I am stuffed, was out at my parents since 12 but now back home In my PJ's and looking forward to some gaming time. Love my family but 6 hours in their company in a small house is plenty 😂
@MightyDemon82 I know the feeling and I was only with mine for about 5 hours 😅. Glad I decided not to stay the night but I suspect I'll be back there tomorrow for boxing day
@ralphdibny@LN78 haha my sister's get louder with more booze and my nieces start acting up the longer they are on the go (aged 5 & 8). It will be the in-laws we are visiting next 😬
I decided to stop drinking for Xmas and new year. I've been hyper emotional for the last few weeks and didn't want to make it worse. It's actually not bad so far tbh. I've had more thoughtful conversations with extended family that I wouldn't usually have
@LN78 cheers, yeah well it might not be permanent but at least until I settle down a bit. If I can settle down that is.
I also decided to not watch the traditional Xmas EastEnders this year for similar (but jokingly light-hearted) reasons as I seem to be living in an episode of it right now.
Stay safe LN, Xmas is tough. Not sure why, might be the extended time off. Maybe life is just always like this and we attribute more importance to events at this time because of the date.
This emotional barrage seems to have reduced my appetite (along with a double whammy of COVID and a stomach ulcer a few weeks ago) as well so I seem to have naturally cut out my excessive over eating that I was using to cope. Despite how intense I feel, I am kind of hoping that part of it stays and I can take advantage to lose a bit of weight.
@LN78 I genuinely have felt much better after cutting out Eastenders. Caught a bit of tonight’s and it’s just bloody miserable. At least I’ve done two thirds of a really great Lego hotel set I got, although the fiddly repetitive bits make my brain want to escape out my ears. The sausage fingers and bottle of cider probably didn’t help much.
@MightyDemon82 Unfortunately not. The dog mostly wants to lick the baby’s hands/face and then runs off to her crate as soon as the baby starts crying.
@ralphdibny I’m not much of a drinker these days and yesterday was probably the most I’ve had all year, and that still “only” came to splitting two bottles of beer with the father in law and a couple of glasses of red at dinner (plus some booze free Buck’s Fizz in the morning).
The mother in law got me a collection of 24 beers which would probably last me the year. But it’s got a best before date of mid Feb on it so most of those will probably end up down the sink.
As some of us have come into some ps gift cards over the holiday season, we may be eyeing up those pre-orders more closely. As I thought about it, I think I might hold off. Do you think it is still worth it to pre-order as most games come out not in the greatest state? I'm looking at Hogwarts, but holding off for now.
@Elodin No, always wait if you can unless it is something special that you can not wait to play. I think I only pre-ordeded one game released this year and that was Elden Ring.
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