I'm hanging out with my Archive friends and when they have to go, I shall go annoy my Promptcast friends.
And somewhere in the middle of all that, I'm coming up with a story for today.
TOMORROW, I have to go shopping, so I must extend an invitation to the spawn to go spend their JB HiFi cards.
But today, I can last a bit of a while, so I will get on with today's offerings and trundle off later.
AND there's five chapters to read for Adorable at some point.
Beloved has an artisinal, bespoke phone case for my new phone. She designed and printed it herself. My next challenge is figuring out how to use it in navigation mode because - owing to a misunderstanding - new phone is big and case will make it bigger.
I did politely request a new phone stand for my car. The current jiggery-pokery may not hold. Which promises to be a can of arseholes for yours truly.
I'll find a way to cope. Somehow.
Read more »I have successfully trimmed down and posted my story for the Archive. Huzzah.
I'd still like to see how Antihero slices it down. It'll be a good example for folks.
Meanwhile, I have a twofer to concoct to catch up with the calendar, an ankle to ice, and a lot of crimbo bikkies to help make vanish.
The diet is officially off until all the temptations go away.
Offski to go write two stories in a hurry.
Read more »Early this morning was selected as the best time to get MeMum safely home with a minimum of hungover lunatics raising her heart rate.
I thought I'd be perfectly okay not bringing my lappy because I thought I wouldn't need it. Spoilers - I was wrong.
Which we did. Followed by UnAI'ing MeMum's email. During which, Beloved rang to get deets for my new phone. Spoilers, should have sent measurements of me old phone.
So my trip home involved a side trip
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Happy and safe holidays to y'all. I plan on eating myself stupid before cyclonic rains wash us away.
Huzzah.
Read more »The rain threatening tomorrow will happen after dark, according to the weather bureau. Hooray. Which also means the plans for the beach Crimbo are NOT cancelled at the last minute and I don't have to do a mad scramble to make the house ready for a cluster of guests at the last minute.
See if you can sense where an argument was happening about that, folks.
I'll be ready for it next year. I hope.
I have Mayhem doing bread and I
Read more »::Singing:: Everything's falling apart and life sucks! (jazz hands)
My phone battery is inflating. My laptop is misbehaving. There's a threat to our economic stability that may or may not happen and our dear government is planning to make life more complicated and expensive for MeMum.
Hooray.
The laptop drama really got going yesterday when I dragged it and the keyboard to make it go to some Experts in Brisbane to see about a blood issue [I'm fine, my dosages just needed
Read more »I have one eye on my (decaying) phone so that I know when I should take off for the medicos in the middle of Brisbane. Tomorrow, I'm offski for a Physio appointment. At least it's not too far to wander for that.
BUT I also have to wander into the zombie hordes in order to acquire a small something-something for Beloved.
And I need petrol. Bleh.
'Tis the season to be expensive, alas.
We will survive this. It just feels like I
Read more »I shall be dividing up the spoils of the bikkie baking betwixt recipients, today. It's the last day I can do it.
There's also streams to attend and stories to write. Fun to be had with my assembled bits and bobs and making sure everyone gets a fair share of the spoils. With a few concessions regarding likes and dislikes.
Minimum of two of a specific type so the recipient can sample them and see WTF I was talking about.
I'll hide
Read more »Alongside braving up to make a query letter for B'Nar I know darn well that the fam needs stuff and things.
And here I was hoping to have moneys to spare for once.
Sigh.
I have to wait for the right time so that my flight path is efficient so... in the time I have to spare, I am doing the things for the day.
I'm not brave yet, but I am working on it.
Read more »The spare room needs a solid joosh. The house needs degarbaging and we missed rubbish day this week. So it's a derecycling.
And the day after tomorrow, I have to sally forth just to pick up kitty litter. Because Costco was out when I went to pick up other stuff and things.
Bleh.
I have put some laundry on, I have stripped the bed in the spare room and put some of that in the wash. At the expense of my sinuses.
Read more »We're running out of other stuff and I have to brave the pre-crimbo crowds just to get it.
...halp...
I have no idea how exhausted I'm going to be by the time I make it home, so if I am, the story for today will become part of tomorrow's twofer.
And on top of everything else... I need to make bread. Again. That will be starting tomorrow with the Grand Pre-Crimbo Unfuckening so MeMum can stay over for the big day.
Getting
Read more »I am DONE with baking for the meanwhile. Thank grop. The kids were left unsupervised with the second batch and accidentally invented something cool because they wouldn't listen to or didn't remember the original instructions.
The original plan: Dip the tops of some bikkies in treacle, then test to see if icing sugar or cornflour stopped them being sticky thereafter. The kids did the dipping and then covered them in caster sugar. AKA table sugar.
The end result is not sticky. Yay.
Read more »So... my laptop is dying and I know it. My fam has become aware. Even a friendo on the interwebs knows that when I use a laptop, I have to use an attached keyboard with the loud tikkatakka. And even that has moments of fail.
Meanwhilst... I got logged out of my Auspost account and I can't remember the email I used for it.
I got the second batch of crimbo bikkies going off today. We have some experiments in order today,
Read more »The backup reads are on later today, I have collated all the ingredients necessary to make the crimbo ginger bikkies. I just need to wait for a few things. Like for the butter to thaw.
At least there's loads of eggs so I don't need to worry about that for a bit.
I can hope.
They've started into the new bread, so I'm glad I got flour for the next bread. Yay.
I'm waiting for the butter to soften before I start
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