I posted the last two chapters of The Next Level (my Yuri on Ice 300K fanfic), as well as the unfinished epilogue as a bonus, a few minutes ago. I've known for a while that I've lost interest in writing fanfic - which is fine! Everyone has phases - but it's only in the last few weeks that I've realized that I've also lost interest in participating ( Read more... )

 Well, darn.

So the current To-Do on my writing list is to write a first draft of what I'm hoping will be a Passover romance. And since today's November 1 (and thus, NaNoWriMo), I figured I'd go ahead and sign up for it and see how I do.

Except... apparently NaNo has decided to completely revamp their website, and in doing so, has basically taken ( Read more... )

 Andrew has the entire week off school, partially because Nov 1 is a major holiday in Poland. The school decided to combine the day off they'd give students anyway with a fall break, thus one full week.

In addition, both boys got the flu shot last Wednesday, and Charlie's still breaking out in inconvenient low-grade fevers. He missed half a day on ( Read more... )

 1. So our house is Warsaw is possibly the largest house I have ever or will ever live in. It's four storeys with five bedrooms, a spacious but not overly large yard, and a two-car garage of the variety where it is one very long room that is one car wide, so you block one car when you park both cars. Luckily, we are only going to have one car here ( Read more... )

 One of my favorite things about living overseas is the grocery stores. Food and the art of its preparation is such a cultural thing, and no matter how much you might enjoy a certain culture's cuisine, it's always going to have been reinterpreted for the local audience. The food I ate in China was wildly different from Chinese take-out in the ( Read more... )

We finally got to see Avengers: Endgame this week, because the movie theaters have been running 24 hours during Ramadan (or close to). Bill had the day off because of Memorial Day, but as it's an American holiday and not an LoL one, the kids still had school. A neighbor offered to make sure they got there on time, so Bill and I were able to go to ( Read more... )

 I should not want to go to IKEA as badly as I do, considering we're supposed to be moving in a few more months. But I keep finding reasons to go, mostly in terms of organizational items. At the moment I'm sifting through paperwork, and realizing how much of this could be filed away in manila envelopes and boxes and you know who would probably have ( Read more... )

 This morning I went grocery shopping. It was incredibly nice to be able to hop into the car and drive there myself, without having to arrange a driver or schedule it down to the minute. If living in the LoL has taught me nothing else, it's never to take that ability for granted again. I still can't do it every day - Bill needs the car to get to ( Read more... )

 I deleted Tumblr and Twitter from my phone yesterday. It occurred to me that I hardly use Tumblr anymore, and every time I open Twitter I end up just being discouraged and less interested in writing. Neither app was giving me much joy (ack, shades of Marie Kondo), and thus off they went.

I can still access them from the computer - I haven't ( Read more... )

 Just in case anyone was wondering, it is entirely possible to have too many cupcakes. I lost count of how many there are (but there are at least 4 full batches plus a few extra) and there are three different frostings and I have to make another frosting for the actual 3-D dinosaur cake after the kids go to bed.

I am very, very tired of frosting. I ( Read more... )