Snarks and Ladders

Since it’s the end of the week, and I am getting increasingly … non-articulate (shut up, it’s a word, OK?), not to mention lacking most any creativity at all currently (something I am putting down to the tragic loss of my glasses, so I’ve had a killer headache for the past couple of days), we are getting a boring ol’ list post of random shit I have been doing.

• Work has been somewhat monstrous, with nasty comments that a friend and I have been making about the staffroom bully getting back to said staffroom bully.  Bound to be awkward and messy, but it serves me right for not following what I tell the children – stop your bloody bitching about one another!
• Tax return came through, huzzah!
• Tax return rapidly spent on bills.  Still haven’t paid off all of said bills, but I guess it’s a small chunk out.
• I found $35 in my PlayStation Network wallet, so I spent it on old old games I remember from my childhood.  I foresee a relaxed afternoon in my future.
• Juggling social commitments in order to not disappoint anyone merely leads to you having a boring stressful night.
• People should not have BBQ’s, have everyone start drinking, and then announce when we are half drunk that ‘Oh, the boyfriend’s family is all coming out too, so you know’.  Would be fine if two of the boyfriend’s siblings weren’t my students.  Awkward.
• I have bleughcy* regrowth.  I look like a skunk.
• Kamiko and Socks are getting along wonderfully.  They are playing outside as I speak.  Now I just need to get Suki to be happy and I am set.
• It’s my Mum’s birthday today.  I called her, and she sounded very cheerful, which was nice.
• Only a week to go until I get a week off have to go away for training for a few days.  I’m looking forward to it, kinda.
• Apparently my boss is planning on leaving at the end of the year.  I am slightly excited.  I am also slightly terrified that the staffroom bully will become my new boss.  Can’t win no matter which way you look at it! (unless, of course, I get the job hehehe.  Highly unlikely).
• I can’t afford to go to Blizzcon at this point.  This makes me incredibly sad, but I guess it is high time I grew up and was sensible about something for once.  The thought of being sensible isn’t doing much to cure the sad, however.

* also a word.  Shhhh.

Well, if anyone managed to track me down from my old WoW blog, I guess you deserve to here the full story, just for sheer perseverance’s sake.

For the record – I still maintain there was nothing wrong with my old lifestyle.  I’m just choosing not to live it anymore, because it’s not good for me.  That doesn’t mean I am condemning it, or saying it’s not good for anyone else.

I spend an inordinate amount of time on the internet.  I’m a bit of a social networking junkie.  I love chatting to the wonderful people I have met from all around the world on the internet.  I spend most of my downtime hanging around online while doing other things – the internet is great for multitasking.

Unfortunately, I seem to have a problem with meeting guys online.  I know that there is nothing wrong with meeting people online and forming relationships that way – I totally get it.  I am a little concerned though that it IS how I met my last two boyfriends, as well as the guy who was involved in the dismal mess that I am now trying to get over.  Clearly I either meet the most fantastic people online (partially true), or I am just easily convinced to fall for someone (perhaps also easily true).

In real life, people tend to annoy me more.  You have to actually put up with their little quirks and habits.  I know that I have several annoying things I do which don’t come across online (I’ll compulsively rub my hands together when nervous.  Or my eye will itch and I’ll rub it until it’s red and sore.  I fail at making conversation with strangers, and I invariably end up blushing when I talk to them, which leads to further embarrassment and MORE blushing).  Online, I am a much superior version of myself.  And I guess a lot of other people are too.

So, yeah, I find myself falling for the wrong people.  And then getting hurt when it turns out I am not as likable as they once thought.  So, partially because of this, and partially because I want to try and reclaim my pre-gaming life back, I basically threw my hands up and said ‘no more!’ to the WoW community.

So I’m going to try and be better at my job.  I’m going to try and be fitter and look and feel healthier.  I’m going to try to be a better house keeper.  Read more.  Eat less.  Be a better pet owner.  Spend more time socialising with people who are physically around me, even if I would much rather curl up on the couch and stay in.

And I’m not going to fall for anyone who blindly leads me on, or let myself get in over my head like I have in the past.  I’m just getting tired of it.