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Hello, hello.

Another entry pretty close after my other one - I'd feel proud if I wasn't procrastinating. I'm working on my first assignment due on the 21st, then another is due the 27th. I've been holed up at my desk for the past week studying, reading, writing notes and finally now starting the process of the actual assignment, which is making a forum post and replying to at least two other posts, and then I'll move onto writing a short essay.

It's not too bad, though yesterday it felt like my brain went to mush and what I was writing was a load of shit, but I am also on my period and not feeling too great and feeling all too tired, so I gave myself some grace. I did want to finish all of part A yesterday (the forum stuff) but I managed to write my post and respond to one other person, so just one more to do today, then maybe I'll do some gentle essay planning ready for tomorrow.

I don't feel like I'm feeling too fantastic at the moment, but I do think it's to do with my period so I will cut myself some slack. I also haven't eaten anything today so that might be contributing to how I feel. I'm excited because at the weekend P is getting the christmas decorations from the garage and we're decorating our house (I do not care if you think it's too early, when you've been holed up in front of your desk for at that point two weeks with non stop study and an awful period, you cling to the small things in the end) so I'm really looking forward to that. We've done great picking out presents and we're going out sometime this week to get the first part of the christmas food as well.

Not long now until Ashnikko and before that the christmas market. But until then it's two assignments and then I can breathe until January.

It's been rainy and gloomy here, really quite dark, which is nice. Also a lot colder so the heater in here has been working overtime.

We also watched Doctor Who, the first series with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor (P has seen a lot of Doctor Who and me - none!) and I do have to say I did really enjoy it. We'll definitely be getting more DVD's to watch so I can go through each Doctor. As someone who knows absolutely nothing about it and has never watched it before I do really recommend it, it's a lot of fun and a joyous time capsule seeing as it was made in 2005 (I loved looking at the old shops and technology - and the notion of going to someone else's house to use their computer because you don't have one!)

Anyway, I really should get back to the assignment. I'll probably post again when the decorations have been up and we've been out and (fingers crossed) one out of two assignments have been posted. I love rambling here.

Oh and I'm also learning Welsh on Duolingo. The title is Welsh for "I'm tired." I'm really enjoying that and am on a 46 day streak so far. I've joined a bunch of groups on Facebook as well as a weekly newsletter (about different Welsh words) as I really would like to learn it properly and be able to speak it. It's amazing to read something in Welsh and actually understand it, and when I watch Pobol y Cwm I can pick up on words and chunks of sentences which is exciting. And one day I hope I'll be able to watch with no subtitles.

Until next time!

So we decided to do a master dungeon on Destiny 2 last night (grasp of avarice) and I think we would've been successful if the servers didn't have to go down for emergency maintenance. Honestly, I play destiny less and less these days because of the dodgy servers and error codes - it really puts me off! I'm hoping they're trying to find a fix but there's been a lack of communication between Bungie and players (understandable considering the abuse they get on Twitter etc.) but for the genuine lovers of the game it can be quite off putting. Oh well. Maybe we'll try again tonight, but it's reset tomorrow.

I'm wondering about finding a different game to play. Maybe Cyberpunk? I'll have to look into the bugs and see if they're less too. I'm not so much of a ~gamer~ really so I'm not sure what I would play or what would suit me. It's currently half price on steam and seems fun, but we'll see.

Because of Destiny's server/maintenance issues I've made another Stardew farm for the millionth time. I can't help it! It's such a fantastic and comforting game for me. I have it on xbox, switch and on my PC via the xbox pc gamepass. I don't know how many hours over the past 5? 6? years I've played Stardew but it must be creeping up to 1 or 2 thousand. (probably novice numbers to some, lol)

I really fancy a new game to stick my teeth into, though. I've played a lot of animal crossing, stardew, skyrim... we may try elder scrolls online too, and I'm interested in Starfield when that comes out in September on gamepass. I suppose it's not long!

Speaking of hobbies, just glued my birthday memories into my notebook, as well as cinema ticket stubs. I left a space for Barbie and Oppenheimer tickets! Not long until then. I'm wondering what films will be out towards the end of year - I will have to check. I've been enjoying going to the cinema basically every month. I suppose it's a hobby now!

Also, I find it hilarious that I've searched on this site for "pobol y cwm", a Welsh soap, and there is nothing about it. Nothing! Not a community, a post, an interest. I might start a community or a different journal to write about it, or maybe I'll just ramble here about it. I'm not Welsh but it's such an addicting soap and the best I've watched - a good balance of real life, not too much doom and gloom but enough to be relatable/educational and some very lovable/hateable characters. I've been watching I think for the past 5 or so years, maybe just 4. I was influenced by my mum who has been watching for the past 15 - I would catch glimpses and get really into it and before moving out again we would watch it together - now we watch separately and discuss in depth lol. I feel like (for me, anyway) it would be fun to ramble about my thoughts here every week, so I might.

Anyway, not much else to report on, just taking it easy and fiance has a day off tomorrow, which should be fun and is very much welcome. On Wednesday I will be seeing my parents and youngest niece as a sort of second birthday seeing as I didn't see her when it was my actual birthday. It should be nice!

Until next time. X