Still Home
Mar. 9th, 2013 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteSo, as much as it'd be nice to go to the ball tonight, I have realized that staying home is the wisest thing to do. It's an hour and a half, or more, to the site; dancing runs until midnight; tonight is clock-forward time, and getting home around 2:30am just to host our monthly tabletop game tomorrow would be unwise under the best of circumstances.
Add to that the fact that my pain tends to get worse as the day goes on, and that events like this tend to trigger my social anxiety under the best of circumstances, and that pain -->less dancing and less dancing -->more anxiety and awkwardness, which would then lead to tension and more pain, leading to.... yeah. Sad as it is, home is the best place for me right now.
On the other hand, I have consoled myself by taking the money I would have spent on gas, dinner, and site fees and splurging on a manicure/pedicure. And going to a new salon. And telling the Nail Art girl to do whatever she wants.
I now have ivory nails with a gold glitter ombre, and purple and gold rhinestones. It's vaguely ludicrous, in an utterly awesome way. Sometimes it helps to be shallow and vain, because I am unreasonably cheered up by this silly little indulgence....
Add to that the fact that my pain tends to get worse as the day goes on, and that events like this tend to trigger my social anxiety under the best of circumstances, and that pain -->less dancing and less dancing -->more anxiety and awkwardness, which would then lead to tension and more pain, leading to.... yeah. Sad as it is, home is the best place for me right now.
On the other hand, I have consoled myself by taking the money I would have spent on gas, dinner, and site fees and splurging on a manicure/pedicure. And going to a new salon. And telling the Nail Art girl to do whatever she wants.
I now have ivory nails with a gold glitter ombre, and purple and gold rhinestones. It's vaguely ludicrous, in an utterly awesome way. Sometimes it helps to be shallow and vain, because I am unreasonably cheered up by this silly little indulgence....
