I’m moving right along on the flashes. I have written and scheduled all the way through December 16th now and have also written and scheduled some out of order. I’ll be working on December 17th today.
Up next for AO3 is supposed to be The Mysterious One but not sure when I’m going to get to it to be honest. I am having too much fun with the flashes and I have other life obligations as well, so, when I can, I shall. I did update My Heart Wants to Sigh, so that was a fun update.
Work promises to be a bit interfering this week since I am off next.
It was quite warm here this past weekend so we were able to sit out on the cousin’s balcony/patio for dinner on Saturday night. Very nice.
Yesterday we visited with my relatives who are out from Kansas. It was actually all right, though I had been kind of dreading it. Sometimes you dread things more out of proportion than it ends up being and that is the case with this.
That’s pretty much it for now. Not terribly exciting I am afraid!
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 
November 18, 2019 at 10:20 am
I always dread things worse than they end up being. Well at least usually they don’t end up being as bad as I fear. And there’s a comfort in that. Glad it all worked out okay and that you had a nice dinner too.
Yay flashes!! Gimme gimme. :).
Enjoy next week! Bc seriously the whole week off is a good thing!
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November 18, 2019 at 10:31 am
Yes I am greatly looking forward to that week believe me~
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November 18, 2019 at 10:43 am
Words that sound sexually suggestive but aren’t: (Anna) Tukhfatullina
Great photo though. I was ready for that!
Yeah, and sometimes those things you dread turn out even worse. We know the potential was there. Glad it turned out not so bad.
Have I ever told you HOW MUCH I LOVE MYSTERIOUS ONE???
I know. Who knew?
I’m thrilled you’re having fun writing. I know – or I THINK I know – that hasn’t always been the case. I still have a copy of my ao3 constitutional thing that somebody bitched at me for posting as it didn’t meet ao3’s pristine requirements and they were gonna turn me in and so I finally deleted it. But I still have it, for anyone who wants to see a copy, because it was just DRIPPING with humor.
Oh wait. I was just saying, I’m glad you’re enjoying writing for Christmas. That was a huge undertaking. I don’t know what moved you to do that, but your wine advent and dog and cat advent stuff are NOTHING compared to what your December flashes will mean to us!
Glad you did have a decent weekend though. It sounds delightful.
And I do solemnly swear your Thanksgiving week off will NOT be another cryfest, arguefest, angerfest with me that 2 years ago was when I revealed I’d written Requiem and you ….well, you felt predictably offended for Jim’s sake, so I pushed and bribed and begged you to fix it then – write that story from Jim’s POV and Life Is But A Dream was born and I cried and cried and cried at all the angst (I notice you did not include the warning of EXTREME ANGST-YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED author’s note. And you wanted to kill Anne and I begged you to do anything but don’t kill Anne! hahaha And so she lives, but…you still secretly would use a bat’leth on her in a second, without hesitation, if she peeked her head out of the cave where she hides.
But, you know, that’s all water under the bridge, right?
RIGHT???
And I love LIBAD more and more every time I read it. What a masterpiece it is! (I’m glad sometimes begging works!)
So, hang in there, and happy week before Thanksgiving.
It’s a good time.
As long as nobody mentions garage doors, and of course nobody would, because that would just be…insensitive!
((((ducking))))
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November 18, 2019 at 10:55 am
Ah…indeed. Supposed to be December 7th now but I am not holding my breath. Funny story, NOT, but some drunk idiot a few weeks back hit some other garage in the complex and not only wrecked their garage door but the actual garage structure itself (it’s still a mess and hasn’t been fixed of course). The drunk went into wherever he lives instead of sticking around but they found him due to the damage done to his truck. And he still was like, huh, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Drunk losers.
Anyhow, I think if my family and friends stick to “safe” topics, we do okay at these gatherings. Which we did over the weekend. I think we are good for Thanksgiving as well.
Ah yes, I recall. And the water has been flowing under that bridge for sometime! we are good and reconciled.
I do know you love The Mysterious One and you are not alone. So I will get to it soonish. But think of the relief I will feel when it’s all been written and scheduled and I can sit back and relax and think of my flashless January! Yay! ha ha ha
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November 18, 2019 at 11:05 am
Au Contraire Mon Capitan. There is no such thing as flashless January.
They outlawed that holiday. Or month designation. Or whatever.
As Sinbad used to say, bite your tongue till blood be coming out your nose.
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November 19, 2019 at 7:40 am
at least you’re cute! Flashless January! Get used to it! 😀
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November 18, 2019 at 6:52 pm
Glad the family gathering went well. Super excited, as I have stated many times before, for the December fics 🙂
Warm for you, cold for us. It went from summer weather one day to winter and chances for snow literally the next day. In fact it did snow for a little bit last week. It was gone by the next day though.
Just have to get through this week and then you’re off next! 🙂
Hope you do have a wonderful week!
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November 19, 2019 at 7:42 am
I am super excited too. I am convinced you will all go nuts over them, so I hope I am not wrong! We are supposed to get the first rain of the season tomorrow so cross your fingers for us. I am counting the hours down until my week off believe me! ❤
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