Good morning, dear friend, my guest at the Divagation Society, this magazine of random thoughts and ideas, a very good storewindow for my life overall. The great reader of this post, that I always am so happy to see around. Happy Monday of a new week, another great of the season of Christmas, and I wish you my best of regards, always. How are you, today? How is the weather? As for me, I am, overall, okay. I have not drawn much on the weekend, though ideas are in my head for next ones. I decided to save me some pennies and come to house of grandma, where I can take pictures of the christmas decorations, and have lunch aplenty. As for my relationship with grandma, it has been okay the days I have been here, which makes me much happy and relieved. On this note, I have started writing the post of today on the computer, where I have been usually doing it on the phone. I had good plans of continuing it on said device, but since I got a bit sidetracked, which is life, I am again on the phone. At the end of the day, nothing wrong with that. I finished reading the audiobook I was taking a look at, on Marie Antoinette, queen of France, my favorite monarch and person. Of course, the final of the book is tragic to the extreme, and all of the characters end up dying in heinous ways. Marie and her Husband Louis were beheaded by the Jacobin government, but this government ended up in the same way, most of the deputies and revolutionaries were either beheaded or assassinated, only the second to third ranking clerks survived to tell the absolutely destructive history of this unfortunate series of events. Count Fersen was assassinated, too. The dauphin of France, Luis 17th, was essentially killed by the mistreatment of its cell keepers. Of those people, only Maria Theresa, first daughter of Antoinette, survived, much traumatized. She was to die in 1850 or something of the sort, but in the rest of her life, little is said about her. Fortunately she married well, but the marriage was childless. All in all, the end of this gruesome tale is even worse than the one of the Romanovs. At least they were held in captivity with one another, Marie was separated from her sons in the end, and was humiliated and beaten till the end, which she reacted by keeping her composure, and behaving in a regal manner, not letting any of her wrongdoers get to her. Making not only the wrongdoers more angry at her, but her tale even more fantastic. She may not have the best of times as queen, with all the criticism she faced, and her desire to live a more private life, but she in the end chose to die as Queen, and a proud Habsburg at that, at the end of the day, it was all that she was left of with.
What to listen to next? Unfortunately the 3-month-trial for Audible is pretty crappy on its catalogue, it offers so little. I fancied canceling the trial and not wanting to hear anymore of it, but, I may as well keep it on the background for a bit, I still may find something I will enjoy, though I doubt it. This could be as well the last book I have read in 2023. I am, of course, reading the biography of Maria Theresa of Austria, but this monumental work will probably keep me busy till 2024. The abysmally small catalogue of Audible makes me very sad, maybe I have read everything that is to be read, I dangerously get close to this conclusion. But fortunately I know it is nonesense. A lot of books to be read, but many are not on Audible, nor on Kindle, sometimes not available on portuguese at all! When you are a researcher with niche interests such as me, you suffer...
Always good to start the day with a good cup of Coffee, and in a Christmas mug? Even better!!! I love this one
Apart from books, reluctantly I decided to reinstall the dollhouse into my computer, my illusions over the game are dead, its credibility with me, gone. If I play it, it is only to build houses and maybe see my Sim doing something... I don't expect to have overwhelming fun with it. I just want to satisfy my desire to assemble a house, and that is it. Concerning this aspect, the new DLC for the game fulfills the purpose of adding into it. The gameplay is absolutely trash, but I had no illusions about getting it for the gameplay, I just wanted the floor tiles... I have better games in my library, such as the ones I mention more frequently, but sometimes, we want to play dollhouse, as uninspiring as it may be.
Are you excited for the big day, Christmas eve and the day of 25th? I know I am! Made all the plans I could! I hope it may be a nice one. I will most likely be at my grandma's for it, so are the plans and the tradition. Even if my family (I am thinking of the two grandma's sisters) can be a bother, I will be with them, and may even score some good memories at the end of it! I have a plan of working on a new Christmas drawing, and if works as I want to work, it will be a great one! But that will have to wait until I feel like it.
I guess we can wrap things up, now! I have talked about everything that was on my set of thoughts, for now. Another post for this Christmas season! What will I do next? When will I write again? Most likely, at some point around Wednesday-Thursday, that is a good guess... until then, make sure to enjoy every second of Christmas time, and I see you again real soon!
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