Ramblings

Sunday Rambles, November 24, 2019

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.

November 24, 2019

Ramblings November 14, 2019

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.

November 14, 2019

Thursday Rambling, November 07, 2019

I don’t know if you guys have Aldi’s where you are. It’s a bit of a strange grocery store that originally came from Germany. They sell food but they also sell socks and weed whackers. It all depends what they can get. In many ways they remind me of the old Gemco on a much smaller scale. For you youngsters, you can Google Gemco. They’s long since gone out of business.

Anyway, they have some really cool stuff especially at the holidays. Lots of German chocolate and Father Christmas stuff, etc. Last year they had a Wine Advent Calendar that apparently sold out in minutes. It’s exactly what it sounds like, a wine for every day from December 01-24 (yes yes my sister has told me that is not the real “advent” blah blah). So they announced they’d have it again this year and release it on November 06th.

They also intended to have the usual chocolate ones, with some with chocolate from Germany, a Hot Wheels one, a cheese one and a beer one.

Another supermarket (Kroger) also announced they would have one this year and I had seen a similar box at Cost Plus World Market (don’t know if you have those either). The one they had was $100 and the one at Aldi was supposed to be $70. I almost bought the World Market one but didn’t.

So I go to the Aldi near me after work yesterday and…gone. Sold out. First day. No beer one, no wine one, no cheese one. I did get a chocolate one but those were going fast too. Sigh. I was very disappointed because it sounded fun to have 24 little bottles of wine to try.

Yesterday sucked. It was the one year anniversary of Crazy’s death.

I decided to apply for another credit card just to see if I could get it and was rejected. Couldn’t get my wine.

This morning I looked on the website for World Market and according to that they still had a 12 Bottles of Wine for Christmas and I could buy it online and pick it up at my local store. It was $59. I bought it. So after work I will attempt to pick it up. The cynical part of me expects to be told they lied and they don’t really have it in stock. In that case they will be forced to refund me. So we shall see! HA

In other news I am up to 14 written for my 25 days of Christmas. The 14th will very much please a certain reader. Next I plan on working on another one for TOS as so far it’s very heavily geared toward AOS which will still continue but I think I need at least one more TOS. So I am making progress!

Tomorrow the Fall Guys will be back!

November 7, 2019

Ramblings for the Week, End of October 2019

I’m back from Solvang/Santa Inez but super exhausted. Got back about an hour ago.

Solvang was so gorgeous this time. Not a bit of wind there. Just stunning. We had pastries at our favorite bakery and then did some wine tasting at a couple of places. Had a lot of fun.

One of the wineries you got cheese pairings with the tasting so that was nice

Then we checked into the Chumash Casino for overnight. Had planned to have some wine on the balcony but it got down to 37 at night and so we decided nope! Had a nice dinner at the restaurant, put the mother to bed (she poops out fast at 93) and then went out and played some more. I won $1,000! Pretty cool since I didn’t have to pay for any of it. And that $1,000 goes to my property taxes due soon. I was wondering how I was going to come up with the money but God came through for me in this case.

The view was the roof of the casino but nice house and sky in the background

We had fun! Then we got some Swarovski crystal this morning, played some more, where the mother won her own $1,000, and then we stopped at the Ventura Harbor for a lunch of fish, shrimp and chips. Great time and great weather.

Of course tonight we are in for another “Wind Event” all the way until Noon on Halloween. Sigh. Which probably means more brush fires. Many of which are started by some freak! Grrr.

You will have all read Somebody’s Knocking on AO3 my latest Song Fic. Otherwise I’m currently tired and still working on December flashes. Next up for AO3 is Cadet Ashayam, but we will see when that happens.

The usual flashes are coming for the week, including the last October flash.

October 29, 2019

Ramblings October 21, 2019

So I am struggling with the next part of Our So-Called Life. I kind of know what’s supposed to happen next, but I am not feeling the urge to write it. I tried. I opened it up and wrote a paragraph. And then closed it.

The answer? I’m going to put it away for now and mull on it. I may change what happens next slightly. We’ll see.

So while I am still working on my December stuff (6 and a half days done and scheduled. I should have the 7th done soon), I will move on to The Vulcan Who Fell to the Earth next instead. So expect that some time this week.

I’ve been enjoying writing the December stuff anyway. Other stuff will be updated as needed.

My three day weekend is at an end and it’s back to work tomorrow. Sigh. Wish I was rich. Don’t we all?

October 21, 2019

Ramblings for Sunday, September 29, 2019

Some of the things I got up to this weekend.

Dinner was WW Zero Point Egg Drop Soup because cheesecake for breakfast!

Er…coming up this week…The Mysterious One and The Fling. I think. Tomorrow I am at my new location so not sure how much work I will get done writing-wise first day or so. I’ll play it by ear. I have also heard cell phone service is sketchy there. But you will definitely have at least the flashes. The rest…remains to be seen

September 29, 2019

Sunday Night Ramblings, September 15, 2019

Well, if I needed proof no one pays the slightest bit of attention to me on tumblr, I got it the other day when I attempted to tout my two song fics I posted here on there.

Crickets (yeah you get a cute animated one)

Ah, well live and learn.

I am excited for you all to read all my flashes coming up. I am thoroughly scheduled all the way through October now. I am soooo pleased with myself. I really am. Some of these flashes coming up are just great, if I do say so myself.

I have only the four Wednesday ones to write for November and then I will be finished for flashes all the way through then. I plan to have those done this coming week. My OMS story for November is complete too.

Once November’s are finished, I will take a break from writing flashes and not start the December ones until October.

AO3 updates for this week are Nine Lives and Cadet Ashayam. Sorry, that’s all I can manage right now.

Mylochkatee from tumblr has been going crazy with artwork today and she did a bunch for me. I have added some here for you to see but please check her out on AO3 and give her your kudos. They are well deserved. In particular check out the “Princes” one she did. Stunning.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/Mylochka/pseuds/Mylochka

September 15, 2019

Ramblings, September 01, 2019

We had a smashing time at the Hollywood Bowl and John Williams appeared himself. A spry 87 year old.

Of course probably his most famous music is Star Wars (even though he also wrote ET, Jaws, and Raiders of the Lost Ark among many others), and so naturally all the Star Wars Geeks were there with their light sabers.

A fun time was had by all. And we may have gotten a little smashed. I have a big time hangover.

As you know I went a little nuts and started Cadet Ashayam on AO3. Hope to get another chapter up this coming week as well as Didn’t We Almost Have it All, The Space in My Bed, and we will see what else.

It’s hot here but at least we aren’t facing a hurricane. My friend J keeps sending me stuff on Earthquakes, the latest one telling me that a previously thought dormant faultline under LA is not so dormant! Good times. It’s all kind of fascinating really. There’s so much we don’t know about this planet.

Still working on getting the garage door fixed. It’s a long and developing project/thing. Hopefully by the end of September we will have a lovely new garage door! Sheesh.

I still have flashes and OMS etc to write too but with my head pounding today who knows. We also invited the cousin over for shrimp kabobs later.

Anyhow, that’s it in my world right now. Hope yours is stable, cool and healthy

September 1, 2019

Ramblings August 25, 2019

As some of you know, our garage was broken into on Friday while we were at work. The garage is separate from our townhome, fortunately, but they did take a few things, including an unopened portable AC, as well as breaking our garage door opener mechanism. We’d been delaying getting one of those new sliding metal garage doors and openers that most of our complex had, with us having the original wooden door, but looks like we are no longer able to delay that. It was a cost thing, but God or the burglar, made that decision for us. So this week we are dealing with getting estimates, HOA approval etc. We had a very nice police officer out Friday night, but he admitted there was little they could really do since there are no cameras and all that. I suspect that someone targeted the AC because nothing else of value was really taken. It was a break in, grab and go kind of thing. But definitely makes you disappointed in your fellow human beings.

In other news, we are still celebrating M’s birthday. We had a get together at a friend’s on Saturday and Sunday night it’s a dinner with the family at a nice restaurant. M’s birthday is actually Tuesday but it’s easier to celebrate on a weekend. Plus when we get home from work Tuesday, one of the garage door people will be by to give us an estimate on everything.

Coming up for updates this week should be The Fling, Stranded 3 and The Mysterious One. I love the flash coming on Friday very much. And I have a new flash series coming on Wednesday too.

This coming weekend in front of us is Labor Day, of course. We are going to the Hollywood Bowl Saturday the 31st for the John Williams Music thing. Should be fun. Then is the three day weekend! And September. Busy times, my friends.

Tomorrow is Chris Pine’s birthday, so I am including a fan video someone made a few years back. Fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEGGqI9ky8k

August 25, 2019

Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto)

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