[unofficial weekender] Sunny days are here.

[refersentParticipant 152xp 0]

Class, let’s get more music 😀

[blinky465 17028xp 3]

Yay. I got my covid result. Despite spending the weekend coughing and sniffling (the cough has thankfully cleared now, just a bunged up nose to go) it turns out I *don’t* have covid. It’s official.

I was bracing for a 10-day quarantine. But now I’m like….

[ninjillyParticipant 11673xp 1]

Good to hear @blinky465 – I thought for a scary moment there that you were going have to get all that painting done 😉

[limburger 21712xp 1]

@ninjilly bloody hell … that music … that video … I *eh* need brain bleech now.

@blinky465 damn you too … what rabbit hole did you make me fall into this time ?

got a new flag … for me bike 😀

Anyone who still fails to see me has got to be blind …
Now all I need is a big honking horn to scare the remaining deaf idiots … and maybe a superbright light for the blind ?

*evil grin*

 

[blinky465 17028xp 1]

@limburger – you’re welcome! I was about to say that the girl in the first video looks a bit like Brighton-based guitar slinger Mary Spender. Then I clicked the link and the title says that’s exactly who it is! What a great cover – I learned the opening solo a few years ago, but never quite got my fingers around it. I might just have to learn the metal version for the next open jam night 😉

@ninjilly – phew! Close shave!

[crazyredcoatParticipant 13642xp 1]

Don’t know if anyone else has felt this or not, but I’m having the strangest hobby slump at the moment. Maybe that’s not the right word, but I can’t really think of another way to describe it. I am still inspired just enough to paint and think about hobbying in general, but a lot of things are just frustrating me, or annoying me, or even angering me with very little effort (effort is definitely not the right word there). The really stupid thing about it is that I’ll get angry about something then as soon as I think about what I’m angry about it sounds childish to be upset about it. I guess it’s just a general thing with me rather than just related to the hobby, but the hobby is the main way I unwind at the moment so when something affects that it’s more obvious to me, I guess. I thought about just taking some time away for a bit, but I don’t think I’d know what to do with my Tuesday afternoons without the Tim and Gerry stream. I’m thinking I might leave the Discord, though, because I often feel a bit guilty about being there without being a CoG at the moment. I know the guys opened it up with the pandemic, but that’s gone on for a fair while now and it feels a bit like I’m riding the train without buying a ticket and that’s not a good feeling. I guess this is just me venting a bit, but I’m just getting a little burned out with hobby and in general.

[sundancer 42985xp 2]

I totally feel you there @crazyredcoat and I think it’s a case of “we can only do one aspect of the hobby and that is build and paint”. The social aspect (aka playing with friends) is totally out the windows and that’s missing big time. At least for me.

Makes me feel good when people say that uHH has become part of their hobby time and that makes it even more worth doing it and not just for the pleasure of bantering with Gerry about other people terrible pace at painting minis.

I wouldn’t feel bad about the discord. As long as there is no “we’re restricting access to CoGs only again” I’d just enjoy it.

And we’ve all had our “burned out” feeling over the last 18 months. Hell, I know I have. But that’s why we’re part of a community. To see that others are in the same spot and that there is a life after feeling burned out. And may, just maybe…. things get back to normal… soon’ish….

[blinky465 17028xp 2]

@crazyredcoat – it does sound like a symptom of just general world-stir-craziness; at least you’re able to take a look at yourself and try to understand what it is that you’re finding so upsetting – some people just don’t have this capacity (and some pay therapists lots of money to have them do it).

I took a break from “the hobby” a little while back and these days I find I have to make an effort to put time aside specifically to work on something (so I’ll “book a day” to just play with paint or glue and plaster, with the aim of doing nothing but just enjoy “crafting” for a few hours). Sometimes you need to go away, in order to enjoy coming back.

I tried to make time to spend an hour or so each day to just do something – anything – and while it was fun for a few weeks, it quickly became a chore. Now I only “do hobby” when I really fancy it. Some days I’ll still choose to read a book over a few nights instead of painting anything – I used to get *really* guilty about not hobbying (to the detriment of other activities – yes, it is possible to have other hobbies 😉 )

Being angry about stuff is tiring. Take a break. Become an obvserver (or maybe just a commentator) for a while. Don’t feel obliged to *do* anything. Don’t allow a lack of doing anything make you feel like you’re excluded from the community. You can still join in conversations and swap ideas without actually doing anything – nobody will actually know 😉

[sundancer 42985xp 2]

nobody will actually know

unless he tells us 😉

[blinky465 17028xp 2]

unless he tells us

But @crazyredcoat already knows that the first rule of Fight Hobby Club is we don’t talk about Fight Hobby Club, right?

Um, hang on… That’s not going to work very well, on an online forum, is it? Scratch that.

Go read a book. I honestly think the world would be a brighter place if more people read more books, more often 🙂

Go on, @crazyredcoat, you’ve been given permission. Go sit in the sun and have a nice read. We’ll still be here when you come back.

[sundancer 42985xp 2]

And if we’re not here, we’re outside… reading books.

[crazyredcoatParticipant 13642xp 1]

Thanks guys. It’s nice to know I’m not really alone in this. I am definitely looking forward to the world being a little less on fire so I can go play games with my brothers again. If I don’t get too excited and forget maybe I’ll do some sort of battle report when it happens, but that’s for later. 😛 I am usually quite the reader, to be honest (uni kind of forces me to do that but textbooks are never as fun as novels… :P). I still have a few books I haven’t packed away yet…

[limburger 21712xp 1]

Wait … we are supposed to do actual hobby ?
I’ve only ever assembled and painted my armies in my minds’ eye theatre (you should see them … they’re marvelous and super detailed).

Speaking of hobby … got a shipping notification that my Spectre shipment is heading my way. I think their planning failed to account for the fact that the box has to travel across the canal, because ‘today’ is not likely for something that left the warehouse in the UK yesterday-ish.

And with that I can safely say I have a game and minis for modern era to my stack of things I may eventually assemble, paint and play.

@crazyredcoat I think there is something about being stuck inside and not having access to events outside that kind of robs this hobby from the fun distraction it can be.

 

[danlee 22443xp 3]

@crazyredcoat I felt the same recently. Without being able to play games the occasional inspiration of “if I had unit X I could change up my list” never happens. Sooner or later army projects go stale.

 

I’ve had some success branching out into painting larger scale miniatures for display and will soon be starting a diorama. I’ve still cut back though and I’m spending more time on my PC games than I had in recent years.

 

Ultimately the most important thing is that you don’t punish yourself for taking a break or doing whatever feels right at the time.

[crazyredcoatParticipant 13642xp 1]

I thought about painting my HMS Repulse (my HMS Nelson and HMS Trafalgar are packed away somewhere) the other day just for a break, but my paint shortage makes that a little difficult…and I am suppose to be packing to move as well which I’m only sort of doing. Looking forward to seeing that diorama, though, @danlee.

There is definitely a negative side to being stuck inside, @limburger, it wasn’t too bad while I was doing school work because I could chat to my professors and such and not feel quite so isolated. Soon we’ll all be back to normal and playing games, though, at least that’s what my little brother keeps telling me. 🙂

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