I won’t be doing a year-end recap. I don’t particularly enjoy spewing negativity into the world and can’t put a positive spin on another terrible year in a long line of terrible years[efn_note]I think this is year seven of this particularly grim phase. If we blame it on Saturn’s quarter cycle, we can say there
A couple months ago, I made a double batch of orange cinnamon rolls, wrapped up one pan, and threw it in the freezer. I took it out to thaw today because I’ve earned no-effort sugar and gluten. That’s right, kiddies. This round of revision is done! 🥳 *arthritic twerking*
I missed the first 20 minutes of John Wick 2 the only time I had an opportunity to watch it and had no idea what it was supposed to be about, so I headcanoned that Keanu was at odds with Common for being unworthy of Queen Latifah in a different movie.[efn_note]Just Wright. (Also currently on
Look, I worked in healthcare for 20 years. I have a body of knowledge and first-hand anecdotes that are terrifying before applying imagination. This is incredibly useful for maintaining my social obligations at a tolerable level.
I bought a dozen composition notebooks in different colors for Project Notebooks rather than my habitual Compost Heap of Ideas, which eventually requires a full day to organize before it reaches critical mass. I cleaned my “desk” (the dining room table), which involved organizing and culling the latest Compost Heap of Ideas, kept a scratch
I ordered myself a $50 treat (a year’s supply of tea) with my “sorry we got caught ripping you off for years, here’s a sliver of your money back” class action settlement. It was delivered somewhere else, which I know because I was doing yardwork that whole day, had my eye out for the truck
A Duolingo lesson was suspiciously insistent that rabbits aren’t dangerous, to which I forcefully responded, “Only rabbits can eat you!” When I googled that to see where it came from, there were ZERO results on the entire wide worldly web—not a near match, not a did-you-mean, nothing. I’m wondering if it was a pre-internet garage
I am having a saga surrounding a publishing project unrelated to this one. The store I expected to be delayed because my account wasn’t approved until 2 days after I’d uploaded everywhere else had the book live 2 hours after I was able to log in[efn_note]And an hour of that was me having to reformat
I’ve long known my resting murder face has a lot to do with how I have to hold my jaw so I don’t constantly clench/grind my teeth, but I’ve only recently realized how much energy suppressing that consumes. So many little physical things are a constant battery drain. If somebody invented a bite guard that
There sure have been a lot of opportunities lately to practice keeping my eyes on my own paper. Like most people, I’ll have a kneejerk reaction to an Inflammatory Thing, but if I take two minutes to think about it rather than responding immediately, I frequently come to a realization the Inflammatory Thing has no