Yeah, it’s New Year’s Eve here still, but it’s time for an update, I think. Please excuse my tone; I’m feeling really down at the moment. 2024 was painful, in more ways than one. I had surgery in March to remove all the reproductive plumbing (growing fibroids had filled the unused spaces and were clinging on the outside.) Then I loom knitted two really nice afghans within four months. One was a commission from my mother-in-law and the other was…
And it is a busy one! I’ve got several projects going at once, most of them still in progress or not even started! On top of that, I have a wound in my foot for which I’m under weekly treatment. For a while, that meant an actual cast with a protective boot so I could stay mobile. It was… problematic, to say the least. (I have no house elves or brownies to help with the housework.) I’ve been upgraded to…
True story time! On my way to pick up the hubby yesterday and I noticed the woman in the car behind mine at the stoplight taking a picture. I have a “Cat Moms Vote” magnet on the back of the car and I think, “Why is she taking a picture? Is it the magnet?” I live in a deep red district of South Carolina, so this could be good or bad. At the next stoplight, she takes another picture. I…
Not for me. Not this year, anyway. As a former ML (Municipal Liaison), I’ve heard a lot about what’s been going on since last November’s challenge. I stepped back earlier this year because of burnout but had full intentions of participating in November. But… things have changed. Too many things. I’m soured on the current iteration of the organization and, truthfully, can’t see how it will make it past this November. If you want to know more, check out nanoscandal.com.
Some of you may know that I live in the northwest corner of South Carolina. Well, a hurricane came through about 10 days ago. She hit us hard — not as bad as Western North Carolina — but hard enough to cause flooding, uproot trees, and leave us in the dark for a week. Even now, my cable company is still working on restoring service to the area. (I’m using my phone’s hotspot on my tablet to write this. Its…
In about twelve hours it will be official: Hubby and I will be well on our way to becoming empty-nesters. The Girl and Son #2 have been occupying the other two bedrooms since our move here in 2000. (Son #1 moved out for university and never looked back. He now returns for short visits.) They are both adults, well past the age that Hubby and I were when we married. A few months ago, the Girl rescued a mama cat…
While shopping at Aldi today, I met a young woman with purple hair. Now, I’ve dyed my hair a dark blue and have kept it up since late May, so when I complimented her choice of color, she responded in kind. I also noticed a tattoo on her right forearm and asked what it was. She held up her arm for me to see. It was a tattoo of the moon, lined up in its phases. “Wow! You recognized it!…
One good thing about editing an old fanfic is finding the mistakes you never knew you’d made. For example, in order to tie a vignette in Burning Muses to Serendipity, I had John Tracy say something about his father visiting him… while he was supposedly on the International Space Station! Uh, no. That doesn’t happen, even if Jeff Tracy is a retired astronaut. What was I thinking? Now I have to figure out which darling to kill: the call out…
Yes, it’s well past time I did this. I’m editing my older fanfics for posting here and, eventually, at AO3, starting with Serendipity. This means I get to show off the pencil fanart done back in the day by my friend, MathGirl. I’m also looking at my all-but-abandoned WIPs with an eye to continuing/finishing them. Chapter 28 of Overtures is on my plate next, I think, though I should reread the rest of the arc before I finish that. (Hence,…
Uh, yeah, it’s been more than five months since I last updated. *winces in embarrassment* It’s not that I haven’t come around lately; I’ve been keeping an eye on traffic and updating behind the scenes stuff as needed. If you pop in every so often, you’ll see I’ve been changing out the homepage’s background seasonally. I really haven’t had much to say, I guess. NaNoWriMo kicked my butt. Did the ML (Municipal Liaison or regional volunteer) gig again–this after my…
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