Projects And Such

This morning I wrote a 6-page Taidan smut scene that will never see the light of day because TKA is aimed at YA audiences. It was somehow both really satisfying to write, and also felt pointless, so it was like... well, I've done that now I guess. I'll just tuck it in the back of the TKA binder For My Eyes Only and be happy with that. I guess I just felt that after everything Tyler and Aidan have been through they deserved to enjoy each other properly. *shrug*

This morning I also added six new projects to my NaNo profile, all of them Valdemar and all of them with over a year for a Complete By date: Brothers At Arms, Marionette and Fallout (all chaptered) as well as Wander, Not Horses and Graceless (which are all one-shots. I think. Sometimes these things have a way of getting away from me haha.)

That's about all I've done this morning, even though I woke up at 5am. I just watched/listened to Dr. Mike Reacts videos and working intermittently on wiggly foxes. I'm almost done my Christmas one (Holly) and the first (test) one of the bunch that I'm doing for my brother for Christmas. Oh, and I did another coat of glow-in-the-dark paint on the green fox, too. I still need to do the GITD paint on the blue one, too. And my ENTIRE idea for my belated Halloween one (Candy Corn) has been revamped, so now I have to... not start from SCRATCH, really, but change some stuff, which is a pain. :P

Last night I took the axolotl tank apart and cleaned it out thoroughly, and while Kaida freaked out a little and was Not Pleased, Haku and Ryuu like FREAKED OUT because it was their first time dealing with it. They hid FOREVER after ward. I think Haku might STILL be hiding, though I saw Kaida and Ryuu out this morning around breakfast time.

The only problem was the tank was extra dirty this time (I was a day late cleaning it), and taking everything out so I could vacuum it out stirred everything up into the water, so after I was done cleaning and put all the hides back into the tank, all the floating particulates sank back down and coated the bottom again. NOT as bad as before, but still. I was like BOO. I guess I'll clean it again tonight and try to get it up to par again. I also have to take the sponges off the filters and clean them out as well.

Yep, life as a 'lotl Mom. :D

This afternoon I think I'm going to make some bread pudding, since we've had the milk to make it in the house for like two weeks now and I found the recipe when I was organizing my recipes binder the other day before I baked cookies. Also, we have a MILLION bread crusts taking up room in the back of the fridge right now, so if I can get some of them used up that's good. I also kind of want to make banana bread, too, though, so idk idk idk I'll figure it out.

I keep periodically emailing Poe but never get a reply, and I've been keeping an eye on them on Insta, and they deleted their Insta a little while back, I probably mentioned it here. They do that when they're going through a hard time, just delete all their social media, so I was worried, but a couple days ago they popped back up on Insta again. And apparently they're having computer problems (as in: they don't have one atm), so that could possibly be part of why they haven't replied to my last handful of emails, because I know they don't do email on their phone. So, I left them a message on Insta.

I guess we'll see if that flies or not, but I'm not getting my hopes up anymore.

Oh, and last night I watched Red One and I THOROUGHLY enjoyed it, except that Chris Exans character didn't join Santa's secret security at the end of the movie. I was like booooooo at that because I felt that was the natural progression. But oh well! Otherwise it was a really good movie, even if it did suffer terribly from being a Christmas film. XD