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Good morning and happy Saturday! I actually got to sleep til 6:30am! Boodle was being kind this morning, which I appreciate. I was technically awake at 6, but I was feeling lazy and just kind of rested there until Boodle insisted.

Today, we're going to take it easy. Depending on how they feel, Jess does have an appt at 10 to get their suit altered. They had a pretty gnarly migraine last night, so if they're not up to it, we'll reschedule. Aside from that, maybe a nice lunch out? I'm pretty okay with taking it easy this weekend.

The baking bug may bite me today, as I've been considering making bagels, but that's fun, not work. I was thinking about making egg bagels, but I haven't found a recipe that sounds good, so it'll probably just be topped plain bagels. I've got everything seasoning, and some roasted garlic I could add it.

Tonight, I will probably use the beef stew that I got from Costco. Unless we go out for dinner, in which case my sister is on her own. Unless she wants to come with. That is also a possibility.

Tomorrow, we have game at 5:30pm, which should be fun. It's one of my favorites, where I get to play an 11th level bladesinger wizard, who is about to be in for a world of angst as he goes back to meet his estranged family.

At some point, I do need to hang a new shower curtain liner. The old one just isn't cleaning up well and a new one is super cheap, so we'll go with that.

I'm on the third book of the Fourth Wing series. It's not bad, though a little less action oriented than the first two, but has higher stakes. I'm about 50% through it, so we'll see where it goes.

I'm enjoying that my brain is engaged enough that I've been able to read so much in a few days. I think the part of my brain that is fannish is only let out a little these days. I'm fannish about D&D, but that's about it. I just haven't found anything else that hooks me. I think SPN broke me.

I miss being able to just come up with a plot and write it out, but it's much harder now. And since there's nothing I'm really fannish about, I'm using that part of my brain to come up with D&D games. Still, there's that little part that misses being able to whip out 100,000 words within a month. Now I'm lucky if I get 1000.

I'm having a lot of trouble writing the module that I planned to possibly sell. It's a lot of work, and I'm trying to flesh it out, when my tendency is just to write the bare minimum so I'll remember the scene, what I'm trying to accomplish and then move on. I may need to do that and flesh it out later because the current campaign is to it's last arc, and then we shall start the new campaign.

It'll be hard saying good bye to the Arvandor crew. We've been playing them for years, first through some one shots, then through Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and Dungeon of the Mad Mage. It would have been tough had we stopped after Mad Mage, but the Arvandor campaign has really been stellar. In D&D you're lucky when you get a session where things are just clicking and you can truly immerse yourself in the story. When you get good emotional beats as well as cool combat. Arvandor has been a game filled with those sessions. I know I've said it before, but my players are amazing. I came up with a cool plot, and remembered to give space for those beats, but the players took the ball and ran with it. They added backstory, and gave me plot hooks that I could then pull in, and let them get their emotional closure. I'm prepping for the next arc, which is going to pull in two or three more backstory hooks, and I'm going to enjoy that.

We just wrapped up the one player's backstory arc, where the character killed the man who enslaved them as a child, but also had them taught to be an artificer. Plus they revealed their goblin heritage, and fell in love with one of the party. It was a good arc, meaty. So far, I've been able to hit everyone's backstory during this game. It's been awesome.

I'm just hoping I can stick the landing for the final chapter. Make it epic and dire, and just bring the house down. That's my goal.

And on that note, I shall go forth and get myself together. Everyone have an amazing Saturday!