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I hit Price Chopper while I was downtown. Yes, again. My meal plans got rearranged due to Pip’s toothache. I already had the pork chops in the oven when he got home yesterday, so there was no changing that, but I decided to do French toast (which he had requested one day) because it should be easy for him to eat. I was not prepared with enough bread in the house, or bacon. o_O

I did two loads of laundry, hand-washed dishes, emptied the dishwasher, went for several walks with Pip/the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and showered. I also wrote out checks for the property tax (personal and LLC).

I read more fanfic and watched Wild Cards and an ep of House Hunters International. Zoo Tampa was my background tv.

I had more stomach issues today. ( cutting for the gross details )

Temps started out at 7.2(F) (and actually went up a bit to 7.5 before I left the house) and reached 23.2. The lows for the next three nights (including tonight) are supposed to be below zero. *shivers* DNW!! There was sun again today, which was nice.

Speaking of DNW, it appears that the N’oreaster this weekend might miss us this far inland? I hope that continues to be the case. Looks like Boston is going to get hit hard again. (As well as North Carolina, so stay safe down there!)

Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay when I visited. She had some protein drink just before I got there and I made her an egg with cheese for lunch. (One egg with cheese filled her to almost uncomfortable. I can’t believe just how small her stomach is. I know they took about 1/3 of it, and that by not eating it’s probably shrunk even farther, and yet I’m still surprised by it.) I also took her some of the steamed butternut squash chunks so she could do with it as she wished. (I’m sure I would have put too much butter and or brown sugar on it for her taste.)

While I was there she got a phone call from my brother’s long-term GF’s (they’ve been together since high school, so a couple years longer than Pip and I have been together) mother. This woman was a year ahead of my mom in high school and they were never friends, and even just acquaintances after R & T got together, but she recently asked if it would be okay if she called. It sounded like they had a good conversation.

My mom mentioned that my brother calls her every night, which is nice. She also told me she was expecting my aunt and uncle tomorrow morning.

I wrote out a check for her and put it back in the mail.

Sister A and Ian had just arrived when I was talking to her in the evening and she told me that her BFF had been there in the afternoon after I left, so she had some nice company today.

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30. In 1873, Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne was published in France. Have you read the book or seen any of the films?

No I have read this but I did watch the movie. Many years ago. Did everyone read the book? What did you think of it?

cornerofmadness

But this has too much ice for me. They warned us they couldn't get all the ice off. Let it be known NO ice/snow had been removed from the handicapped lot in and in front of the building was a literal rink. Another coworker was out and he walked in with me in case I couldn't do it (No issues0

The heaters are broken so the rooms are icy.

When I left at five all the feet had taken off the snow. It was a bare ice floe. I could barely walk to the car. I texted my coworker and said end your lab. You'll never make it in the dark. I called off for tomorrow. I missed Wednesday's lab might as well miss both.

That'll get me down to Gallipolis earlier so I can hit the library and lunch before my mammogram.

community recs just remember

halfamoon, the prompts are up, let's celebrate the ladies of fandom

and

fandomtrumpshate is up and running. Auction off your skills, help people. Fandom helping people is a great thing. I need to get my offer in.

Rocket made me laugh. He wanted out this morning. I opened the door. That -5 F (-21C) air hit him, he dropped to his belly, scuttled backwards and used his litter box. Yeah I thought so.

Current Mood: nervous

pattrose

Snowflake Challenge 15: How did it go?

I had a great deal of fun. I agree with others that posting the daily prompts late, it slowed me down. But I had a wonderful time. I met a lot of new people, learned much about fandoms I'm not used to and enjoyed all of the challenges. I think we should have one in July. Hahaha. It was that fun.

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Fandom: MCU (but you don't need to have any MCU knowledge for this)

Characters/Pairings: Sam Wilson/Riley

Rating & Warnings: T (more PG than PG-13), slash, no other warnings

Estimated Fic Length: Currently around 1k. I do plan to write a bit more but definitely nothing over 10k.

Notes: It's a pre-canon, canon-divergence story that is really a world-building excuse, so I don't necessarily need a beta with MCU knowledge, though it'd be a bonus. I'd love to find someone to talk with about flow and just to help me structure it out! No need for much grammar beta-ing, more big-picture. I'm not looking for anything too time-intensive, if that's a concern.

Right now it's a bunch of vignettes, and I'd appreciate help grounding it in a solid story!

Thanks!
Arella

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kalloway, I agree! SPRING TIME NOW!

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Posted by selenite0

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78550371

by selenite0

Garibaldi discovers police work is more complicated when he encounters a legend.

Words: 1163, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Babylon 5 (TV 1993), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: Gen
Characters: Michael Garibaldi, Susan Ivanova, Zack Allan, Brother Theo (Babylon 5)
Additional Tags: Murder, Capital Punishment, Vampires

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78550371

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Had some Three Gardens tea. Yesterday I got a message from the fools who run this apt bldg that they're going to be replacing the lighting fixtures sometime between 8 and 5 from 2/4 to 2/13, so I have to get up and take a shower, get dressed, etc. before 8 for all 9 of those days because I do not want those people barging in when I'm not dressed or something. What a pain in the ass. I like to sleep late and anyway most of the light fixtures work fine.

Current Music: the Rolling Stones

cypresssunn

The nurse's candlelight vigil for Alex Pretti was a lot. Bone chillingly cold. My candle kept blowing out in the wind. The speeches were amazing. The humanity and community felt real and strong and clear. And there was bag pipes playing amazing grace, which kinda took me out. I just found it funny in a way that felt inappropriate for such a somber event. idk, idk. The brass band was amazing. Like something out of Louisiana. They played this little light of mine and I got a little choked up.

The vigil wasn't even originally going to be held at the site of his execution. Originally, it was going to be at the VA hospital. But we learned that the federal police were planning on arresting anyone who showed up for unlawful assembly on federal property. The crime has a sentence of up to six months in jail, or so I've learned. Part of me is angry enough that I wish we had gone, just to dare them to try it. But I know that isn't helpful. Its just me being emotional. But thats all I am these days.

I should focus on the things that help. I'm reconnecting with friends irl. fellow nurses who feel as angry and determined as i do. and the vigil made it clear that that feeling is everywhere. there were chants and calls to action. Over and over we screamed Alex's name. Rene Good's. Keith Porter's.

And someone had a sign. I never saw it, but the last speech referred to it. It read, don't worry Alex, we'll take it from here.

Tomorrow I'm going to a small training to be more helpful to the people risking their necks in our cities. I won't say more about it. Its probably a bad idea to share as much as I do. & I'm a middle child millennial. I know oversharing on the internet is stupid. But I just want to be useful. Even if feeling happy or okay right now feels so fucking impossible.

Wish me luck.

cypresssunn

Challenge #15:
How Did the Fandom Snowflake Challenge Go? Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Well, Chat. Gonna be honest, I can't say the snowflake challenge went well. I certainly tried. But only I completed half the challenges, and skipped over quite a few. and my imaginary self imposed time limit in my neurotic brain matters more than the freestyle set up of the challenge, so don't even remind me I can backtrack. I know I didn't make enough of an effort to engage with other people's journals. I didn't leave comments or reach out or try to make friends. Overall I'm beat and kicking myself. I feel like a drag. & this year was supposed to be different.

And it is, technically? Last January the cities weren't being occupied by masked kidnapping gunmen. So there's that.

But I didn't give my goal my best effort. Sure, I'm using my journal again. But not like I wanted to. Escapism just doesn't feel like much of an option for now. Or it doesn't feel like something I have a right too.

I'm tired from protests. And I'm tired of vigils. Tired of not feeling helpful to myself or anyone else.

Guess the best thing I can say is, I want to shake this off? I want to keep trying to post come February, March, ect. And maybe I will try not to guilt myself for all the dumb things I daydream and wish I could write in a better world that was safer and freer than this one.

Current Mood: depressed

trobadora

Turns out I do have a cold! But my next exchange deadline is on Saturday.

Today's writing

Writing! Wrangling! All of that. I'll get there ...

Tally

( Days 1-25 )

Day 26:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 27:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

shadaras,

sylvanwitch,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 28:

badly_knitted,

brithistorian,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

goddess47,

luzula,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 29:

trobadora

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Remember that there is no official deadline, so feel free to join in at any time, or go back and do challenges you've missed.

( Fandom Snowflake Challenge #15 ) And please do check out the comments for all the awesome participants of the challenge and visit their journals/challenge responses to comment on their posts and cheer them on.

And just as a reminder: this is a low pressure, fun challenge. If you aren't comfortable doing a particular challenge, then don't. We aren't keeping track of who does what.

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Best Medicine: I enjoyed this ep better than last week’s. ( spoilers )

Wild Cards: Good ep. ( spoilers )

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

summerstorm

I can't remember if it was January 26 or 27, but either way, I'm three years sober? I can't believe I've been on bupropion for three years, is the weirder part. I've been playing ttrpgs for that long! Wild.

My Pathfinder 2e adventure path actually ended (ish) this week -- we beat the BBEG of Age of Ashes in a really tough fight that didn't draw out as much as I expected, but I definitely threw everything I had at it, hero points, focus points, high level spell slots, expensive potions (to fly over the acid pool), the one single-target nonspecified damage spell I learned ages ago for no particular reason and never used because Kauri is a druid and leans elemental (Disintegrate), just. Everything. And I got the killing blow with a Pulverizing Cascade, which was really cool because it's the one water spell Kauri has continued to use even once we hit the level where we get 6th rank spells and I stopped using Hydraulic Push and Crashing Wave so often. Even after that, I flavored all my cold spells as drawing moisture from the air, so it's been a whole thing and it's nicely thematic. We'll see what we need to wrap up beyond that this Friday, but we handled pretty much everything else beforehand, so I will be making a character (or two?) for Season of Ghosts soon. I'll miss my baby though.

Fantasy High (the campaign I'm in, not the D20 series) also wrapped up its freshman year quest this past weekend, in session 50 just to be extra satisfying. We went to hell! And then to Annwn. I'm excited to see what

yarnofariadne does for our next quest, and what she continues to do with the Celtic mythology theme I dropped on her, if anything.

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As far as my personal life, I'm... okay? Low on money, like my mom is gonna have to actually ask her sister or I'm gonna have to ask online for help with the electric bill low, but what else is new. I finally found the missing package from Springfield today; ( the ordeal )

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Anyway. I'm gonna go back to my DungeonFog tutorials. I was hoping to make a little battlemap for the last session of my Friday group's Christmas Adventure, not sure if I'll manage that, but at least I'm getting through the tutorials. Don't think I've ever approached a thing this way but hopefully it will help with the feeling of 'oh god what do I do with this interface,' even if I picked the map maker that felt closer to what I'm used to. It certainly feels like the Correct Thing to do, like reading the manual before you fuck with stuff. But I have always been too impatient.

Have also been doing jigsaw puzzles and I sorted my sister's Arkham Horror puzzle last night, so I can fall back on that if the spoons really are gone. I try not to get started on the jigsaw puzzles before 8 PM because I'm very bad at stopping. I finished my previous one at 12:30 AM on Sunday with Ciri rolling over it and not letting me see the empty slots I had left. It was a fun extra challenge. I really love that puzzle to pieces, though. I'm very frustrated that I can't figure who got me it, but it was on my wishlist Christmas 2024 and I spent all of 2025 stuck on that one lady with the horse (really stuck on puzzling at all, I enjoyed the puzzle once I got started).

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Puzzling has allowed me to watch The Pitt as it's airing so far (unsure on new doctor, love Mel to pieces, love the new nurse, love Mohan always and forever) and almost catch up on 9-1-1 -- I'm up to the second episode of S9. Honestly, puzzling while watching some of those S8 episodes made it more bearable, and then I locked in to enjoy Seismic Shifts because I do love me a good fictional disaster. I need to post some Buck/Eddie recs for

spikedluv at some point, I said I would for holiday_wishes and I've got a few but I want to list a couple more.

(As an aside... when did we embrace the portmanteaus, and why? It feels so wrong to use them. So fucking wrong. But they're so widespread that it also feels weird to use the normal slash form for pairings! What IS up with that, god.)

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Oh, I posted some photos of my planner decor~

journalsandplanners here if anyone is interested! Still figuring out the day-a-page format. This page is my favorite so far, and I've gone through like, all my pens and markers to figure out what works for headings like that and doesn't bleed like a motherfucker. (There are some markers that are the perfect color but holy shit you can see them through TWO whole pages. And they're decent paper!)

Anyway. Happy Thursday! Hope things are going well for all y'all. <3

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