It occurs to me...
Dec. 18th, 2012 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseIt occurs to me that I ought to post something today so that people don't worry about me. I'm doing well, quite honestly. I thought for sure that I'd dream of the robbery last night, but I didn't... or if I did the images and emotions weren't strong enough to stick with me when I woke up. The only dream I remember was actually Bleach related, so I guess my subconscious still prefers fantasy worlds to real life. Fannishness FTW.
I think that some things have helped, though. My friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
naomikritzer was able to come over yesterday not too much longer after I got home from Kowalski's and she hung out with me and let me blather on and on about my experience (probaby going over a lot of it in a giant loop). I drank lots of water like Haddyr suggested, and cleaned ALL THE THINGS in my kitchen to help with the shaky feeling. Naomi and I were eventually able to get on to other subjects, like the conversation I recently had with my agent, her new house, and other perfectly mundane things.
My partner also came home early. She had a doctor's appointment, but, afterward, she didn't go back to work and we had a chance to have another go at processing the whole event without Mason around.
Last, and probably not at all in the least, I never watch the news or really even read the newspaper. I listen to the radio, but that's really about it... so I have NOT, like most of America/the world, been innundated with stories and images of what recently happened in CT, nor did I get any of the local news about the robbery and/or, I've since found out, subsquent death of the gunman.
We also decided to wait to tell Mason about what happened. I was never personally threatened, and with everything going on in the news about Conneticut, we decided that we wouldn't keep it from him per se, but neither would we go out of our way to discuss it--until it comes up naturally, which, given that my folks arre coming for Yule on Thursday, I suspect it will.
Oh, that reminds me. I need to make my Yule presents.
I'm making Mason a Bleach related t-shirt that he can wear to kuk sool--with the symbol of the Eleventh Division on it. He'll like that. His favorite character is actually the captain of the Tenth, probably because they seem to be similar in age and size (and Toshiro is kind of a grumpy little fuss, and Mason has those tendencies at times too.) But, he is very enamoured by the gung-ho-ness of the 11th.
And, honestly, if he looks at me and says, "Ima! You know I prefer the 10th!" I can just peel off the one beneath the ten on the kanji character for 11 and, viola, good as new.
That's the bonus of homemade right there. Easy fixes.
All right, I'm off.
I think that some things have helped, though. My friend
naomikritzer was able to come over yesterday not too much longer after I got home from Kowalski's and she hung out with me and let me blather on and on about my experience (probaby going over a lot of it in a giant loop). I drank lots of water like Haddyr suggested, and cleaned ALL THE THINGS in my kitchen to help with the shaky feeling. Naomi and I were eventually able to get on to other subjects, like the conversation I recently had with my agent, her new house, and other perfectly mundane things.My partner also came home early. She had a doctor's appointment, but, afterward, she didn't go back to work and we had a chance to have another go at processing the whole event without Mason around.
Last, and probably not at all in the least, I never watch the news or really even read the newspaper. I listen to the radio, but that's really about it... so I have NOT, like most of America/the world, been innundated with stories and images of what recently happened in CT, nor did I get any of the local news about the robbery and/or, I've since found out, subsquent death of the gunman.
We also decided to wait to tell Mason about what happened. I was never personally threatened, and with everything going on in the news about Conneticut, we decided that we wouldn't keep it from him per se, but neither would we go out of our way to discuss it--until it comes up naturally, which, given that my folks arre coming for Yule on Thursday, I suspect it will.
Oh, that reminds me. I need to make my Yule presents.
I'm making Mason a Bleach related t-shirt that he can wear to kuk sool--with the symbol of the Eleventh Division on it. He'll like that. His favorite character is actually the captain of the Tenth, probably because they seem to be similar in age and size (and Toshiro is kind of a grumpy little fuss, and Mason has those tendencies at times too.) But, he is very enamoured by the gung-ho-ness of the 11th.
And, honestly, if he looks at me and says, "Ima! You know I prefer the 10th!" I can just peel off the one beneath the ten on the kanji character for 11 and, viola, good as new.
That's the bonus of homemade right there. Easy fixes.
All right, I'm off.