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It is way too hot

January is the hottest month of the year in Australia. No argument. Nobody will fight this. Whilst the northern hemisphere enjoys a dusting of snow, winter's chill, and global warming denials, everyone in Aus is gently roasting in one way or another.

We went to see Coco during the heat of the day. The best time to watch a movie in my opinion. Alas, Miss Chaos panicked and got upset during the third act. It's bad. Or it was bad this time because, apart from the whole family themes, it is a movie about Death.

I swear. Next time there's a movie to see with Miss Chaos? We're bootlegging it so that she can get her hyper-emotional shit over with before we go pay to see it and thereby eliminate the risk of her having a LOUD meltdown in public.

They never covered this in Legit Reasons to Pirate Shit.

Ahem.

Those of you who are here for my AO3 feed will be glad to know I have a new TAZ: Balance one-shot up amongst the multitude of my works. As well as a fresh chapter of the Balance/Commitment crossover, which will continue on a daily basis.

Tomorrow, I will be posting a surprisingly heart-warming piece about a fragment of fabricated Elven biology that's basically Fantasy Pon Farr. And in a fiction with zero sex, no less.

I'm saving that for the epic Plot-What-Plot smutfic, later. Stay tuned.

I got to three hundred Instants and I should be finished with that anthology by early tomorrow. Fingers crossed I don't have to twiddle it more.

[Odds evens, I will have to twiddle it more]

Today, my Beloved is taking my car to the place to get the tyres fixed. Yay. Which means that I 'creatively borrow' his car to do my noise.

Which means that I am free to do a bank run right now. And when I get back - Instant Story, cleaning day, and another 500 words before I get back to Shiny Elf Stories.

Getting there

I just cleared two hundred stories in the editing of One Year of Instants (2017). And in the middle of a Queensland Summer, the best time to do that is when I wake up at fuck-off in the morning.

Tomorrow, I will get up to three hundred. And the day after that, I shall reach the end of all the stories and footnotes, and then I get to see if I did it right.

If not, I have to spend another early

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The persistence of footnotes

I got to work just after I woke up, this morning. So that I would have the time and the energy to go edit One Year of Instants (2017).

And it worked. I got 100 stories sorted out and the footnotes done.

But I'm also pretty much blasted.

The kids' school books are ready and I shall have to collect them. We're out of absolute mountains of stuff. And I know for a fact that Beloved just won't get it without me

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Best-laid PLNs

Yup.

Things have gone agley again.

Beloved booked my car in for new tyres and the soonest they could get was next Tuesday.

So their day off has changed. My opportunities have changed. And so have my PLNs.

So now I'm spending a day at home with Chaos, since Mayhem is back to his traineeship, this week. Dinner is going to be something quick with mince and possibly riced cauliflower. We don't have a lot, but I can probably whip up a

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So close...

When I started Keto, I weighed eighty-eight point eight (88.8) kilograms and believed I would never get lower than eighty neat.

This morning, I hit seventy-one point two (71.2). That's a little over seventeen and a half kilos that I thought I would never shed. And further - I am one and a bit kilos away from my goal weight.

On my Keto-versary, November the 22nd, I had successfully shed fourteen and a half kilos of that seventeen I've dropped.

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Feeling scummy

So. Yesterday was not my proudest day. As you know, I had a prompt with paedophilia right the fuck in there, and I have yet to back down from a challenge. Even one that makes me feel like I just ingested the liquid grossness that you find in the bottom of a garbage bin.

I do not support, condone, or excuse paedophilia. I do not believe in any of the excuses I wrote, yesterday, nor do I support them as arguments. Just

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Well shit

So I spent most of today suffering a Fuckoff headache that was more the result of an oncoming storm that did not come in a blue police call box.

Only one person who reads this will get that joke. Maybe two. Feel special.

So let's recap:

  • My plan to have fun was curtailed by a Storm Migraine
  • Friendo returned home to discover one of their cats needs an expensive operation
  • Capt S skidded out on gravel and rear-ended into a tree, wrecking
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Taking a day

I've run out of fanfic chapters to post. I have today before I'm back to working on my novel. I feel a little bit burned out, too, so I'm taking a day.

I am not writing any damn thing else but this blog and today's Instant. On purpose. And for the rest of it, I am kicking back and taking some me-time.

I think I need it.

I also need to get my regular glasses fixed because my spares give me firkin

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In a few days

It took me a few days to finish off 2017's year of Instants. In a few days, I'll have finished checking and compiling it for publication. In a few days, I'll be wanting to see some double prompts from you, my dear readers.

If I'm ahead this year, then I can relax about getting behind in this year. It shouldn't matter, but it does and I want the Year of Instants to match the Year in Reality for reasons that I can't

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Maintaining focus

Friendo is going home, this morning. I'm still lacking a certain amount of vitality to my days. I probably need a few more fats.

One MCT smoothie or two should help me pep up. I hope. Either that or a REALLY good napnap when I'm done with my day.

I am attempting this thing called Self Control again. Focussing on the stuff I need to do before I get onto the stuff I want to do. I need the practice.

I do,

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Me and my derpy, derpy head

I swear to sixteen heavens of choice that I actually posted that blog entry that just went up. I can't even find when it was supposed to be posted. I'm that firkin fogged.

I've been sleeping fine. It's the relentless waking up early that does it to me. And I've been trying to regulate myself but... I need an extra half hour or so after I wake up and that's not easy to accomplish or do.

And for that, there's coffee.

I'll

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Not a lot to report

I have finished transferring Clockwork Souls from Novl'r to Stackedit. And just as well, because something didn't like me using Novl'r on my lappy and the dang thing kept reloading just as it finished loading up. Made my life hell.

Other than that, there's a whole lot of nothing that's getting done around here and I'm loving it.

Of course, there's still cleaning and whatnot, because you can't have the smell of prawns in your house for a week. Euw. But other

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Good news, bad news, what the flying fuck news

Good news: We figured out what the hell was going wrong with my Friendo's diet

Bad news: It involved a carefully-constructed meal that was guaranteed not to cause a reaction... that caused a reaction.

What the flying fuck news: I've essentially been poisoning my friend for a week and a half.

Yup. Flying in the face of how the human body works, my friend has a negative reaction to grease, fats and oils. And literally cannot eat them without changing address to

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Figuring it out

I got the new Pixel 2, just before the end of the year, and it has been some interesting colours of Hell just to get it to perform properly. Case in point - I'm still getting all of my music on my computer copied to this little devil's storage.

I'm going to have to make a new phone case for the thing, since it's just that little bit bigger than the original. And I have a continuing problem with the headphone jack.

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Well fuck

Good news: Friendo is back at my place from their adventures.

Bad news: I need new tyres because one of mine found a piece of wire in a parking lot. And the rest are looking a little bit suss.

Really bad news: I swear this nearly killed my Friendo.

It's okay NOW. Don't panic. It's just that when I got the news of the tyre sundering, Friendo just got right up in there and changed the darn thing in practically pit crew

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