December has flown very quickly for me and I cannot believe next Saturday is Christmas eve. I honestly thought I'd post more this month but it feels like I always overestimate how much I'll post each month.

December rundown

Dec 4th - I went to a knitting night at our local cat cafe which was nice. The cats weren't too active because they were tired but the folks were nice and we had a few good laughs. I'm hoping they'll have more in 2023 since the only other knitting group I know of that regularly meets tends to get together at 2pm and is geared more toward seniors.

Dec 8th - Our fundraising committee at the library decided to have a small Christmas market fundraiser. I'm not on the committee anymore (I left back in 2018) but I offered to help out with one of the tables when a member was too sick to stay and man her table. It was okay, we made about $800 which is pretty good considering it seemed to be a bit of a last-minute fundraiser. For my troubles, I ended up catching the flu from the other person I filled in 🤒 I was so feverish and so annoyed because I had plans to see friends that weekend but I did the smart thing and stayed home.

Luckily it wasn't Covid, I tested negative and after my fever went away a couple of days later I was back to normal. I only had to take one sick day and stay home on the weekend. On the plus side, I did finally finish decorating our Christmas tree. I normally go for a lot of colour but this year decided to just stick with white, gold, and silver ornaments because I had that old song 'Silver and Gold' stuck in my head while I was decorating. I'm happy with how it turned out:



Dec 14th - Went out for our department Christmas lunch at Clancy's, a hotel restaurant. The food was okay, pretty much the usual fish & chips, burgers, and turkey dinners kind of place but they gave our group a private dining room which was really nice. It was also good to catch up with some of the retirees I hadn't seen in a few years thanks to Covid.

Dec 18th - Made up for missing plans with my friends the previous weekend by meeting up this weekend for sushi. It was good to see them but one of my friends was feeling crampy and I was in a blue mood so it was a bit more subdued.

I'm going to catch up on comments & posts this week but I hope everyone's December has been going well so far!

Re-reading some of my older posts and I noticed in one post I was debating whether or not to back the Kickstarter for Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG which amused me. I did back it after and just this past October I received the books and cards for this RPG. It's really neat though I haven't had the opportunity to play yet. I want to fully read the books to familiarize myself with the rules and structure before seeking out online opportunities to play. Is it weird I just like having RPG books even if I don't get to play the games?

I'm hoping that will change in the future but I dunno, I've a tendency to pick up and put down and pick up again hobbies which is easy to do with knitting, crocheting, painting, playing video games, blogging, and a slew of other solitary stuff. That's harder to do with RPGs because it involves other people and I don't want to get involved with a game if I can't maintain the stamina for scheduled games.

My currently hobby obsessions are knitting and playing Sims 4. I've been learning a diamond lace pattern which is a little challenging for me since I don't knit very often, I tend to crochet more often and find those patterns easier to read. As for Sims, I'm trying my hand at the Not so Berry legacy challenge, essentially playing along with Kelsey Impicciche's Not so Berry Let's play. I'm weirdly obsessed tbh, probably because I find I'm doing different game play than I'm used to.