weekend update!

Not a lot to update on, really, even though it was a busy weekend. That's largely because it was busy in the digital sense. There was a lot of LOTRO and not much else, really.

Friday afternoon after work I decided to hit the city, since my copy of Final Fantasy XIV arrived on Wednesday and I couldn't get in before then to get it. I wanted to go in with my cousin, see a movie, have supper, make a night of it, but all week long he wouldn't call me back. Mreh. The friends I usually hang out with and stay with left Friday morning for Florida for 3 weeks, for a cruise / vacation there, so couldn't meet up with them either, so instead I just said shag it and drove in and out again that night. I swung by EB Games to get my game, then into Chapters for the new Rolling Stone (Mad Men cast on the cover ftw!), had supper at Scamper's, and then came right back out again. That night I got to hang out with my wife and others online for awhile and I made an early-ish (for me anyway) night out of it since I was pretty tired.

Saturday was more of the same, pretty much. Installed the new game and futzed around on that a bit, then back to LOTRO where I crafted all day pretty much (and all the night before), then we had a kin raid late at night. It was a decent first stab at it, I suppose, for the first almost entirely kin-only run, I know I can speak for myself and that my toon is nowhere near in the shape I want it to be, haha, but it was enjoyable. Better luck next time, etc. Then I crafted way into the wee, small hours, way way later than I've been up in ages, so late I don't even want to repeat it here. XD

Today I slept it late, then more LOTRO. Crafted my butt off all afternoon while watching Doctor Who and finished what I started Friday night, which was pretty darn quick to basically master two professions, haha. Go me! And then we were supposed to raid tonight but no one really showed aside from 3/12 of us, so I called it a night and here I am. Other people were looking for my class but mreh, I don't really need anything out of the raid we were going to do, I just wanted to support the kin, but you can't do that if people don't sign up / sign up and don't show. No biggie, just a little annoying when I think of how I crammed all this crafting into one weekend, made a ton of food (not just for tonight, it'll last longer, but would've been useful tonight), and then nada. I know, no one had a gun to my head to do it, I wanted to, but that's just the way I am I guess.

I also popped into work after supper, to see how my billings are doing, and it's not very good. August is almost like it didn't even exist, ugh. So bad. I do have an upside, or a potential one, in that I gave my assistant a whack of stuff to bill early last week and I think she did so but didn't put it in the books, so going to talk to her early tomorrow and see if things look better after that. Here's hoping, and I also scoured all my files tonight to see if there's anything else due for a billing and found a few more, so that should help. I just need to be better, be stronger, be ... I don't know, more dedicated to my job, I guess. Yeah, it's been stressful lately, but I've just gotta put up with it and deal. Times are getting tougher thanks to some horrible luck lately (I thought we were going to have an adjuster look at our house tomorrow but I was wrong, it's about the insulation that was just put in and someone's inspecting that to make sure it's done so we can get a rebate on it - adjuster better get his/her ass into gear soon though >.<), so it's time for me to step up to the plate.

And on that note, it's off to bed so I'll be as well-rested as I can be to deal with what I know is going to be a busy day tomorrow and a busy week. Hope everyone had a good weekend and that you have a good week too. :)

weekend update!

Not a lot to update on, really, even though it was a busy weekend. That's largely because it was busy in the digital sense. There was a lot of LOTRO and not much else, really.

Friday afternoon after work I decided to hit the city, since my copy of Final Fantasy XIV arrived on Wednesday and I couldn't get in before then to get it. I wanted to go in with my cousin, see a movie, have supper, make a night of it, but all week long he wouldn't call me back. Mreh. The friends I usually hang out with and stay with left Friday morning for Florida for 3 weeks, for a cruise / vacation there, so couldn't meet up with them either, so instead I just said shag it and drove in and out again that night. I swung by EB Games to get my game, then into Chapters for the new Rolling Stone (Mad Men cast on the cover ftw!), had supper at Scamper's, and then came right back out again. That night I got to hang out with my wife and others online for awhile and I made an early-ish (for me anyway) night out of it since I was pretty tired.

Saturday was more of the same, pretty much. Installed the new game and futzed around on that a bit, then back to LOTRO where I crafted all day pretty much (and all the night before), then we had a kin raid late at night. It was a decent first stab at it, I suppose, for the first almost entirely kin-only run, I know I can speak for myself and that my toon is nowhere near in the shape I want it to be, haha, but it was enjoyable. Better luck next time, etc. Then I crafted way into the wee, small hours, way way later than I've been up in ages, so late I don't even want to repeat it here. XD

Today I slept it late, then more LOTRO. Crafted my butt off all afternoon while watching Doctor Who and finished what I started Friday night, which was pretty darn quick to basically master two professions, haha. Go me! And then we were supposed to raid tonight but no one really showed aside from 3/12 of us, so I called it a night and here I am. Other people were looking for my class but mreh, I don't really need anything out of the raid we were going to do, I just wanted to support the kin, but you can't do that if people don't sign up / sign up and don't show. No biggie, just a little annoying when I think of how I crammed all this crafting into one weekend, made a ton of food (not just for tonight, it'll last longer, but would've been useful tonight), and then nada. I know, no one had a gun to my head to do it, I wanted to, but that's just the way I am I guess.

I also popped into work after supper, to see how my billings are doing, and it's not very good. August is almost like it didn't even exist, ugh. So bad. I do have an upside, or a potential one, in that I gave my assistant a whack of stuff to bill early last week and I think she did so but didn't put it in the books, so going to talk to her early tomorrow and see if things look better after that. Here's hoping, and I also scoured all my files tonight to see if there's anything else due for a billing and found a few more, so that should help. I just need to be better, be stronger, be ... I don't know, more dedicated to my job, I guess. Yeah, it's been stressful lately, but I've just gotta put up with it and deal. Times are getting tougher thanks to some horrible luck lately (I thought we were going to have an adjuster look at our house tomorrow but I was wrong, it's about the insulation that was just put in and someone's inspecting that to make sure it's done so we can get a rebate on it - adjuster better get his/her ass into gear soon though >.<), so it's time for me to step up to the plate.

And on that note, it's off to bed so I'll be as well-rested as I can be to deal with what I know is going to be a busy day tomorrow and a busy week. Hope everyone had a good weekend and that you have a good week too. :)