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flamingswordWhat is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
1. Getting my car fixed for inspection yesterday, they found an expensive-to-fix but dangerous thing going wrong with the struts. I will soon be much safer on the road, which is good, even if it is money I wanted to spend doing a dozen other things.
2. My people are functioning and doing mostly okay despite The Horrors. Thank you for taking care of yourselves, and me, and each other. It makes me so relieved and proud and grateful to know you.
3. I am doing well at school.
4. Mom and Step-Dad are doing well as far as their physical health, and Mom’s gigantic bruise on her thigh from falling through the hole in the front porch is mostly healed now.
5. Step-Dad washed my car and it’s all shiny and cute again.
6. I am reading a smidge of BatFamily crack again, now that I have a bit of free time, and it makes me smile, giggle, and sometimes meanly snicker at Batman’s expense.
7. The couch-napping quilt is over 1/3 of the way done!
8. I made good progress on fixing Merlin’s stockings during the summer break. They should be ready to send by the end of July. 🤞
9. I have a call to make today to chatter withnyyki about the ten thousand things.
10. I get to talk to Merlin tomorrow night, with any luck.
1. Getting my car fixed for inspection yesterday, they found an expensive-to-fix but dangerous thing going wrong with the struts. I will soon be much safer on the road, which is good, even if it is money I wanted to spend doing a dozen other things.
2. My people are functioning and doing mostly okay despite The Horrors. Thank you for taking care of yourselves, and me, and each other. It makes me so relieved and proud and grateful to know you.
3. I am doing well at school.
4. Mom and Step-Dad are doing well as far as their physical health, and Mom’s gigantic bruise on her thigh from falling through the hole in the front porch is mostly healed now.
5. Step-Dad washed my car and it’s all shiny and cute again.
6. I am reading a smidge of BatFamily crack again, now that I have a bit of free time, and it makes me smile, giggle, and sometimes meanly snicker at Batman’s expense.
7. The couch-napping quilt is over 1/3 of the way done!
8. I made good progress on fixing Merlin’s stockings during the summer break. They should be ready to send by the end of July. 🤞
9. I have a call to make today to chatter with
nyyki about the ten thousand things. 10. I get to talk to Merlin tomorrow night, with any luck.
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Date: 2025-07-15 05:40 pm (UTC)How old are your folks? My dad and step-dad (both were married to my late mother in turn) are both 86. and thankfully doing well enough.
Will you be able to post pics of couch napping quilt? Couch naps are some of the best
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Date: 2025-07-15 06:23 pm (UTC)It is so hard trying to resist The Horrors when one is being played target practice with. We need more active allies. 😕
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Date: 2025-07-15 09:47 pm (UTC)My oldest aunt is 85, though, and she has earned her creeping senility with a lot of lived experiences. She used to work for UNIFEM, back in the late 70’s-80’s. She has such a cool history! But for some reason she thinks the interesting parts are not to be talked about, like what it was like to date a Black boy in Jefferson City, MO in the 60’s, or to work for the UN, or to stop drinking only to find out that she had breast cancer a couple years later and still be too stubborn to go back to drinking. Tough old bird! But most of the stories I want to hear, she doesn’t seem to want to talk about. 🤷
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Date: 2025-07-17 03:28 am (UTC)