Going To Be Making An Attempt...
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magicaddict...to be using this more in 2017, as writing down the way I feel seems to be fairly useful when it comes to venting. When I don't have anything specific to write about, I will be focusing on what I know, and sharing my appreciation of music with you - I don't know if you will like what I post, or what I say about it, but it's stuff that makes me happy when I hear it. There may also be photos I took that I like.
To kick things off, in 2016 (in no particular order), I:
Commenced therapy for work-related stress
Watched someone I know in a show.
Got watched in a show by people I know.
Got a solo curtain call.
Cut off communication with my parents a week before Christmas.
Started exercising semi-regularly in addition to LARP.
Played thirteen games (including a 36hr), monstered ten and GMed eight (including a 36hr).
Travelled away from home forty times with work, including twenty-seven international trips, totalling fifty-two nights spent sleeping in hotel rooms visiting a total of fourteen different countries (including England).
Told my work that this trend has to change, or I'm long gone in March.
Bought a house.
Have been censored.
Bought a car.
Photographed owls.
Obtained a forty-nine inch 4K TV simply by taking out a mobile phone contract.
Visited India as a tourist, spending eighteen days in some of the most magnificent hotels imaginable (that's actually not embellishing).
Realised I can sing higher notes sitting down than I can standing up, which is counter-intuitive in classical training.
Visited two escape rooms, completing one in thirty-seven minutes, and the other overrunning the hour mark by fifty seconds (though this was apparently the hardest escape room in London).
Got annoyed at people doing things that I then myself did, which annoyed me even more because it meant I had to cut them some slack.
Celebrated another anniversary with Emma.
Celebrated another anniversary with Amy.
Gave stuff away to a charity shop, which I thought I would never do.
Attended a butchery course.
...and now I'm running out of things. In truth, it was a pretty busy year, which is one of the reasons I didn't get to post much. When I did, it was venting that really should have gone to my therapist rather than my flist, but at the time I posted it, I hadn't started yet. 2017 will likely not involve major improvements, but I will at least be posting things I like here, rather than opening posting walls of rage (Disclaimer: I cannot rule out a wall, or walls, of rage at any point in the future).
That was 2016, on to 2017. Musical musing will commence with the next post.
To kick things off, in 2016 (in no particular order), I:
Commenced therapy for work-related stress
Watched someone I know in a show.
Got watched in a show by people I know.
Got a solo curtain call.
Cut off communication with my parents a week before Christmas.
Started exercising semi-regularly in addition to LARP.
Played thirteen games (including a 36hr), monstered ten and GMed eight (including a 36hr).
Travelled away from home forty times with work, including twenty-seven international trips, totalling fifty-two nights spent sleeping in hotel rooms visiting a total of fourteen different countries (including England).
Told my work that this trend has to change, or I'm long gone in March.
Bought a house.
Have been censored.
Bought a car.
Photographed owls.
Obtained a forty-nine inch 4K TV simply by taking out a mobile phone contract.
Visited India as a tourist, spending eighteen days in some of the most magnificent hotels imaginable (that's actually not embellishing).
Realised I can sing higher notes sitting down than I can standing up, which is counter-intuitive in classical training.
Visited two escape rooms, completing one in thirty-seven minutes, and the other overrunning the hour mark by fifty seconds (though this was apparently the hardest escape room in London).
Got annoyed at people doing things that I then myself did, which annoyed me even more because it meant I had to cut them some slack.
Celebrated another anniversary with Emma.
Celebrated another anniversary with Amy.
Gave stuff away to a charity shop, which I thought I would never do.
Attended a butchery course.
...and now I'm running out of things. In truth, it was a pretty busy year, which is one of the reasons I didn't get to post much. When I did, it was venting that really should have gone to my therapist rather than my flist, but at the time I posted it, I hadn't started yet. 2017 will likely not involve major improvements, but I will at least be posting things I like here, rather than opening posting walls of rage (Disclaimer: I cannot rule out a wall, or walls, of rage at any point in the future).
That was 2016, on to 2017. Musical musing will commence with the next post.
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Date: 2017-01-03 11:51 am (UTC)What television did you get?
PJW
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Date: 2017-01-03 05:32 pm (UTC)To my (relatively certain) knowledge, it is an LG 49UH610V. I hadn't been anticipating one this large (I was told that the 43" 4K wasn't available, and would I take a 49" HD instead, and I grudgingly said yes), but I'm not going to say no to the best of both worlds (and this is also why I'm not 100% sure - my email records have say something entirely different).
Upscaling is excellent for now, and it's ready for when the money is there to upgrade everything else to 4K.