this in chronological order. At the very end of June I had the opportunity to attend a druid camp. I didn’t know anyone attending and I also went alone, as I don’t have any fellow druids in my immediate circle. I was definitely nervous. It turned out to be rather life changing for me: nothing went wrong and everything went right. I made new life long friends, I learned so much, and I was invited to participate in all sorts activities.

It’s been an incredibly long time since I wrote poetry and I was inspired enough to share it during Eisteddfod.

It’s been a long time since I painted for fun, and painted from the heart. Which of course is what I did.

Being well inspired I continued the start of my summer eager to embrace the creative part of me that I have been ignoring for such a long time. I even found a fantastic deal on nice pencil crayons, which I used on my new colouring book (that has gorgeous designs).

Along with colouring I’ve also picked up diamond painting, scratch foil art things, and my husband and I dropped a couple hundred on more Warhammer figurines. Which we fully assembled and started painting.

Creativity is in the air, or whatever. Not at the moment for me as my return to work marked the return of the four horseman of the apocalypse. Politically: things are bad. It’s seeping into my career and challenging my own beliefs and values. It’s an effort to get through the day and want to do anything at all. Mostly I just want to veg on the couch and go to bed at 8pm.

As for video games, I finally beat Mass Effect 2 and it was great. Not as enjoyable as the first one but I already identify as a Garrus fangirl, I’m here to stay. I was very tempted to hop right into the third game but I had a rare moment of self control. I REALLY love scifi games. A few days ago I finally got to start Astrobot and it’s made me beyond happy. So nostalgic and a true and honest love letter to all old 3d platformers. I would recommend to every one. Seriously.

The fall makes me feel like I’m a teenager again. Maybe even a kid. I’ve been thinking Halo and Spyro and CoD and other games that have left impressions in my childhood. It’s bittersweet. I know I can play these games again any time I want, but I also know I will never evoke the childhood wonder that they brought me.

I also had a fun BC trip but I’m at the point of this blog where I am ready to wrap up. Maybe I’ll talk about it next time. Speaking of next time, I hope I can report back with a few new crafts to share.

By for now,

Your most Curious Caribou