So…let’s see…
I updated TWO stories yesterday, The Carrier and Cadet Ashayam! Woo hoo. I also wrote my Pinto de Mayo story and it’s good to go for May 5th.
I also got a few May flashes written but I still have many to go.
I did get a comment on Dating a Vulcan complaining about the way I portrayed glasses. Apparently I got it wrong even though I wear them myself. Go figure.
A few days ago, I entered the art claims phase for the T’hy’la Bang. I don’t think I will have any issues with having it finished by the end of May. I am not that far off now, really.
The one good thing about THIS one is they do the art claims differently then the last time I had participated in the Bang with the Art. They had a blog set up that they posted all the summaries of the stories and the artists came on and posted in comments what they wanted to do art for. The problem was, this was all open for anyone to see, including the writers, and so it was sort of like getting picked last for PE class. You could see how long it took for someone to want to illustrate YOUR story. And as you watched, others got picked and you were like, shit, what’s wrong with MINE? It kind of sucked. And I wasn’t even the last picked, but also not among the first.
This time, I think the summaries are only sent to the artists and then we are told who we get paired with when it’s all done. I think!
In other news I am out of bananas. I eat a banana every day and I have been out for three days. I will eventually have to go get some but not yet. I haven’t been to the store since April 01. M has been one time since then but it’s been over a week since either of us has. We aren’t out of much yet, other than bananas, so we will wait. Funny thing is that now there’s a shortage of flour. Can’t even order it on line! And I wanted M’s biscuits. Grr. but the last of the flour went to Hot Cross Buns last week for Easter for my sister.
I know, not much, really to complain about, but well…
Tomorrow’s flash is a good one. I think so anyway.
Oh and supposed to get hot here this coming week. By Thursday it’s supposed to be in the 90s. Yeah. So…from rain to immediately hot. How fun.
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 
April 19, 2020 at 12:13 pm
The 2 updates were such a serendipity. Thank you for those.
That is such a coincidence – I was thinking of this story last week, wanting to reread it, but couldn’t remember the name. So I’m still grateful for their comment that got you to remind me of the name here. Out of 539 comments, I haven’t found the one you’re talking about yet.
As you say, you love who/what you love. Bananas it is. (there MIGHT be a hint there, too. Or even 2 but I’m very distinctly NOT saying that)
So glad they do art claims this new way. I remember the last time and how that was not the most optimum situation.
No flour here. But I don’t really do flour much so hasn’t changed my life any.
I’m not one to keep much food around. I don’t like to cook.
Since they’re projecting a food shortage, my kitchen now looks like a food pantry. It’s embarrassing. And so very different for me.
But hey, I’m good for a year or so. haha
It was so weird to see those pics of chris and his bestie dressed bundled up like winter, in LA just a few days ago. Now 90s. People will believe you live in Texas with those kinds of changes.
All in all, I so look forward to Pinto de Mayo. After all, every last one of the early May events here have been cancelled. So it really will be a super holiday.
(and to my great fortune, though I can and have been blocked on tumblr, I cannot be blocked on ao3, so I get to read anything posted. Though it sounds like there won’t be many. Weren’t there like maybe 7 last year? Very sparse pickings.) I was very much more pleased with my epic mess last year than this year’s short mess. But hey, I hadn’t planned to ever write for it again anyway, and after yesterday, the shorter the better. After all, I’m being pinto boycotted and nobody but you and Rach will even read it. And…both of you already have. It probably won’t even have one hit. Oh well. When you make your stand for something you believe in, that means you have to accept the repercussions. Sail a V.
But yours is sweet – I hope you get tons of love for it.
Have a great stay at home week.
I’m practically ready to go fishing. And that’s saying something.
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April 19, 2020 at 12:28 pm
(And are we at all surprised that I read it early in my fandom days and had forgotten to ever kudo it? I thought I’d fixed all those. But then again, you’re so prolific, maybe I’d never catch them all)
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April 19, 2020 at 1:23 pm
It always amazes me when anyone reads and comments on my old fics but I guess they are always new to someone!
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April 19, 2020 at 1:25 pm
So which chapter is the weird glasses comment on or did you delete it? I couldn’t find anything.
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April 19, 2020 at 1:27 pm
I didn’t delete it and I even replied to it. Not sure what chapter it was on, because it I just replied from my inbox. Basically I was told that people don’t have to constantly push their glasses up (I do it constantly all day long) and other stuff like that. I replied that my glasses stuff was based on my own experiences.
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April 19, 2020 at 1:39 pm
ME TOO. Constantly – mostly because I’m looking down and gravity is a B. I even notice when I’m in a store and fastidiously NOT touching my face, I still have to repeatedly push my glasses back up.
I remember way back when Phil Donahue was on – and wow, why in the world do I remember this??? He would sometimes read comments from viewers (that was way before the internet and making comments on websites) and one said, STOP PUSHING YOUR GLASSES UP – IT’S DISTRACTING. GET NEW ONES BECAUSE WHEN YOUR GLASSES ACTUALLY FIT THEY DON’T SLIP DOWN. I thought that was a hoot because Phil (married to Marlo btw for the young people) (oh the young people don’t know who Marlo is either. She had her own show “That Girl” and more recently played Rachel’s mother in Friends) (oh crap you’re so young you don’t even know what Friends was. Ok, she’s the face of St Jude’s commercials raising money for her dad, Danny’s children’s hospital in Memphis, TN). Oh nevermind. They probably don’t understand a thing I said.
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April 19, 2020 at 1:52 pm
I know ALL of that. I used to watch That Girl. I even know her Daddy, Danny Thomas. And her and Phil have been married for a long time. They were just on the cover of the AARP magazine Which yep, I am old enough to receive 😀
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April 19, 2020 at 1:26 pm
Well to be fair to Chris and his bestie, it was cold and cloudy yesterday when they were out walking the dogs. Nobody will be bundled coming up! I know you don’t like bananas but I can eat enough for both of us, trust me.
Yeah I think we will be hearing crickets from that bunch on our Pinto stories but they’ve always ignored me since day one really, so I am okay with it. Sucks though they are such mean girls.
Yeah so art claims should go more smoothly I think. Hope. We shall see.
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April 19, 2020 at 1:41 pm
No no no. I like bananas. I just said, at my age, I can’t buy green ones. (an old people’s standard joke). But yeah, I like them a lot.
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April 19, 2020 at 1:53 pm
OHHH you like the green ones, see I like the ripe ones. Anyway I have neither ripe nor green and it’s bummin me out
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April 19, 2020 at 1:55 pm
You’ve never heard that joke. It’s an old person joke. We can’t buy green bananas because we might not live long enough for them to ripen. haha
No, I don’t like green bananas.
I really shouldn’t try to tell jokes, huh? I suck at it.
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April 19, 2020 at 2:00 pm
LOL nope, unfortunately I have NOT heard that joke. But now I am red-faced with embarrassment HA HA HA
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April 19, 2020 at 5:29 pm
Good. I mean, you have reason to be, but still, you just KNOW your readers would love to know you’re red-faced about something.
****SCORE****
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April 19, 2020 at 1:25 pm
I read your two updates, I’m not sure I commented on both cause it was very late on my night off and I went to bed right after rereading the entire Cadet Ashayam story from the start.
I’m glad they changed the way artists are paired with writers. The old way sounds very sucky!!
I know about being picked last in PE class… I’m still traumatized after the decades since grade school. As I child, I was a bit chunky, super shy, not a gym star… need I go on ? I’m turning 60 on May 10th, and I still look back at my gym classes in grade school in horror! On a side note- just how is it possible that I’m turning 60 in less than a month?
I’m super depressed about that!!!
On my home front news-
One of our nurse aides at work had been in ICU and on a mechanical respirator for a week because if contracting Covid. We got good news, that they took her off the respirator. And now she’s on a regular unit and still weak but doing well. Lord knows,, we need good news for a change.
In my house, it’s still chock full of dirk stuff, absolutely everywhere! You can’t walk anywhere without seeing it… and we’re not the most organized at the best of times. Ughh!
Nowin my family room, where my twins have been doing their Zoom college classes, the heat doesn’t work. It originally was only working if we turned the thermostat control on full blast. It then got really hot. But if you had it turned halfway on, nothing kicked on for that room. Then it stopped working altogether. And we’ve had some cold days at the end of March and April. We tried to buy a new thermostat and one of the screws where you put the wire in, wouldn’t loosen, no matter how hard we tried. So I went and bought another less complicated thermostat. My husband tried to install it this morning. And discovered the problem isn’t the thermostat at all but something with the furnace not communicating with the family room. So now we either have to tolerate it being cold for some time until this quarantine is over or we have some guy from the oil company come in to fix it. Ughhh!! I’m voting on waiting!! This on top of the fact that my dishwasher broke last week. And we’ve had to hand wash all the dishes for the four of us that are in the house right now. We’ve decided to wait to buy a new dishwasher till after the Quarantine lifts. The dishwasher is from 1996, so I guess we got our moneys worth.
I bought self rising flour recently, I didn’t know there was a shortage. I did look for yeast, but couldn’t find that. And I’m definitely not a baker. But I thought maybe I might give it a try to make something. I keep seeing on Will Wheaton’s Instagram how he’s been baking sourdough bread., etc. And it kind of inspired me to try to think about baking something too. So far my baking ambitions are just in the thinking stage. Lol!
Stay well my friend.
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April 19, 2020 at 1:35 pm
Yep a flour shortage. And a hair color shortage too I guess.
Very glad the nurse’s aide made an improvement, I have heard such horror stories about the ventilators. I haven’t had a working dishwasher in two years. Someday!! I’m not a baker either but M is.
Thanks for the reminder of when your birthday is. I will try to remember to write something for it~
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April 19, 2020 at 1:42 pm
Yeah, we all know someone ELSE who DIDN’T MENTION THEIR BIRTHDAY coming up this week. How old WILL Ivan be now?
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April 19, 2020 at 1:54 pm
Well since I have worn glasses since the 9th grade, which was in the 70s, well we can guess! Not quite 60 though
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April 19, 2020 at 1:32 pm
Dan Bucatinsky has a no-knead bread recipe on his IG. Looks so simple, but you do need yeast.
He stars in that new “Baker and the Beauty” show on ABC on Monday nights. So not being a baker usually, but wanting to promote the show in the most humorous way possible, he’s been posting videos of him baking stuff. I particularly like the part where he pushes his slipping down glasses with his doughy messy hand and leaves dough flakes behind. He’s just yummy. I told him after one, so he’s both the beauty AND the baker. And he replied “I’m glad you said it!”
No stars on IG reply to anything.
He follows Z. So now I feel like I’m 2 degrees separated from Quinto.
But Dan IS yummy. He was in Scandal and at the end of year 3 he was murdered.
It almost killed me for like 2 days of recovery. But he’s soooo cute. He’s no Z or C. But for the rest of the population, he’s cute. But yeah, check out his easy bread. When you get yeast.
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April 19, 2020 at 1:36 pm
SEE he pushes his glasses up!!! GRRRR
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April 19, 2020 at 4:27 pm
You rocked it dude! I’m so happy to see the updates and I can’t wait for more.
And I can’t wait to read the bang story! (I also remember what a hell it was with the picking from the artists last time and I’m so glad you don’t have to deal with that again!)
Boo on the no flour. It’s beef tough to find here too.
Ugh that weather. But also I could do with some heat right about now. Heh.
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April 19, 2020 at 5:56 pm
Yeah I haven’t looked for beef but I know meat is becoming hard to find and that they closed several meat plants
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April 20, 2020 at 4:45 am
I loved your updates 🙂 and I’m looking forward to Pinto de Mayo and your big bang story ^-^ and the flashes!
I entered the claims as well. I’m glad they are only showing the artists the summaries. I hated waiting in line to be picked when I was a kid playing kickball. I would’ve hated watching other stories get picked before mine.
I first read it as you’d gone bananas LOL had to reread that. I’m sorry you’re out of bananas. Hopefully you’ll get some more soon. I’m glad I bought flour a few weeks ago. A big bag. I went to Target yesterday, needed icing for the cupcakes. No icing at all. Whipped up some buttercream at home instead. I’m not having a hard time finding meats.
Hope you have a good week!
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April 20, 2020 at 7:34 am
Yep anything baking related is a scarcity. I didn’t find problems with meat before either but haven’t looked since they began closing meat plants around the country.
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