Real Life

Things related to that reality thing people are always going on about.

Freakin’ Allergies, and also Babble About (Re)Writing to the End

Sometimes I write so fast that I outpace my plotting brain. I’ve learned to recognize it when I hit a point where I don’t know what happens next. Or rather, I do, but I don’t know how to write it.

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Attempted Gardening

My zucchini is doing well! It was the first thing I planted, because those are the first seeds I received, by more than a week (thanks, UPS, and no, I am not fooled that it was actually USPS who lost them. I was watching the tracking.) Anyway. So yeah. I planted four seeds, in case

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Doing Okay

Doing Okay

Sitting here at my desk in my room that I’ve spent an amount of time this weekend cleaning, I’m realizingโ€ฆI’m doing okay. I’ve got a clean desk, pretty pens, a great idea I’m excited to writeโ€ฆall fourteen (so far) seasons of Supernatural on Netflixโ€ฆ I know I said Supernatural wasn’t my thing. I think I’ve

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Grumpy

Grumpy

There’s some serious stuff going on out there, but I’m not going to be talking about it except around the edges. Just take it as written that I care, that I want people to live and be healthy and happy, and we’ll go from there. I’m one of the lucky ones in so many ways,

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Remember the Doom?

Hey, remember the List o’ Doom? I think that’s what I called it. Oh, yeah. This one. (Fun fact! I have a draft post sitting in my file for lo, these many months now, updating my progress on this list! But then I stopped working on it.) Some of the stuff though, has now been

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I Love the Gem Show

I love geology. I am a great big fan of rocks. I love fossils and geodes and crystals. My favorite rocks, though, by far, are ones I can wear. Enter the gem show. Most years, I don’t go to the gem show. I know me, I know the capacity of my house and the (much

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Not My Circus

Not My Circus

Wow, it’s been a while. Dammit. I didn’t mean to do that. Life was really busy for a period of time, then kid decided that she could not actually care for Cricket as she needed. Tragically, no one offered to pay me to quit my job and stay home and raise a puppy, so we

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