State of the valis union
Dec. 23rd, 2006 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valis2Completely forgot about Snupin chat today, am so bummed, beyond belief, because of fest reasons...I love discussing fest fics there, and this would have been a great chance to hear lots of fun stuff. Wah. Too bad there isn't a transcript available.
Have wrapped gifts, but still have crafting to do to round it all out.
I special ordered two eight pound capons for Christmas Day. I special ordered them a week ago. Now that I have purchased them ($91 total) I find out that my uncle is unable to attend, and that other people aren't attending as well, and I could have easily gotten away with one. Damnit. So I'm putting the other in the freezer for another special occasion. My grandmother is also attempting to get out of it by using Passive-Aggressive Level 5 behavior; namely, telling my mother that she doesn't want to "intrude" on our celebration, that her granddaughters never call or see her, and that she'll just spend it with her friends. Y'know, I almost wish she would just stay home.
Have done major work on the revision of tLS. I am revised up through 64, I think (75 chapters total), and have uploaded through chapter 60 on fanfictionnet, fiction alley, and SH. Now to finish on the Archive at the End of the Universe, though it's kind of like, why, because no one ever reviews almost anything there. I also dropped three more stories at SH. I am hoping to get a few more readers for some of my drabbly stuff there...it's all been languishing at the Archive, with few reviews or hits, and I was thinking that SH readers might be interested.
Am kind of down, just a little. I feel anxious. This year I was gone from home for 148 days; next year I will be gone for 115 days just in the first six months. I'm starting to feel my tension levels rise, because I'm leaving in mid-January. I'm trying to enjoy my time home, but I just feel like...I have too much to do, and I keep wasting time on other things. I hate feeling like this. It's a cross between guilt and stress and enjoying lazy pursuits.
Enough whining. Back to the crafting desk...
Have wrapped gifts, but still have crafting to do to round it all out.
I special ordered two eight pound capons for Christmas Day. I special ordered them a week ago. Now that I have purchased them ($91 total) I find out that my uncle is unable to attend, and that other people aren't attending as well, and I could have easily gotten away with one. Damnit. So I'm putting the other in the freezer for another special occasion. My grandmother is also attempting to get out of it by using Passive-Aggressive Level 5 behavior; namely, telling my mother that she doesn't want to "intrude" on our celebration, that her granddaughters never call or see her, and that she'll just spend it with her friends. Y'know, I almost wish she would just stay home.
Have done major work on the revision of tLS. I am revised up through 64, I think (75 chapters total), and have uploaded through chapter 60 on fanfictionnet, fiction alley, and SH. Now to finish on the Archive at the End of the Universe, though it's kind of like, why, because no one ever reviews almost anything there. I also dropped three more stories at SH. I am hoping to get a few more readers for some of my drabbly stuff there...it's all been languishing at the Archive, with few reviews or hits, and I was thinking that SH readers might be interested.
Am kind of down, just a little. I feel anxious. This year I was gone from home for 148 days; next year I will be gone for 115 days just in the first six months. I'm starting to feel my tension levels rise, because I'm leaving in mid-January. I'm trying to enjoy my time home, but I just feel like...I have too much to do, and I keep wasting time on other things. I hate feeling like this. It's a cross between guilt and stress and enjoying lazy pursuits.
Enough whining. Back to the crafting desk...
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Date: 2006-12-24 07:01 pm (UTC)What are those things made of? Holy cow.
And what? No excuses about "the birds" this time?
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Date: 2006-12-25 02:29 am (UTC)I am totally hooked on capons now. ;)
And, no, she's stepped up her game. She's making it sound like we're not her family anymore. I overheard my mom talking to her on the phone, and while I could only hear my mom's side of the convo, it was extremely difficult not to just grab the phone and say "YOU ARE GOING TO COME OVER AND HAVE CAPON WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT." She's already moaning and whining about what a bother it is to pick her up and that she'll just spend the time with her friends.
Argh!!
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Date: 2006-12-26 01:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-26 04:28 pm (UTC)But what she'll do is tell them how OMG MEEN we are and then they'll feel sorry for her and drag her ass to their place. It's her favorite ploy...the 'feel sorry for me' crap.