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It's Sunday, and the second day of my three day weekend. We have a few plans today. We're going to go see the Mandalorian and Grogu, and then maybe go grab a burger. I've been craving a Whiskey River BBQ burger from Red Robin, and some of their fries. Of course, I could also do an Asian Buffett. So we'll see which sparks joy closer to the time. Right now, I could honestly do either.

Tomorrow, I have my monthly psych appt, whoo. I do need to get my meds, so that'll be helpful. I probably won't pic them up for a few days, but I always like to get my crazy pills. Don't want to run out of crazy.

Yesterday, I did a whole lot of nothing. I'm not complaining about it. We had our Marchen game which was super fun. And the lovely poisontaster gave me a really sweet compliment about my DMing, which is always awesome. I really do love doing homebrew D&D. I'm able to put the group into meaningful situations that bring out something about their characters. Teasing out tiny hints of backstory with every encounter. It's fun for me, and I think the players as well.

I love my player so much. It's set in a world of fairy tales, so they're familiar with those stories, but they play the scenes like it's the first time they've heard it. Case in point, they were dealing with Rapunzel, but they treated it like a standard thing until the wickded stepmother tipped her hand. Apologies to the amazing Drag Queen Courtney Act who I used for Mother's token. I just found a picture where she was serving total C U Next Tuesday, and it was perfect.

After that, I just relaxed. We had an early dinner, and then we had video time. I found a few good videos with suggestions for San Diego food. They didn't go to just the trendy places. I'm sure hte trendy places are lovely, but I can go to a Japanese or Korean bakery right here. We've got a proliferation. I also don't know that I'm going to a town near the Mexican border that is right on the Pacific Ocean to get pizza or burgers. There's a really interesting Sushi restaurant that looked nice. There's an italian place in their little Italy that's right by the hotel we're considering. There's SO many taquerias. I'm having to whittle them down to decide which one we shall do. We've got two full days, so 7 meals in San Diego. Maybe 8, if we need something to eat Wednesday night when we're coming down from Anaheim. We'll see how it goes.

I'm in it for some good stuff. California cuisine, Mexican, and any other specialty food. We did find a breakfast cafe that has souffle pancakes, so we'll probably go there one day.

I did realize that tomorrow morning, I will need to make Yoda's food. I'm getting low on that. So that'll be something I need to do tomorrow.

Tonight, I may watch more videos. I have so much that I need t figure out in the next 18 months.

I did discover that at Disney, there's a lightning lane premium that lets you decide when you want to get on most rides, and lets you go in the lightning lane to do it, which means faster lines. I will probably do that, but I can't get it until 7 days before our trip. It would help us immensely for not having to circle the park repeatedlly. It'll be a bit pricey, but it's Disney. Everything is pricey.

I did decide that I'll book Disney and the hotel separately. If I book with Disney, the only choice is a king bed vs 2 queen beds. If I book through the hotel, I can book a fireworkds view room, and get to see those, since we rarely are energetic long enough to see them. If I can make it til 3pm, it's a freaking miracle.

Tomorrow, I'm going to relax and enjoy the day. If I don't get Red Robin today, it'll definitely be tomorrow. I need a greasy burger in my life.

Next weekend is mostly open. My sister has a birthday party on Saturday, and we have another Marchen game set, which will be awesome. Some of our games are difficult to schedule, because people have lives, but this one is only four players, so it's usually much easier.

I wildly over prepared for yesterday's game. I've got so many maps uploaded, and we made it through one of them. So that's less I need to do next Saturday. I've got like five things set up. Some combat, some roleplay and some exploration. Some of the combat is negotiable, it could be roleplay, but it is against one of our Ranger's favored foes, so we'll see how that goes.

Last session they had a roleplay with a kindly old woman who gave them shelter for the night, and then dealt with Rapunzel's tower, which was being attcked by enemy soldiers. Then when the battle was done, they had to deal with Mother, who was holding Rapunzel prisoner. All in all, it was fucked up, and kinda awesome. Jess is playing a pacifist half elf, so he spent most of the time trying to persuade the soldiers (of which he had been one of) to surrender and turn from their evil ways. He got two of them to turn and another just left, so not bad odds. In the process, he got his ass kicked and went down to 0 hit points. Fortunately, the bard reluctantly healed him, so he got right back up. The bard, who is a plague doctor Pied Piper with some serious issues, was less than thrilled.

The ranger reached her breaking point and shifted halfway into a wolf so she could bite a bitch, which the party had never seen, so that was some fun friction. And then the thief, who's children were kidnapped, was all on Mother's side until she slapped Rapunzel. It was great watching her go through that. All in all, I love the characters and I love the choices they're making.

And now, I believe that I shall watch the videos I watched yesterday and pull the names off some of the restaurants that looked interesting. Everyone have a sensational Sunday!