It’s been another hellish week, with being on call, and things not working, so that I’ve been working more than other times, and being quite sleep deprived also didn’t really help that much. Since my brain was rather mushy I was keeping on doing simple stuff and just get through it. I think this week will be better, it’s a bit stressful since I’m going to have to get some christmas presents bought, so that I can send them to Norway and hopefully arrive around christmas, so I have to brave the shopping mall, in which I haven’t set foot since last christmas. There is also the first work christmas celebration, and since I’ve been in the company for 10 years now I will have to go up in front of everyone, which is stressing me out for some reason, even though it’s not really a big deal. Well, at least through this week, and then next week I will have to get my Austrian ID card thingie that is new so that I will be able to still go to the hospital in case something happens since it’s now being merged with the normal “e-card” for health services.

So I feel stressed, things aren’t really fitting into my normal patterns, which makes me feel unround and worked up, for nothing really, which is annoying, but it’s how things are I guess, I just have to go with the flow, and hopefully get everything in order.

Books

I’ve been reading a lot this week, I started getting back into romantic sci-fi books, and they are quite easy to read, so I get through a lot, and since I do enjoy them a lot I also read quite a lot, so this week is a whopper.

First one out is No strings attached by Maizy Fell, and it really sparked me into reading more of these, and I had a quite big haul after I got through it, because I just wanted more, this one is a story about people having a hard time, then working together, it also dares to be silly when needed, and was a lot of fun all the way through.

After having read the first I also went to the second one in the series, At your service also by Maizy Fell, And it was another warm blanket read for me, just good people being good to each other, some good story, and some good sex. It’s just nice reading some books that don’t focus on violence and things being dour and sad, and now when it’s dark out most of the time when I’m not working it’s good to have another world to dive into.

Strange Love by Ann Aguirre was the next one, and this was another good story, the alien was alien enough that the sex part was getting a bit too weird for me, but the rest of the story was really quite good and heart warming, and it had a really good talking dog character, which was a lot of fun, he really was my favourite of the characters in the book.

The last book that I finished in the weekend was The Gorison Travel Incident by Laurann Dohner, and this was one of those book that has the typical bare chested guy with a photoshop filter on the cover books, but the story was fun, it just felt a bit rushed towards the end, as if the story didn’t really have time to play out in the amount of pages on the book, there are however more books in the series, so I’ll go on with them later.

And that one also was quickly through, so I got to start out on the next book too, which is Shoot the Messenger by Pippa DaCosta. This one seems to be more of a mixed sci-fi fantasy book, and from what I gather the more romantic parts are coming later in the series, it also seems like it’s going to deal with a more poly relationship thing, which is probably going to be fun, so far it’s been more a straight forward action story, which also has been fun.

Games

Most of my time went by to reading this week, so I just haven’t played much, I also was pretty mushy headed after working over night by being on call, so while I got in a run or two of Mr Sun’s hatbox the only thing I played quite a bit of was Siralim: Ultimate It’s still fun to grind up different things, getting new monsters creating new teams and trying them out, delving deeper and deeper down in the different dungeons and so on. It’s nice in that I can just decide for each little 15 min dungeon if I want something simple and easy, or if I want something more challenging, so it’s pretty adaptable to how I feel, or how much I can deal with, at the time, and there is something that’s just comforting about it’s grindy play that just speaks to me.

Media

For media I’ve been listening to some mix of music, some melodeath with Children of Bodom and In flames and for my reading time mostly some happy hardcore and euphoric hardstyle mixes, for some reason they have set as reading music to me, I enjoy the happy uplifting melodies while reading.

Podcasts have been more or less on the normal schedule, just that some of them are taking thanksgiving off, I’ve heard that is a big thing in the US, here it’s just the day where nothing new comes from over there, there will probably be quite a bit of differences in the schedule the next weeks as people are often also taking christmas off, but we’ll see how it turns out, at least I have the game of the year episodes that comes out in the end of the month to look forward to.