Last night, not for the first time, I dreamt that the Xenomorph from Alien was really real and it was in my house.
I don't know why I've started having this as a nightmare, because it's not like I've watched anyone play Alien Isolation, or any of the films, because I know already that the Xenomorph scares me, so I avoid it.
So I woke up with my heart pounding, and laid there, terrified. As you do. Eventually I fell back asleep, but you can bet it took me some convincing that actually I'd imagined all that.
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Anyway, it was my birthday yesterday! I spent it under a woollen blanket in my living room, being toasty warm, with the cat sat on me while I alternately played Tactics Advance (in German™) and watched stuff on youtube. Which wasn't too different from a usual day, except for the blanket, and telling myself not to stress about stuff like chores and that.
(I honestly do not know why I didn't think about the wool blanket before, because yesterday was the warmest I'd been all winter, and I didn't have the heating turned up any higher than usual).
This year was definitely an improvement on the last two birthdays. Last year, I spent way too much time stressing about town flooding (which it did, and was nothing I could have done anything about anyway). And the year before I was running on very little sleep and spent most of the day crying, thinking everybody hated me. But yesterday was just chill, and it was sunny for most of the day, so it was just really nice.
(Also Outside Xbox uploaded a Hitman 3 Three Ways to Play video, so that was awesome. Hitmans? On my birthday? It's more likely than you'd think!)
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Finally, Aoife streamed Abzu on this Monday just gone and, while it's not quite as chill as Journey, it is full of fish! All sorts of fish! It's like swimming in an aquarium!
(Though you may not want to watch it if you are afraid of deep water, because there's a few bits featuring the Bottomless Ocean™ and it's mildly unpleasant, even if it isn't real. Also if you are afraid of whales, you might want to give it a miss).
Anyway, I thought it was pretty neat, so I thought I'd share with y'all :)
I don't know why I've started having this as a nightmare, because it's not like I've watched anyone play Alien Isolation, or any of the films, because I know already that the Xenomorph scares me, so I avoid it.
So I woke up with my heart pounding, and laid there, terrified. As you do. Eventually I fell back asleep, but you can bet it took me some convincing that actually I'd imagined all that.
~
Anyway, it was my birthday yesterday! I spent it under a woollen blanket in my living room, being toasty warm, with the cat sat on me while I alternately played Tactics Advance (in German™) and watched stuff on youtube. Which wasn't too different from a usual day, except for the blanket, and telling myself not to stress about stuff like chores and that.
(I honestly do not know why I didn't think about the wool blanket before, because yesterday was the warmest I'd been all winter, and I didn't have the heating turned up any higher than usual).
This year was definitely an improvement on the last two birthdays. Last year, I spent way too much time stressing about town flooding (which it did, and was nothing I could have done anything about anyway). And the year before I was running on very little sleep and spent most of the day crying, thinking everybody hated me. But yesterday was just chill, and it was sunny for most of the day, so it was just really nice.
(Also Outside Xbox uploaded a Hitman 3 Three Ways to Play video, so that was awesome. Hitmans? On my birthday? It's more likely than you'd think!)
~
Finally, Aoife streamed Abzu on this Monday just gone and, while it's not quite as chill as Journey, it is full of fish! All sorts of fish! It's like swimming in an aquarium!
(Though you may not want to watch it if you are afraid of deep water, because there's a few bits featuring the Bottomless Ocean™ and it's mildly unpleasant, even if it isn't real. Also if you are afraid of whales, you might want to give it a miss).
Anyway, I thought it was pretty neat, so I thought I'd share with y'all :)
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