I meant to write something about how I haven't managed to save any of my pay since Christmas because I keep making large purchases, and that's okay because they are investments in things that will carry me through if I have another big employment gap. I think this is what you are getting on the subject. I bought a smartphone, and I'll be getting ( Read more... )

I had/am having a great Christmas. It is great to be here with my family, especially my nephews. They got me a "Star Wars Guy" for Christmas - a Finn figure, literally the last one in the store. we watched A New Hope with them a few days ago and it was great ( Read more... )

A month ago, Jess Zimmerman posted an article on The Toast titled 'Where's My Cut?": On Unpaid Emotional Labour'.

In response to that article, there was a huuuuuuuuuuuge conversation on metafilter - I have literally been reading it in bits and pieces all week ( Read more... )

I have been sick since Friday. I thought I was better today, but I am not. I have been eating and tolerating more food, at least, which feels like improvement, but I am still very low energy

I'd wanted to do a bunch of writing on Friday but lacked the brainpower. Instead, on
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I currently have 282 works archived at AO3.

Pick a number from 1-282, with 1 being the most recent and 282 being the first posted, and I will tell you three things I currently like about that story.

Things I did today:

Write a short, silly, Hannibal/Blue's Clue's crossover.

Sew a bunch more lithics onto a felt-covered peg board.

Knit many rows on my socks durin my bus commute.

Buy timbits.

Have homemade pizza rolls for dinner. Eat too many pizza rolls.

Eat a homemade popscicle out of a bowl because it broke.

Pretty good day, all told

I'm doing another Alphabet Drabble challenge over at my writing journal... Please look and leave me prompts!

on LJ|on DW

My nights are not being any less disturbed. Saturday night the dogs got sprayed by a skunk. Sunday night it was too humid for me to sleep, and I got up to help one of the kids (Nugsy) at 4:00 and it took a while to get him back to sleep. Last night, there was an EPIC THUNDERSTORM with very loud, close thunder. One of the dogs (Sierra) was ( Read more... )

There is an interesting meme going around which asks for Ten things that you think are common in your fic, Ten things you think are uncommon in your fic although commonly found in fic in general, and Ten things you wish were more true of your fic. I posted my answers over on my writing journal, if anyone is curious!

On LJ | On DWI am chilling out ( Read more... )

The other awesome thing in life currently is that it is Jukebox time of year!


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