where i fail at life...
I just sent another 'i'll take this one' claim to a yuletide pinch hit. God, stop me someone!!!! I haven't started my assignment yet! I keep writing sad, depressing Stiles/Peter fics. Yes, I'm making progress on my hurt/comfort bingo card, but that's not due till December 31st.
Yuletide's due Sunday, dudes!
GAH!
And Sunday is basically shot. Between Solstice, Chiefs and family dinner, I might have about ninety minutes to write.
GAH!
Have not received confirmation yet so maybe I didn't get it... ETA still have not received confirmation so probably didn't get it.
Did talk to brother this morning. I have no idea why he always calls me on my work phone from his work phone. Anyway, he told me what he's sent for mom and dad. I got a couple things yesterday and might have more waiting today. He just ordered some stuff from Amazon today for dad so that should come by Saturday.
I hit up World Market for a gold or yellow candle for Solstice. No dice. Silver, orange, no gold or yellow. I ended up with half price wrapping paper and tissue (I am actually almost out of tissue; did not need wrapping paper but I noticed a distinct lack of red in my collection and I like to wrap everything in different paper--yes, I'm weird--and balance the colors; I have a lot of blue). So I trotted two doors down to Michael's and got two more rolls of wrapping paper which I didn't need and a gold candle with glitter on it! And a gold tray to put it one. I also got a silver glitter candle and silver leaf ring thing to go around it it for my house which is very silver, black and white for Christmas because, again, I'm weird. Remember last week when I couldn't find anywhere that sold the leafy things that go around candles?
Should have gone to Michael's.
What was amazing was that everything was way marked down apparently with no signs telling me that. The candles and the tray were around $10 a piece. I got everything for under $14.
Choir was small but went well last night. We're singing songs we've sung before for Solstice and Christmas Eve. And Christmas Eve service is coming together. The other Worship Associate grabbed people at dinner last night to recruit them to read. *g* I hate recruiting, so yay.
Just heard back about Solstice finally from the person who I really needed to hear from, and we have a second reader. Still need a chalice lighter and a third reader as her husband is reluctant, but dad can always fill in. So I should be able to draft a pretty complete Order of Service in the morning.
Now let's hope we don't get six inches of snow on Sunday. That was the original forecast but now it's like freezing rain tomorrow night into Saturday (which sucks) and then we're down to 20% chance of snow. Now there's a slim chance for snow on Christmas Day. Whatevs. The weather people suck. They can't get anything right.
After work today I head to the other side of town to drop off goodies and then tonight I really have to write (after distributing packages under the tree as mom is supposed to be dropping them off at my house since she was wobbly yesterday and didn't go to choir and drop them off then). No NFL tonight. I guess I'll put on the Duke/UCLA game. Texas beat North Carolina on Carolina's home floor, yay! I did tape and watch it after choir. Well, had it on while wrapping. Oh and I do have new tv tonight--White Collar.
The hit counts are really dropping on my Peter/Stiles stories. Not sure why. But the comments in proportion to hits are going up, especially on the abortion story which has a comment for every one hundred hits. All positive, thankfully.
I've gotta do something about this itchy, dry skin elbow, start using lotion or something. It's been driving me nuts for weeks. Thankfully I have rounded fingernails or I'd be clawing my skin off.
Dar got the kids' prezzies, yay! I have one more package to send for Wishlist--need to go to the basement and find some old cassette tapes and then test them. Should do that tonight, too. I hate the basement.
Brother and nephew will not be coming to meatloaf dinner and KU game on the 30th as one of nephew's Christmas presents is tickets to the game. But I'll get to spend time with them (they're only here two days) as I'm not working. I'll probably go over to the parents' after my doctor's appointment on the 30th and spend the afternoon there until I have to head home and make meatloaf.
I love meatloaf. Well, I love our family meatloaf which actually combines the two in the old gold Better Homes & Garden cookbook from the 1960s. I really don't like any other meatloaf.
Boss is at court this morning. I have pretty much nothing to do, though I need to file away the piles of closed files so that his son can then rotate them out of file drawers into boxes. We only keep about the last six years here.
Probably should do something productive...
Yuletide's due Sunday, dudes!
GAH!
And Sunday is basically shot. Between Solstice, Chiefs and family dinner, I might have about ninety minutes to write.
GAH!
Have not received confirmation yet so maybe I didn't get it... ETA still have not received confirmation so probably didn't get it.
Did talk to brother this morning. I have no idea why he always calls me on my work phone from his work phone. Anyway, he told me what he's sent for mom and dad. I got a couple things yesterday and might have more waiting today. He just ordered some stuff from Amazon today for dad so that should come by Saturday.
I hit up World Market for a gold or yellow candle for Solstice. No dice. Silver, orange, no gold or yellow. I ended up with half price wrapping paper and tissue (I am actually almost out of tissue; did not need wrapping paper but I noticed a distinct lack of red in my collection and I like to wrap everything in different paper--yes, I'm weird--and balance the colors; I have a lot of blue). So I trotted two doors down to Michael's and got two more rolls of wrapping paper which I didn't need and a gold candle with glitter on it! And a gold tray to put it one. I also got a silver glitter candle and silver leaf ring thing to go around it it for my house which is very silver, black and white for Christmas because, again, I'm weird. Remember last week when I couldn't find anywhere that sold the leafy things that go around candles?
Should have gone to Michael's.
What was amazing was that everything was way marked down apparently with no signs telling me that. The candles and the tray were around $10 a piece. I got everything for under $14.
Choir was small but went well last night. We're singing songs we've sung before for Solstice and Christmas Eve. And Christmas Eve service is coming together. The other Worship Associate grabbed people at dinner last night to recruit them to read. *g* I hate recruiting, so yay.
Just heard back about Solstice finally from the person who I really needed to hear from, and we have a second reader. Still need a chalice lighter and a third reader as her husband is reluctant, but dad can always fill in. So I should be able to draft a pretty complete Order of Service in the morning.
Now let's hope we don't get six inches of snow on Sunday. That was the original forecast but now it's like freezing rain tomorrow night into Saturday (which sucks) and then we're down to 20% chance of snow. Now there's a slim chance for snow on Christmas Day. Whatevs. The weather people suck. They can't get anything right.
After work today I head to the other side of town to drop off goodies and then tonight I really have to write (after distributing packages under the tree as mom is supposed to be dropping them off at my house since she was wobbly yesterday and didn't go to choir and drop them off then). No NFL tonight. I guess I'll put on the Duke/UCLA game. Texas beat North Carolina on Carolina's home floor, yay! I did tape and watch it after choir. Well, had it on while wrapping. Oh and I do have new tv tonight--White Collar.
The hit counts are really dropping on my Peter/Stiles stories. Not sure why. But the comments in proportion to hits are going up, especially on the abortion story which has a comment for every one hundred hits. All positive, thankfully.
I've gotta do something about this itchy, dry skin elbow, start using lotion or something. It's been driving me nuts for weeks. Thankfully I have rounded fingernails or I'd be clawing my skin off.
Dar got the kids' prezzies, yay! I have one more package to send for Wishlist--need to go to the basement and find some old cassette tapes and then test them. Should do that tonight, too. I hate the basement.
Brother and nephew will not be coming to meatloaf dinner and KU game on the 30th as one of nephew's Christmas presents is tickets to the game. But I'll get to spend time with them (they're only here two days) as I'm not working. I'll probably go over to the parents' after my doctor's appointment on the 30th and spend the afternoon there until I have to head home and make meatloaf.
I love meatloaf. Well, I love our family meatloaf which actually combines the two in the old gold Better Homes & Garden cookbook from the 1960s. I really don't like any other meatloaf.
Boss is at court this morning. I have pretty much nothing to do, though I need to file away the piles of closed files so that his son can then rotate them out of file drawers into boxes. We only keep about the last six years here.
Probably should do something productive...