Catch up after ALL the stress.

So I haven’t blogged in way too long, I apologise to my followers, life hasn’t exactly been easy this past month or so.

 

I’ll make this a short(ish post, and then we can resume our regularly scheduled (every so often) posting.

 

Firstly I Saw the Corrs at Blenheim Palace. It was fantastic, up to and including the craziness of a picnic in the pouring rain.

 

I have visited my best friend in Cornwall, a really relaxing trip, and much needed as I was cracking under the strain of:

 

Mum had a nervous breakdown. It manifested as a full on psychotic break, and I had to get the police out looking for her no less than twice before the medication took hold, and it took a week to get her to go to a doctors in the first place.

 

This resulted in me having a melt-down, not quite as spectacular as mums. I basically wanted to shut down and re start.  So I was signed off for just over a week.  I SLEPT.  It was wonderful.  My medication for my depression was doubled, it’s working.  When I was minimally functional, I pottered about in the allotment, did a ittle Pokemon Go, met a friend for a coffee, and read.  It really helped that mum was well enough to have gone off to work or I don’t think I’d have relaxed as well.

 

I also went to the latest Ripper’s LARP (Oxford after Midnight) which was fun and badly needed mild escapism.

 

My brother and Niece visited while I was in the middle of my meltdown, but before I got signed off. It didn’t help it was the hottest week we’ve had this year.  It was fun though, as much as I was able to appreciate it.

 

I went back to work last Monday, did a four day week, and had Friday off to attend Emma Newman’s book launch and birthday party. It was fantastic.  Emma and Pete are so lovely and it was great to see the rest of the LARPers again, and catch up.  The rest of this weekend involved reading the book, which was fantastic (Go Read the Split Worlds – it’s fantastic social horror/urban fantasy, also I spent saturday at work – I had to make up for taking Friday off.

 

So, ALL the stress, all the breaking and needing fixing. I’m back on form now though, and my creative mojo is back too :D

 

This coming weekend I’m in London at the 9 Worlds so expect a long post about how awesome that was on Monday!

11/02/2014

I dream I am with my friends.  We are going through rooms, and end up needing a break.  Zoe and Joe are there.  I end up resting my head on Joes shoulder, and I tell Zoe it’s comfy. She is a little protective of Joe, as if I’m likely to steal his affections. I’m respond that his shoulder was comfy, but that didn’t mean anything.

I also dreamt I was doing an audit of a school. There were lots of rules.  I’m mincing around, and there are people from Grey’s Anatomy and I’m offered fruit to eat. People tell some weird stories (and I wish I remembered them).  I’m pretty sure I was auditing Tulketh High School, but the corridors were wider, more reminiscent of Pembroke Comprehensive’s language corridor.  I end up following a group of girls down the drive of Tulketh School, and into town, where they cause havoc.  A pair of the girls crash the wedding of one of their sisters, and she’s NOT happy about it.  The other girl who crashed the party hides, and then runs away, the family help her to get out, as if the bride is a monster.

13/08/13

13/08/13

I dreamt about two girls, one being chased by another both on horseback. One of the girls is blonde, and evil. There is a note involved. The horse chosen to steal is chosen at random, the nice girls horse is chosen. She takes her horse and runs.

They run until nightfall, managing to lose the evil blonde girl briefly just outside a village. They enter the village, and hide behind a huge hedge. The girl dismounts to allow her mount a rest, and takes the saddle off, but leaved the bridal on. It’s cold, has been snowing. The horse rolls in on the ground to cool off.

The evil girl thinks the girl is in the village, turns her horse out into a paddock at the bottom of a hill (the hedge is at the top along with the houses. There are garages and workshops below) The blonde girl then enters a house, and comes back out with torch and begin to search the village.

The girl trying to escape, tries t get the saddle back on her horse to escape, and backs her horse away and down the hill as the blonde girl approaches the huge hedge. The blonde girl knows she is there, and shouts at her that she can’t escape her. The escaping girl see’s a light from a car, coming from the direction she’s escaping in. She is near to a car garage now. She thinks that the person in the car will help her.

The calls out to the driver for help. The blonde girl shouts you can’t get away, that’s my father. The escaping girl realises she is cornered, backs away and is cornered by the men. But before anything bad happens to the girl and her horse, the blonde’s father is shot from behind, and killed. The shooter backhands the girl through a window in to the garage, where she is knocked out. The horse runs away to safety.

The blonde girl is held at gunpoint. The men are mobsters and her family have something they want. She knows where it is. They pin her to one of the cars.

Slightly randomly I see a cat walk along the guttering and into the garage with the unconscious escaping girl. There’s no one to protect the blonde girl like the horse protected the escaping girl.