It’s all starting to come together…in my office, anyway. The Ho and I took a late-night trip to Target and I *think* we found the rest of the office stuff that I want. Jury is still out on the ottoman we found, but I dig it. Side table and lamp are in as well.
It looks sooooooo freaking awesome. And I already know it was worth it because I’ve used the shit out of that chair in the past couple weeks since I got it. I love it! Love, love, love having a little space there, a little corner for writing and reading. And it has its own little motif, thanks to the bear; this retro-modern motif. Think 1950s modern furniture.
I love the 50s. SciFi, art, architecture. It seriously rocks. It’s so forward-thinking, optimistic and daring. I mean, this country had just survived the Second World War, and come out as an economic powerhouse to boot. It makes sense that era would have been one of exuberance. A wonderful time period for art.
Read almost all the rest of my script today, I’ll finish what’s left tomorrow. AND, I got all my work done. Hallelu. Even got to spend a squeak of time with the Ho when we went to the almighty target, and then I got to play Skyrim for about 40 minutes.
Skyrim continues to hold my interest. I was afraid it wasn’t going to, since I completed the “main” quest…but I’m doing another one now, this one where you have to find all these stones which are scattered across various remote locations. It’s fun precisely BECAUSE the stones are scattered everywhere. I get to go exploring some places on the map I still haven’t really been to yet. And, my character is starting to get really powerful, which makes the questing all that much more fun because I’m a badass.
I’m looking forward to some time off this week. I’m “ahead” on my work load, which is great. I might be able to pick up some extra work on the side, maybe tomorrow, but mostly I’m looking forward to decompressing for a little while. Finish my retrospective, set some goals for the year, and figure out what fun things I’m going to reward myself with for work done nice and proper. I think that’s so key, you guys, rewarding yourself with something you really, truly enjoy after you’ve accomplished something. It’s made all the different for me, made me much happier.
The Ho is currently in her office, working on the first posters for this year’s Pawscers (Oscars with a “paw”). They got that shit into Buzzfeed last year. This year is definitely going to be tough. Liz was grumbling tonight that the posters this year are on the one hand not that interesting, at least not as interesting and fun as last year’s…and on the other hand, going to be quite difficult to do something with. But, I have faith of the heart. She’ll figure it out.
X-Files continues to be awesomely awesome. There was this one episode today that totally grossed me out. It was about this plastic surgeon who’d been using black magic to postpone his own life. He was mind-controlling the other doctors at his clini to kill various patients…anyway, he literally peels his face off at one point. It was disgusting. And amazing. Krycek and Mulder also went to Russia today and got imprisoned in a gulag. That was fun.
Anyway…eyes are closing. See you kids tomorrow!