KSena's Journal

So... Been a few days. But I gotta say I've become better at updating this here place. I even updated my profile the other day, since it had turned all wonky. It's much more simpler now and cleaner, if you ask me. I'd love to hear if it works for you or if it's just boring or whatever...

The vampire-LARP this Saturday was BRILLIANT! Well, for the most part. I had a ton of fun with my character Frida. She is a very very young vampire, a fledgling only. But she has lived with vampires for many years as a servant and have during that time managed to get both friends and enemies. Especially the last part there. There is one particular one that she hates with a firy passion. He has used blood magic on her to make sure she sees him in a bit more positive light. And it works. Most of the time. However, sometimes her hate flares up and she resists that magic. It's not foolproof. The player of the hated vampire knows this, lets call him T. He knows very well even.

Anyway, T's character ended up in a fight, a duel to the death. And he lost. However, he didn't die according to many other characters even if the body was still there, not yet turned to dust. My character Frida found this very odd. And when the body ended up in her hands she did pack it up to be transported from the site in the clear view of a bunch of other characters. However, she was left alone with the body at one point. She hates him. She wanted to make sure he was really REALLY dead. So she punched a hole in his chest pulling his heart out....

Now, the GM's said, fine we just have to have a talked out scene about this, us GM's, you and T. Which was fine by me. It's good to have the GM's around when you do actions that involve another character's life. T however got upset about this. Said I was rude when I told him about what my character was about to do, even if he at that point could not effect his character and what happened to him. And in a temper tantrum T left the LARP early and went home. Which in turn made sure we couldn't finish said scene off. *groan*

So now I have to go downtown to the LARP meetup/fika on Thursday, despite the fact I really don't feel like it. Alexandra's birthday is on Saturday so I have a shitton of stuff to do. Not to mention the fact I am working late on Thursday as well. All in all very inconvenient. :-/ And if T is still on his temper tantrum and not showing up... I will be pissed. (This has happened before.) I can't do one thing with my character online or overall until this matter is resolved. To be fair, neither can he. But I don't get how he is thinking when it comes to this. Really fucking annoying is what it is. :-P

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Back to work today. Feels weird and good. I have an easy start though. This week I am working at the library closest to where I live. So it takes me about 5-10 mins to get to work, which is quite the difference how it’ll be later on... I wish I could work there all the time. I love the patrons there and the other librarians that work there. It’s an integrated library, meaning it’s both a regular library and a school library at the same time. And since I love working with both things, it would be perfect for me. Not to mention, Alexandra’s new daycare is in the neighboring house...

Nothing to be done about, I suppose. I know shit will hit the fan when I get back to the school library where I usually work. I have this week here (bliss), next week at a library outside of town (I haz the car), and the week after that... time to unpack the library I packed before I went on my summer vacation/holiday. AND plan and start up my anti-bullying project that I have a budget to use for.

Oh yeah. Back to work. With a vengeance. Can you tell?

It’s good that I keep busy though. If I’d been unemployed I would just have gone around thinking about Tashé constantly. I can’t help but wonder if she would still be alive if I’d been unemployed and able to talk to her more? Crazy thinking maybe and it’ll probably drive me crazy to, but I can’t help it.

Mom, my brother and his kids and spicehobbit came over to visit yesterday. It was good. I needed that, all them hugs and the love. It was nice. We took all the kids and went downtown to the big new playground there and let them lose. It was brilliant. If a bit hot. We have a bit of a heatwave here in Sweden currently, and you can definitely feel it. But the kids had fun, and I had cold drinks with me for everyone.

Then we went to grab a fika at a fika-place close by. While we were there... it started to rain. A lot. So we were quite wet once we got to the car. And after the drive up to our home and the run from the car at the parking lot? We were all soaked! *lol* But I had plenty clothes to hand out to everyone so no one had to walk around wet.

After that little adventure we had dinner and all the cousins played the afternoon away until it was time for them to leave. It was lovely. It really really was.

Week before that I spent 5 days with mom, including my birthday-weekend, so we got home this Wednesday last. She’d arranged a barbecue on my birthday and invited a few friends and neighbors.. and family... *smiles* *shakes head* She’s a bit nuts my mom, and she loves to arrange parties and get-togethers. It was a success though, and I did have a lovely lovely day. Days after the celebration was spent lazing around and also peting73 doing a mad dash back home and returning because he forgot his pain-meds (STUPID!) and me going out drinking and clubbing with my globetrotting cousin Mariell, who have since left to work at an insanely luxurious hotel at the Maldives again.

Good times were had, and I am trying to keep them in mind to ward off too much of the sadness I feel. It’s there, and it should. But I can’t drown in it. I have a family to take care of and be with after all.

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