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stonepicnicking_okapiLet's start with the good.
1. Long run yesterday. New watch is working well.
2. I finished a WIP yesterday, one I had started in August; it ended up being 26k, Omegaverse BTS poly but SUGA & sope-centric.
3. I also did a Fannish 50 so I am only 4 away from finishing.
4. On Sunday I got up at 5 AM and attended a 3-hour online poetry workshop in the UK and enjoyed it.
5. My YMCA is doing another 12 days of fitness for December and I have logged 9 out of 12 days.
5a. I did a winter spread which I will post on Friday.
6. Yesterday I watched a 1973 film horror/slasher Black Christmas which I enjoyed very much, and the origin of the 'the call is coming from inside the house' trope and of sorority girls getting murdered. I might watch it again. It was interesting.
But of course, it's not all good.
7. I was very, very slow yesterday and my chief anxiety is embarrassing Minor in front of his running team and their parents on Sunday's Rudolph Run.
7a. Friday we went to a dinner at one of the running team family's house. It was out in the rural area and a huge house expertly decorated for Christmas. 2 trees which were 2 floors tall and everything looking like a House Beautiful spread. And the boys decided to do a run AFTER eating and then wanted to go because rich people give me hives and so Minor was wheezing in the car and said his lips were swelling so I got him home and made him give himself an Epi Pen and a nebulizer treatment so I guess he'll live. (but not for long, see next).
8. The boys' father caught Minor watching porn on his school laptop in bed in the middle of the night--which pretty much torpedoes my campaign to get Minor an upgrade to his phone for Christmas. Thirteen is not an easy age but Minor keeps shooting himself in the foot in spectacular ways.
9. My car is leaking again. The same leak which we had fixed a year ago.
10. I'm official the same weight I was on 12/31 of last year so I haven't lost an ounce. :( I seem to be bent on getting myself into a larger trouser size.
11. I went looking last week in the rain for Snoopy stickers, which Target was out of. I walked down to the Hallmark store and got this Snoopy Santa-letter kit which was fine and did the collage for Fannish 50 BUT...yesterday I went by Walgreens and saw the PERFECT Snoopy Xmas sticker kit (better than the one at Target) it was shaped like Snoopy's doghouse, but of course, I don't need it now. I did the spread. Finding the perfect thing a week after I searched in the rain and made do with something not-quite is an Alanis Morsette song and the story of my life (these days).
11 DEC: Stretching Day: How often do you stretch?
The goal is 4 x a week. I do think it is the most important element of feeling not-like-shit. I have even made S T R E T C H my word of 2025.
12 DEC: Gingerbread House Day: Have you ever made a gingerbread house?
Yes. It was a disaster. I said never again! But such a great idea (for other people to do)
13 DEC: Day of the Horse: Would you like to die in the saddle?
Yeah, having seen my mother die in a nursing home and my father die in home hospice care, yeah, let's make it sudden and quick.
14 DEC: Yoga Day: Do you like yoga?
I like having done yoga. I am working on liking it itself.
15 DEC: Wear Your Pearls Day: Do you own any pearls?
Yes, one of the few items of jewelry which have survived my many purges. My mother's.
16 DEC: Chocolate-Covered Anything Day: What’s the oddest thing you’ve seen covered in chocolate?
Not odd but I do like chocolate covered espresso beans.
17 DEC: A Christmas Carol Day: Do you like Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? If so, what’s your favorite adaptation of the work?
The Muppets!
1. Long run yesterday. New watch is working well.
2. I finished a WIP yesterday, one I had started in August; it ended up being 26k, Omegaverse BTS poly but SUGA & sope-centric.
3. I also did a Fannish 50 so I am only 4 away from finishing.
4. On Sunday I got up at 5 AM and attended a 3-hour online poetry workshop in the UK and enjoyed it.
5. My YMCA is doing another 12 days of fitness for December and I have logged 9 out of 12 days.
5a. I did a winter spread which I will post on Friday.
6. Yesterday I watched a 1973 film horror/slasher Black Christmas which I enjoyed very much, and the origin of the 'the call is coming from inside the house' trope and of sorority girls getting murdered. I might watch it again. It was interesting.
But of course, it's not all good.
7. I was very, very slow yesterday and my chief anxiety is embarrassing Minor in front of his running team and their parents on Sunday's Rudolph Run.
7a. Friday we went to a dinner at one of the running team family's house. It was out in the rural area and a huge house expertly decorated for Christmas. 2 trees which were 2 floors tall and everything looking like a House Beautiful spread. And the boys decided to do a run AFTER eating and then wanted to go because rich people give me hives and so Minor was wheezing in the car and said his lips were swelling so I got him home and made him give himself an Epi Pen and a nebulizer treatment so I guess he'll live. (but not for long, see next).
8. The boys' father caught Minor watching porn on his school laptop in bed in the middle of the night--which pretty much torpedoes my campaign to get Minor an upgrade to his phone for Christmas. Thirteen is not an easy age but Minor keeps shooting himself in the foot in spectacular ways.
9. My car is leaking again. The same leak which we had fixed a year ago.
10. I'm official the same weight I was on 12/31 of last year so I haven't lost an ounce. :( I seem to be bent on getting myself into a larger trouser size.
11. I went looking last week in the rain for Snoopy stickers, which Target was out of. I walked down to the Hallmark store and got this Snoopy Santa-letter kit which was fine and did the collage for Fannish 50 BUT...yesterday I went by Walgreens and saw the PERFECT Snoopy Xmas sticker kit (better than the one at Target) it was shaped like Snoopy's doghouse, but of course, I don't need it now. I did the spread. Finding the perfect thing a week after I searched in the rain and made do with something not-quite is an Alanis Morsette song and the story of my life (these days).
11 DEC: Stretching Day: How often do you stretch?
The goal is 4 x a week. I do think it is the most important element of feeling not-like-shit. I have even made S T R E T C H my word of 2025.
12 DEC: Gingerbread House Day: Have you ever made a gingerbread house?
Yes. It was a disaster. I said never again! But such a great idea (for other people to do)
13 DEC: Day of the Horse: Would you like to die in the saddle?
Yeah, having seen my mother die in a nursing home and my father die in home hospice care, yeah, let's make it sudden and quick.
14 DEC: Yoga Day: Do you like yoga?
I like having done yoga. I am working on liking it itself.
15 DEC: Wear Your Pearls Day: Do you own any pearls?
Yes, one of the few items of jewelry which have survived my many purges. My mother's.
16 DEC: Chocolate-Covered Anything Day: What’s the oddest thing you’ve seen covered in chocolate?
Not odd but I do like chocolate covered espresso beans.
17 DEC: A Christmas Carol Day: Do you like Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? If so, what’s your favorite adaptation of the work?
The Muppets!