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May. 17th, 2026 01:52 am
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Megan is apparently not speaking to me. I don't know if it's for a limited time, or for the rest of time, or what. No idea. To know these things, she'd have to be asking me.

According to Donnie, who said to me, "don't tell her I said anything, because she'd be SO MAD", Megan has issues with me going back years. Also, apparently, she now feels that Matthew and I took advantage of her. I feel like that's coaching from Donnie, because until about six months ago, Megan had never said, ever, that she felt like we were taking advantage. Not to me, not to Matthew, nothing.

And now she's not speaking to me at all. The girl -- woman -- who used to say "I love you" every day when she left for work. Who would joke and laugh with me, and we'd wish each other a good night at bedtime. Now she can't get out of the room fast enough. In fact tonight, Matthew told me, Donnie called her (from the kitchen to their room), and he heard her say, "Kim's in the bathroom". And she popped out briefly, then back.

And while I know I should initiate the conversation, I don't want to. I'm a punching bag for them when they get angry at me, and I'm not willing to do that anymore. Enough's enough. We expect them to leave by the end of June (and when June gets a bit closer, we're going to tell them this. At least that's the plan.).

I'm going to miss them, sometimes. Megan lived with us for a decade, which is no small amount of time. My relationship with both of them (Donnie in particular, but both of them) is very complicated and complex. I'd love to have a relationship with them after they move out, but I'm not sure that's going to be possible.

And in the meantime, Donnie's talking about the trailer they're moving in to -- both of them, still in the same bedroom, even though they're broken up -- and how two of her male friends, upon hearing they'd broken up, said they would move in, help her with rent and so on. So Donnie talks about how they'll have four contracts on the lease, with each of them paying a quarter of the expenses. And she says that unironically. Like it's perfectly okay to plan that, while still not realizing that that's what WE tried to do with them.

End of June. I'm holding on to that, so very tightly.

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May. 17th, 2026 12:40 am
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Some friends invited us to the beach ("Beach." It's a little stretch of sand at the edge of the Mississippi River.) today. I didn't want to go, because I had gotten up early for work and was exhausted, and also because I just don't love socializing a ton and lot of it has been expected of me over the past few weeks.

It was nice, though. The weather was beautiful and it wasn't very crowded, and they cooked some chicken over a tiny grill to go with some pasta salad and fruit they'd brought. The mosquitos were a pain in the ass, but I only got bitten a few times, which I guess I can count as a win.
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The trick is that the top arm needs to be firmly clipped to the drawer - not jammed to the back wall. Time will tell if my fix lasts.

postscript 2 to prev

May. 16th, 2026 10:11 pm
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The red scarf for my mother is paused because it increases eyestrain. A different scarf has resurfaced, formerly a waiting-for-things project; she likes its WIP form almost as well, though it's not red.

The difference there isn't really the yarn or needles (both projects use light fingering-weight). For the red scarf, I must check the written pattern twice or more per row, and for the waiting project, it's perhaps once in 6-8 rows. My knitting has been slowed or blocked partly by how eyestrain intersects reading. For any project, now, I've borrowed an accommodation that some folks use for dyslexia---covering (or folding under) irrelevant pattern rows on a printout.

Vidje is lovely, but given that its yarn (Woolfolk's Tov) would require dropping USD 500 and is tough to substitute, it's not happening. (I might try the pattern sometime with other yarn, but $500 isn't the right price point even if someone gifted me the yarn because I'd worry about wearing the result.)

Halmoni Jacket has been test-knitted by a variety of folks, yet at the same time, its designer and I share a pivotal body-proportion feature that another designer once told me was impossible (the one who insisted that I'd mismeasured myself).

I'm aware of two knitting designers who've self-described as having that specific issue with garment fit. We have a few things in common. Read more... )

The Halmoni Jacket WIP has its shoulder-saddles and its back panel, in closeout-clearance yarn of a hue no one else wanted (yet when my mother saw it without that commentary, she said immediately, "That's a great color for your hair," and I agree). No matter how the WIP fares, it's as close as this outlier is likely to get to a pattern that suits other people and perhaps also me.

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May. 16th, 2026 11:32 pm
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[community profile] briaru is a brand new community dedicated to the universe that contains Off-Campus, Briar U, and Campus Diaries series by Elle Kennedy including Elle Kennedy's other Hockey Romance novels such as the HIM and WAGs series (just because!) along with the new Amazon Prime TV series based on the universe, Off Campus!

Family gathering.

May. 16th, 2026 10:10 pm
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I know it's odd of me to not do the baby-talk voice to my niece A. when she's around, and I'm sticking with my usual register and cadence just the same.

Her mother didn't show, but she did call once when I was around to hear it - checking in to find out if my brother J. had fed A., and then hanging up. He'd apparently send her a text earlier, but she'd called, and after getting what she wanted, quickly hung up. I don't know her week's schedules, and I don't know what her day looked like. I can only state the events as I witnessed them.
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Title: 'When the Dreams that We've been After All Come True'
Author: [personal profile] but_can_i_be_trusted
Fandom: Pokemon Black 2/White 2
Characters: Rosa
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to [community profile] ficlet_zone and [community profile] whatif_au

Artist: Kim Carnes
Album: Flashdance OST
Song: 'I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is'

Summary: The kind of fame that Elesa holds, merely as a model, is fascinating.

When the Dreams that We've been After All Come True )
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Title: 'Well, I'd Tell Him that I'd Rather Die'
Author: [personal profile] but_can_i_be_trusted
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom/Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
Characters: Princess Zelda, Ganondorf
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Disturbing concepts; character death
Notes: Crossposted to [community profile] whatif_au and [community profile] ficlet_zone

Artist: Shandi Sinnamon
Album: Flashdance OST
Song: 'He's A Dream'

Summary: Taking a breath to steady her inner quaking, Zelda prepared herself.

Well, I'd Tell Him that I'd Rather Die )

Daily Happiness

May. 16th, 2026 06:35 pm
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1. I got my new bike set up today and took it out for a ride. It does seem to be really intuitive. I used it without assist for most of the ride, and turned the assist on for a grade that lead into a medium hill, and then later on a straight section that just had a lot of wind blowing at me, and it was very easy to just switch it on and off. Then I decided to try the big hill that I'd had to walk my bike up yesterday, and was able to get up it just fine, though I had to use the boost mode, which is specifically for hills. I went out again later with Carla, and she wasn't able to get up the hill at all, even with boost mode and had to walk the bike up. I'm not sure if it's just not possible at all because she's out of shape and even with the assist it was too much effort, or if there's some things we can tweak to make it work better.

2. It's been two weeks since Jasper had any pee incidents!

3. The granola bar guy at the farmers market had a new flavor, strawberry, and they're really good. I bought two after trying a sample.

4. We had set this blanket up on the sofa so that Chloe could get under it if she wanted to, and Ollie ended up going in there instead! He actually did this a couple times, even though he usually doesn't like to be under a blanket (unlike Chloe, who would like to spend her whole life under a blanket).

late spring in Wisconsin

May. 16th, 2026 08:19 pm
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Means stripping the flannel sheets off the bed and swapping them for summer weight cotton ones, washing the winter coat, and counting down the days until it's overwhelmingly likely that frost overnight is no longer a danger so plants can go outside. That benchmark is generally Memorial Day around here.

New life list catches over the last two days: Tennessee warbler (heard while cycling all over the near west side, and now Merlin is IDing them all over the place, so they must be passing through the area), blue-gray gnatcatcher, Cape May warbler, and Blackburnian warbler. I'd never heard of three of those four before! The latter three were heard while chasing DX at Lake Farm Park early this morning. The radio conditions may not have been great, but the dawn chorus certainly was! We were far from the only ones out with bird watching in mind, judging by the packed parking lot and the lady who came through swatting mosquitoes, explaining how she'd been chasing after a bird and later reappeared from a swampy area, though I'm pretty sure we were the only radio ops afoot. Yesterday's adventures on bike trails and residential roads had fellow cyclists, walkers, and joggers everywhere, and both sailboats and rowing crews were taking advantage of the weather on Lake Mendota. The lilacs are making this entire neighborhood smell divine. :)

All in all, it's been a great weekend so far. :) Just nobody spoil me for Eurovision, please? I want to find a youtube upload of the jury voting and watch it unspoiled if I possibly can. Come on, Croatia...

EmeraldGem of Bliss

May. 16th, 2026 07:49 pm
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I only got about 15 minutes of time in to work on the garden. I had to catch up with some cooking, and it took longer than I thought. I had suggested the Sparrowhawk could make some of his good stir fry, and he wanted to, but I knew it would take him all day if he had to do the whole thing himself. The fine motor control for all the chopping is a slow process. So I chopped up the onions, celery, peppers, mushrooms, and carrots myself, and put them in litle bowls like they do on TV, and I thawed the chicken and skinned it and cut it up ready to be marinated. He always steams the carrots a little bit first, and I remembered that I had some brussels sprouts that needed to be cooked as well, so I threw those in the steamer too. Then I chopped up some bacon to saute the brussels sprouts with, and thought I'd better cook up the rest of that package of bacon while I was at it.

Before we went to church, the Sparrowhawk marinated and cooked up everything, and made a pot of rice. I'm afraid it might still have been too much for him, because he had to sit down through most of church. But it was great to have dinner all ready to warm up and eat when we got home, and it was delicious as always. We watched the Preakness over dinner. I'm still having annoying fatigue, but I hauled myself back out to the kitchen and cut up my 12 pound pork shoulder, made the spice rub, and coated the pork with it, in preparation for the last potluck of the year tomorrow. Now it can sit in the refrigerator and go into the oven tomorrow. Then we relaxed, had some ice cream, and watched a five-star Grand Prix jump-off where Kent Farrington on Descartes beat out McLain Ward on High Star Hero and Shane Sweetnam on the inimitable James Kann Cruz by fractions of a second. It was much more exciting than the Preakness. While I cannot compare myself to those mighty equine machines, I got almost 7,000 steps today.

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May. 17th, 2026 10:56 am
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I finally finished my Yu Yu Hakusho rewatch:

- Yikes, the sexism. It's pretty bad. Yuusuke groping Keiko and flipping her skirt up in public early on is pretty awful.

- My other main takeaway is that everyone wants to kiss Yuusuke. Kurama definitely wants to kiss Yuusuke. Hiei maybe wants to roll around shirtless in the dirt with Yuusuke. Kuwabara wants to make sweet passionate bro love to Yuusuke and pretend he's still straight afterward. Everyone in the last arc all ooh he gets my blood fired up. Yeah, I'll bet.

Anyway, I don't actually ship anything, but I do think Kuwabara's crush on Yukina is pretty cute.

The first time I watched I didn't get why Kurama/Hiei was popular at all, and this time I saw it a little, but I still think they're only mildly shippy, but Kurama is definitely shippier with Yuusuke, and probably even more shippy with Kuwabara than with Hiei.

- LMAO, Kurama getting mistaken for Kuwabara's girlfriend.

- That Hong Kong action cinema influence is so obvious.

- So much of this is that Japanese anxiety about juvenile delinquents that was all over stuff in the 90s and early 00s and that you don't really see in new series. Also, anime just doesn't look like this anymore, so it's not really a surprise it's not as popular as it used to be.

I do think the Dark Tournament doesn't actually get interesting until the semi-finals and there's a lot of dull bits I hadn't remembered. That's probably why newer viewers are underwhelmed by what is always hyped up as the ~best tournament arc ever~. It's okay. Kurama v Karasu is still pretty good, and there's a bunch of great stuff at the end.

- Kurama is still my favourite, just like the first time I watched, but I would say Botan is my second fave now.

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May. 16th, 2026 07:40 pm
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accessing archived data (1045 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Tron - All Media Types, Tron (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tron/Yori (Tron)
Characters: Tron (Tron), Yori (Tron), Alan Bradley, Lora Baines-Bradley
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Established Relationship, Fluff and Angst, Long-Distance Relationship, Pre-Canon, Movie: Tron (1982), background rising fascism bc of the MCP, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Slice of Life
Summary:

Two paired programs communicate between their work cycles, and unknowingly document the beginning of a new era on the Encom System.

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May. 16th, 2026 05:30 pm
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Did some shopping at Market Hall today. They have good stuff there but they're expensive.

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