Menu

Subscribe

Dear Diary

A 3656-post collection

Whoops

I may have entered Holiday Mode. In which I space out for longer than usual and take a relaxed attitude towards everything I do. Everything still gets done, no mistake.

It's just that it's way more spaced out than usual.

Who knew I was attuned to the school schedule this hard?

It's nearly seven and I haven't done shit for getting my work done. Mayhem has a Webinar tonight and a job tomorrow. It's going to be fun keeping track of those.

Meanwhile, a crackfic has waved its little feelers at me and I am falling into that temptation HARD. Because I have one person who actually wants to read it. And I need that kind of ego boost with what's happening with Beauties.

It's really bad when only one of your Betas gets back to you.

Really.

Really.

Bad.

But the comments and kudos from AO3 manage to be a balm for my soul. Watching that hits counter tick up. Watching the kudos flow in. Reading people have little fits about what I wrote.

It brings meaning back into my work.

No wonder I'd rather write shiny Elf stories.

I will add a link to my AO3 account in the menu. Just so anyone can see everything I feel good about publishing. But that's happening later. I have a bus to watch for.

Disorganised!

Mayhem is done with school. Chaos is not. Mayhem still has the traineeship going on.

This is going to be fun.

I still have to be organised enough to get one little darling ready to take on the day whilst simultaneously getting the other little darling to do some minimums around the house.

All whilst also doing my day job, doing the yule shopping, organising the yule feast, and otherwise having some fun now.

I have already ordered the duck. I need

Read more »

Little finicky details

Mayhem has another day at "Summer School" to finish off the things and get his book list.

I have a dental appointment today, so that's going to stress me out some. I fully plan to bring my novel-in-progress with for the office wait.

Lord knows how I'm going to pay for it, tho.

We've not had a lot of free cash, lately. Which is worrisome for me, because having enough money to do things is kind of important.

And yule is coming

Read more »

Getting complicated

Today is Mayhem's last day at school. It's also Chaos' second-last week.

HOWEVER...

The Traineeship in Banyo continueth onwards. And that includes Thursday nights doing a webinar, and Fridays off in Banyo working on the thing.

So yeah, my weeks are about to get complex.

And I think I may have contracted MeMum's wog, so I'm making myself a small batch of ginger garlic chicken soup and mainlining that. OR it could be an overdose of dust and I'm overreacting, but best

Read more »

Tech support, lost prompts, and other chaotic things.

One of my prompts has gone missing, and I swear I didn't touch it.

When I'm done with today, I'm going to add procedure into the pinned notice in my prompts arena. But it's going to be "if your prompt vanishes, I didn't do that. Just repost that mofo and be cool."

As soon as I'm done with today's Instant, I am rounding up the family and getting them all prepped to go see MeMum for a birthday visit. Which includes yarn

Read more »

Democracy Franger

There's elections happening in our neck of the woods, and Beloved and I are about to stick our opinions onto pieces of paper.

Notes for confused Americans:

  • Voting is mandatory in Australia
  • You actually get fined for not voting
  • You are actually allowed to not vote for anyone [draw a dick on the ballot, pen a witty limerick across the sheet, whatever] but you still have to turn up and do it
  • Democracy comes with an optional fried snag in a slice
Read more »

Broken trust. Again

Once again, I put my trust in my family and once again I got stabbed in the fucking back.

I trusted my son to put the fresh groceries away. He left them out to go fucking rotten.

I trusted my Beloved to help me out. They denied me to my face. Even when I said it was important.

So yeah. I'm salty as fuck today.

I need hugs and love, but I can't trust anyone to see to that.

Fuck today.

Read more »

Interesting Development

Today is Mayhem's last day of school. Unless he hasn't finished his assignments and assessments. In which case, he's going back for what they call Summer School.

I really hope he's done with everything, though. It would be nice to not have to ride his arse for a change.

And it will be nice to not have to fret about half my little darlings for a bit.

And I have a Yule Feast to plan. I know I want to do Roast

Read more »

Best Laid Plans Gone Agley

The nice lady who usually comes and gets my arse in gear with the cleaning has Lurgi and won't be around. Which means I have to get my arse in gear without her.

Not fun.

I have to find some nice yarn for MeMum when the local Big W doesn't stock her brand any more. And I'll be doing tech support this weekend. Perhaps with a family visit on the side.

The ginger garlic chicken soup frelling works to keep the Lurgi

Read more »

Some Fun Now

I finished one epic and posted it. Yay.

I started posting another epic as a series before I'm anywhere near done. Yay... ish?

And now I'm working on a one-shot that's a companion to a different one-shot I made earlier. And might even be done soon. If I can convince myself to stay away from the other firkin epics.

Of course, working on them ensures that they get finished... and I might whittle down to one epic in the fullness of time.

Read more »

Here we go again

Another week of procrastination convincing myself to do that thing that scares me. I only have one thing left, and that's continuing on with the agent hunt.

I have to work through all of them before I can demand my money back.

And I don't get there if I don't try.

I have a scratchy throat, this morning. Which means that I might just be catching a Lurgi. Fun. Not looking forward to feeling horrible and drinking my own weight in ginger

Read more »

Lazy Day!

I am going to write today's Instant and then vanish into doing nothing until I either finish a fic or fall asleep.

Beloved will be back on Keto today after a weekend of breaking it good and hard. And to be honest, the instant I'm done with the story, I'm back in there to check on them.

We've had a lot of carbs, yesterday. There might be some trouble from the diabetes as a result. In fact. I'll just check now.

Still

Read more »

Happy Birthday, my Beloved

For all my plans to do nothing, there's another day of something. Yes, dear readers, my Best Beloved has taken another free trip around the sun and we're celebrating with carb-loaded treats.

Because birthday.

I have also had zero time and energy to devote to the subtle art of present-getting, so. Part of today will possibly be spent out shopping.

I had to help the kids get my presents. Beloved should do the same.

But since it's a lazy day, it's already

Read more »

Exhausted

You know that philosophy, "Do one thing a day that frightens you"?

IT SUCKS!

This has been an entire week of doing one thing a day that frightens me, and I am worn the feck out.

  • Monday - Doctor's visit.
  • Tuesday - Shrink visit.
  • Wednesday - visit to the clinic to get a blood test that was foxed because I didn't read the firkin instructions.
  • Thursday - swimming in the ocean with Miss Chaos, who likes to go deep. And my aquaphobic
Read more »

Big day

Assisting Chaos' field trip for what seems like is going to be a majority of the day. So my Instant may be late.

Apologies in advance, but family always comes first.

And I don't have a great deal of time to try doing it now, either. So be warned.

Mayhem is falling under the influence of Lurgi, and I need to get the kid some more sugar-free ginger ale. Fortunately, that is cheap at Aldi's. Yay.

He's not feverish enough to keep

Read more »