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chiki chiki boom chiki chiki boom

so unfortunately I've done that thing again where I forget to talk to people for weeks, and then I avoid going back to talk to them because I'm embarrassed that I've missed any updates they gave, and then I get stuck in that loop for a while.

The wedding went ahead in September, so I am now officially An Spouse. People ask me what married life is like but since The Husband was already living with me and we've been cooped up in here since before the wedding, it's...pretty much the same as not-married life. Except now we get to reference 'my wife' or 'my husband' in conversation and goggle at that for a bit.

The wedding itself went about as well as it could have considering the circumstances - most of Husband's family couldn't come along with a great deal of mine, and a few could come to the outdoor ceremony but not the indoor reception. The reception in particular wound up with about 30 people, when we had initially planned for around 80. but we had guests, and the guests had a good time, and the venue gave us some nicer food and drinks since we had fewer people than our original estimate, and. You know. It would have been nice if we could have had our wedding in a normal, non-plague year, but it was still a joyful day in a year short on that.

Since my normal job is managing travel and there’s not a lot of travel happening, I’ve had stretches of time with little to do. Which on the one hand is very nice! I like it a lot better than the alternative where I was doing the job of two or three people and tearing out my hair! But after a while it mostly made me listless since I couldn’t be far from the computer in case there >was something I had to do, to say nothing of guilty and also vaguely worried I was going to get fired once I was ‘found out’ (despite no indication of that occurring). Fortunately in the meanwhile I’ve been placed on detail to another department that is giving me more to do, to the point where the new department would apparently like to poach me from my current one! With a pay raise! It’s nice to feel wanted.

(Of course that also means having to formally apply through the incredibly slow and opaque application system, but I can put up with that for a pay raise, I think.)

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As for what I've been up to in between all that, I wish I could say I’ve been writing but I have not. Not for lack of trying. Doesn’t help that while I’ve been playing plenty of video games and watching things, I’m either not finished with them or they’re not the kind of thing I’m really inspired to write about. Which isn’t to say I’m not enjoying them! And one thing I have been trying to do is make sure I’m spending my time specifically doing things I enjoy, like playing video games, instead of just staring at a computer in a half-hearted attempt at writing. Which is also why I haven’t been on much, lol.

Working on my balcony garden has made me discover that I really like gardening, actually. I’m no garden guru yet (I just lost a plant recently because I forgot I had a spray to fight powdery mildew until said mildew had already killed the plant, and I keep overwatering my rosemary), but last year I got a periwinkle plant that bloomed and seeded and I managed to grow three more healthy, blooming children from its seeds. It feels good, watching them grow. Seeing them inch up and spread new leaves and open their blooms little by little helps to mark the days; that in turn makes me feel less adrift in time, less like I’ll blink and it’ll suddenly be two years or five years or ten years later.

(I managed to revive two dying winter plants too! One of them even has new buds! I’m so proud.)

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Things I’ve been into:


Super Mario Odyssey (I love 3D platformers SO MUCH OH MY GOD)

Animal Crossing New Horizons (I am still playing it every day because I don’t have every one of Flick’s bug statues yet and I want them)

New Pokemon Snap (I had no real opinion on Bidoof before playing this game but now I love them very very much and think they’re great)

Horizon Zero Dawn (A game that makes me want to go hiking despite having done that like. Twice.)

Carrion (An indie game from Devolver Digital where you play as a horrible carnivorous meat creature attempting to break out of its containment - like The Thing but the titular Thing is you. It’s very gross and a lot of fun!)

The Murderbot Diaries (Halfway through Rogue Protocol and oh god I hope nothing bad happens to Miki don’t tell me if it does)

Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Husband has been showing me a best-of selection of season 1-3 and it’s been interesting finally seeing some context for the gifsets people post. Also Major Kira My Beloved.)

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Despite the link up top I have not managed to rewatch Muppet Treasure Island and I really should fix that.

Mood:: 'mellow' mellow
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I figured out what needs to happen to get me writing things again! What needs to happen is I need to wake up at 3am two days in a row for no reason.

I've been falling asleep at a normal time but waking up super early for a while now, and every time I do something to fix it (extra/heavy blanket, cutting off music for a certain time before bed, etc) it works for a little while before it starts over again. It's happened regardless of if there's anything in particular I'm stressing out about too, though it may be some kind of background stress due to *gestures vaguely at everything*.

It may have something to do with the fact that when I set my own bedtime I tend to stay up late; Fiance, meanwhile, goes to bed around 10:30pm pretty consistently. So maybe I'm waking up early because I'm not staying up as late as I used to? But he's had that habit since he moved in with me and the problem is newer than that.

I just hope I'm not becoming A Morning Person. I've never been A Morning Person! I don't want to be one! Morning People have, like, life plans and FitBits and stickers on their car about running marathons.

The writing's been nice, though. I should remember to do that first when I wake up early, instead of staring at the ceiling being annoyed.
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So. huh. last time I posted here there like. wasn't a worldwide pandemic and it hadn't been a week and a half since I left my house.

I'm okay - I'm actually very fortunate in that I'm able to work from home, I'm still getting paid, we're well-stocked on food and toilet paper, and i have Fiance living with me so I'm not completely alone. no one I know is sick so far, and my family's able to stay home as well; Fiance's family is also safe and well.

I'm scared - of course I am - but in a weird way it feels like the outside world is finally matching how I've been feeling since 2018 with the sense of looming doom and uncertainty/fear of the future, which ironically makes it way easier to talk to people about it and way easier to make logical preparations for emergencies and, i don't know. believe that i might be able to band together with other people and help each other or something.

I've been doing a lot of cooking and freezing soups to stretch out our necessary trips to the grocery, including trying some new recipes, and I'm in the process of disassembling some old bedsheets to make into masks and washrags. Saving scraps for compost and bones to make my own broth, and I was able to get some yeast on our last grocery outing so I can potentially make my own bread for the first time. It's not real self-sufficiency, not by a long shot, but it feels like a start, and one I needed to make. 

Hope you're all holding up okay out there, and if you're stuck working the "essentials" you're able to stay safe.
Mood:: 'anxious' anxious
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posted by [personal profile] stunt_muppet at 12:17pm on 25/11/2019 under , ,
To sum up my Fire Emblem Three Houses experience thus far: not only is it possible to plan your combat strategies based on which two characters you think should kiss, in the beginning of the game you are in fact encouraged to do so.

*throws gifts at people* do you love me yet )

The other thing that's been taking up my time (aside from work and holiday prep) is making this year's MAGFest costume! I've going as Cassie Cage from Mortal Kombat 11, which may not be the most immediately recognizable costume but does match Fiance who's going as Raiden. He made the hat out of foam and pleather with a balsa wood skeleton! He's very proud.

Where last year's costume involved a lot of painting and shaping foam this year's is much heavier on the sewing; Cassie's outfit is similar to a flight suit, and my options for getting something premade was either to spend a lot of money for something from military surplus (which would still have to be adjusted) or spend a moderate amount of money for an itchy-looking polyester costume flight suit that I couldn't try on. So in my hubris I was like, hey, Simplicity makes patterns for a jumpsuit, I'll just make my own and then I'll know it fits! And then I remembered that denim (the material called for) is famously difficult to sew and the pattern pieces for a jumpsuit have to be huge for everything to be in one piece. I haven't even started the real sewing and I'm already feeling kind of done.

I never learned how to sew as a kid, despite my mother's efforts to the contrary, so I'm grateful to be getting the experience now. Maybe after this I'll be able to hem and patch my own jeans!

Still trying to figure out how to squeeze in Christmas shopping and wedding prep between all the fun stuff I actually want to do, but I do think it was valuable, spending time on these fun things. One thing at a time, I guess.
Mood:: 'accomplished' accomplished
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posted by [personal profile] stunt_muppet at 09:21pm on 23/12/2018 under , , ,
postcitywave on Tumblr tagged me for a 2018 Year In Review meme, and that seems like a great way to ease back into blogging before I start bringing out my actual personality.

Behind that cut! )

Tagging[personal profile] walkthegale , [personal profile] enemyofperfect , [personal profile] nimueth and  [personal profile] caiusmajor And of course anyone else who wants to do it should feel free!

Now let's see how this formats on mobile, shall we. 

Mood:: 'sleepy' sleepy
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posted by [personal profile] stunt_muppet at 10:13pm on 23/11/2012 under
Wow it's been a long time.

There's even a "Like" thing here now, that's new.

So. There's a lot to talk about, and every time I try to type out a post about it it gets way too long and off-topic and I stop. So, instead, I'll just say hi, and apologize for not being here.

It can be difficult to blog when all I want to do in the evenings is nap sometimes.

So...how have things been with you?
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Oh wow has it really been since May since I was here?

That's sad.

The worst part is, it's not like I don't have anything to talk about! I have lots to talk about, but that's part of the problem - things just keep happening and I have more and more things to put in an entry like this and so because I have so much to talk about I never know how to say it satisfactorially I end up never saying it at all.

New job has gone super super well so far! I think they really do want to keep me on past the end of my part-time appointment, since they talk about giving me assignments past the end of my part-time assignment, in September. Which is exciting, since I've been trying to get a full-time job for two years now, but also a little scary!

There was about two weeks there when my parents were both out of the house on vacation, and it was up to me to fix dinner, get all the chores done, feed the dog, get to and from work on time, assign menus and tasks for my brother and me to make sure the dog got fed when I worked late and the plants got watered and everything and the laundry got done, and as I was preparing bills to pay to drop off before I went to work, and it occurred to me - am I, like, being an adult? Is this what adulthood looks like?

It was nice to feel capable (and let me tell you, just having a job has done wonders for my mood, never mind holding down the house), but at the same time it's like OH MY GOD WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN.

I'm still working at the shop a few days a week, too, which means I have super long and tiring days and my back is starting to ache on occasion, but honestly it kind of feels good having stuff to do. It makes it so much easier not to feel useless or like I'm wasting time. Even if I'm creating that business for myself and it's completely false.

Unfortunately working all this time has kind of sapped my writing energy - I have ideas, but when I'm not too tired to write them it just doesn't feel worth it - either because it's something no one cares about or it'll be too much work or my writing is terrible so there's no point in continuing to write fic, things like that. Perhaps a tradeoff for feeling so good about myself in other respects?

That'll be all for this entry; I'm going to keep this short so I don't get all intimidated and not finish it again! And also I need to go to bed because commuting into the city every morning means getting up at 6, bleeeh. That's a part of adulthood I can do without.
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posted by [personal profile] stunt_muppet at 11:35pm on 08/04/2012 under
Happy Easter, loves, if you celebrate(d) it. And happy Passover, to those that celebrate that.

To those that don't, I hope you have gone out and gotten yourself some Peeps or Cadbury Eggs and had your life enhanced accordingly. And if you haven't you should do because it'll improve your day immeasurably. Have a fantastic week.

Other stuff to post, but I just wanted to get that in there before I let another holiday/special event go by.
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Honestly, not much has been happening that I'd talk about here! I haven't managed much writing (or at least I haven't managed to finish anything), I've drawn on occasion, I've piddled around on a fanmix and tried to work on a vid...nothing really complete or definitive. I've also been working more hours at my shop, which is good because it means I've been able to accrue some savings but also means not as much fannish downtime.

So...partly popping in to say I'm still alive, yeah. I've been commenting more than updating, and I've been more active on Tumblr because it lets me post pictures of puppies and pretend it's content, but there are also memes and stuff to do. I'm slowly going through all the meme backlogs on this journal and trying to finish them up for completeness' sake.

Also I've been spending an absurd amount of timing reading Homestuck. And reading about Homestuck. Time Sink Award Winner right there.

So, things:

1. If Movie: The Movie is not a Yuletide fandom by this December I will be disappointed in Fandom At Large.

2. I...am contemplating getting into Mass Effect? And I fully admit that this is down mostly to the pile of awesome fanart, and also Garrus and Legion who look really cool. And also the prospect of Sheppard/Garrus, because I'm just horrendously predictable that way. Really, the only thing that stopped me from seeing if my computer was up for it on Steam was hearing certain spoilers regarding the ending of ME3 that I am not sure I am down with. Maybe I can just play the first two and leave it there?

There's also the point that I want to support BioWare after they basically told homophobic gamers to GTFO after someone complained about the m/m romances in Dragon Age. I'd like more game companies to do that! It'd be nice. Maybe I could play Dragon Age instead? Hmm.

3. I've been beading! A lot, actually, though mostly simple stuff. Here, have some pictures!

Pictures! )
You can find most of these (save for the paper beads, which I'm not finished with yet) on my etsy page if you'd like to wear them for yourself! Or just look at more pictures.

4. I always want to write fic based on my fannish dreams and then I remember that a) nobody cares about other people's dreams and b) the whole reason they're dreams is that even in context they don't make a whole lot of sense.

...It was a Generator Rex dream wherein Noah had to go on a mission to the bottom of the ocean for some reason but then his radio cut off and no one knew where he was so Six went down after him, busted through the ocean floor, ended up in a grey lobby with someone who was either Death or one of Death's assistants and then dived out a window into a featureless void. And after that I had to leave for some reason (because the whole thing was something I was watching on a movie screen) and when I came back no one else in the theater would tell me what happened. My dream projections are dicks. :(

5. A meme answer! From [personal profile] caiusmajor , one of those seven-questions things wherein you comment asking for questions and I ask you things for you to post.

Cut for length and discussion of robotporn. )

6. I have some other stuff I guess but I've been typing this entry for far too long. See you later flisters.

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posted by [personal profile] stunt_muppet at 11:14am on 31/01/2012 under , ,

Today is my day off work after several days of helping with floor moves (translation: hauling heavy merch around to revamp the store layout). I am a bit knackered after all that and don't feel like doing much. 

There are people renovating my bathroom, so ideally I should be out of my house so's I can get out of their way.

There are four things I could do here:

1. Something responsible, like go out with my dad and car shop because my baby is, unfortunately, starting to have engine trouble that will cost more than she does. As much as it breaks my heart not to have her, it's probably time.

(Of course, Dad also insists that my next car be one with a manual transmission, which I barely know how to drive. I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually, but those times in between that I spend stalling it trying to get it out of the driveway are not going to be fun.)

2. Do something equally responsible but homebound, like insurance paperwork or trying to clear some of the mountain of paper and crap out of my room, because god knows that's an ongoing effort.

3. Bugger off to the bead shop (which is 45 minutes away) and gaze covetously at more beads I don't need. And also ask the folks working there if they know a way to seal paper beads without getting some expensive enameling, because I've got a sheet of wrapping paper that is way too pretty to throw out but I don't want to buy a whole big tub of UTEE if I'm only going to use it once.

4. Try to write. Because, you know, that's gone great over the past few weeks. (Hint: No it hasn't.)

On the one hand, having more hours at work means I've got more financial leeway, but it means on my days off I'm way more tempted to just tear off for the malls or the movies.

I have done some drawing, though! I'll get pictures up later tonight, probably.

Also I haven't been journaling very much have I. I'm still alive! Hi.

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