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mildred_of_midgard ([personal profile] mildred_of_midgard) wrote2025-05-23 08:55 pm
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Mafia humor

My wife and stepdaughter have moved into their new apartment in Brazil, and although they are still in problem-solving mode, they're happy to finally have a place of their own.

I don't know if this requires too much context to be funny to anyone else, but I have to record yesterday's WhatsApp exchange for my own benefit:

Her: i was trying to eat a frozen meal and it was very bad
Her: i did defrost it, bf u ask
Me: 😂
Me: I'm sorry you're not in your new apartment and can't cook your own food yet!
Me: People should make food to your taste.
Her: i agree
Her: I'm going to have to order food
Her: sigh
Me: You have all my pity.
Me: My phone tried to complete that as "stuff," and I was like, "No, I have all YOUR stuff!" 😂
Her: lol
Her: you do, i left all my stuff for you ❤️
Her: honestly, trophy wife behavior
Her: you deal with this!
Me: That's what makes you a trophy wife, you don't have to deal with this!
Her: exactly
Me: A border collie is a working dog. A kea bird is an agent of chaos!
Her: I'm imagining we're like a Staten island couple, you're a mob boss and I'm the bimbo
Her: idk, pop culture reference
Me: I am okay with being the mob boss in this scenario!
Her: lol
Her: i guess we'd both be agents of chaos
Her: actually no, it's called organized crime
Her: you'd still be a border collie 😉
Me: 😂
Me: I accept this roleplay.
Her: I left for Sicily and now you have to get rid of all the fur coats and hair spray
Her: boxes and boxes
Her: idk, more fun than my craft junk lol
Me: If Make and Mend doesn't get back to us, do I get to break some kneecaps?
Her: lol
Her: I'm going to try Swanson Fabrics
Me: If you're in Sicily, do I get to import a bunch of lemons to Boston?
Her: oh yeah, a fuckton

Jokes explained:

"trophy wife": I'm the sole breadwinner, and she has made jokes about being the trophy wife since we got married.

"border collie": An animal that likes organizing things, i.e. my favorite dog and my nickname at home and at work.

"kea bird": A New Zealand bird that behaves very chaotically and destructively toward, idk, cars and umbrellas and sheep and whatever it can get its beak on. Her favorite bird and her nickname at home.

"Make and Mend": A craft thrift store in Boston that theoretically does home pickups of craft supply donations, but hasn't replied to any of our attempts to contact them. Come on, people, I need to get rid of all this stuff!

"lemons": The Mafia got its start by exporting vast amounts of Sicilian lemons, including to the US.
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thistle in grey ([personal profile] thistleingrey) wrote2025-05-23 05:58 pm
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avowed

Since I end up not posting about gameplay-completed computer games because I rarely approximate "completion," let's try a slice of one while I'm definitely not finished with it.

Avowed (Win/Steam, 2025) is a fantasy RPG evocative of the Elder Scrolls titles. It is surprisingly and rather thoughtfully accessible. Though it's very pretty, one may play it on a sturdy older machine without much framerate stuttering.

(Already we have footnotes! In reverse order: my venerable laptop has 32 GB of RAM. Many reviewers cite Oblivion, ES 4, but then they reveal they're too young to've met ES 3 = Morrowind, which I'd argue has the more meaningful callbacks. Apparently, Avowed shares a setting with Pillars of Eternity, which I haven't played and which the wiki summary links to Planescape: Torment.)

Alongside the planned-out accessibility, Avowed breadcrumbs its worldbuilding thoughtfully, too, as a former Polygon journalist explains in deliberately spoiling an early sidequest for analytical purposes. If you're very picky about spoilers: some quick, unremarked-upon visuals in the 10-min clip are from farther into the game, and they're too short to affect any playthrough realizations. (RIP Polygon, sold and many of its writers laid off since that clip was released.)

Further remarks on Avowed's gameplay have been shelved because of hand pain, the one thing so far that can keep my posts fairly short. Morrowind was a good friend 20+ years ago, and it's mostly pleasant for me to wander around Avowed. I'm so glad it doesn't require the use of a game controller.

For anyone Elder Scrolls-curious, see Walker's quick guide at Kotaku to getting Morrowind running nowadays, and a similar guide for Daggerfall (ES 2). And of all the Oblivion-rememberings I've read lately, I'd suggest The Guardian's as the most readable---just the first chunk of the linked page---although MacDonald and I disagree on playability and enjoyment.
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mildred_of_midgard ([personal profile] mildred_of_midgard) wrote2025-05-23 08:45 pm
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Good article

I tend to not to advertise my academic research (go to conferences, network, etc.), so my publications generally fly under the radar. That's fine; I'm not trying to make a name for myself as a scholar; I'm trying to get my findings out there, so they're not just in my head when I die.

But that just means I'm extra excited when someone notices my work.

There's apparently a category called good articles on Wikipedia, that have to be reviewed and meet certain criteria, and one such good article, reviewed in 2024, is "Philology and Middle-earth." In it, one of my peer-reviewed publications gets a paragraph.

Being a self-aggrandizing egomaniac, I immediately checked out the talk page. Apparently the Wikipedia reviewer suggested it, and the author replied:

Added a paragraph. [Mildred] is not a first-rank Tolkien scholar but her thoughts are sensible and worth a mention.

To which the reviewer replied:

I realized this later, but I quite like the addition.

No, I'm not a first-rank Tolkien scholar; I could have been, but I don't specialize enough (I won't be a first-rank Frederick the Great scholar, either, even if my Fredersdorf and Peter Keith works get published) and I'm not active enough in the field. I only have a handful of Tolkien publications.

But "her thoughts are sensible" is all I ask, and I'm still glowing. :D
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mildred_of_midgard ([personal profile] mildred_of_midgard) wrote2025-05-23 08:43 pm
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Knee flare-up

Not the run I was hoping for, but at least a run.

I got about 3 blocks into it, not even halfway to the cemetery, and my left knee was flaring so badly I actually had to stop and walk. I probably should have put on my brace, turned around on the spot, and walked home (slowly). But the knee seemed okay with walking, so I walked a couple of blocks, and tried running again, and it was never fully happy but also never alarming.

So I got in one hill rep. I wanted to do 2, but I didn't want to push my luck any further. My decision to push through discomfort is one reason I keep getting injured--I'm very good at the self-discipline to run, not so good at the self-discipline of not running.

Hoping for better things tomorrow! My cardio has definitely declined just from the ~12 days away. Stupid knees.
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Trishelle ([personal profile] haunted_cherries) wrote in [community profile] fandomocweekly2025-05-23 05:21 pm

[ Prompt: Resolution ] Aarav's (Almost) Bad Decision (TWST)

Fandoms: Twisted Wonderland
Characters: Aarav Mehra (OC), Rem Van der Zee (OC), Theo Valentine (OC), (OC x Canon ships get mentioned)
Rating: General
Words: 522
Summary: The gang saves Aarav from making a really dumb decision and potentially screwing up his future. Shenanigans ensue.

Notes: Meant to have this out earlier this week but in between work and being too sleepy to function, I was SPENT!! xD Anyways, this is a "sequel" of sorts to something I'm writing about Aarav and his ex, so feel free to gnaw on this until I'm done writing that part xD Thanks for stopping by, and have a good holiday weekend!!

****

king.rem: @ matcharavi Aarav Mehra

king.rem: answer me

Read more... )
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The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote2025-05-24 11:38 am
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Unsent letters fic (more Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan)

I picked up a Guardian pinch hit for [personal profile] facethestrange in [community profile] unsent_letters_exchange. I had two ideas for it, so when reveals were delayed, I wrote the other one as a treat. And then reveals were delayed again, so I ended up doing my compulsive last-minute checks while also trying to finish my 520 Day fics, lol.

Anyway, the first of these is set over three successive nights before and during the Hanga arc, and the second one is established relationship, with Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei passing notes during a state meeting in Dixing, in handwavy everyone-lives post-canon.


Title: a pocketful of change (4771 words) [General Audiences]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Set before and during the Hanga arc (episodes 9 to 11), unsent letter, Pre-Relationship, Mutual Pining, SID politics, Epistolatory format: Letter

Summary: Lost in the past, Shen Wei shoved his hands into his jacket pockets. His fingers met small hard balls on smooth sticks and recognised them instantly. Heart clenching, he withdrew the pocket’s entire contents: three lollipops, a little ziplock bag filled with dried fish, and a wad of pages torn from a notebook and roughly folded. The outside of the paper was unmarked, but its surface texture bore evidence of the handwriting within.

He was still wearing Zhao Yunlan’s jacket. Whatever was written on these pages wasn’t meant for his eyes.


Title: A Passing Grade in Diplomacy (4062 words) [Teen and Up]
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Politics, meetings, Established Relationship, Banter, passing notes, Warning: internalised slut-shaming, just briefly tho

Summary: Next time, bring lollipops! Zhao Yunlan jotted in a spare corner of his page. He underlined it twice and went back to doodling more leaves on his tree, which was bushy and verdant like the new plantings in the streets near the Dragon Gate. He was experimenting with vines and curling tendrils when characters appeared out of nowhere, beneath his reminder.

Check your right-hand jacket pocket.
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Lanna Michaels ([personal profile] lannamichaels) wrote2025-05-23 06:23 pm

Murderbot TV episode 3



Unsure how I feel about having 22 minute episodes (sorry, "30 minute episodes"). On the one hand, short and quick enough to watch. On the other hand, this entire episode is essentially half an episode: In Which Our Heroes Travel To DeltFall And MurderBot Looks Around.

Enjoyable, but this kind of episode feels like it is meant for watching entire seasons all at once, where it would just blend in to the before and after. They spent too much time arguing in the shuttle for it to feel like it stands alone at all.

The security footage of what the Gurathin and Bharadwaj are doing back home was pointless, but I guess Character Building or something.

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yamamanama ([personal profile] yamamanama) wrote2025-05-23 07:05 pm

exultation is the going

I'd say something about how May 22 and July 22 have the same amount of sunshine but the temperature didn't even break 50 F yesterday and, last year, July 27 was 87 degrees but I can't really speak of sunshine hours when I can't even remember the last time I've seen a clear sky. Maybe last Friday.
There was also thunder, which is weird because we see thu. And a month of rain.

I went to Cava and got a salad of mixed greens, harissa, fire-roasted corn, pickled onions, cabbage slaw, spicy meatballs, fiery broccoli (which apparently uses aleppo pepper), kalamata olives, feta, and harissa viniagrette, and a drink of blueberry lavender. There was a cybertruck outside and I swear this is because most people who drive in Boston are actually from Maine, Vermont, or New Hampshire.

Arvo Pärt, Fratres for violin & piano
The violinist, at the begining, was moving the bow up and down like a lever.
I swear I heard this in a different form, since it exists for unspecified instrument, you can play it on the violin and piano or a string quartet with percussion or trombones or saxophones or even a theremin and water bowl if you please.

York Bowen, Phantasy Quintet
It's an unusual instrumentation; bass clarinet and string quartet.

Exultation is the going of an inland soul to sea
–Emily Dickinson

Yep, that’s Kevin Puts all right. I wish I could find some notes that were more detailed than the brief biography and artist statement in which he talks about the ocean and Peter Grimes.

A lone gray bird… alone in the shadows and grandeurs and tumults of night and the sea
–Carl Sandburg

it’s rather abrupt with a blast from the flute. The flute is the gray bird, the low strings and piano notes are the night and sea.

A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea
–Douglas Adams

It’s not meant to be a Vogon poem or that of the Azgoths of Kria. And definitely not those poems of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings. There’d be dead and rotting swans with bits of flesh dropping off of them from time to time.
It rises up and down, up and down.

Out of the darkness… jets of sparks in fountains of blue come leaping
–D.H. Lawrence

and then swirls.

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric
–Virginia Woolf

this one’s mostly ambient.

I, while the gods laugh, the world’s vortex am; maelström of passions in that hidden sea
–Mervyn Peake

Yeah, it sounds like that.

…let us find a place ‘neath ocean’s breast and bid her lie where waves are kind
–Benjamin Franklin Field

The longest movement. It ends with quietude.

Beethoven's Archduke Trio is in four movements and lasts a little over 40 minutes.
Allegro moderato is a sonata. Then the scherzo. Then a variation and then a rondo played with great force. It was written during a prolific and sucessful time in his career in Vienna, and even his deafness was holding off.

I met a husky and the world’s skinniest pug. Since she was also a black pug, I was even more surprised to find out she was a pug. She gets a lot of exercise, her human says. I also saw a shih tzu but it was rather far away from me.
Abby’s not an artist. She seems relatively normal. There were two passengers but they got off at Broadway and one was wearing a leopard-print jacket so I had to attempt every detail and the other is just kinda minimalistic.

burning question: Can the sailor understand / The divine intoxication /
Of the first league out from land?
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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2025-05-23 11:52 pm
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today in idle reading about pain

Pain associated with sensory hypersensitivity, e.g. light and sound: is this primarily nociceptive (i.e. nociceptors are firing at a lower threshold) or a feature of central processing (i.e. brain goes "NOPE DON'T LIKE THAT" about stimuli the peripheral nervous system isn't reporting as Harmful)? Or, slightly more comprehensibly to people who are not currently spending lots of time thinking about this particular niche area, when normal light levels cause me pain, is that the nerves that go "YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE SUN AND IT'S A BAD IDEA STOP THAT RIGHT NOW" that are initiating those signals, or a... central... processing... issue... yeah okay maybe I should go to bed instead of trying to words this. BUT a quick shakedown of the internet revealed it's only in the last decade or so that nociceptive signalling relating to Loud Noise Bad has been demonstrated so that's cool.

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Susan Dennis ([personal profile] susandennis) wrote2025-05-23 03:45 pm

I'll go to Goodwill for you anytime!!

When I took Dixie's sweater to her this morning, she kept saying 'let me pay you' and I said 'no no no' I told her I'd rather have her in my debt. She did give me a whole pile of adorable buttons - buttons like for kids' stuff - little toys and animals - really cute ones. As I was leaving she was still trying to pay me.

Cut to just now - 4 pm - here comes Dixie with a big bag.

Fridays after lunch there is a knitting group who meets. I went once. It was enough. But, apparently, she took her sweater to the knitting group to unravel and got a bunch of helpers! So smart. She took a bunch for her project and brought me the rest - a bag full - already mostly unraveled!!

PXL_20250523_224528286

Perfect doll hair. I told her that I'll go to Goodwill for her anytime.
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lil_1337 ([personal profile] lil_1337) wrote2025-05-23 03:16 pm
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masquerading as a man with a reason ([personal profile] ysobel) wrote2025-05-23 01:38 pm

Goodnight, sweet prince

I got a text this morning about Yahtzee: as of Thursday he can't use his back legs, and while he's still alert and appreciating belly rubs, it's basically Time. He has a vet appointment at 5 today.

This isn't entirely shocking -- he's 15.6 years old -- and I've been low-key anticipating this; but it's still sad.

He is a very good boy and the bestest first service dog.

(I am leaving comments enabled but have disabled email notifications.)
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petra ([personal profile] petra) wrote2025-05-23 05:02 pm
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Rudest tag possible

Rudest tag I have seen in a month of Sundays:
Life on Mars (UK) spoiler for the finale )

Compare with The Untamed spoiler for the first episode )

Which is kinda like Shakespeare spoiler )

When it could've been Bigger Shakespeare spoiler )

Greek myth spoiler )
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dhampyresa ([personal profile] dhampyresa) wrote2025-05-23 10:27 pm
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"Mythes et légendes" artbook review

This artbook is the "collection of pretty pictures by various people" type of art book rather than the "includes tutorials by a single artist" type of artbook. I like both these types of artbooks and own multiple of each, as well as "collection of pretty pictures by single artist" and "includes tutorials by various artists".

It's published by YBY Éditions, with text in both French and English. The text is titles for the illustrations and sometimes a few sentences about the content.

My favourites were (featured here as pictures of the pages):

I like the use of light to portray intimacy.
Eros and Psyche, by Robbuz
Eros and Psyche )


The minimalist use of colour here is really neat.
Doctor Faustus, by Couple Of Kooks
Doctor Faustus )


The green and purple work so well together!
Blind Love, by KME
Blind Love )


I love the multiple light sources.
Moonlight, by Sara Deek
Moonlight )


Transmasc/transfem yin/yang is so cool!
Yin and Yang, by Mathilde Périé
Yin and Yang )



The book contains 46 illustrations total and I enjoyed all of them.
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primeideal ([personal profile] primeideal) wrote2025-05-23 04:11 pm
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(SFF Bingo): The Map of Lost Places, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas and Lesley Conner

I'm not really into horror, but I kickstarted this anthology published by Apex, gotta support SFF short fiction presses :D

The standout story for me was "The Salt," by Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv, set at the end of the Dead Sea scrolls era (parallel with early Christianity). Agent XII is an operative from the Imperial Office of Incognita Natura; what others understand to be divine, world-shaking events, he interprets as punch-clock bureaucratic issues.
From there I made my way by land to Jerusalem, which sits atop the mountains and is a small, dismal sort of place, filled with rebellious Jews, dodgy expatriate Romans, dangerous Nabatean merchants, and lecherous Greeks--in short, a place much like any other in the Empire.
This forms the frame story to the recollections of "Joseph Son of Amram," who comes to the Qumran community as a spy for the religious authorities in the city.
Various messiahs in different times, anywhere between the return of the Israelites to Canaan and the completion of the second temple, claimed to have prevented a calamity, to have argued with God and averted the end of the world.
Others claimed that the end of the world has already happened.
As weeks and months passed, the pattern became clearer. The world has already ended. Numerous times.
The world ended with Noah. The world ended with Lot.
I'd recently heard a discussion about how Abraham's argument to spare Sodom and Gomorrah is in some ways the quintessential story of the Jewish scriptures--arguing with God for the sake of righteousness--so it was neat to see that theme reframed through a horror lens.

There are a lot of recurring themes--the real horror is misogyny/racism/small towns dying out and being left behind by economic change; infodumping legends about the backstory. A couple stories avoided the "here is the legendary version of this town's past" trope by intercutting between a past and a present-day storyline, with parallel themes. I think this plot device can be effective, in that it does a lot in a relatively short format, but there's no need to italicize every single flashback when the flashbacks amount to half the story!

Shoutouts to "Map of the World" by Pan Morigan, which displays world maps with many of the location names penciled in, surrounded by evocative images from the stories; a violinist, a panther, a woman gagged with soil and vines in front of a narrow cave entrance, generations of ancestors who continue to watch over living generations.

Bingo: Published in 2025, Five+ Short Stories, Small Press...presumably Hidden Gem but it might still count as "new release" so probably not that one.
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Volkameria ([personal profile] volkameria) wrote2025-05-23 01:12 pm

Journal: Week of May 23rd Update

I got this idea from [personal profile] tozka , who in turn got it from Tracy Durnell's weeknotes! This seems like a really good way to blend my journaling and fandom posts into one and give more space for other random thoughts; we shall see how this goes! 

Interesting Articles
https://aftermath.site/grand-theft-auto-vi-games-industry - What GTA6 represents for the video game industry as it exists in 2025. Really solid, in depth examination of why the hype cycle is what it is right now.
https://www.404media.co/viral-ai-generated-summer-guide-printed-by-chicago-sun-times-was-made-by-magazine-giant-hearst/ - More AI slop nonsense, this time as a reading list published in several major newspapers. I cast blame here on both the person who cut corners and did not check his research, and the systems of work that prioritize content generation above accurate and good information that *lead to* behavior like what the writer did.
https://aftermath.site/darumi-amemiya-the-hundred-line-last-defense-academy-emo-cringe-punk - An essay on why Darumi of Hundred Line fame is a love letter to cringe.

Fixation of the Week
If I said Hundred Line would anyone be surprised? No? Okay moving on... Minor spoilers (Day 40) )
(I'm also working on a patch for my jacket that looks like Eito's - if anyone wants the cross stitch pattern I'm happy to share!)

Media Stuff
  • Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter - Vol. 4-6. All volumes came in from the library at once, so I'm catching up on 7 right now. The manga seems to end at 8, which is a cliffhanger! But it looks like the novels pick up where we leave off, starting around Vol. 4, so I think I'll buy those next time. I love how it switches from fun otome isekai to economic seminar in the blink of an eye, and Iris is such a complex and competent lead. It makes her sweet romantic moments with Dean all the better! (Also Dida best boy.)
  • Bocchi The Rock! Ep. 1-4 - Started the show, it's really good and I'm enjoying the music. It's that right blend of angsty rock and poppy female vocals that I love.
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks S5 E09 - So close to being done with the series! Makes me sad; this was the most fun I've had with Star Trek since Voyager, but I'm glad it's ending on a high note. 
  • Liturgy of the Ordinary - Ended up starting and finishing this book within 3 days. I love how this book illustrates the importance of practices, and how to connect the joy of living with acts of worship even - and especially - in the mundane. She lost me a bit in the middle, and I think the criticism of this book that one could easily become paranoid and overfocused on doing the right things or believe they can become holy by shopping at farmers markets rather than Wal*Mart is absolutely correct. However, the book helped me mentally connect the dots between daily practices like brushing teeth, sleeping, and doing tech work, and how they shape my spiritual life.
    • Quote: The contemporary church can, at times, market a kind of "ramen noodle" spirituality. Faith becomes a consumer product - it asks little of us, affirms our values, and promises to meet our needs, but in the end it's just a quick fix that leaves us glutted and malnourished. ... Christian worship, centered on Word and sacrament, reminds me that my core identity is not that of a consumer: I am a worshiper and an image-bearer, created to know, enjoy, and glorify God and to know and love those around me.
  • RinRin - a new female metalcore producer who I found on Spotify. I've had FCKNRUN on loop an embarrassing amount of times this week.
  • NYT Crossword - either I'm getting old, the USA is about to enter a recession, or both, because I've been having a shocking amount of fun with the NYT crossword. I've yet to fully solve one (I've been a letter or 2 off a few times though!) but there's something very satisfying about it. Even if I have to constantly google the sports trivia or wonder who thought rebuses were OK...
Food Stuff
  • Hubby weightlifts and is looking to enter strongman competitions and, as such, needs a very high protein diet. We have so many protein powders at this point, it's kinda funny.
  • Cooked Kung Pao Tofu + Chicken - pretty good!
  • Baked raisin scones twice this week, now that I have finally learned the magic of the pastry knife and how to work with cold butter. Someone stop me.
Website Stuff
  • Made an account on LibraryThing, and am learning how to use it! So far it's lovely. It feels very much like browsing a library catalogue with all its quirks.
Looking Ahead
  • Looking forward to a long weekend! Hoping to spend some time outdoors and some time crafting.
  • Work promises to bring its own share of ridiculous problems, but what week doesn't it? I'm just hoping that some of the weirdness can stop and it can go back to being really *busy* and not odd.
  • I'm quite eager to make Tinga de Frijoles this week! Might even make it this Sunday.

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Susan Dennis ([personal profile] susandennis) wrote2025-05-23 12:02 pm

I broke my rule

Dixie said she went to Value Village (the local reuse shop) and they only had about 3 sweaters and none were the right color. It's so not the right time of year for sweaters.

But, I had been wanting to check out the Goodwill in Redmond and ... why not now? So I just grabbed my keys and went. Stopped to get Biggie's drugs first. They had them ready this time and charged me more :( but stil l way cheaper than another surgery!

It was morning rush hour so Google took me the back way to Redmond and it was a beautiful drive. I mean really spectacularly, if-I-didn't-live-here-I'd-move-tomorrow beautiful. Lush green tree canopy over the road and nearly no traffic. The Redmond store is easy to get to with good, easy parking. It's big and bright and well organized. Probably about half the size of the Seattle store, maybe less. But lovely and well staffed. I found way too many clothes. I do not need clothes. I bought them anyway. Now I have to go to the storage area and get more hangers. I promised I would not do that. I am such a liar.

The clothes are in the wash now.

But, more importantly, I found Dixie's perfect sweater. Exactly the right color and a good size of yarn for kinky unraveling. I took it to her when I got back. She had left me some buttons in my mail room cubby and I picked those up and they are DARLING. Little toy's and shapes. And there are a bunch of them.

The woman at the title company who calls me from a different phone every time and rarely to tell me anything new, called again today from still another number to tell me exactly what she told me in her reply to my email earlier in the week. I asked her to quit calling. And to please communicate via email. And so she sent me an email saying the notary would be scheduled for Tuesday morning at 10. Then the notary sent me an email saying she's coming Tuesday at 10. Wonder when the signing will be?? I'm thinking maybe Tuesday at 10.

How glad will I be when all this shit is over? Very.

I did not get to the grocery. Maybe tomorrow. I would like some ice cream but I can get some down at the Bistro.

Now I'd better go get those hangers.