Hellooo

Firstly, welcome to everyone who got an email notification saying "Emsy's posted on LJ!" I have! Whee!

So. I keep posting "yo I'm here" posts and then disappearing but, I'm going to start using this again. I've spent months Googling "LJ-type blogging places that aren't LJ but have some semblance of a community" and getting nothing back so I might as well stick here. I figure, I'm 43 next month, I'm allowed to do the "this is what we used in my day!" thing with LiveJournal. So, hey.

(and I know I KNOW that LJ is run by Russians who want all my data and think I'm illegal because I'm gay I KNOW. I'm not giving these guys any money, OK?? They have 20-something years of my personal data, it's fine, none of it is interesting!)

"So what going on then?" I'm so glad you asked.

Hi. I'm Emily. I don't really use Emsy as an online name any more but yes that's also me. Mostly I'm ElphieMcDork everywhere now. I am going to be 43 next month. I live with my girlfriend and cat, Blue, in a house in the south-west of the UK. I have previously worked as a youth worker and a school librarian but now I am disabled, so I don't have a job any more. However I do stream crafting streams on Twitch, and I run an LGBTQ+ library for children and young people. I knit and crochet a lot, I spin hardly ever at the moment, maybe that will increase at some point. I read a lot, I still collect My Little Ponys, I still drink a lot of Dr Pepper. 

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Board games!

Yesterday R (girlfriend) and I went for the second time to Chance and Counters in Bristol for our becoming-fortnightly board game lunch date. They do a really good deal of a burger lunch, a drink and two hours of board games for a tenner and that's a good price for lunch and nerdery!

(they also do a really good raspberry lemonade with it)

I sat and read for an hour before R got there as I had to wait for her to have an appt first, so I stared Late Eclipses (fifth Toby book by Seanan McGuire) and listened to the LOTR lo-fi playlist I found on Spotify when I was looking for Twitch-friendly music. 

It was a really good afternoon. We played a quilting-inspired board game I forget the name of, a card game around running a bakery, a complicated but fun board game based around dog walking and then another card game involving collecting treasures and stopping an island from sinking. I probably should remember their names.   But it was loads of fun and we're going back next week to begin our fortnightly-board-gaming-date-afternoon. Yey!