For the first time in many years my family is not attending the family friends' Christmas Eve party, where there is usually Bingo and Star Wars Trivial Pursuit and general good cheer. On account of the bronchitis and general tiredness and still having a batch of ginger snap cookie dough to bake, I am sort of glad to miss it, but it seems a pity ( Read more... )

Welp, I guess this one is going down as The Christmas Where I Got My Ph.D And Also Bronchitis, but hey! It could be worse! It could have been pneumonia. Anyway so I am tired all of the time and not feeling very much in the holiday spirit, but at least I am safely at home and the cat may have missed me ( Read more... )

The ponytail on my dying Itachi charm broke off sometime today while I was out with family doing Christmas shopping. D: DAMN YOU, 2016, YOU COULDN'T EVEN LEAVE ME MY SAD DYING ITACHI IN PEACE ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving festivities have been a reasonable success, in that food was eaten and there were no fights about politics or much of anything else. A pretty chill holiday, if short ( Read more... )

OH NO I GOT TWO AMAZING DESTINY FICS FOR YULETIDE, I AM BESIDE MYSELF. *_____________* PLEASE TO READ THEM BOTH, THEY DESERVE MUCH LOVE AND I'M TERRIBLE AT COMMENTS. And some kind soul also bought me more paid Dreamwidth time, WHOEVER IT WAS, I LOVE YOU because I'm terrible and blow my money on fancy sparrows from EververseMy sister and I also ( Read more... )

I'm still alive! I swear! Just - staring at Yuletide treats in despair and getting started on my cookie baking and trying to squeeze in as many sparrow races as I can. Also, I have to kill the Shield Brothers WITH A SHOTGUN? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE, TEX MECHANICA. WHY DO YOU ACTUALLY WANT GUARDIANS PERMADEAD.

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... holidays make me bad at posting, I guess? ANY EXCUSE NOT TO POST. SORRY. Anyway, we had a very excellent Thanksgiving down at my sister and sister-in-law's new place, which I must say looks even better with furniture. XD They are temporarily taking care of a sad little dog who showed up on their porch nearly starved to death (seriously, ( Read more... )

Well, the usual holiday busyness has certainly been keeping me - uh - busy! So I have not really had time to read nearly as much Yuletide fic as I want, but I would like to take this moment to blanket rec all the Imperial Radch fics (SHIP FEELINGS! SEIVARDEN!) and both of the 2001: A Space Odyssey fics, but ESPECIALLY "Aubade," which is fucking ( Read more... )

AND TO ALL A MERRY YULETIDE FILLED WITH THE BEST MARATHON FIC OF ALL TIME. SERIOUSLY, IT'S THE BEST MARATHON FIC I HAVE READ, I AM HUMBLED.

Also Yuletide Madness got revealed and eeeeeeeee I got this beautiful little Tisarwat drabble and it's so great and painful, OH TISARWAT. ;o; YULETIDE: SUCCESSFULLY BRINGING ME GLORIOUS FIC YET AGAIN ( Read more... )

Family Christmas party the first has successfully been pulled off! ... two days ago, but eh, it's the holidays, you're not really expecting much out of me before Yuletide reveals, are you? XD Life has been going very pleasantly but also very busily, and as there is another Christmas party to pull off tomorrow (with Star Wars Trivial Pursuit and ( Read more... )