Headspace

So it goes this season for me. Christmas/Yule, New Year and then my birthday.

This year the yule season was quite a trying one. We bought the apartment in the intersection of November and December so most of the season was spent in preparation to the move, or in the moving process. Thank goodness, we had the good sense of using professional movers as moving our entire life from the old apartmen to the new one wasn’t a small feat. We now live on the southern borders of Tampere, which is quite nice though getting used to the new surroundings will likely take a while. The apartment itself is terribly nice and required no renovations on our part.

Of course we both got sick for the move, Murphy’s law was really at work there. I recovered soon, for M it took somewhat longer. For Christmass we drove up to M’s parents with my Mum on board. Even if there was a lot of sickness wreacking havoc on our Christmass, everything worked out in the end and it was a lovely Christmass. That continued (with couple of nassssty days of cleaning the old place in the middle) up to the previous weekend, when I dropped mum home, visited grandparents (who were in good health and had the stamina to enjoy the visit for several hours) and a friend’s birthday party as a last of that day. (all this in one day before returning home in the middle of the night)

New year’s eve in the daytime we picked last stuff up from the old place and returned keys to the housing office. Felt a bit funny as I moved there spring 2001 and M had had it a bit before that. It’s a long time so it was no wonder that the move was big. After this we visited the local mall for lunch, post office visit, some shopping and then drowsed the day somewhat wondering if we really should go to see a movie as we had planned. M said that the age is obviously starting to show as it was quite a wrangle to go to movie even if we had tikcets aging out and a movie that both of us wanted to see. Yeah, the age is showing as the reasons for not going were along the lines, too tired, moviegoing generally leaves one not happy but furious for the various sideshows (usually over talkative teenagers, who can’t shut their damned trap and / or cellphone for two hours) . In the end, we decided to go with the idea that most likely the worst idiots wouldn’t be out on new year’s eve (they weren’t the over talkative teenagers behind us were mostly unheard through the movie) and the movie was attractive one, Golden Compass.

Proved a good decision as Golden Compass is a splendid movie that really deserved to be seen from the big screen. Yeasterday we resumed roleplaying that has been badly taxed by the moving and sickness. A good start for a new year and it seems that the month long break in the game is reflecting well on the character development.

Today, is my birthday and the last day of my winter- / christmass leave. Does seem like quite a good day so far