Fractured Imagination

No more cold!

Seriously.  I live in Texas for a reason, and temperatures below freezing is not one of them.  When you think of Texas you think deserts and tumbleweeds.  Of course that would be wrong as well, we actually don’t have much in the way of deserts, and I’ve only ever seen a tumbleweed when driving through New Mexico.  Still, low temperatures in the upper teens are a little cold for my taste.  Of course I sit here and complain, but it does at least give me an excuse to drink lots of coffee (Addicted!) and to curl up beneath the blankets with a good book and a cat in my lap.  Washburn to be exact… Kaylee isn’t exactly a lap cat.

I’ve managed to read 12 books since Christmas.  Am I insane you ask?  Why yes… yes I am.  Proudly so.  Plus, I’ve been told time and time again that a writer should read at least twice as much as they write.  It makes sense to me, though that might be partially because I enjoy reading so much!

Reading is also my escape.  When my pain gets to be too much I escape into a book where I can forget my problems and just enjoy a world that doesn’t include my personal pain.  After a recent visit to the Doctors I’m hurting more than I have been, not a real shock there.  He did decide to put me on Savella, which is an SNRI drug used to treat the symptoms of Fibromyalgia.  I won’t know if it’s going to help at all for a week or two, and that’s only if I can handle the drug.   It’s a level C drug, which means that it’s one you have to step up to a full dose and taper off of if you decide to quit taking it.  Stopping cold turkey isn’t an option, it can do horrible things to your body which I’d rather avoid.

I’ve also been given some other things, including pain meds.  Thank God.  I don’t use them often, but on a bad day being able to take something can make all the difference.

Here’s to hoping that this works to reduce my pain overall.  Either way if you want me I’ll likely be curled up in bed with a good book.  Currently it’s American Gods by Neil Gaiman.  I’ve found that I don’t actually enjoy his writing style very much, but the book is still intriguing, so we’ll see how I like it in the end.

À bientôt!

I be Dragon.

At least for a few hours today.  Tabletop roleplaying is something that I do rarely.  In fact before this Dragon campaign the only other tabletop game I’d done in the past two or three years was a rather fun and unique (at least to me) Changeling game that a very dear friend of mine ran, unfortunately that one seems to be on indefinite hold, if not completely abandoned.

Regardless, today I was a dragon, a beautiful Amethyst dragon named Dewdrop.  Yes… Dewdrop.  I have to say that when we first started this campaign I was wary.  My roleplaying group fractured years ago, and all of us were afraid that it was permanently broken.  It took us a long time to be willing to try again, and I know that I’m not the only one who feared that it would not work.  I honestly believed that we would devolve into arguments or that the quieter people among us would wallflower and be ignored by the more vocal and outgoing members.  I’m happy to say that I have been proven wrong.

It’s turned into an epic that will span decades, and it manages to be highly amusing as well, which isn’t a huge surprise considering how many sharp wits make up our group.  We only manage to game every four to six weeks or so, but I have to say I’m happy to be doing it again.  It’s even giving me ideas for my writing, which can’t be a bad thing.

I look forward to saving the world… just remember that Amethyst’s are the true rulers of the world… not those stupid Bronze Dragons.

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Reflections last updated: 1/12/2011