- My long black wool coat, which I wore literally until it fell apart, fell apart this morning. Sigh. At least it is finally warming up? A little? The blue wool coat is too heavy for 40-50 degree days, which is where we are now, so my blue jacket will have to suffice. But I loved that coat. It fit well and was roomy enough to wear a fleecy and a ( Read more... )

Five random things on Friday afternoon:

a. I realized I'd miscalculated and only had enough lettuce for four days of lunch salads. I still have croutons, cranberries, cheese, and cashews walnuts (the alliteration was working there for a minute), but no more romaine. So I had an everything bagel with scallion cream cheese and it sure was tasty ( Read more... )

You know, I've lived at my current address for nearly 15 years(!!!) and for the most part, Amazon, via FedEx, UPS, and the USPS, has never had a hard time finding me. Until this week. Suddenly packages are being "rerouted" after being sent to the wrong facility(!?) or they've been delivered "to my mailbox" when in fact they 1. wouldn't fit in the ( Read more... )

The world spins madly, terribly on, and I hope you all are keeping safe while engaging in what resistance you can.


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So I posted a story last evening:

No Exit (@ AO3)
Star Wars; Darth Vader/Ahsoka Tano; adult; 2,525 words
Ahsoka promised not to leave him again and Vader was going to hold her to it.Contains nonconsensual and highly dubiously consensual sex, inappropriate uses of the Force, and nonconsensual breathplay (i.e., Force choking ( Read more... )

Cold and drizzly and meh, which, you know, don't get me wrong, I'll take drizzly and in the 40s over sunny and in the single digits, despite how poorly I respond to the lack of sunlight, but meh. It just underlines that the holidays are over (unless you live in a place that celebrates Epiphany) and it's back to the daily grind and so begins the ( Read more... )

So after being tempted by this Darth Vader iPad case, I ended up ordering one that is much cheaper and will also give me the pink rose gold iPad experience I was denied by the rose gold not being available for the iPad Air 2. We'll see what it looks like when it arrives. (I could not, alas, find anything I liked with the Nightwing symbol on it, ( Read more... )

I met up with L and M for a late lunch/early dinner this afternoon, and it was so nice to talk to people who are really supportive of my writing, even if it is not necessarily their thing. L's been a cheerleader for me since the XMM days (SIXTEEN YEARS JESUS H. CHRIST HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?) despite not being in fandom and M is a published novelist ( Read more... )

So I bought myself this really cute* (and super marked down) Kate Spade tote bag and I'm using it today (since it is very summery and there's not a lot of summer left *sob*) and unfortunately, while it's a cute, capacious bag, it is not well configured for me. The zipper goes the wrong way (when I'm using a tote bag, I want to be able to unzip from ( Read more... )

I am coming to you live from my new 13" MacBook Pro, which I have decided to name BB-8, because it is small and cute. The old 15" MacBook Pro (aka Alexander III) is a true workhorse of a machine, but I just couldn't deal with the mostly non-working trackpad anymore, or the amount of time it took to open and save files and various other things that ( Read more... )