Woke up Monday morning to find four inches of snow had fallen! The yard and street looked utterly magical and sparkly, as I headed out to work. My first day back since I took my mental health break from work, and it felt good to get back to the place. And I dove in at the deep end, as it were: everyone who'd likely gone north for the long weekend ( Read more... )

Got a few days to catch up on, and so I'll try to keep it short, hitting the high points ( Read more... )

Took this week off from work at the day job (plus my dad is taking a few days off this week as well), sort of a breather before the storm that runs from mid-November through to New Year's Day/Inventory Sunday. I felt I needed the time to work on my writing and to work on a few other things around the house. Didn't have a lot of energy, due to That ( Read more... )

Short entry today, as I had a crazy busy day (often, it seems, I get all the things to do at once, with little recourse for a break). Work this morning/early afternoon, and the autumn things came in, in earnest; good weather for it: the air felt cool and crisp this morning, and the sun felt less powerful than it has. Had my first pumpkins of the ( Read more... )

Mardi Gras today, so when I went to work, I wore some gold, green and purple beads that I'd got at the dollar store. People loved it: some asked me if I'd ever gone to New Orleans at Mardi Gras ("Not yet, though it's on my bucket list of places to go and things to do!"), one lady told me about how she went during Mardi Gras to visit a friend who's ( Read more... )

And the temps plummeted today: went out to get the mail and the wind bit into me something fierce. A welcome feeling: it finally felt like winter ( Read more... )

Uploaded my first ever video that I'd film with Nyarlathotep the Kindle. Not my first video, as I'd briefly managed to get the web camera on the laptop to work, but this is the first time I filmed something whilst using a purely mobile device.

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Thursday: Errand-running and laundry. Picking up the paycheck, also buying a few groceries and doing some ( Read more... )

Wind and rain and lightning and thunder all night last night: perfect soundtrack for reading spooky stories, not so much for sleeping, as the thunder kept waking me up. I could put my head under the covers and block out the lightning that kept flickering around the edges of the window shades, but that didn't do much to muffle the thunder ( Read more... )

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Busy, busy day today. Finished cleaning the bathroom before heading out to work this afternoon ( Read more... )