I got a request from J who missed my usual decoration pictures I have posted in the past. So…here are some pictures, post 1. I will do other posts.
It was the day after Thanksgiving and all through the house…elves. My sister bought me a little Elf tree this year, so I decided to do all elf decorations. Yes, I am a dork. Anyway this is much much much smaller tan the usual tree, but it was cute!
Ignore any mess you see!
It’s been a while since we had a rambling due to the flashes taking over the blog, but I think that’s pretty cool actually.
I decided to do one today.
This past weekend we made the trip to Buena Park and Knott’s Berry Farm. Fun fact, they call it Knott’s Scary Farm for Halloween and Knott’s Merry Farm for Christmas. It’s got the Peanuts gang, Snoopy and Woodstock etc, so it’s cute. I got myself a stuffed Woodstock with a Santa hat on it because, yes, I am a dork. We also had mulled wine and cookie shots with a bit of Baileys. Anyway, it’s a fun place and we really enjoyed it. Here’s a picture of their giant tree.
December is fully scheduled for flashes except for the last Friday which will conclude At His Side for my Fall Guys. I intended for it to be done and scheduled too but the file I sent myself was corrupted.
But if you read this carefully you will know the fun did NOT stop after the 25 Days of Christmas flashes. But I wrote one from 26-31. Well minus the December 27th one I need to finish. They aren’t song-themed, but you get flashes!
In January, I will be working to update some neglected fics. The Wednesday and Friday flashes will return in February. Bright, shiny and new.
I’m pretty much done with my shopping, but have wrapped nothing. So this Saturday I hope to amend that. I am terrible at wrapping, not gonna lie, but I have fun with it. I shall drink and be merry while I am at it. Will be fun.
We are having cool weather for us. This morning at my house, with the wind chill it felt like 27. It’s even only supposed to get to about 57 on Christmas. It’s nice for us. Since we’ve had days of 80s at Christmas!
I think that’s about it for now. I am sure I will ramble some more.
Sorry today has been quite busy with getting the garage door fixed, shopping and getting ready to make cookies tomorrow….BUT FINALLY
With the rainy weather we’ve been having the old wood door was difficult even to lift! We are SO happy it is done.
FINALLY
I literally only have Christmas Day to write for the 25 Days of Christmas. Which I will be working on the minute I post this. The list of what you can expect has been updated too.
Unfortunately I still have my Jim/Prime Holiday story to finish, but I am super super proud of being very nearly finished with my December flashes. I will have earned January off for flashes!
Happy Thanksgiving Week everyone. I am off this week but still busy busy! Ha
I will try and get a Walk With Me for November done in the next day or so. I have been doing a lot of walking at work so I figure you don’t really want a bunch of buildings and cars, but I’ll take a walk in my neighborhood this week while I am off.
The other day we got rain and so I took this picture.
Speaking of my favorite guard at the office got fired Friday afternoon and we were all very very sad. Young kid too. He made a mistake, no doubt about it, but we all thought he should have been retrained and given another chance. But that didn’t happen and it sucks bad.
I feel kind of bad that I spoiled Wednesday’s Flash Fic for this week by posting it early so I am going to try super hard to get something going for this Wednesday. Cross your fingers.
I think I only have December 19, 23, 24 and 25 left to write for December. I am hoping to get those all done and scheduled this week so if I am not around a lot or very responsive you will know why.
Lest you think I am only a boozer, I decided to do the 12 Days of Teas too. Here is a picture of them. Very nice indeed!
I don’t know if anyone else does this, but I name my frozen turkey. Someone out there probably thinks that’s cruel or insane or whatever but here is Larry (yes Larry)
The best news is not getting up at 5 AM this week. Yay.
We are predicted to be cold and rainy on Thanksgiving if you can believe that. Two years ago, in 2017, when we went out to Ruth’s Chris is was 95! This year it’s supposed to rain and be 51! What a huge difference.
Have a great week everyone and I will be back to talk to you soon.
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!
In the ongoing saga of our garage door…
Despite the idiotic company screwing up the measurements of our non-standard garage door and vowing it would only take another 3 weeks from that date (October 23, which was yesterday November 13), he now says they won’t receive it until November 29th. That’s well over three weeks by anyone’s math. So now we are talking December. The garage was broken into on August 23rd for anyone taking notes. I am so over garage doors and garage door companies. Never ever use this company, they suck bad. It’s discouraging to say the least.
And speaking of discouraging, I discovered fraud charges on another of my credit cards, and now am forced to go through the process of disputing the charges as fraud through forms etc. while they do an “investigation”. Lovely.
Then the brother and his wife (I do not get along with them, FYI) are here from out of state and are gracing us with their presence on Sunday evening. Yippee.
And I have dinner at the cousin’s place on Saturday. Double yippee.
In actual good news I have the entire week off of Thanksgiving. That’s definitely something to look forward to.
Now that Transfer Request is finished, I am back to working on those pesky December flashes! That’s where my energies are right now.
In case you are wondering (did I tell you this already? Might have), I got the wine. They had it.
Yippee. Funny story. Sister had offered to split it with me so I was only going to get 6 days. I am sure I told you this part. Didn’t I? So she gave me $35 and I went through the box to take her 6 out and then…
She bought another collection from World Market that was 24 days of wine for $100 (attorney, retired but still she has more moola than I do). So she told me to keep all of mine and the money too.
As you know I started posting At His Side (Fall Guys) on A03. I will not be posting November until all the entries for November are done here.
Wednesday is Try to Remember
I am working on the conclusion of Transfer Request so that will be done this week. Yay, I’ll have another finished.
Tuesday night’s movie is the latest Terminator.
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 