starlings overhead

★ My week off last week was very nice and very needed, but I started feeling sick around Sunday and ended up with a cold. Luckily, it seems to have been a brief one; I've been off work since Wednesday and I'm feeling mostly better now. I'd really like to stop getting colds!

★ While sick, I've been rereading, then reading fresh, some of the Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr, because mildly trashy YA faery romance seemed about my brain speed. It's a lot darker than I remember, and slightly more textually queer given they came out from 2007-11. I'd read the first three years ago but never got around to the last two, so even though I'm not really in the mood anymore, I'm determined to read the fifth and finish the series - if I don't now, I probably never will!

★ Games-wise, I've picked up Sky: Children of the Light again (MMO by the people who made Journey), and I'm enjoying it a lot! I dropped it last year because it's repetitively grind-y and very FOMO-y with its cosmetics, but for the moment I'm finding it very chill. Also, I look adorable:

♥ Because of the weather, my manager asked if I wanted to work from home over the next few days. The weather isn't that bad near me, but I'm tempted to just to avoid the cold of the commute and the skating rink of our driveway. The only trouble is, I forgot to bring the charging cable for my laptop home, so I'd have to take it in shifts with the person I live with. I don't need to work from home, so it's just the question of which faff I want to live with.

♥ I've played a few demos on Steam that I've enjoyed recently: Loddlenaut, Valley Peaks, and Wildfrost. Loddlenaut, I've had my eye on for a while, but the other two were new to me. I liked Valley Peaks (and its accessibility features) but I think it'd be easier with an actual mouse, not a trackpad. Wildfrost was fun, and reminded me of Slay the Spire, but I'm having trouble gauging if it's difficult because I'm bad at it, or because they've made it really difficult.

I've ended up just picking up Slay the Spire again, and I'm really enjoying it! Now that's a game where I know my failures are my own mistake (or, rarely, bad luck). I've played 14 hours of it and I haven't beaten it yet, but I'll keep throwing myself at it!

♥ I've started getting into icon-making! Because I needed another creative hobby. 😅 I'm still trying to decide if I want to shell out money for more icon slots, when I don't know if I'll use many icons, but... the thought is tempting. At least I can make myself the Guild Wars 2 icons I was really lusting after (as well as filling my own icontalking wishlist request for some icons of Wang Lingjiao, which I've been working on).