selenay: (The Untamed: WWX alone)
Yesterday, for many complicated reasons, I decided that I was allowed to start an Untamed rewatch and so I settled in with episode 1 again. It was a Good Decision.

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We are so far watching this at a sedate pace (unlike other shows *ahem*Untamed*ahem*), so there were three episodes watched over Friday and the weekend and I've only just found time to react to them.

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So, last week actually got worse, and by Friday evening I was done for the week in the worst way possible. I ended up going for a walk on the local farm just to see the piglets, and readers, I would have cried if the piglets hadn't been out. That's where my mental state was at.

I probably stood there for fifteen minutes watching the damn pigs.

Which meant that on Saturday, I desperately needed to not people or think for the day. (Part of my issue last week was so many meetings, so many, that the thought of talking to people was giving me shudders.) So I did some cleaning and some gardening, and gardening is actually a really great mood booster even when it's just mowing and pottering around with secateurs to deadhead things.

Then I spent most of the rest of the day sitting out in my favourite corner of the garden with fic and tea. The breeze kept bringing me the scent of roses and it was peaceful and I really, really needed that.

On Sunday, my parents and I transported an electric piano from their house to mine. We're calling it a loan, but after the work it took to get that thing here and upstairs, it's never going back to them and we're all okay with that. It means that I can get back into the playing habit and should also help me work on pieces for choir, now that we're back doing online rehearsals. It's not the same as in-person, but it's so good to see my choir people!

This week has been less awful, but there's that feeling of just waiting for a shoe to drop now. New restrictions are coming in and although it would be nice to think that what has been brought in will be all, I don't expect that. Economically, they can't institute a full lock-down, but I can see them deciding to institute a "no mingling households, not even in 6-person groups" rule, which is going to suck on so many levels.

I suspect this will be a winter of not going many places and not doing many things. So having the piano here to practice on, as well as fandom stuff to play in and some studying to do, is going to be important for my sanity, I suspect.

[twitter.com profile] hockeybosh and I have started a new C-drama now that I'm slightly less fragile from The Untamed. I have plunged into that fandom totally, as evidenced by the fic I posted last week and the two Untamed WIPs I've got with several other ideas percolating. Oops. Sorry/not sorry.

Hopefully The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty won't have the same effect, although I did enjoy the first episode a lot and I'm going to try to continue the tradition of reaction posts for it.

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