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Hard slog

Poor Beloved is flagging. I can tell their personal batteries are running low because work/play imbalance and a lack of affectionate contact. All of this should be over by maybe Wednesday next week. The launch is this Wednesday, and the mad scramble to fix any gaps in the programming happen for a week after that.

After then, my love may finally have some time to spend in relaxation and family snuggles and just... recharging.

I might finally be able to shift those darn lawn chairs, today. $20 straight into the New Compy Fund. Yay.

Considering that I spent all my money by Thursday, this week, I'll take whatever slow progress I can get.

I'm still so very far away from my goals that I'm not even looking up how much I have. It's heartbreaking to realise there's so far yet to go, and no signs that you're getting anywhere.

But, hey, $20 is $20.

If you wish to help in my struggles, you can do so. Spread the word about my works that are for sale. Reblog. Go on a rant. Go off about your favourite thing about whatever. Tell all your friends on Facebook. Do fanart if you like. Hell, do fanfic if you like. Just... be mindful that I can't read it. I just have to know it exists. Use the tag #AmalgamUniverse or #AmalgamStation if you want to tweet.

You can spread the word for free.

And if you have a spare dollar, you can sign up as a Patron and gain access to all the stuff I haven't published yet. There's several levels of access and even one where you can pester me at any time via Discord.

And if you are extremely wealthy and can afford to wing $500 my way [my PayPal is "nutty (at) internutter (dot) org"] please give me your best contact details and we will have a nice chat about that book you'd like me to write for you.

I'm eleven weeks away from finishing the first draft of Rael, so this is an ideal time to drop me a huge amount of money and get my attention. This is usually the time that I start pondering my next book, so get in with that wad of cash now.

I can dream.

The heat's coming into the house, and I'm camping in the AC and bingeing murders on Netflix. Like you do.

This might be the year when y'all get only my sucky efforts at a cover for my All Hallows' Read story. Beloved doesn't have the time to fix my mistakes. Apologies in advance.

And now, I have a story to write before it gets too firkin hot.

Summer's here

Usually, I take two prerequisites before announcing the arrival of Summer: Dead snake on the road, and somewhere visibly on fire. But this time? I'll accept being smacked in the face with the heat as soon as you step outside.

And speaking of smacks in the face... Went to all the trouble and through the last of my budget to provide my darlings with a different dinner. To whit: Trout and vegetable medley with hollandaise sauce. I usually knock it out of

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But I don' _wanna_...

We need...

We need a decent dinner. We need cream because we're running out. We need snackables for the kids' lunchboxes. We need to find a local source of good eggs that won't break the bank because trundling to North Lakes every third day to get them is going to drain my budget faster than anything else.

Economically, I long for the days when we could just pop on over to the Golden Circle factory outlet and just get boxes of whatever

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Scrape, scrape, scrape...

This is not the first time that I've had to scrape and scrimp to get things together. This is, however, the first time I've been trying to save for a new computer out of my own earnings and savings.

We've made half a cow's worth of meat last for most of this year, and that's fabulous. Now we're out of everything but soup bones... affording another half a cow is out of my budget and might be out of Beloved's for some

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Hocus pocus...

...I need to focus.

No lie, I actually chant that to myself when I find myself wibbling off into lala land. Depending on the day I'm having, it can be effective for maybe twenty minutes.

I don't have ADD or ADHD, I just... can't focus sometimes.

I don't know what the hell that's about, but isn't ADD. I know I have the OCD comorbs because hoarding is a problem I have to fight.

And I need to focus, today, because today is

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All together again

Miss Chaos returned home, last night, and to celebrate - we had fish and chips. Well. The little darlings had fish and chips. Beloved and I simply had grilled fish with a healthy dollop of Aoli.

Today, it's back to stew and whatever I can afford until such time as we get another influx of protein. And I have to rattle on up to the health shops to get some actual eggs.

I know. You're thinking, "As opposed to... plastic eggs?"

For

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Of Mice and Me

This is not just a household rodent problem, though we do have one. I've spotted a minimum of one wee sleekit timorous beastie scuttling between hiding places and I plan to do something about it when I have money again.

Yesterday, I had plans to go and fetch my youngest from Scenic Coominya. Beloved had taken a day off and everything. Alas, Capt S had other plans that involved KIABIL and today. So we were told not to come at all.

I'd

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Fun times ahead

Something there is that does not like me breathing, this week. At this stage in the game, I'm putting it down to Sneezin' and Wheezin' Season. And that's why I'm blogging with a breather mask on my face. Because Seratide and atrovent puffers aren't quite cutting it.

For some reason, I get more typos and type more slowly with a mask on my face, but I'm damned if I'm gonna just spin my wheels whilst I dose myself with saline and atrovent

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Kingsmen: The Golden Circle - pure nonse

We did actually go and see Kingsmen: The Golden Circle, last night. And it is everything you would expect from the Kingsmen. Only this time it was terribly British Gentlemen working with amazingly Stereotypical Cowboys.

Remember the first Kingsman movie in which Galahad firkin tore up a Westborough Baptist Expy Church and the camera had these weird fixed points of stability? I call that "Dizzy Cam". Well, the people who made Kingsmen recognised that that one scene was so fucking awesome and

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Thinking about how to do fibre

So I think I might have perfected the cake-like object from the Keto coconut bread. And since I don't really like a lot of my bread...

I'm thinking about making some choc-chip fibre muffins.

The only drawback to this is that the local Foodways has stopped selling the BEST EGGS IN THE WORLD, Peepers Cheepers [or Cheepers Peepers, I forget which way around it is], the totally organic and ethical free range eggs. In favour of non-organic, non-ethical firkin CAGE EGGS which

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Progress!

I have vowed to make Mayhem and I do the rowing machine twice a week until we get buff or the machine breaks, whichever happens first. It's a five minute stint. We go as fast as we can for as long as we can and then slow row for the rest of the time. In the unlikely event that we can keep up a fast rowing pace for five minutes, we'll move up to ten.

In my second session, I made it

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Slow Progress and Updatey Promises

It's cleaning day, so that means that anything I post will likely be posted in the afternoon.

I will be attempting to post a progress speedpaint of the cover-so-far for Beauties and the Beastly. That's going to be... "fun".

Also in the "fun" pile is unriddling what the flip is wrong with the latest animated shot for SESP. I might have to brute force that mofo or something. That's probably not happening until tomorrow.

Also, all art is slowed because my time

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Finances, Fucked up, and Fuckassery

I'm still hovering around the halfway mark with the New Compy Fund. If I clean everything out at once, I'm just past halfway there at $1.8K and this is because my automatic payment to my personal funds got cancelled because I took it out of the wrong account.

It's sorted out, now. Don't fret.

And I forget how I got through $210 out of my emergency funds, but it was probably food or clothes.

My scrimpings are up by $340 thanks

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Running my arse off

Mayhem is a bit crook,so Miss Chaos is going to scenic Coominya to spend some time with her Nanna solo.

The travel arrangements are a teeny bit convoluted, but I will take anything that results in me not being tired off my arse for a lonely drive home.

...which is why I'm writing this blog entry at twenty past four in the morning.

Also because there's bad weather coming and I can feel it in the right side of my face.

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Rush'd

Okay, so Chaos has a fun run event at her school, I have the cleaners coming, and I have seven minutes before I have to go out and watch for the bus.

Don't expect a story before this afternoon.

I have 1000 words to write, which will happen after everything else, and my $20 patrons will have the finish of the last chapter and the beginnings of a new chapter to read! WOW!

Pledge yourself to be a Patron on my Patreon

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