Ramblings

Ramblings of the Week, March 06. 2017

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Not a whole lot to say this week.

I got my raise and bonus information at work today. Naturally not as much as I would have liked but that seems to be the way of things. There’s talk of layoffs so I hope I survive that.

I’m about half done with my T’hy’la Big Bang story and we had our first check-in over the weekend. I’m not supposed to say much about it, if anything, but I think I am okay to say I am involved.

I’m going away for the wine tasting weekend I think I mentioned earlier so there won’t be any updates from me on AO3 or otherwise Friday-Sunday. I will be skipping Flash Fic Friday this week, too, but you can expect it back March 17th.

I updated Dating a Vulcan today, which was next in line. I haven’t really looked at my spreadsheet to see what comes after that, but once I do I will try to get the next update up before I leave Friday. Since I also have other stuff to write on the side we shall see if it gets done.

April is going to be a super busy month for me so regular posting may suffer. We will see. I’ve got a little getaway at the beginning, a birthday party for a two year old, Cousins visiting, other birthdays, it’s really a mess of a month, honestly.

So that’s the current scoop from me.

March 6, 2017

Ramblings of the Week, February 27, 2017

I sometimes get to the point where I think…why bother? Each day or sometimes every other day, I work to create something to post on a fanfiction site for like-minded people to enjoy and I get a few kudos and/or comments and all seems well. Or wellish. And then I lose a subscriber. And then I lose another subscriber. And a bookmark. And yet another subscriber.

And I am left wondering what have I done wrong now?

The good news for me this last week is that Chris shaved. Yay! tumblr_olvmiijcp31spvhnko1_500

Alas Zach did not.

Chris could use a haircut though.

I was really hoping Viggo Mortenson would win the Academy Award for best actor but it was not meant to be. I didn’t watch the awards but I was rooting for him.

What is this? Week bazillion of my cough? Sure feels like it. It’s not as bad (in spite of M would say) but damn how long does it have to go on? I’m wheezy all the time too. Maddening.

In two weeks I am off for the weekend to go wine tasting in Paso Robles.

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That is where we are staying. I forget how many wineries are in the area. Like 22 plus or something. Anyway it will be fun, I think. March 10-12.

My cats are more popular than I am. I get more likes when I post pictures of the furballs. Go figure.

I pretty much didn’t do anything this weekend. I went to the grocery store for about 30 minutes on Saturday, but otherwise I never left my house.

I was so sad to hear about Bill Paxton passing on. I loved him in so many things. My favorite roles for him were in Aliens, Apollo 13 and Tombstone. All movies I own.

What a great actor he was and as I understand it, a great human being. I’m sad.

February 27, 2017

Ramblings of the Week, Feb 20, 2017

Yesterday was not an easy day for me, internet/social media-wise. It was painful and a bit humiliating. I made some mistakes and I regret those, but I am moving onward. I won’t go into any further details on here both for my own sake and anyone else involved. There’s no need to go through it.

With that in mind, today is a normal post day for me here. A post of the week.

Last week as we were leaving our house, we saw this weird light in the sky. Turns out we weren’t alone

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The Navy, of course, claimed it was missile testing. We personally think it was aliens beaming up humans for experiments.

Bless him, he always tries. These ended up in my lunch last week

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No, I didn’t eat them.

Friday of last week was a scary day for us weather-wise. Sinkholes, people being submerged in their cars, flooded freeways, collapsing roads, power lines landing on people. Not good. I left my building at work at 3:30 and had to seriously struggle to stay upright. The wind was hurricane strength. I white-knuckled it the whole way home but we made it, thankfully.

Today is President’s Day. I don’t have it off but he does and it was rainy and drizzly this morning. He drove me to work. Pretty nice. Our garage door is old and made of wood and when it rains it gets too heavy to open so pretty much my car was trapped in there all weekend anyway. I can’t wait for the sun.

I didn’t have a good night’s sleep because I was super wheezy all day yesterday and especially at night. I’ve been relying far too much on my inhaler lately and that’s concerning me because really asthma medicine is bad for you. There was a recent study out of Canada that said asthma is misdiagnosed a lot. Well, since I was diagnosed by a pulmonary specialist and have had breathing tests and treatments for years I am going to have to believe I wasn’t misdiagnosed. I was once tested that my lung capacity was at 40%. It’s better now obviously.

And I think that’s plenty for my ramblings this Monday.

February 20, 2017

Ramblings of the Week, February 13, 2017

I think I am finally on the mend from my illness. I manage to sleep through the night without waking up with an absurd amount of coughing. I wouldn’t call myself 100%, probably more like 80% but it’s so much better.

I posted the first chapter of my Cinderella Spirk story, When I Fall in Love. I had thought of having this story be the one for the T’hy’la Big Bang and I discovered as I sat down to write it that it just wasn’t going to work for that. The minimum word count for that is 10,000 and I think I intend to keep my entry to about that. So never fear, I am sure I will come up with something for that.

The reaction to my short Valentine’s story, The Rose, has been mostly positive on AO3 (I did have one person think that Jim was cruel to Bones, but you know life isn’t always roses and wine and everything fine).

I am currently working on the next chapter of Young and Beautiful. I don’t actually think it was next in my spreadsheet, but I just felt like working on it.

I have been playing this silly game on my phone and right now they have a special game going where you can get a special pink fish for Valentine’s Day. Well, as most of those games do, they want you to spend money on their “free game” and last night I went a little nuts (it happens) and spent $50 on extras for the game just to get through the extra game to get the special pink fish. After I got her I just went, what the hell did I just do? I confessed my sins to my SO who was aghast to say the least. Ugh LOL.

February 13, 2017

Ramblings of the Week, February 06, 2017

I finally updated Who’s the Daddy . Had to delete a comment when she told me to “chillax”. I’ve seriously had it with the people commenting on that fiction.

In more positive news, myself and five friends are seeing Adam Lambert + Queen at the Hollywood Bowl at the end of June. We bought the tickets this past weekend. We are sitting up pretty high but are pleased to be seeing it and the Bowl is an iconic outdoor venue.

Yes, I am still sick. And I am fucking sad about it.

February 6, 2017

Not So Much About Me

I borrowed this from BlueMeetsGreen and Yaiochan12

Are you in love?

Yes.

Coffee or Tea?
Both. I drink coffee all year round. I stick to iced tea (unsweetened please) in the summer but during fall and winter I drink hot tea. My favorite is Twining’s Christmas Tea. I get monthly boxes sent to me from Amazon.

What’s your middle name?
Robert

Dream Job?
Retired to be honest. That’s my dream.

Dream car?
I’m not really a car person, so long as it’s reliable and doesn’t break down on me.

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?
To live, Morro Bay, California. It is home to me in my heart. To visit? Probably Ireland again. Loved it.

You’re stranded on an island, who do you bring with you?
Chris Pine and my friend Kris. We are all introverts so we’d probably just sit there staring at each other without talking.

Do you have a crush on someone?

Duh, Chris Pine

Favorite video game?
Final Fantasy series and Legend of Zelda

Favorite song/band?
Big Country (a Scottish band, who’s singer committed suicide) and Erasure

Favorite thing to do on rainy days?
Watch movies

Are you an affectionate person?
Sort of. I’m not much of a cuddler though.

You’re traveling the entire world but you can only take one person with you. Who do you take?
My sweetie of course

How tall are you?
5 “8” ish

The inevitable Zombie Apocalypse is upon us! What’s your plan of action?
Crawl up and die. I hate zombies. I’d probably be the first victim

How do you relax?
I don’t relax.

Board games or drinking games?

I do drink but I don’t make a game of it and I despise with every fiber of my being Board Games. *shudder*

Do you like reading? If so, what’s your favorite book?
Yes. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Describe your dream date
Dinner by the window of my favorite restaurant in Morro Bay as the sun sets below the rock.

Describe what qualities you look for in a person
Willingness to take care of me! HA HA

Have you ever had a valentine?
Back in school, I got those little cartoonish ones every kid gave out. Now? Not so much. My sweetie thinks it is over commercialized nonsense.

Describe your first kiss
Lip smacking!

You’re at a candle shop, what scented candle do you buy?
Candles are dangerous.

January 31, 2017

Ramblings of the Week, January 30, 2017

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Out of control tongue

It’s been a constant struggle for the last two weeks, I’m not going to lie. It takes a lot for me to remain positive in light of what’s going on around me as well as while I am still fighting the worst cold I have had to endure in years.

I have asthma and every illness I get goes into my lungs and makes me sound like a seal while I hack my lungs out. It’s distressing and embarrassing to be honest. I spent the better part of the last three days holed up in my house desperate to get better. And while I think I am on the mend, please let me be, the cough remains. It’s the kind cough that wracks your whole body, you even feel your heart clenching in your chest. It’s a nightmare.

It’s caused me to slow down on updating fan fictions but that’s life. I think I am supposed to do Me When I Was Young next but in all honesty if I don’t feel like it, I may go out of order. You got Don’t Walk Away simply because I didn’t want to work on anything else.

Due to being out sick and on vacation days, I have work at the day job coming out of my eyeballs. Later this week I am supposed to be going to a fancy dinner for a friend’s birthday that has already been postponed once, so yeah, I’m going. Though I can’t say I’m all that looking forward to it.

January 30, 2017

The Return

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I only wish I could say I was better. I’m still feeling crummy. Yesterday, Tuesday, I had something of a relapse and felt worse than I had in days. I still have the cough and lots of guck coming out of my nose (I know, gross). But I am back home and back at work.

Our cat sitter/watcher neglected to check on one of our cats, Luna, and she had locked herself in the bedroom. She manages to open and close doors. She does, really. Anyway, she loves the bed, so she was in there and somehow closed the door on herself and this chick never bothered to check on her Monday when she came to feed them. She spent at least 24 hours locked in this room by herself. She peed and pooped all over the bed and was starving poor thing when we came home. I was not amused.

So I spent a large part of my miserable evening taking care of that, as you can imagine.

I haven’t had sex in over a week and I’m going a little nutty. I just want to feel normal again.

The trip was nice though on Sunday it poured like the Dickens in California and caused all kinds of flooding issues. I am glad to be home and to have a short work week. I plan on taking it very easy this weekend.

Today at lunch I will begin working on Anything.

January 25, 2017

Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto)

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