My niece has tested positive for Covid. She's vaxxed and boosted, but she has a heart condition, so everybody's moderately freaked. Her mother, my looney sister (there's one in every family), is not vaxxed. She's not an anti-vaxxer or Tr*mpist; no, this is her own peculiar life-long looniness, in which she imagines herself to be a frail flower ( Read more... )

Still writing, yikes! Just sent another 7K chapter of Identical romping to my trusty beta. *crossed fingers*

After three weeks of working from home, I have to go back to school on Tuesday. Both faculty and students are dropping like flies over there, and I'm not sure what the f*ck they're trying to prove, but I have to go. Fortunately, I'm pretty ( Read more... )

I'm up way too late, posting the first chapter of the last Identical story, because I'm on an obsessive tear. But it's up, and now I must have a cup of warm milk and sleep a little. :) *crossed fingers*

In good news, my nephew's symptoms were gone in a couple days. In bad news, he still hasn't been able to score a test, so we have no idea whether or not it was covid. No one else in the family has shown any symptoms, and it'll be two weeks come Wednesday. *crossed fingers* Hopefully we've dodged a bullet.

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One of my nephews has symptoms that MAY be covid, and of course there isn't a home test to be had for love nor money. So it'll be another Christmas of staying home, and my sister running Christmas dinners to everybody. It could be worse. Everybody's vaccinated. But covid fatique is most definitely a thing at this point.

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I'm working on the last scene of Snips -- a story I started in 2010. It is blowing my mind ever so slightly. *g* But the chapter should be ready for the beta treatment sometime tomorrow. The last scene is always difficult -- I always have trouble sticking the landing.

I've got an appointment for my booster shot set for Wednesday. Hopefully I'll get ( Read more... )

*waves* Is this thing still on? I think it was...2017 the last time I posted here. Truly in the before-times. I posted another chapter for Identical before dawn this morning. I've written more in the past couple weeks than I've written in a decade and I can't tell you how strange and wonderful that is. The urge to write again just came out of ( Read more... )

Thanks for all the kind comments. :) I picked up Cricket's ashes yesterday. Sasha has finally stopped looking for him and yowling (then getting into my lap and staring at me as if he were asking), which was breaking my heart. I find myself still looking for him, though. The past week has been rough. I'm home for spring break, which is both good ( Read more... )

I lost my cuddlebug today. He was the sweetest, most affectionate kitty I've ever known. He spent every moment he could purring in my lap. He would meet me at the door at the end of every day. I don't know what I'll do without my baby boy.


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A family of wild turkeys has fallen into the habit of visiting my patio to gobble up (heh heh) the leftover bird seed falling from the feeders. They cluck and gobble and scratch like extremely large chickens, and fascinate the hell out of the cats. I managed to get a picture of Darth Katie and one of the overlords having a staring contest.


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