I hope those of you who celebrate the holidays had a nice winter break with family and friends, or even just enjoyed the opportunity to loaf around and take some time off ( Read more... )

Boy, the last 2 years have been tough. We're still not back in our house yet, and probably won't be until after the new year, and all of that's on me. I'm the bottleneck for all of the rebuild and rework and design decisions, and it's hard to make progress on anything when there are so many possible ideas and options. It's input overload, and it's ( Read more... )

Boy, late-night television is its own weirdness. Especially the medical ads! \o?

And speaking of weirdness, HalfshellHusband was in the shower yesterday with his Spotify music cranked up, and his playlist included (God help me) the Bob Dylan version of 'Tambourine Man.' Because apparently, the world is comming to an end! /o ( Read more... )

We celebrated the first today, for HalfshellHusband. Not so much the second-the winter solstice is bigger for us, mainly because HSH has Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Although nowadays, I like to imagine that the sun becomes noticeably less intense as we get farther away from June. I LOVE the extra daylight, but the summer temperatures? Ugh. ( Read more... )

Wow. Writing a story every day for Idol-and then TWO stories a day-chewed up so much time and energy that I haven't had a chance to make a regular post for weeks. Or do much of anything except stress, write, and eat too much. /o ( Read more... )

Fire Brightidol survivor | daily-fic challenge, day 17 #1 ( Read more... )

Mouse Talesidol survivor | daily-fic challenge, day 9, | 1470 words ( Read more... )

Tiredness, I AM it. Gah.

Monday night, I was up late working on my Idol Survivor entry. There was a 51-hour turnaround this week, and I think I had the start of an idea on Sunday night? (Sunday is a little fuzzy at the moment) I definitely got sleepy early on Sunday, so I went to bed but then it took me 2 hours to fall asleep. \o ( Read more... )

First, a couple of things I forgot to mention from President's Day weekend. :)

On Valentine's Day, we ordered dinner from a local Thai restaurant via UberEats. We'd never tried their food before, and I couldn't specify my default spiciness ("on the mild side of medium") via their App interface, so when The Boy chose "Thai spicy" for himself, I ( Read more... )

Remember the elbow I chipped and/or broke by cracking it against the bathroom wall while trying to get dressed 3 weeks ago ( Read more... )