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valis2My eBay listings ended today, and it was not a good week, despite the extra cool things I put up, thinking it would be a good night to end on.
I am waaay behind in crafting things for people. And I'm completely engrossed in my tLS revisions. I've uploaded up to chapter 70 everywhere at this point, so only five more chapters and I'm pretty much finished with the revision project, except for the LJ comm, which needs 15 chapters, and also needs links put into every chapter, and a chapter index. I swear, every archive has something which needs extra attention.
Fanfictionnet eats the "***" I used to use for scene changes. I'm going to switch to horizontal rules permanently from now on, as I just had to go through all of the chapters and manually add the breaks. Other than that, they're the easiest archive to fix. Fic Alley is pretty damned easy, except they have this weird blank page bug which means I have to open a new tab for each chapter. SH and the Archive require HTML-ready prose, and I went back and switched the *** to HRs as well, just to make everything pretty. The LJ comm is pretty simple, except for the linking edits which will take a few hours, I'm certain.
Anyway, still trying to dispel the blahs. I'm feeling a bit pressured...I just wish I had more time, just like everyone else on Earth wishes.
Had a nice Christmas, except for passive-aggressive grandmother, who brought a) no gifts, and b) no cards. She claimed this year that it was because she could never go shopping, and that she never goes anywhere. Of course, she doesn't realize that we know that her friends take her shopping once a week, and that she spends all sorts of money on QVC crap. She always has a new plate or a new whatever.
Look, I don't care about the presents. She gives the crappiest gifts, honestly. (And multiple times.) What really got to me is that all evening she kept saying, "You need to come over. I want to take you all out for dinner." So her new idea for a "gift" is to get us to come over, in her usual manipulative way. From any other person, it wouldn't be a big deal, but from her, it's ugly. And my dad's brother was there, and he even brought her a gift even though he's not related, and she was absolutely relentless about it to him, which embarrassed the hell out of all of us, for a variety of reasons. She kept mentioning it, too, to everyone, and even though I know it's because she can't remember things, it's still annoying.
Anyway, capon turned out well, everything was yummy, and the gift-giving went fairly well. I scaled back this year, and no one else did, so I felt very embarrassed, but in the end, it's all about the love. Even for grandma...
I am waaay behind in crafting things for people. And I'm completely engrossed in my tLS revisions. I've uploaded up to chapter 70 everywhere at this point, so only five more chapters and I'm pretty much finished with the revision project, except for the LJ comm, which needs 15 chapters, and also needs links put into every chapter, and a chapter index. I swear, every archive has something which needs extra attention.
Fanfictionnet eats the "***" I used to use for scene changes. I'm going to switch to horizontal rules permanently from now on, as I just had to go through all of the chapters and manually add the breaks. Other than that, they're the easiest archive to fix. Fic Alley is pretty damned easy, except they have this weird blank page bug which means I have to open a new tab for each chapter. SH and the Archive require HTML-ready prose, and I went back and switched the *** to HRs as well, just to make everything pretty. The LJ comm is pretty simple, except for the linking edits which will take a few hours, I'm certain.
Anyway, still trying to dispel the blahs. I'm feeling a bit pressured...I just wish I had more time, just like everyone else on Earth wishes.
Had a nice Christmas, except for passive-aggressive grandmother, who brought a) no gifts, and b) no cards. She claimed this year that it was because she could never go shopping, and that she never goes anywhere. Of course, she doesn't realize that we know that her friends take her shopping once a week, and that she spends all sorts of money on QVC crap. She always has a new plate or a new whatever.
Look, I don't care about the presents. She gives the crappiest gifts, honestly. (And multiple times.) What really got to me is that all evening she kept saying, "You need to come over. I want to take you all out for dinner." So her new idea for a "gift" is to get us to come over, in her usual manipulative way. From any other person, it wouldn't be a big deal, but from her, it's ugly. And my dad's brother was there, and he even brought her a gift even though he's not related, and she was absolutely relentless about it to him, which embarrassed the hell out of all of us, for a variety of reasons. She kept mentioning it, too, to everyone, and even though I know it's because she can't remember things, it's still annoying.
Anyway, capon turned out well, everything was yummy, and the gift-giving went fairly well. I scaled back this year, and no one else did, so I felt very embarrassed, but in the end, it's all about the love. Even for grandma...
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Date: 2006-12-28 03:01 pm (UTC)Grandma can fuck herself. Seriously.
Dude, I was so drunk when I wrote that. [laughs]