{"id":9636,"date":"2018-01-15T22:10:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=9636"},"modified":"2018-01-17T23:25:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T22:25:44","slug":"one_hundred_and_thirty-five_months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2018\/01\/15\/one_hundred_and_thirty-five_months\/","title":{"rendered":"One hundred and thirty-five months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/2\/Ingrid_135m_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nI keep being amazed by her English skills. She has reached the stage where she &#8211; like myself &#8211; sometimes uses English words when speaking to us because there are concepts that she only has English words for, from books or videos or whatever.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nKnitting, lots of knitting. Easy patterns in thick, colourful yarn, for cool results fast.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<i>Overwatch.<\/i> She&#8217;s found an Overwatch friend that she plays together with, almost daily. He is of unknown age, nationality and name, but none of that matters when they can have fun together.\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<i>Warriors.<\/i> I kind of forced her to start reading daily, when I thought there was too much Overwatch going on and too little of other activities, and she was happy to rediscover how much she enjoyed this series.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nShe tends towards worrying and anxiety, and craves predictability. She likes planning, and doing things the same way, in the same order, at the same time. If we want to play board games all together in the evening (which means she can&#8217;t play Overwatch) she wants to know this in the morning at least, and ideally the day before.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/2\/Ingrid_135m_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nWinning is important to her. She takes games very seriously. Even with social games and board games it&#8217;s all about winning for her (whereas for Adrian, for example, the social aspect &#8211; doing something together &#8211; is much more important). It&#8217;s a good thing she&#8217;s a strong tactical thinker; she would be a very sore loser. She likes arguing and &#8220;winning&#8221; arguments, and it takes a lot for her to admit that she might be wrong, or just to let it go.<\/p>\n<p>When she and Adrian have, say, an imaginary battle with imaginary laser guns, she always has an argument for why Adrian cannot hit her. She won&#8217;t concede a single hit, ever. Adrian &#8220;hits&#8221; her in the head &#8211; &#8220;But I had a shield!&#8221; Adrian hits the shield &#8211; &#8220;But it regenerates!&#8221; Adrian hits her from behind &#8211; &#8220;But I jumped away!&#8221; Adrian jumps after her &#8211; &#8220;But I teleported away!&#8221; and so on. There is always another &#8220;but&#8221; until Adrian gives up. It never occurs to her that getting hit might open new possibilities in the game (for a dramatic death, say) &#8211; it&#8217;s all about winning. Or perhaps simply about not losing.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways she is so unlike me that she feels like an alien being, and other times I see myself in her so clearly. That way she forgot how much she enjoyed reading because she hadn&#8217;t done it for a while is so familiar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2007\/05\/27\/fading-memories-of-pleasure\/\">I even blogged about it<\/a>. That was ten years ago but I still fall into the same trap occasionally.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/2\/Ingrid_135m_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep being amazed by her English skills. She has reached the stage where she &#8211; like myself &#8211; sometimes uses English words when speaking to us because there are concepts that she only has English words for, from books or videos or whatever. Knitting, lots of knitting. Easy patterns in thick, colourful yarn, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ingrid_johanna","category-monthly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9642,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions\/9642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}