A More Permanent Hell

Two Years

Sun, 12 Aug 2018 18:46:09 GMT

Yipes, just realized it has been nearly two years since I was here. Can't say I have much to report. I suppose the big news, such as it is, is that we now have ducks, in addition to the chickens. We took in some young ducks to help a lady out who had to get rid of all her feathered friends back in the spring. They all turned out to be boys, so we got four hens yesterday. I'm about to try my first duck egg.

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Comes Back Around

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 01:05:09 GMT

[waves] I don't know what's wrong with me. I seem to have lost the ability to do social media, other than Twitter, and I can't write anymore. Just wanted to let any who might still be around that I'm fine, just not good at communicating these days. Love to all!

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December Post :D

Sun, 20 Dec 2015 21:16:03 GMT

My brother actually got mum to go see Star Wars with him, since I refuse to see it again. I don't think she's been in a movie theatre for quite a few years. She's partly deaf, and has mobility issues and finds the seats very uncomfortable. We'll usually do a Marvel movie or other blockbuster DVD catchup over Christmas. This year, it'll be Ant Man.

We're breaking away from having turkey for Xmas dinner for the very first time. I'm going to try my hand at a Beef Wellington, along with roast potatoes and Yorkshire Pudding. And since my brother doesn't eat beef, going to have crab and a lemon risotto as well. Then cranberry pecan pie with honey cranberry sauce for dessert. I think the urge to mix it up stems from this being the first Christmas since my father died. It's distracting to do different things.

I've been experimenting with sourdough, and made sourdough pizza dough last night. The sauce was crushed tomatoes with homemade meatballs and Parmesan and Asiago cheese. Turned out really nice, though I wasn't entirely happy with the crust. Must tinker a bit. Today, I have sourdough bread dough rising. Since it's yeast free, I've been told it can take many hours to rise. Hopefully before I go to bed though!

And I saw this on Facebook: How Ken Burns would tell the story of 'Star Wars'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/editorial/how-ken-burns-would-tell-the-story-of-star-wars/2015/12/18/2ed8ccaa-a5a4-11e5-8318-bd8caed8c588_video.html

Cracked me up.

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Unrelated Bits

Sat, 11 Jan 2014 22:35:37 GMT

We finally saw the first Hunger Games movie, and liked it enough that I may have to check out the books at some point.

'Justified' is back! Wheee!

Watched the first ep of 'Killer Women' and really enjoyed it. Added bonus: The Mavericks opening and closing the episode with their music.

We're going to go see 'Saving Mr. Banks' tomorrow.

I feel like writing, but not sure what. There's always my Queen of Swords sequel that I've been working on intermittently. One day, I will finish it! Or the sequel to 'White As Snow, Red As Blood', which is set during 'The Avengers'. Or the Agents of SHIELD/Isla De Muerta/Prate Treasure one I've been pondering. Or going back to the Old West portion of my series and write the one with James Norrington. No idea.

Ladies Assemble this year is going to be at Disneyland instead of Vegas for the fifth annual. This all started accidentally with Captain America, so for the second one, we're mixing it up.

Watched 'Almost Human' finally. We had 5 eps on the DVR. We really like it, and will keep watching.

How fandom is changing. Who'd think you'd see a tweet from Orlando Jones about Yuletide and the number of Sleepy Hollow stories and that he's going to read them all!?!? Speaking of which, I've never participated in Yuletide, but I thought it was for small fandoms?
Wouldn't think Sleepy Hollow would be a small fandom.

Been recording Dracula, but have yet to watch. Not sure we ever will at this rate!

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But, but....

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:14:23 GMT

Marion would have been killed by the Nazis in her bar if Indy hadn't shown up!

Random TV show comment is random.

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Uh oh

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 00:25:05 GMT

Highlander fic exchange sign ups are only open till Sunday. I guess I'm going to have to make a decision real soon now. Though I'm leaning towards no and yes equally right about now. Argh!

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Places

Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:50:04 GMT

Places I've Lived

Alameda, California
Berkeley, California
Victoria, British Columbia
Port Angeles, Washington
Port Townsend, Washington
Yakima, Washington
Powell River, British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
Seaside, California
Pacific Grove, California
Carmel, California
Monterey, California
La Verkin, Utah.

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Spam!

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:15:08 GMT

Now I haven't posted in a while, I guess I'm going to spam you all. I need to post some updated kitten pics -- they're five weeks old right now, and so freakishly adorable! And they have names: Loki, Thora, Darcy, Heimdall, and Sif. Well, hey, their mom is Freya! We're in monsoon season, so the afternoon overcast has been so nice. Nin and I got stuck in WalMart when a cell passed over. OMG! It was so loud, between the rain and the thunder. And a few miles away, not a drop of rain. Oh, and I wrote a Hulk fic! Really. No, I don't believe it either. I'll post it here in a bit. The scene in my head made me laugh, and I had to write it. Especially as not a lot has made me laugh lately. I got a tablet for my birthday, and it's quite nifty! Especially as my netbook has been limping along, on its last legs. So that's the condensed recap!

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I think that's everything

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:59:18 GMT

Realized I'd forgotten to put in chapter links at the end of part four of Equivocal Coalescence both on DW and LJ, so got that done. also replied to a bunch of old comments - so in case you're wondering :D

When did Sunday become such a busy TV day?

Vikings
Once Upon a Time
Lost Girl
Army Wives
Amazing Race
Game of Thrones

Why can't they share with the other nights of the week?

HBO is free this week on DISH, so finally watched Snow White and the Huntsman. I thought the actress who played Snow White was a little lackluster, but it was an enjoyable movie, made better by it being free :D

I really hope I hear from the ACM this week about my tickets. I know I'm not their priority, but still, I won't believe we're going to the concert till I have the tickets confirmed.

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Better

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:12:47 GMT

I'm been awful at responding to comments, and am going back trying to at least partially catch up. Going to try and do better in the future, promise!

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My New Chair

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:55:01 GMT

Which Islay has taken over.

The chair is very 'me' and I love it!!

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Oops

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:43:03 GMT

I did not know you can only go back 80 posts on DW. I do now. Yes, I am behind.

What else? I keep thinking of things to post about, but don't get the chance, then it's gone. Things like Lost Girl, or other TV we've been watching. Or about what we did last weekend (Parade of Homes), or crap from work, or how most of the comments I get on my fic are spam (serious bummer). But the thinking is as far as it gets, it seems. How about the weather? It was nearly 70 this weekend! Tomorrow, it's supposed to snow. I could tell you about my plans for the garden this spring, but that's probably boring. Or how I keep writing a story in a fandom so dead, I think if 5 people read it, I'd be lucky. But, no, let's skip all that. Oh, hey, I bought a new pillow! Yes, exciting, I know.

Okay, here's something new, that's still fresh and postie :D

One of Nin's coworkers is a former member of the Jeff's cult (a little background, if you aren't familiar), who it seems was kicked out during the last round of 'excommunications'. She was a first wife, has 15 children of her own, and many grandkids, and she's now living in town, by herself, for the first time in her life. Well, she discovered 'Celtic Woman' recently and was telling Nin how much she loved the music. Since I may be something of a Celtic music-a-phile [cough], I immediately went through my prized collection, which spans some 20 years, some of which I bought in Scotland and in Nova Scotia, picking out artists she really must listen to. I think I loaned her about 20 odd CDs. Too bad she has no way to listen to the cassettes! :D Nin says she was pretty happy about the bag she was handed, and is really looking forward to listening to them. It was nice to share something totally new to a person who is dipping her toes into quite a different world than the one she's been living in.

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Tumblr

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:12:36 GMT

Went and got one - though I don't know what the hell I'm doing. But when's that ever stopped me?

Me

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Piffle

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:57:04 GMT

I hate it when I have comments I want to reply to on an LJ post, and I can't because no access from work, so instead, crosspost a whine about it. So I'll have to respond 9 odd hours from now.

Some of it was in regards to the facebook/twitter linking thing. But just wait 9 hours [g]

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Early Morning

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:47:38 GMT

It's one of my early mornings, so I'm here at 7:15 and it's nice today because no one else is here early. Nice and peaceful for a short while. I've finished the next part of Transformative Variations, just needs some tweaking, so hope to post it by the end of the week. Hard to believe we're more than halfway through August! I may have a new computer soon: my brother's been building me a new one, and I thought I was getting it around Xmas, but he says it's virtually done. It's cool and argh all at once. I hate setting up a new computer! But, new computer!!

Oh, and I can't get to LJ from work, so if you want to comment, and perhaps get a response today at some point, then comment at the Dreamwidth post. Otherwise, I'll talk to you tonight.

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Circled?

Fri, 01 May 2009 19:23:59 GMT

so if on LJ it's "I friended you back', on Dwidth would it be, "I circled you back"? Or in some cases, "half-circled"!

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[waves]

Fri, 01 May 2009 17:55:45 GMT

(crossposting this from Dwidth to LJ)

So I know some of you I know from LJ are over here, but with different user names. So if you are one of those folks, could you let me know so I can figure out who is who?

Thanks!

BTW, I'm Ithildyn over there, with a 'Y' instead of the proper spelling. Managed to snag that here.

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One More Time

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:46:56 GMT

I haven't had any success crossposting and couldn't get the edits to the crosspost account thingie to stick. So this time, I deleted it entirely and and created a new one!

So here we go...

Posting!

Posting!

Posting!

Later: it worked!

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