Wrapped in shadow

Well, finally I've given in to my feelings. I'm ill. Got the flu. Yes, I'm taking time off from my busy life and actually admitting I am ill and staying at home and doing the whole soup-tea-and-a-blankie-on-the-couch routine. At least until now. I'm pondering playing a game on my computer (something I haven't done for ages), or continuing some work on the Marius coat.

Now, speaking of games, I got a lot of games. Ofcourse, it remains to be seen whether my computer can handle games. Maybe he'll like it and purr. Maybe it'll even increase internet performance (yeah right).
After all, I'm back to typing livejournal in a MS Word document, waiting for an opportunity to upload it once I'm back in school. It does have a certain charm to it though, typing LJ while sitting at my desk in an all-fleece outfit, with a sleeping bag over my legs and the water boiler working on my tea in the kitchen.

So: games. I have loads installed, and I'm just going to bore you with the details since I've nothing better to do. I have:

• Kolonisten van Catan
  
• Civilization I and II
  
• Risk II
  
• The Sims [Living Large, House Party, Hot Date]
  
• Settlers I and II
  
• Colonization
  
• Traffic Giant
  
• GTA I and II
  
• Transport Tycoon de Luxe
  
• Xixit (tetris rip-off, old 486 games rock!)
  
• Roller Coaster Tycoon
  
• Klingon Honor Guard (Star Trek doom-rip-off with even worse graphics. I'm too spoiled)
  
• SimCity 2000 and 3000
  
• Birth of the Federation
  

Now that's a tough choice. I think I'll play some Settlers II. There's something to be said for countryside and intelligent-less people building houses, wind in the trees, etc etc. I love the Norse houses with their cobblestone look. I will be Erik, fierce Norse Conqueror!
Oh please just shoot me now.

Or some Sims. I love building lovely houses with great landscaping and wonderful décor and spending 3 hours on building the house and then 15 minutes until I get very bored with the family. That's always fun.

Since my back is doing better, it's hardly bothering me at all, I could also do some work on some of my projects. The JackieKennedy dress isn't done yet, and I am craving my Mariuscoat since the weather is kind of falling apart on me here. Warm, blood red, gothy coat goooood.

Nah, it's gonna be some Sims.

Oprah, Ricky and all that jazz

I now remember why I didn't like being sick. Ofcourse it sucks that you feel lousy and though the extra garlic in my diet burns at my throat, you ain't got nothing to do all day.
Mommy infused me with her knowledge of household cures, when you got the flu you do this and now that I have angina the words "lots of water" and "lots of garlic" spring to mind. Reini even commented when she came home that I must use a lot of garlic since the house always smelled of it. I just smiled and nodded. Bread with fresh garlic just having been eaten.

All day I didn't do much. Indeed I played the Sims and Transport Tycoon (my "Starz Wood Company" is worth millions!), I drank over a liter of tea, and watched a documentary on the Kursk and submarines in general on the National Geographic Channel. Sadly, the subtitles kept falling away, leaving me guessing at how many kilometers 50.000 feet is and the sort. Then there was a bit about dogs with jobs, about a greyhound and Tiger, a professional shepherding bear-chasing dog.

And of course, as a good girl, I watched Oprah at three, about Extreme Make-overs. People in the States getting multiple surgeries done in one session, and leaving their family for six weeks to become prettier. *grins* Americans.
[no pun intended though]

I got to counting a bit too. It's been well over six months since I've last visited the cinema! I've been to The Lord Of the Rings: The Two Towers in January with my mom, and not since. *gets up to flip her French toast*
*returns*
Okay, randallsilver this may be a shock to you, but I just counted. There have been and are so many movies I want to see, most of which just almost are illegal to see but in the cinema. Think: "Matrix Reloaded". I haven't seen it yet! And I wonder whether it's still in the cinema's over here.
Another good example is "Pirates of the Caribbean". Haven't seen it yet, but I desperately want to. I mean, what girl could pass up the chance to ogle at Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom in a costume-movie!? I sure as hell can't!

Got a craving for costume movies, though. Sense and Sensibility, which I've seen twice when I was staying at my mom's, is trying to win me over again. I drool at every LOTR preview or dvd-release poster I see (even though I have the movie poster at my bedside).

( house policies and strubblings )

So, this turned out to be a long post, and I fear I must leave you now. I still have to do the kitchen. Mop the floor and so on.
In any case, I'm positive, feeling better now that I ate my toast and drank some more OJ. Addicted to OJ here! *points at self* *smirks*