Christmas is Coming!

 Well. it's about three days to Christmas and I am feeling quite festive despite the lack of evidence. The living room looks very nice and I have bundles of Playmobile to bestow upon
Gracie. I did quite well. Last year we got her the doll's house and all the different rooms. To be honest she hasn't touched it.

She is really into My Little Pony, fairies, unicorns, princesses etc. So I got her a range of all that and two knights and a dragon to boot. So I am fairly certain these toys should verily catapult her into a fantasy world of fun. Whether that is healthy or not, I am unclear.



(How is it that when I click to watch a song on Utube by oh-so cool and indie band, Hefner, I am forced to sit through an agonizing Thai advert for Oil of Ulan in loud, shrilly voices, for fuck's sake?)

Initially, I was jubilant at the start of this present leisure break. I fear, I overindulged heavily, and felt like fucking shit for about 4 days; fat, dying, useless. Then last night I got out to a secret game night at Jonny's which was a blast. Today, I got up and did a bunch of exercise and seem to have my mojo back. It's great! I had a peaceful day of feeling good about myself. I know it's the 30 minute bike ride at the start of every day that can keep me feeling good.


So, there is a Christmas dinner at Pete's restaurant booked and I am sure a game night soon. Actually, I have a new Imperial ship, The Decimator which I am dying to try out. The Imperials normally get whacked (only once have they won, with Harry and Jonny in command), so I am keen to balance the game.


Merry Christmas, one and all.

Gaming!

 It's the lead-up to Christmas and I didn't need much encouragement. Today, I looked to Toys4Thai on the Net and ordered a bunch of Playmobil for Gracie. I got unicorns, princesses, knights, dragons, fairies and Santa and a snowman. It's a nice bundle of everything,

It's Saturday and I had a peaceful time at home. I do a lot of stretching right now pretty much throughout the day. and I continually drink water.

However, with every quaff of beer, my girth doth groweth.

I did 10 mins on the exercise bike today.

Coming into a pleasure storm of days off, what with English camps, exams and New Year coming up.

I am in much need of rest.

Today, I laminated a ton of LOTR cards and could for the first time build my fabulous Silvan Elf deck and play the first set of adventure packs, The Hunt for Gollum" for the first time. The decks are rad, and the process of learning a deck is a weird experience. "Hey! I know this card. It does this!"

Pete's last night and lasagne and chips with a bunch of imported ales; German light and dark and a couple of Aussie Cooper's Stout. Good night and great to see the friends I have here. They are an excellent lot, up for laughs and merry making. Jon, Pete, Brian, Harry, Arun are all top notch people abd we've had some right laughs already.

The game nights are surreal and awesome. Sometimes I wonder about myself, living in a tropical paradise, hosting cutting edge board games, as they are released, to a wonderful crowd of enthusiastic friends. It's quite a sight.

Descent. Dungeons and Dragons.

Star Wars X-Wing. Tense gaming.

Happy people enjoying fun company time friendship together,

Navigating through the asteroids was never his strong point.

'Sisco friends so cool. Hippy happy hap wipe days of leisure with the dreamy soperific Carcassonne.

The Crew.

Zombies

 Everything is zombies right now.

I just finished watching all of The Walking Dead. It took me about three weeks and was a lot of fun.

Added to this is my latest game, which was recommended by someone at Battlefield Bangkok, the game shop in Bangers. We played our first proper game last night. Well, almost. I overdid it on the wine and fell asleep about halfway through the game, but what we played of it was epic fun. I think I was so overjoyed at not being the evil overlord that I play every fortnight in Descent, that I got a bit carried away. A damn shame because it was great fun. I can see this coming back to the table very soon. Arun, Harry, Brian and Jon all come over for the game.

The gaming area is now on the balcony at the front of the house. I got a light put in so we can play into the night. It works well so far.

 I definitely need to cut back on the booze, as I really feel my age now and I want to live as long as I can. I have been using the exercise bike and I did a mean green juice two days ago. I mean to continue and get healthy. I have managed to get to the local market on my way to pick up Grace from school. It gives me just enough time to get there, buy the veggies and get to the school. It's the way to go.

School is winding down a bit now with exams approaching and we will get a much needed few days off. I need a break and to do nothing for a while.

I am onto The Two Towers now and the bit with Pippin and Merry with Treebeard. It's great stuff.

Grace and Oi are both fine and we exist happily in our little bubble in Sunnyview.

Let's hope it continues.