Georgetown In Less Than A Week
Nov. 6th, 2024 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senashentaI am still, somehow, miraculously, ahead on my TKA NaNo project (30 pages and 13,716 words) and I am ECSTATIC OVER THIS but also still somewhat waiting for the other shoe to drop like?? o__o;; Anyway, today Mom and I are going up to Baysville for our last run there for moving stuff, so I likely won't get much done today BUT YESTERDAY AND THE DAY BEFORE I wrote DOUBLE what I needed to (1,667 words is the minimum each day), PLUS I've been working on other stuff as well. SO.
Yesterday I finished Nightingale which is, I'm not gonna lie here, like 95% porn. IT'S ABOUT A SUCCUBUS "HUNT" WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME? And apparently even angels are subject to their sway. Poor Dean and Cas, seriously, they get their steps in, so to speak. Sam just gets laid like... half a time and it's with a monster so it doesn't really count. XD;; Anyway, like there is smut in most of the Horror High/Storm Season series but Nightingale really takes the cake. And as usual I just wrote it totally straight-faced and unaffected honestly being ace is so weird sometimes.
ALSO. The post-SS fic count has gone up. Again. I have just stopped numbering Halcyon Days and Stalagmites because I keep having to re-number them to make room for more fics, since they're the last two. *facepalm* So basically the post-SS breakdown goes like this now:
1) When Lightning Strikes (elemental/demons)
2) Ghost In The Machine (ghost)
3) Pinfeathers (no monster)
4) Teeth (tooth fairy)
5) Nightingale (succubus)
6) Temper Tantrums (poltergeist)
7) Hunting Souls (demons/hellhounds)
8) Shrike (uh... "shrike")
9) Echoes (witchcraft?)
10) Day Drinking (ghouls)
11) Mockingbird (uh... "mockingbird")
12) Crawlspace (ghost... ish thing)
13) Kindling (nightmare)
14) What Angels Dream (djinn)
15) Run. Hide. Die. (hydra)
16) Hollow Things (RABID WEREWOLVES)
17) The Desert Tide (kelpies)
Halcyon Days (vampires at the very end)
Stalagmites (no monster)
AND PROBABLY MORE THIS SERIES IS GOING TO FOLLOW ME UNTIL I DIE. (But no seriously, if I do ONE MORE it'll take it to an even twenty and my brain likes twenty because it is a multiple of five, so maybe I can just do that?? Then again, if that was the case, what happened to FIVE and TEN and FIFTEEN??) idk just this entire series has gotten away from me and I have to rein it in somehow or I'm going to be writing it FOREVER. :|
Anyway, I skipped over Teeth to write Nightingale (which came in a little short for one of these one-shots at 26 pages and 12,226 words), so next I need to go back to writing Teeth. I'm about 22 pages and 9,945 words into it, but I still have a ways to go before it'll be done. Plus I'm working on TKA at the same time, so splitting my time means the post-SS one-shots are getting done slower than they normally would be, but I have until like halfway through February before I have to start posting them, and I'm already done the first three (though Ghost In The Machine and Pinfeathers need editing still), so I'm ahead of the game, there. *shrug*
I have a Pinterest board for the HH/SS/etc series now, but I'm not organizing it, it's just pins related to the whole expansive series in one big lump. Still, it's something. I just REALLY recently got into Pinterest and I'm finding it SUPER helpful in visualization of my projects. I have a TKA board, too, and one for Freefall, and one for Where Monsters Come From, and the beginning of one for Pelts For Pounds, the next book in the TKA series. Yeah, I've been making use of it. But it can also eat up a shocking amount of time, like you get lost in Pinterest and the next thing you know it's been two hours and you're like "what just happened" so I have to be very aware of that when I go to tinker with pins.
.....
Today when we get back from Baysville I need to remember to get out my glue gun and fix the wreath on the front door. One of the pumpkins fell off it about a month ago and I just haven't gotten around to fixing it, but I need to do it before it's time to put it away and get out the Christmas one, so some time soon. Hopefully I'll remember this afternoon.
Kaida is doing well, and seems to like his new hide and all the new plants that give him hidey-holes to hunker down it. But he's also taken to sleeping RIGHT out in the open in the area where I feed him (which makes sense, he's just waiting for the inevitable incoming foodz) which meant a couple days ago I dropped his pellets in and they landed ON HIM and scared the bejeezes out of him and he went ZOOMING off. I laughed so hard. I mean, I'm sorry, buddy, but if you're going to sleep IN THE DROP ZONE, expect INCOMING FOOD. XD;; Silly thing.
I have to clean his tank out this afternoon, like a really deep clean, and he's not going to like it but it needs to be done. And there's a buildup of ick on the glass that I can get off the FRONT, because I have a magnetic glass cleaner there, but I can't really get to the sides or back because I can't reach and also because Dean and Sam are in the way. =/ I'll have to problem solve this pretty quick before Kaida's tank becomes a cesspool.
The woman I got Kaida from still hasn't messaged me back about getting a second axolotl from her, and I'm kind of going... you know... if you don't have any left, that's fine, just please send me a quick email to let me know at least? Because I'm kind of left hanging, here. I'm going to message her again today and see if she replies this time, and if not then I'll just assume she hasn't got any more axolotls and put the money toward something else. *shrug* It's going to be a pain trying to find another 'lotl the same size as Kaida in the future, but I mean. It is what it is, I guess. Mom didn't want to drive to Elmvale again, anyway.
This coming Sunday Mom and I (and probably Lee) are driving down to Georgetown with the last of my storage stuff to pack it away in the barn at Dad's place. Literally, I TOLD EVERYONE that all my stuff wasn't going to fit in the 10'x12' shed my Uncle was building but no one would believe me, and now we have possibly TWO SUVfulls of stuff to take to Georgetown, and that's AFTER throwing out my couch and my love seat because of the mice. =/
It'll be nice to see Dad and (hopefully) Lois again, though, and I'm hoping to take their Christmas presents down with me when we go, too, to get that out of the way. I still need to buy a gift card for Lois, though, which might have to wait, so I might not be able to do it after all. I think it'll depend on the whole axolotl situation.
I DO plan on buying them tea at the Tim Horton's around the corner from their place, though, because this is a BIG ASK and the least I can do is buy some freaking tea for them, right? Also coffee for Mom and a pop for Lee (if he comes; Mom has high hopes that we can fit everything into one vehicle which like PFFT NOT GONNA HAPPEN but whatever.) But yes, just generally drinks for everyone involved. :|
EDIT: Ang, the lady I got Kaida from, got back to me finally! (She was out of town/cell phone range.) So next week Mom and I are going back to Elmvale to hopefully pick up a friend for Kaida! "Hopefully" because if the 'lotls she has left are all girls I'm BONED. BUT she also offered me a second FREE 'LOTL because she's having so much trouble finding good homes for them, so if they are both boys I will have THREE of them come this time next week! So exciting!!
Yesterday I finished Nightingale which is, I'm not gonna lie here, like 95% porn. IT'S ABOUT A SUCCUBUS "HUNT" WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME? And apparently even angels are subject to their sway. Poor Dean and Cas, seriously, they get their steps in, so to speak. Sam just gets laid like... half a time and it's with a monster so it doesn't really count. XD;; Anyway, like there is smut in most of the Horror High/Storm Season series but Nightingale really takes the cake. And as usual I just wrote it totally straight-faced and unaffected honestly being ace is so weird sometimes.
ALSO. The post-SS fic count has gone up. Again. I have just stopped numbering Halcyon Days and Stalagmites because I keep having to re-number them to make room for more fics, since they're the last two. *facepalm* So basically the post-SS breakdown goes like this now:
1) When Lightning Strikes (elemental/demons)
2) Ghost In The Machine (ghost)
3) Pinfeathers (no monster)
4) Teeth (tooth fairy)
5) Nightingale (succubus)
6) Temper Tantrums (poltergeist)
7) Hunting Souls (demons/hellhounds)
8) Shrike (uh... "shrike")
9) Echoes (witchcraft?)
10) Day Drinking (ghouls)
11) Mockingbird (uh... "mockingbird")
12) Crawlspace (ghost... ish thing)
13) Kindling (nightmare)
14) What Angels Dream (djinn)
15) Run. Hide. Die. (hydra)
16) Hollow Things (RABID WEREWOLVES)
17) The Desert Tide (kelpies)
Halcyon Days (vampires at the very end)
Stalagmites (no monster)
AND PROBABLY MORE THIS SERIES IS GOING TO FOLLOW ME UNTIL I DIE. (But no seriously, if I do ONE MORE it'll take it to an even twenty and my brain likes twenty because it is a multiple of five, so maybe I can just do that?? Then again, if that was the case, what happened to FIVE and TEN and FIFTEEN??) idk just this entire series has gotten away from me and I have to rein it in somehow or I'm going to be writing it FOREVER. :|
Anyway, I skipped over Teeth to write Nightingale (which came in a little short for one of these one-shots at 26 pages and 12,226 words), so next I need to go back to writing Teeth. I'm about 22 pages and 9,945 words into it, but I still have a ways to go before it'll be done. Plus I'm working on TKA at the same time, so splitting my time means the post-SS one-shots are getting done slower than they normally would be, but I have until like halfway through February before I have to start posting them, and I'm already done the first three (though Ghost In The Machine and Pinfeathers need editing still), so I'm ahead of the game, there. *shrug*
I have a Pinterest board for the HH/SS/etc series now, but I'm not organizing it, it's just pins related to the whole expansive series in one big lump. Still, it's something. I just REALLY recently got into Pinterest and I'm finding it SUPER helpful in visualization of my projects. I have a TKA board, too, and one for Freefall, and one for Where Monsters Come From, and the beginning of one for Pelts For Pounds, the next book in the TKA series. Yeah, I've been making use of it. But it can also eat up a shocking amount of time, like you get lost in Pinterest and the next thing you know it's been two hours and you're like "what just happened" so I have to be very aware of that when I go to tinker with pins.
.....
Today when we get back from Baysville I need to remember to get out my glue gun and fix the wreath on the front door. One of the pumpkins fell off it about a month ago and I just haven't gotten around to fixing it, but I need to do it before it's time to put it away and get out the Christmas one, so some time soon. Hopefully I'll remember this afternoon.
Kaida is doing well, and seems to like his new hide and all the new plants that give him hidey-holes to hunker down it. But he's also taken to sleeping RIGHT out in the open in the area where I feed him (which makes sense, he's just waiting for the inevitable incoming foodz) which meant a couple days ago I dropped his pellets in and they landed ON HIM and scared the bejeezes out of him and he went ZOOMING off. I laughed so hard. I mean, I'm sorry, buddy, but if you're going to sleep IN THE DROP ZONE, expect INCOMING FOOD. XD;; Silly thing.
I have to clean his tank out this afternoon, like a really deep clean, and he's not going to like it but it needs to be done. And there's a buildup of ick on the glass that I can get off the FRONT, because I have a magnetic glass cleaner there, but I can't really get to the sides or back because I can't reach and also because Dean and Sam are in the way. =/ I'll have to problem solve this pretty quick before Kaida's tank becomes a cesspool.
The woman I got Kaida from still hasn't messaged me back about getting a second axolotl from her, and I'm kind of going... you know... if you don't have any left, that's fine, just please send me a quick email to let me know at least? Because I'm kind of left hanging, here. I'm going to message her again today and see if she replies this time, and if not then I'll just assume she hasn't got any more axolotls and put the money toward something else. *shrug* It's going to be a pain trying to find another 'lotl the same size as Kaida in the future, but I mean. It is what it is, I guess. Mom didn't want to drive to Elmvale again, anyway.
This coming Sunday Mom and I (and probably Lee) are driving down to Georgetown with the last of my storage stuff to pack it away in the barn at Dad's place. Literally, I TOLD EVERYONE that all my stuff wasn't going to fit in the 10'x12' shed my Uncle was building but no one would believe me, and now we have possibly TWO SUVfulls of stuff to take to Georgetown, and that's AFTER throwing out my couch and my love seat because of the mice. =/
It'll be nice to see Dad and (hopefully) Lois again, though, and I'm hoping to take their Christmas presents down with me when we go, too, to get that out of the way. I still need to buy a gift card for Lois, though, which might have to wait, so I might not be able to do it after all. I think it'll depend on the whole axolotl situation.
I DO plan on buying them tea at the Tim Horton's around the corner from their place, though, because this is a BIG ASK and the least I can do is buy some freaking tea for them, right? Also coffee for Mom and a pop for Lee (if he comes; Mom has high hopes that we can fit everything into one vehicle which like PFFT NOT GONNA HAPPEN but whatever.) But yes, just generally drinks for everyone involved. :|
EDIT: Ang, the lady I got Kaida from, got back to me finally! (She was out of town/cell phone range.) So next week Mom and I are going back to Elmvale to hopefully pick up a friend for Kaida! "Hopefully" because if the 'lotls she has left are all girls I'm BONED. BUT she also offered me a second FREE 'LOTL because she's having so much trouble finding good homes for them, so if they are both boys I will have THREE of them come this time next week! So exciting!!
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