InterNutter

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Bad things I did, yesterday:

Talk up a big game about eating food but not actually make any
Consume half a packet of sugarless caramels
Stay up 'till eleven because laundry

The results from those bad things:

I'm frelling tired
I'm feeling a little weak [A bout of artificial sweetener-induced intestinal issues will do that to you]
I am not fully functioning

Worry not, dear readers, I did actually get two actual meals in. Breakfast care of the Coffee club, and bunless build-your-own Maccas for dinner.

So I officially have the wherewithal to go do the things I need to do. But just to be sure I'll have a coffee and something to munch on. Just in case.

Still no sign of rejection from the agent-to-be. I'm getting really nervous about this, now.

Could success be actually within my grasp? It seems impossible. Success is so very, very rarely mine.

I have a lot of running around, this morning. Update to follow.

Update:

There is an advantage to arriving at the Dept of Transport before the doors open. That being that your number is called real quick. Take note, people. Come prepared for a long wait and it just won't happen.

So now my new plates "I [heart symbol] KETO" are fully legal for my favourite zippy little car. Ask me about Keto and get infodumped at. Ask me about Steam Powered Giraffe and get geeked out at. Ask me about my writing and get adored.

This week is the last week of writing Beauties and the Beastly. Come Friday, I shall have a finished, unedited book on my hands. I shall get Beloved to help me go through my beta's notes on Adapting, spend a day or three on fanfic, proof-read Beauties and then send it out to my Beta Readers for further analysis.

Then I start work on my next book.

I have officially been Told by MeMum. Work ethic good, looking after myself is better. To that end, I'm trying to schedule in more opportunities for food. And I'm installing some safe snackage on my desk.

I actually found some veggie-oil-free roasted nuts at Coles [Hooray for Coles-brand!] which are actually roasted in peanut oil rather than that sunflower nonsense that is so, so, so very bad for people. They're 11g of carbs per 100g, so I am making sure I only get one dibble bowl full per day. But they're cheaper than Macadamias, so I'm less likely to get bent out of shape if someone bogarts some.

Keto has had some wonderful results for me and mine, but god damn it's hard to find good shit in the everyday shops.

And by the way, I got my Keto coffee in after I got home from the Dept of Transport plus going shopping for tonight's veggies and Chaos' fruit. The recipe now goes:

2 pods of espresso ristretti
2 tsp xylitol
1 tsp pure cocoa
1 drop caramel topping
Unsweetened almond milk to fill

I still have to do today's work yet. And thanks to this morning, I have to really go at it.

I will be eating, today, so there is that.

Challenge #01517-D056: A Strange Land

The past is another country. -- Knitnan

Pam walked around the corner into another world. At least, that was what she thought to begin with. The very air smelled different. Disgusting, in its own way. None of the buildings were familiar. And everyone was dressed really weird. And everyone was staring at her. Pam clung to her purse and tried to be discreet in digging out her self-defense stuff. It had, of course, settled to the very bottom of her bag.

She

Statistics Sunday

I forgot about gathering my statistics, yesterday. And I'd eaten a rough quarter of a packet of salted macadamias before I remembered.

To quote Homer Simpson: D'oh!

So, with last week as a reference. This week's stats are:

Weight: 77.2
Fat Weight: 29.6
Waist/Height: 0.547
Blood sugar: 2.8
Blood Ketones: 5.8
Breath Ketones: 18.9

The blood sugar and blood ketones are slightly in the danger zone. I forgot to eat, yesterday, and ended up with

Challenge #01516-D055: Me and a Shadow

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And a third -- Gallifreya

It was literally the brightest outfit that Janice had ever seen. Lights and all. It included vibrant colours in the spaces between the tiny, laundry-proof LED's. There was even an alice band with lights in it.

"Mabel..." said Janice. "What the heck?"

"Oh, there's a shadow-girl in the neighbourhood. I'm helping her out today."

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Scary stuff

I'm going to spend some time every weekday learning a little about how to animate. Starting with sourcing the best, cheapest, dummins-proof animation software and learning how do deal with that.

Recommendations are welcome, by the way.

This is as well as spending some time every day doing all my writing projects, the daily doodle, and squeezing in a little good old-fashioned fun.

I'm also pondering going to Lulu to print some hardcopies of some of my eBooks. Legal obligations prevent me

Challenge #01515-D054: A Good Host's Reward

Pick a second! -- Gallifreya

There's one advantage to being an early riser. Usually, it's watching some kick-ass dawns as they happen. Today, it was meeting Brutus. He's what most people call a gargoyle. I'd go into the difference between the real gargoyles, which are decorative stone waterspouts, and what people call 'gargoyles' but are actually called grotesques. Those are decorative stone building features with no inherent function.

But I wouldn't call Brutus 'grotesque'. He's kind'a pretty. Even with his stone skin

::Yakety Sax at 10rpm::

There's a party to go to in scenic Coominya tonight. There's cleaners coming today. I have to shop for nice clothes [I've shrunk and the kids have grown] and help clean the house.

Somehow, I have to fit in my Instant, my novel (1000 words on Fridays!) and a doodle to up my leet art skillz sometime this afternoon.

Update: I got an email from the cleaners saying they can't come and clean. FUN.

On the plus side, I have the free

Challenge #01514-D053: One Miserable Evening in a Dragon's Lair

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Pick one! -- Gallifreya

Of all the experiences in the multiverse, there's nothing like sprawling across the head of a friendly dragon. Alas, since this dragon was fighting a bout of the 'flu, it meant that Sam was doing the sprawling in a budgie-smuggler, and kept one hand on the fire extinguisher.

Dragons sneeze fire. And even though Bloodflight was comfy in his cave, there was still the risk of setting a few things on fire.

Smooth mornings!

Hooray, I have life figured out enough that the mornings move like a well-oiled machine. Now, if only I could do the same thing for myself.

Alone, I clog up with fascinating things until a half-hour task takes most of the firkin day. And then I complain about having zero time to fart around and play games.

Sometimes, I am a complete dummins.

But I have learned a few things from some of it. Including a new word that I plan to

Challenge #01513-D052: A Lucky Escape From Grebnak 5

"Is that going to blow up?"

"Well, I mean, only if i mess up, " -- OohLookShiny

"Hwell," sighed Ax'and'l, "put the concoction down."

"Relax, I know what I'm doing."

"I will not relax, I have fifteen near-death encounters as evidence in my favour." Ax'and'l considered those past incidents, "Including seven where you said you knew what you were doing."

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Some terrifying things I learned

Thanks to my friend, RecklessPrudence, I've learned that, though autism is older than we think it is, how autistes were treated hasn't really changed so much.

An autistic child before the true rise of the Industrial age would be called a "Changeling". And, despite the entire "be kind to the fae" mind-set, a Changeling child would be horrendously mistreated until the Fae gave the 'proper' child back.

This included beatings, being held to hot items, and tying them to a chair and

Challenge #01512-D051: Fascinating...

For the "Humans are space orcs": Aliens can only focus on one thing at a time. They're far more efficient because they hyperfocus and complete any task in a far shorter amount of time. So humans penchant of talking/humming/listening to music while working is both distracting and baffling. -- Anon Guest

Half the crew were watching the ship's human in their segregated kitchen. Terran music blared at maximum allowed volume, and the human sang slightly louder. Inside the quarantine zone,

Exercising again

We went on the first walk for a fortnight, and I was just about wiped out from a walk around the block. I'm gonna regret the sprint session this afternoon.

But at least we have some stew in the slow cooker, so I don't need to fret about food.

Still no rejection letter, just yet. And I have a fluttering underneath my sternum and panic-related asthma. Hooray. Anxiety firkin sucks!

So I took a Seretide this morning to try and live normally,

Challenge #01511-D050: This House is Not Haunted

http://goddammitstacey.tumblr.com/post/155552788003 "I just turned to my housemate and said, “y’know, we’d never know if we were haunted” because we have four cats between us, so every clunk, bump, and crash gets entirely ignored and now I want a movie about a ghost becoming increasingly desperate to haunt a family but they have cats and so the poor dear goes completely ignored" -- Gallifreya

I was, once.

Nothing more than that. Simply that I was, once.

Whooopsy

We went to the movies, yesterday. And picked up a whole lot of sugar-free lollies. And made the mistake of eating huge amounts of them.

Commercially-available artificial sweeteners are usually the kind that have the side-effect of loosening your stool.

You can guess that some of us had a very interesting night.

Mayhem is going to have a very interesting day, too, because I just discovered some outright fraud on his behalf. I had told him to fold and sort, and it

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Challenge #01517-D056: A Strange Land

Statistics Sunday

Challenge #01516-D055: Me and a Shadow

Scary stuff

Challenge #01515-D054: A Good Host's Reward

::Yakety Sax at 10rpm::

Challenge #01514-D053: One Miserable Evening in a Dragon's Lair

Smooth mornings!

Challenge #01513-D052: A Lucky Escape From Grebnak 5

Some terrifying things I learned

Challenge #01512-D051: Fascinating...

Exercising again

Challenge #01511-D050: This House is Not Haunted

Whooopsy