Abe E Seedy @abe_e_seedy@awoo.space

Real talk though, this trip was amazing. I try to remind myself not to be too sad when it's over, because I'm so lucky I get to spend any time with someone so wonderful, not to mention dragging her all the way to my family in my home country

In a weird way, it's almost nice to have parted with Ang for the end of the trip, because at least the thing I've been increasingly dreading is over and done with.

Plus, at least I get to go back to my hotel room and be alone, rather than dealing with being around a bunch of people and navigating a late night flight

Getting ready to get on a flight and leave NZ. It's been a very good trip, but I'm also glad I get at least a little longer with Ang in the US

@abe_e_seedy I thought yesterday we climbed a mountain but today we extremely climbed a mountain

@abe_e_seedy forgot to add this here yesterday, but here's some photos of the view

Today we:
- flew to Queenstown
- took a gondola extremely up a big hill
- hiked further up the hill
- accidentally hiked much further than expected
- seriously, it might actually have been a full-on mountain
- had a triumphant ice-cream & cookie sundae on our return to the ground

More beach adventures, towards and away from the sea

That one photo took forever to post so I'm not going to do the rest here, check them out on birdsite I guess

"Remember where we parked"

@fineursine I've been a few times by now actually! My work has an office just outside of LA, so I've been working in a week stay around here each year for the past 3 years as part of my trip home

Safely in the hotel in LA, waiting for Ang to arrive too.

All checked in and chilling at the airport. Ready to fly out in about 2 hours for the Great 2019 Vacation Leg 1 - Destination LA

Just finished up with work - now to finish packing before flying to meet Angrboda on our way to belated NZ Christmas!

@angrboda oh no, you praised the exclusivity of Mastodon, and so are now going Mastodon-viral.

Prepare for your 43 notifications spaced out over about a day and a half, together with 7 vaguely encouraging comments

@Fuego I have to say, this caught the attention of both the "amateur game designer" and "fetish scene writer" parts of my mind pretty well.

Basically everything you could sum up as the Dungeon Master segment of my mind, I guess

@Fuego thanks yo. I was talking with Ang about it, and my plan for if it runs uncomfortably long is to just point her in the direction of the British Museum and go "have you gone through the Monument to Colonialism? I'm already full up on that, but you should totally take a look". And then speedwalk home

Boy a perfect way to cap off 2018 was to agree to meet up with an old friend I now know mostly through Facebook while she's visiting London on Jan 1st, a decision I've been quietly anxious about for roughly 80% of all time since I suggested it
(the other 20% of the time I've been asleep)

Really hoping I've threaded the needle on making this not a creepy comment, given that it's talking about a real person who is hella not signing up for anything like that. Let me know if it's coming off that way and I'll delete it.

I'm watching the livestream previews for the Civ 6 expansion and today the host was wearing little reindeer horns & ears and my immediate response was

"Oh, cool, I'm this easy huh? Okay, good to know"

@angrboda putting it like this just now made me realize I react uncritically that exact way when I get my home country acknowledged.

Not to equate the two in terms of representation, just that I maybe need to give myself less of a pass on that