all made up with nowhere to go

I went out early to the shop for milk, and to use the cash machine, and it was a good job I did, because now it is snowing!

(I knew it was supposed to, but I don't know if I really expected it? I'd been thinking about going to Burnley for the day, but decided against it because of the snow. The bus route goes over hills, and if the weather's crappy, they stop the buses, so I could've ended up stuck there).

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I've spent the last four days feeling really crappy. Like I've lost all motivation to do anything. I woke up this morning, and I just wanted to go straight back to sleep. I think it's a combination of a whole bunch of stuff, and it's just making me feel shitty. I think being ill for almost a month didn't help any, either.

Maybe I'll feel better once my birthday is out of the way. This winter plus the last seven months have been shit anyway. I'm surprised I haven't felt like this for longer/sooner (well, I kind of have, but not like this tired-I-want-to-sleep-a-lot feeling).

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ANYWAY! It's the penultimate question of the Post Once A Day Meme!

(I feel like I've done really badly with these AND the video game meme questions this year but I think it's down to the feeling like crap meaning my brain won't work right, and feeling ill, so apologies to everyone).

lassarina asked: What is your favorite craft you've done?

I really like origami/other paper folding techniques, but I don't do a lot of it, because I then don't know what to do with the resultant article. It's okay if you can stick it in a book/on a card, because it's flat, or hang it up if it's something like a kusudama, but other than that, I never know what to do with things, so I actually don't do origami very often.

I should do more flat stuff now, though! I've got space, I've got loads of nice paper (including some proper origami paper my mum bought me), and I've even got the time! And the internet is full of amazing tutorials - it's where I learnt to make a lot of stuff last time I went through a phase of making things.

(I kind of wanted to say ALL OF THEM! except that this is not true. There are some crafts I've done that I wouldn't do again - e.g. weaving (it's boring) - and some I don't want to e.g. quilling, which looks fiddly, and I don't like how it looks anyway).

Some things:

1. I watched Resident Evil: Damnation, and honestly I don't know why I bothered. I mean, yay Leon being all snarky, and Leon, and so on ♥ (he was one of my first video game crushes and...look, it's been going on for fourteen years now *ahem*).

The CGI were/was (????) awesome - I really love how far computer animation has come, even in the last ten years - but honestly I didn't really like it. It felt, by the end of the game, like an extended trailer for RE6, although you wouldn't guess that if you don't know that it's supposed to be set between RE5 and 6. Also there was a trailer for 6 playing over the credits and what the fuck was that all about?

(Also I didn't have an RE tag??? WTF??? THESE GAMES ARE MY LIFE!)

In short, nah bro.

2. Since we're talking films, the last one I saw before this was Hans Christian Andersen, which is a musical where Danny Kaye plays the titular character and...it's not exactly true to Andersen's really story, but it's not so removed from reality as I understand it. Anyway, it's fun, and I enjoyed it, although a warning: you probably will be ear-wormed with every single song for days afterwards.

3. I reeeeeeeeeally want to make origami (someone who followed me on tumblr does origami, and it started me off on wanting to do some again). The only problem I have with it is that I never know what to do with it once I've made it.

I made so much as a teenager, but threw a lot of it away because of the above reasons (I think we've got three surviving things which are two huge flies (don't ask), and a maple leaf). I've got some instructions for making some paper boxes upstairs, and I'm going to have a crack at them, but I don't know where to go from there. We will see, I guess.

(Hmm, I better dig out that Steve and Megumi Biddle book, I guess!)