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Still alive
Just letting online friends know that I’m safe and well away from danger zones. My area was mildly menaced earlier, but we are into the wet season now so fires are unlikely to take hold again the way they’re doing down south.
These bushfires are crazy, unprecedented things, and all the more horrifying for the fact that two of my Facebook ( Read more... ) -
Going well
Look, it's me! *resurrects momentarily*
Life has been... pretty darn good recently.
So the first medication I tried had intolerable side-effects, the second one had nasty side effects for a while, which became manageable after a few weeks and have since essentially cleared up. I am on a moderate dose of Zoloft (sertraline) and apparently (in ( Read more... ) -
Public Service Announcement
Back up your data, my sweets.
If you lost your main storage of your most precious data right this minute, how much could you reconstruct? No really, how much would be just gone? Poof! It could happen to you! Or anyone! Even me!
In related news, after a very stressful day, I think I have managed to miraculously piece together MOST of the family ( Read more... ) -
Start of the School Year
So, holidays are over and we're into a new school year. Kind of. Term started with Monday and Tuesday pupil free, and Friday was is a public holiday. So, two days. Not so much of a first week, but still.
Eldest is having the expected anxiety spasms over the whole thing. We had a special meet and greet with the teacher the day before, just him ( Read more... ) -
2017 In Summary
So, what a year!
I wrote. Not a lot, but I didn't stop, and I haven't broken my fan flashworks streak, even though sometimes it's been... difficult. I've been writing more original poetry, which is, if not high in literary merit, then at least something non-fanfic, and a way of getting out things that mean something to me. And one actual ( Read more... ) -
Hell's Bells and Buckets of Blood
Last night was... a night.
Was snuggled up with Hubby after all the jobs were done, watching Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (my new favourite Netflix show, highly recommended, awesome female-led cast, and YES a thirties murder mystery set in Australia is every bit as weird for us as it is for anyone international), when I decided to check that the ( Read more... ) -
The Ablutions of Sherlock Holmes
Parents-in-law brought me a present when they came back from an overseas trip. It's possible they know me a LITTLE too well...
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Welcome to Mystery
My incredibly talented niece has made a fanvid.
Go. Watch. Be amazed and inspired by all the wonderful things that inspire us all.
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Not asbestos!
The test results have come back: our eaves are asbestos, as we knew, but the unknown identical looking material the boys were playing with from the neighbor's yard is NOT.
Hoorah hoorah HOORAY!!!! What a complete fucking relief.
Comments welcome on the original post on Dreamwidth - there are
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... well now I'm a little offended.
I was talking to Hubby about my latest story, which gives Mary's perspective on John and Sherlock's reunion in The Empty Hearse, and he said to me--said these actual words!--"So, why is Mary even interested in John at all? I mean, he's just a mildly incompetent sidekick..."
*splutters*
*splutters some more*
*can't even*
In other news, first prompt of ( Read more... )
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