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Still Struggling With Content Here

Yep, I’m still mostly absent here.

Earlier this week I considered deleting my AO3 account entirely. I talked myself down.

There are still some issues I am dealing with in my private life and I’ve learned that they way things “used to be done” just isn’t reality anymore. I’m hoping for some help this weekend from some relatives that said they would come help and so, well, I hope to have something positive to say next week about my situation. I don’t mean to be mysterious but I just don’t want to fully go into it right now. I will say I had a health scare on Tuesday that very nearly sent me to the hospital.

In other news, I’ve got loads of things coming up. We’re going to Temecula in a couple of weeks for an overnight to see Johnny Mathis. He’s 88. Not sure how great he can sing these days but we got free tickets and obviously this will be the last opportunity.

At the end of the month, the last weekend, I am off to my happy place, Morro Bay. I greatly look forward to that.

Before you know it, July will be here and I am going to try to get some Christmas in July offerings up here. Cross your fingers I can make it happen. I might use the idea I had for a flash and make it Christmas in July. I think I can.

So much going on this summer I can barely wrap my head around it. More trips, M’s sister coming for an August visit. Just lots and lots. I’ll try to keep my head on straight, LOL.

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I’ve Been Fairly Incommunicado

I know. It’s been a rough 6 plus months.

My kitchen is finished and I’ll post pictures shortly.

But now my washer doesn’t work and it’s such a fiasco to get a stacked washer fixed (stacked means the dryer sits on the washer in order to make it fit in a tiny spot) . Nobody wants to service or move them. So here’s hoping eventually it gets fixed. One guy ordered parts but we have to move it etc, as he won’t. One guy on his way to come out called and said, oh I won’t do those. But when you live in a condo you can’t get normal laundry stuff. It’s a nightmare, not going to lie.

I did have an idea for a flash for here so I hope to get it up sometime soon. I’m still playing catch up from my vacation and Memorial Day as well as my mental health is frankly suffering. It’s the pits, not going to lie.

I keep repeating…THIS TOO SHALL PASS

Below are some before and after pictures of the kitchen

Thanks for sticking with me while I dealt with the kitchen nightmare since November. Our stuff in storage is supposed to come to us tomorrow and we still want to replace the dining room light and get a new dining room set but we are on our way (stupid washing machine notwithstanding)

Oh and the white floor gets dirty very easily LOL

I’m Back

But playing massive catch up in all aspects of life…

So here are pictures of our view from our hotel room in Hawaii, one towards the ocean and the other towards the city! Beautiful

Blog Vacation

As you may remember my Hawaii trip is coming up. I leave for a week on Saturday.

I don’t plan on posting anything here this week and obviously when I am gone and the rest of May.

When I do come back I will need to make a decision about this blog’s future. I have a little blog fatigue to be honest. Constantly trying to come up with something to post here is wearing me down.

If I close things down here for good I will likely move to posting things like Christmas in July and other blog themes to AO3 but I’m not yet ready to make that decision, so for now I am taking a blog vacation and hope in June (when is when I think I will get back to posting here possibly, I will have made a decision).

My kitchen is closer though not done still and when I do have those pictures ready, I will post them. I have walls, floor, cabinets and counters, but no appliances in place or hardware on the cabinets, so several things still need to happen but we are a lot closer.

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Kitchen Update

While I don’t yet have any polished pictures showing the transformation, I do want to give a brief update on my kitchen restoration should anyone out there be interested anymore.

This week we finally got a tile floor in the kitchen and dining room. It looks gorgeous so far. There’s one part tomorrow that will still need to be grouted (and a baseboard added eventually in the dining room). But so far it’s even better than I imagined it would look when I saw the tile.

Allegedly cabinets go in starting Monday. Keep your fingers crossed!

Housekeeping/Updates

So I’m not really sure what/if I have planned to post here for April, so likely I will play it by ear/whim when and/if I post a flash.

I should warn May will be a slow month for flashes as well since I am going to be gone for a week to Hawaii on a family vacation.

In the continuing saga (we discovered the leak in the kitchen wall November 07, 2023), we are waiting for the cabinets the repair guys ordered to come in to do the next step. We have walls and that’s pretty much where we stand. Once the cabinets go in, then it’s the counters, and finally the floor, appliances etc. Yes it is mind boggling how long it takes, but keep in mind a large part of that was waiting for insurance to decide what they would pay, etc. We also had to have the HOA insurance in, though they never did do a damn thing. It’s been a very long and tiring and at time quite depressing process. But when I get the new kitchen finally in, I will post pictures.

I’m getting anxious to start a new Starfleet Academy story. Those are, admittedly, my personal favorite. This one will have some hurt/comfort, include an actual relationship with Sam, and of course Spirk. Not sure when I’ll get it going but I will.

This weekend I’ll be going to the Boysenberry Festival at Knott’s Berry Farm. We have annual passes for the park so should be fun. And then the next I am off to Temecula again! Ha. Seems I never sit still.

Here is a picture of the hills by my house. This is while I was out at Petsmart getting Luna her new favorite food!

We Have Walls

In case you wondered

Our kitchen walls are up and painted! Attached are some pics. After some delays, including the original drywall guy getting let go, and us having to complain to our insurance carrier, we are finally making progress. We wanted white so there was a slight miscommunication problem but for now we are just to happy to have completed walls and we can paint ourselves at some point well into the future LOL. We pick our cabinets and flooring and a sink later today.

In Case You Were interested

Thought you might enjoy seeing a few pics from the cruise

The cruise was a success and we had a great time. The one small bummer (that and the choppy seas due to the weather system hitting California) was that we received little half bottles of wine as part of our excursion in Mexico and as we were returning to the ship fellow passengers absconded with our wine. Yep. It sucked. I complained to Carnival but there wasn’t much they could or would do. They were little $5 bottles of wine they weren’t going to view CCTV footage or anything. Sigh. Oh well it was a small unpleasantness in the scheme of things.

We both earned free cruises during the cruise so you can bet we will be going again in the future.

Tomorrow they are going to start the drywall for our kitchen. It’s the 4th Month Anniversary from our leak being discovered. So up, you know, something is happening.

I’m still on cruise time/dreaming so haven’t gotten anything written yet but there’s tomorrow’s flash

And yes, where I live we are getting a LOT of rain right now. So far my city hasn’t been hit with too much disaster though one of our little mountains called Rocky Peak did have a mudslide. No cars or homes were damaged.

Kitchen Update

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So for anyone paying attention to my continuing saga of my kitchen redo…

The insurance company suggested someone who came in with a shockingly low bid, and basically that’s who the insurance company decided we should go with. Big surprise, I know.

We signed the contract. The “Project Manager” came today to go over it and even bigger surprise there were many things left off on the low bid estimate so he is redoing the estimate. The soonest they can get started is 3 weeks and since M intends to go see a very sick aunt, well, I’m guessing we are talking about February 19th.

Funny thing is when you google these things you can find that it can take up to 4 months to get your life back after something like this and it’s looking like the 4 months might be it. If you had told me November 07, 2023 when I first discovered water on the floor in the kitchen I’d be waiting for them to start rebuilding sometime in February…well…

There you have it. That’s the kitchen update. Such as it is.

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