So I’m sitting here today and thinking about Clue. You know, the movie with Tim Curry with a whole bunch of different possible endings? Yeah, that one. And then I started thinking about all the pieces of my world that make me go argh.
Here’s how I could see it.
My home is geriatric and poorly insulated, filled with dog hair and dust that makes me sneeze. Repairs happen one at a time and are heinously expensively never ending.
I own a lot of sweaters.
I work long days. If it’s not my actual career, there’s chainmailing and writing and promotion of said chainmailing and writing, and it’s exhausting. It’s also not terribly profitable.
Oh, and my own mother has not read my books.
I have a pile of games with relatively little time (Or people with which) to play them.
I need to eat lunch but I don’t want to cook.
I have an ongoing case of shingles that I can’t get to go away. While I have a health care provider’s blessing to get vaccinated, I can’t get it the vaccine til I’ve been clear for 12 months. Average length of time between attacks- 3 to 4 months. Also, extra fun, one of my eyes has already been scarred due to said shingles, so there’s that.
Here’s another way I could see it.
I have a beautiful home built in a time when builders believed in large rooms and larger yards. We’ve been slowly upgrading bits as needs arise, and within ten years, it’ll be like we built our own place.
I have 3 beautiful pups that are my constant companions and love to snuggle.
I own a lot of sweaters.
I have multiple fulfilling jobs- artistically and professionally, I always have something to turn my hands to. The ability to create has always been vitally important to me, and I have people in my world that understand and support those efforts, even if its not an interest in their direct purview.
My mother doesn’t read my books, so she can’t tell me how I did it all wrong (and she would). The people that HAVE read them have given them great reviews, and I will forever know that I did make people laugh and cry along with me, at the right times for the right reasons.
Even this minute, instead of typing this out and musing on the vagaries of perspective and reality, I could be playing one of hundreds of games that are just waiting for me on one of the five systems within arm’s length.
And that’s just in my office!
And today, I even have the day off to enjoy all of these things.. time with my pups, outlining a new story I have in mind, working on chainmail, playing a little Kingdom Hearts 3… and if I wanted to, I could go out to lunch or have it delivered. Which is a good thing, cause half of my body is in severe pain right now, and a little rest and relaxation could help me get over my current case of shingles.
Like Clue- it could be all of these things are true and none of them are.
Curiouser and Curiouser 