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So today this happened.
Last night, I thought I smelled something weird, a very faint sour-ish odor that was too elusive to identify but wasn't dissipating. I actually started to think it was just my imagination and was walking around the house thinking... did I leave something out of the fridge? Has the milk gone bad? No ( Read more... ) -
I haven't been busy.
Not really, anyway. But I've been forced to confront the sad realization that at any given time in my life, I have three juggling balls: social interactions/family, health and writing. I can only keep two balls up in the air at the same time. I've tried doing all three and cannot sustain it for long periods. To be honest, most of the time I can ( Read more... ) -
Summertime...
I don't like to do a lot of hiking in summer. It's hot and humid and flying insects continually divebomb your eyes, ears and nose.
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Two bags of cough drops later...
I'm mostly okay now, except for an annoying, tickly cough that isn't fading quickly enough for me. If I never have to taste another strawberry menthol Halls again, that would be fine with me. On the other hand, this meant I finally had the time to watch The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies, which was a disappointment. It's not like I was expecting ( Read more... ) -
*snifflehonk*
I've got a nasty head cold and my sinuses are currently engaged in the Great Mucus Rebellion of 2015. It's slowly evolving to the coughing-up-a-lung stage, so I picked up a bag of cough drops only every cough drop has a motto on the wrapper. It's annoyingly cheery stuff like, "Show your strut", "Put your game face on", "Flex your 'can do' muscle" ( Read more... ) -
Oh noes...
I made a small error in judgement. It's been unseasonably warm and this is usually the time of year I get a hair cut and lose 3" of winter growth, rife with split ends. This time I got too much taken off. My hair usually falls past my shoulders; now it just brushes the tops of my shoulders and when I looked in the mirror... horrors! That is my ( Read more... ) -
It's just one of those things...
I keep meaning to post more and then I don't. Mostly because so few people are on here anymore and it feels redundant to do this and e-mail people. But on the other hand, there are people here I don't talk to via e-mail but I'd still like to keep in touch. LJ was so good for that... nowhere near as banal or klutzy as Facebook, but a nice way to ( Read more... ) -
Damn.
I kind of forgot that it was Easter, which is fine except that this means there are no chocolate eggs in the house. Nooooo! I love having small bits of chocolate wrapped in pastel colored foil that's easily disposed of so nobody really knows how many pieces I ate. *cough*
I got an e-mail about the Bring your friends back to LiveJournal! thing and ( Read more... ) -
We'll always have Ankh-Morpork...
Terry Pratchett and the Discworld series has been my go to comfort reading for a long time, especially when I need cheering up. He'll be missed.
"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in 10 minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all ( Read more... ) -
Oops.
I realized I forgot to mention that I'd actually finished my Winterfest fic by the free day deadline. Yay! So the entire thing is here:
Title: Fairytale of Chicago, Part One, Part Two (Labyrinth/Dresden Files)
Rating: G
Summary: Chicago's only professional wizard has landed an invitation to the most prestigious event in the Underground: the ( Read more... )
