Multitudes
Nov. 27th, 2024 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senashentaI got used to writing in this thing every day, there, but the last couple weeks I've been bad at updating. I've been doing lots of WRITING, just not in my journal. I think because I'm depressed over a great many things right now and I just... don't have it in me at the moment. It's kind of a Catch-22 because writing in my journal and venting usually helps me work things out, so by not doing it I'm just making things worse. I dunno.
Today I had a large Amazon order come in. It had two filters for the axolotl aquarium, some axolotl food and dechlorination tablets for the axolotls, and three DVDs (Deadpool And Wolverine for me, Fighting With My Family for Lee for Christmas and the Dune duology for Christmas for Mom), a new photo album since mine is almost full, some bails for working on my brother's Christmas present, two tiny glass Christmas trees (one for me and one for Mom for Christmas), a tiny sewing tape measure (for Mom for Christmas) and like five tubs of Chupa-Chups lollipops.
I've got one of the new axolotl filters up and running already. I've had a problem with gunk accumulating at the surface of the water, and this filter has a surface skimmer so hopefully it'll solve that problem. I still need to figure out the root cause of it, but I think part of it is that I need to clean the foam underwater filters. Or, at least, one of them, definitely, so I might as well do them both. I should probably also do like a 50% water change, but I couldn't do it until I had the dechlorination tablets. So.
Like I said, I've been doing a lot of writing the last while, the same as ever since I went on my ADHD meds. I'm working on TKA again, I can't remember if I mentioned that in my last entry or not, so that's good. Turns out I basically deviated from the outline I originally wrote ENTIRELY, and only the bones of TKA are the same. That's fine, though, it's still turning into something great, imo.
Other than that, I've been working on the post-SS stuff, and we're up to 30 post-SS one-shots which is RIDICULOUS but also kind of awesome. I wish I could work on them in the right order, though, like I have the first 5 (When Lightning Strikes, Ghost In The Machine, Pinfeathers, Teeth & Nightingale) done, and I'm tinkering with 6 (Temper Tantrums) and 7 (Hunting Souls), but I'm REALLY working on 28 (Wayward Daughters) right now which might as well be the last one because Halcyon Days and Serendipity are largely fluff.
Wayward Daughters is a genderbend fic, though, and while I'm finding the pronouns mostly easy to remember (I've slipped up a few times but always catch myself, though I'm sure I'll find some mistakes when I go back to edit it), I'm... struggling a little writing a f/f Destiel smut scene because my brain is going like WTF!! with two exclamation marks. Also it's my first time writing f/f for anything more than just making out. :| But like also you knew it had to happen because Dean and Cas so like ahaha.
Tonight I might work more on TKA or Wayward Daughters, or I might dig out my jewelry making stuff and start on the bracelets for my brother's Christmas gift, assuming I can find the right BEADS because I literally can't order more of them right now because of the mail strike. I was lucky I was able to find the bails and the charms on Amazon as it is. Goddamn fucking postal strike. Grr.
Today I made banana bread and I used my Best Banana Bread Ever recipe but I made it with whole wheat flour instead, and idk if that will have ruined it or not. It's currently cooling on the counter, but Lee is already circling, so I guess we'll see before the night is out!
I downloaded Venom: The Last Dance the other day but I haven't watched it yet, I just haven't been in the mood. I also have the new episode of Brilliant Minds to watch as well. Still writing that House/Brilliant Minds crossover, btw, I'm thinking on plot ideas even while I work on other stuff.
This morning I bought a bunch of books off Thriftbooks.com. I haven't gone there in a while. Anyway, I picked up several for Grandma:
-When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
-Gorillas in the Mist
-The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story With Wings
-Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter
-Alex & Me
-The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds
-Living Free
-A Zoo in my Luggage
-The Whispering Land
-Menagerie Manor
And I grabbed a few for myself as well:
-Supernatural: Children of Anubis
-In The Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural
-Fell
-The Raven Boys
-The Dream Thieves
-Lily Blue, Lily Blue
-The Raven King
There was another SPN related book that I wanted but when I tried to add it to my basket it like... disappeared entirely. :D;; I'll have to go back and look for it again later, I guess. My copy of Feuds (the newest Valdemar anthology) came in yesterday, which was nice. I preordered it months ago.
Also, I went on AliExpress and ordered a doll to be new!Wren. Unfortunately, the doll that I had originally picked out for her was no longer available, so I had to do some shopping to find a suitable one again, but I think I managed it. We''ll see when she eventually gets here who-knows-when, again, because of the stupid postal strike. Like, dick move to pull this shit RIGHT at Christmas time, you guys. >:[
But yeah, looking forward to new!Wren, and if I dress her up like Wren and it just doesn't FIT, you know, then she can become a different character and I'll keep looking for Wren. It really is too bad that the doll I had originally picked out isn't available anymore, because she was PERFECT and had the SLIIIIGHTLY darker skin-tone that I was originally looking for for Wren.
Speaking of Wren, I need just a plain t-shirt for her to go with the corset I paid an obscene amount of money for. Also a long, flowy black skirt.
Oh, and I nabbed myself a NaNoWriMo mug from the website, to celebrate my winning the NaNo this year. I won't buy something every year that I win (because I'm sure I will again), but this was my first year since trying almost every year since 2003, so I'm kind of jazzed. I wanted a memento.
I want to celebrate the whole NaNo thing with Poe, but they still aren't responding to my emails or messages. When I sent that email to cool off our friendship for their sake, I didn't mean that we shouldn't be friends AT ALL, but that seems to be the way they took it, and looking back at the email I guess I can see why. But no matter what I try to tell them about it I get nothing back, just radio silence.
They won't even message me their new address so I can send their werewolf plush when it eventually comes in. They didn't bother to tell me they'd moved until AFTER I'd already mailed an EXPENSIVE parcel to the wrong address in October, and I had told them ahead of time I was going to mail it. Not telling me and letting me spend $125 to send it to the wrong place was kind of mean, actually.
I'm about to message them again to let them know that their werewolf will be even later coming in thanks to the postal strike, but I'm not expecting a response.
Anyway. I guess that's it for now.
Today I had a large Amazon order come in. It had two filters for the axolotl aquarium, some axolotl food and dechlorination tablets for the axolotls, and three DVDs (Deadpool And Wolverine for me, Fighting With My Family for Lee for Christmas and the Dune duology for Christmas for Mom), a new photo album since mine is almost full, some bails for working on my brother's Christmas present, two tiny glass Christmas trees (one for me and one for Mom for Christmas), a tiny sewing tape measure (for Mom for Christmas) and like five tubs of Chupa-Chups lollipops.
I've got one of the new axolotl filters up and running already. I've had a problem with gunk accumulating at the surface of the water, and this filter has a surface skimmer so hopefully it'll solve that problem. I still need to figure out the root cause of it, but I think part of it is that I need to clean the foam underwater filters. Or, at least, one of them, definitely, so I might as well do them both. I should probably also do like a 50% water change, but I couldn't do it until I had the dechlorination tablets. So.
Like I said, I've been doing a lot of writing the last while, the same as ever since I went on my ADHD meds. I'm working on TKA again, I can't remember if I mentioned that in my last entry or not, so that's good. Turns out I basically deviated from the outline I originally wrote ENTIRELY, and only the bones of TKA are the same. That's fine, though, it's still turning into something great, imo.
Other than that, I've been working on the post-SS stuff, and we're up to 30 post-SS one-shots which is RIDICULOUS but also kind of awesome. I wish I could work on them in the right order, though, like I have the first 5 (When Lightning Strikes, Ghost In The Machine, Pinfeathers, Teeth & Nightingale) done, and I'm tinkering with 6 (Temper Tantrums) and 7 (Hunting Souls), but I'm REALLY working on 28 (Wayward Daughters) right now which might as well be the last one because Halcyon Days and Serendipity are largely fluff.
Wayward Daughters is a genderbend fic, though, and while I'm finding the pronouns mostly easy to remember (I've slipped up a few times but always catch myself, though I'm sure I'll find some mistakes when I go back to edit it), I'm... struggling a little writing a f/f Destiel smut scene because my brain is going like WTF!! with two exclamation marks. Also it's my first time writing f/f for anything more than just making out. :| But like also you knew it had to happen because Dean and Cas so like ahaha.
Tonight I might work more on TKA or Wayward Daughters, or I might dig out my jewelry making stuff and start on the bracelets for my brother's Christmas gift, assuming I can find the right BEADS because I literally can't order more of them right now because of the mail strike. I was lucky I was able to find the bails and the charms on Amazon as it is. Goddamn fucking postal strike. Grr.
Today I made banana bread and I used my Best Banana Bread Ever recipe but I made it with whole wheat flour instead, and idk if that will have ruined it or not. It's currently cooling on the counter, but Lee is already circling, so I guess we'll see before the night is out!
I downloaded Venom: The Last Dance the other day but I haven't watched it yet, I just haven't been in the mood. I also have the new episode of Brilliant Minds to watch as well. Still writing that House/Brilliant Minds crossover, btw, I'm thinking on plot ideas even while I work on other stuff.
This morning I bought a bunch of books off Thriftbooks.com. I haven't gone there in a while. Anyway, I picked up several for Grandma:
-When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
-Gorillas in the Mist
-The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story With Wings
-Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter
-Alex & Me
-The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds
-Living Free
-A Zoo in my Luggage
-The Whispering Land
-Menagerie Manor
And I grabbed a few for myself as well:
-Supernatural: Children of Anubis
-In The Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural
-Fell
-The Raven Boys
-The Dream Thieves
-Lily Blue, Lily Blue
-The Raven King
There was another SPN related book that I wanted but when I tried to add it to my basket it like... disappeared entirely. :D;; I'll have to go back and look for it again later, I guess. My copy of Feuds (the newest Valdemar anthology) came in yesterday, which was nice. I preordered it months ago.
Also, I went on AliExpress and ordered a doll to be new!Wren. Unfortunately, the doll that I had originally picked out for her was no longer available, so I had to do some shopping to find a suitable one again, but I think I managed it. We''ll see when she eventually gets here who-knows-when, again, because of the stupid postal strike. Like, dick move to pull this shit RIGHT at Christmas time, you guys. >:[
But yeah, looking forward to new!Wren, and if I dress her up like Wren and it just doesn't FIT, you know, then she can become a different character and I'll keep looking for Wren. It really is too bad that the doll I had originally picked out isn't available anymore, because she was PERFECT and had the SLIIIIGHTLY darker skin-tone that I was originally looking for for Wren.
Speaking of Wren, I need just a plain t-shirt for her to go with the corset I paid an obscene amount of money for. Also a long, flowy black skirt.
Oh, and I nabbed myself a NaNoWriMo mug from the website, to celebrate my winning the NaNo this year. I won't buy something every year that I win (because I'm sure I will again), but this was my first year since trying almost every year since 2003, so I'm kind of jazzed. I wanted a memento.
I want to celebrate the whole NaNo thing with Poe, but they still aren't responding to my emails or messages. When I sent that email to cool off our friendship for their sake, I didn't mean that we shouldn't be friends AT ALL, but that seems to be the way they took it, and looking back at the email I guess I can see why. But no matter what I try to tell them about it I get nothing back, just radio silence.
They won't even message me their new address so I can send their werewolf plush when it eventually comes in. They didn't bother to tell me they'd moved until AFTER I'd already mailed an EXPENSIVE parcel to the wrong address in October, and I had told them ahead of time I was going to mail it. Not telling me and letting me spend $125 to send it to the wrong place was kind of mean, actually.
I'm about to message them again to let them know that their werewolf will be even later coming in thanks to the postal strike, but I'm not expecting a response.
Anyway. I guess that's it for now.
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