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This is a diary post covering the period from Xmas to the first weekend of January.
D. flew down from Wellington Xmas morning and I took her out to my parents for lunch. All my siblings were elsewhere this year so it was just the four of us. This was D.s first time meeting my parents but I am not entirely sure who was more nervous when we arrived, her or them.
Regardless they got on fine as I knew they would and we exchanged presents and had a very nice lunch before coming into town for a nap and dropping in to a waifs and strays drinkies in the evening.
The plan for the next couple of weeks, apart from the obligatory social events, was to spend mostly quiet time together working on our own projects. We didn't really start to get into the groove of that until the last couple of days. We /did/ (in no particular order)
- go and see the new Star Wars movie on Boxing day
- undertake various shopping expeditions
- spend quite a bit of time watching media, particularly the Star Wars Rebels cartoon
- visit various people to garner advice on gluten free baking
- visit the Margaret Mahy playground to play on the swings (multiple times)
- make an impromptu trip up and along the Port Hills to catch the sunset (although I'd been aiming for the lights of Chch as it got dark; another time)
- cook lots of potatoes
- explore the Riccarton Farmers' Market finding many delicious things including a melt-in-the-mouth gluten-free honey cake
- picnic at the Hall and in Hagley Park (the latter as part of a larger group)
- dance and make out at midnight at the New Years party
- window shop very expensive jewellery while D. gave me Jewellery 101 on settings and what she likes
- visit D.'s "favorite quilting shop" at Church Corner a couple of times
- breakfast twice at Drexels (one booked, one impromptu) and dinner once at Cocopelli's
- a sewing machine lesson
One of the events which meant the most to me on a relationship level though wasn't about having fun, but reinforced my opinion that D really is the right kind of people. It was the small hours at the New Years party; I was doing a taxi run after which it was going to be time to take a very peopled out D. home when she called to say there was a slight emergency and could I take another taxi load before our home trip. I really appreciated her being willing to put her own need to leave the party on hold like that to let me do what I do, and so did the people in that second trip.
It was all fun but having D around also meant I was kind of "always on" - I didn't actually get any of my usual work-closed "me-time" through those two weeks and I did look forward to a day or two just by myself after she returned to Wellington. It was evident througout that we're still figuring out how much time/space we need around and away from each other so that's OK.
~~~
Non D-related (although having her pushing me into spending time being explicitly productive certainly helped) things that I also achieved included
- getting around to installing Lubuntu on a spare laptop and discovering that there is a FreeCiv implementation for Linux which runs just fine
(didn't actually get to spend much time playing FreeCiv, but consider that is what I probably otherwise would have spent /most/ of my time doing during the holiday)
- outstanding digital archiving dating all the way back to the end of 2016 (although still more left to go even now)
- cleaning and tidying one of the big cupboards - had planned to do all of them ....
~~~
I held my annual gaming-for-charity day on the Saturday before D left so she could be here for it. Sadly like last year turnout was pretty disappointing; enough people did turn up early on and stay throughout the day that we had critical mass until dinner time.
I played
- Puerto Rico
- Mystic Vale
- Inis
- the beginning of Legends of Angor (after dinner)
Other games played were
- Takenoko
- Tokaido
- Thurn & Taxis
D. flew down from Wellington Xmas morning and I took her out to my parents for lunch. All my siblings were elsewhere this year so it was just the four of us. This was D.s first time meeting my parents but I am not entirely sure who was more nervous when we arrived, her or them.
Regardless they got on fine as I knew they would and we exchanged presents and had a very nice lunch before coming into town for a nap and dropping in to a waifs and strays drinkies in the evening.
The plan for the next couple of weeks, apart from the obligatory social events, was to spend mostly quiet time together working on our own projects. We didn't really start to get into the groove of that until the last couple of days. We /did/ (in no particular order)
- go and see the new Star Wars movie on Boxing day
- undertake various shopping expeditions
- spend quite a bit of time watching media, particularly the Star Wars Rebels cartoon
- visit various people to garner advice on gluten free baking
- visit the Margaret Mahy playground to play on the swings (multiple times)
- make an impromptu trip up and along the Port Hills to catch the sunset (although I'd been aiming for the lights of Chch as it got dark; another time)
- cook lots of potatoes
- explore the Riccarton Farmers' Market finding many delicious things including a melt-in-the-mouth gluten-free honey cake
- picnic at the Hall and in Hagley Park (the latter as part of a larger group)
- dance and make out at midnight at the New Years party
- window shop very expensive jewellery while D. gave me Jewellery 101 on settings and what she likes
- visit D.'s "favorite quilting shop" at Church Corner a couple of times
- breakfast twice at Drexels (one booked, one impromptu) and dinner once at Cocopelli's
- a sewing machine lesson
One of the events which meant the most to me on a relationship level though wasn't about having fun, but reinforced my opinion that D really is the right kind of people. It was the small hours at the New Years party; I was doing a taxi run after which it was going to be time to take a very peopled out D. home when she called to say there was a slight emergency and could I take another taxi load before our home trip. I really appreciated her being willing to put her own need to leave the party on hold like that to let me do what I do, and so did the people in that second trip.
It was all fun but having D around also meant I was kind of "always on" - I didn't actually get any of my usual work-closed "me-time" through those two weeks and I did look forward to a day or two just by myself after she returned to Wellington. It was evident througout that we're still figuring out how much time/space we need around and away from each other so that's OK.
~~~
Non D-related (although having her pushing me into spending time being explicitly productive certainly helped) things that I also achieved included
- getting around to installing Lubuntu on a spare laptop and discovering that there is a FreeCiv implementation for Linux which runs just fine
(didn't actually get to spend much time playing FreeCiv, but consider that is what I probably otherwise would have spent /most/ of my time doing during the holiday)
- outstanding digital archiving dating all the way back to the end of 2016 (although still more left to go even now)
- cleaning and tidying one of the big cupboards - had planned to do all of them ....
~~~
I held my annual gaming-for-charity day on the Saturday before D left so she could be here for it. Sadly like last year turnout was pretty disappointing; enough people did turn up early on and stay throughout the day that we had critical mass until dinner time.
I played
- Puerto Rico
- Mystic Vale
- Inis
- the beginning of Legends of Angor (after dinner)
Other games played were
- Takenoko
- Tokaido
- Thurn & Taxis
