Misc ☆☆☆

[yuuago]

☆ Looking forward to Chocolate Box Exchange! Noms open from now until the 28th, signups start on the 1st, more details over at chocolateboxcomm. I've already started on my letter. :D

☆ Went out for coffee with C again today. It was nice! I am glad that I'm continuing to make an attempt at acting like a normal human being. She mentioned that she might be hosting a board game party sometime in the next couple of weeks, and I'm welcome to come - so hopefully she'll call me once she nails a date down. It sounds nice.

☆ All of the crazy reviews for the Cats film are kind of making me morbidly curious about it, haaa. It almost makes me want to watch it. But I'll probably wait until it comes out on disc - I'm not that curious. ;) (And I can only afford to go to the movies so many times in one month, anyway.)

☆ Speaking of movies, I'm probably going to go see Little Women with my mom some time during the break. She saw the trailer and liked it, and since she hasn't been to our new cinema yet, it seems like a good time. I've never read the novel, so I don't know all the details, but the trailer does look nice.

☆ I took the Good Omens tv series out from the library. :D I'm looking forward to seeing what all the fuss is about! Now I just need to... find time to sit down and watch it... Not sure how that will happen, but we'll see. ;)

☆ Going to start planning my Norway trip in earnest in January. I was briefly considering delaying until 2021, because a museum that I wanted to visit won't be open until then; the National Museum of Art was supposed to reopen in autumn of 2020, but it's going to be delayed until Spring 2021. That's disappointing, but... no, autumn 2020 for this trip sounds good. It isn't as if that was the only thing I wanted to see in Oslo, anyway. ;) So! Time to research Oslo, Bergen, and Stavanger. And transport in between cities - which is my biggest concern. I have no difficulty figuring out things to do in any particular place, but inter-city transport always makes me very nervous.

☆ It's going to start getting a bit brighter soon! ...But not soon enough. Ugh, I'm so sick of winter already. Wake me up in May, please?

Comments

[hokuton_punch]

I haven't done CB before because I'm usually burnt out from Yuletide, but - I hear from a friend that there are some quality Destiny nominations, and since I didn't do Yuletide this year, maybe I can check it out...

I'm glad you had another nice visit. And board game parties can be fun! It'd be cool if you got to go.

I have a fondness for Cats the musical, so initially I was going to pass on the movie - but it does sound like such an amazing trainwreck that maybe I'll have to see it after all. XD Hope you enjoy Little Women! That's one that's managed to entirely pass me by except through osmosis.

Good luck finding time to watch Good Omens, I hope it lives up to the hype! And good luck planning the trip, too. ♥

BRING BACK THE SUNLIGHT, WEATHER. ;-;

[yuuago]

:D If you don't have Yuletide frying your brain, CB sounds like it might be a good idea...!

[seerofrage]

I've been slowly working on a Chocolate Box letter too; the exchange is always a ton of fun :D

And omg, I'm the same re: the new Cats movie; it looks awful and all the reviews are making me want to see what they've done with it x'D

Good Omens is a lot of fun! Hope you enjoy it, whenever you get around to it! :D

And oooooh, trip to Norway sounds like a lot of fun, good luck with the planning and research! :D

[yuuago]

Cats just sounds... SO RIDICULOUS. So terrible. xD But probably best to wait on it....

[darjeeling]

How does ChocolateBox work? I've never participated in one before and I can't seem to find a summary post on the community. Nothing's linked in the comm profile either! Not helpful for newbies, lol

[yuuago]

Yeah, mod hasn't gotten around to adding it yet, it'll be up by signups. Here's last year's rules; they will probably be the same this year.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/chocolatebox2019/profile

Minimum is 300 words of fic or 1 clean sketch.
Requests are at least 3 fandoms + one relationship each. Both / and & relationships can be requested.
Offers are at least 4 fandoms + 2 relationships each.

[darjeeling]

Thank you! It looks very manageable, so I might give it a shot. I'm going to take a look at the requested tags beforehand, I've been out of the fandom loop for a bit.

[yuuago]

Sounds like a plan! And there's still lots of time to add things to the tagset if something you like isn't in there yet. :D

[darjeeling]

That's true! I was thinking of making sure I could comfortably offer to write for the minimum number of required fandoms, that's all, and I thought taking a look at the requested tags would give me an idea of what people want.

[0dense]

happy post-solstice! it's just gonna get lighter from here on out, slowly but surely :) shows and people sound like the way to keep fighting the winter off, and oh wow norway's gonna be a blast :D!

[yuuago]

The sun's going to come out... Just got to be patient! xD (Could be worse, I could live in one of those polar night places.)

I'm SO excited for Norway even though it's so far off, pffff. :D

[dhampyresa]

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on Good Omens!

Happy solstice and may your days lengthen quickly!

[yuuago]

I'm about halfway through it now, and so far it's good fun! :D