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A very flux week, with much running around for the last of the garden centres lol. I think we went out every day aside from Canada Day, and Kelly had a five day weekend, so we did not do a lot.

TV/movies: we'd planned to watch Kpop Demon Hunters but didn't even get that done, lol. Also realised I never wrote my review of Tale of the Nine-Tailed, lol. Unsure if I want to dig that all up out of discord (my memory is like, what drama now? that was so long ago (two weeks))

Games: finished Game Dev Tycoon, it was a lot of fun but I didn't think it had a lot of replaybility (for me, idc about my score, i already won), so I deleted it immediately and sure enough, the day after I was like 🤔 and was glad I had deleted :P sims are so bad for both my physical and mental health, but they are so GOOOOD.

Inched a bit further into What Remains of Edith Finch & continue to enjoy it.

Books: the House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - a sweet story, sweetly weird and sweetly optimistic. I liked it a lot and immediately ordered the sequel.

spoiler I figured immediately that Arthur was probably magical, but I also figured that Linus definitely was a repressed case, and was wrong about that! Dang. Coulda been fun.


Writing and other wips: No writing! Not even a glimmer of hope on the horizon, lol. I have gathered supplies to embroider, inspired by the [community profile] sunshine_revival challenge.

Fannish50 #09: bus

Jun. 30th, 2025 02:44 pm
andersenmom: KwangHaeng with snear and hat over his eyes, predebut (Days Like These)
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I have to admit: I don't actually have these songs, as much as I'd like them, because bus isn't on iTunes. I can't buy them. Sadly.

Hilarity under here )

Week Year WAM Week 01

Jun. 30th, 2025 08:30 am
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Weekly Score: 61.1% (22/36)

Goal 1: Declutter house and take care of family. 55% (16/29)

Review: I think I tried to do too much. And my sleep schedule has been off, so that hasn't helped, and neither has the foot.

Goal 2: Catch up on Fannish50. 83% (5/6)

Review: I wrote the three posts I wanted to, and posted two of the three for the week. I'm looking forward to this, actually. It's been a lot of fun.

Goal 3: Prep for writing retreat. 100% (1/1)

Review: This seems to be going so easily that I can't believe it's going to be this easy. But the letter went out, I got two of four emails back. I'm really excited about this! I hope it works well.

Intentions for the future: G1 - we're going on a trip, so I'm going to get at least one load of laundry done before we go, and do five minutes cleaning in living room and family room on Monday, and five minutes cleaning in Entry, front porch, and dining room on Tuesday. I also want to make sure the sink is clean, even if the dishwasher sits with clean dishes when we leave. G2 - I want to put up one more post, and hopefully write one or two of them before we go. G3 - I don't have anything planned for this week - I didn't expect to do anything.

Another challenge

Jun. 28th, 2025 04:48 pm
andersenmom: So My life (Procrastination)
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So I haven't been able to write for a while - it's really frustrating. I haven't done anything regularly since before I broke my foot. While this may have been a bad idea, I decided to go ahead and sign up for [community profile] 100ships. I picked some idols I wanted to write, created all the ships I'm going to use, and now it's just a matter of putting them together with the prompts. So here's the table.

Here's hoping it helps. )

been all over

Jun. 28th, 2025 06:00 pm
omens: Tiny Titans Robin, with robins (dcu - tiny titans robinses)
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We have been to Many Shopping the last couple days since getting the car back, and the day before last we saw some ducklings :D there are 2 groups of babies in this photo, one regular duck. One group was obviously the outgoing extrovert children and the other group was anxious stragglers. They were really fun to watch.



A couple yard pics Under here )

Some not great Ghost news (warning: illness? injury?) nothing gory )

Oh, ETA: in unrelated news and tonal whiplash - does anyone else use focumon? It's a focus app with a pokemon knockoff theme. If you liked habitica, same kinda thing. We should be friends if you try it! I am only on day 1, so idk if I will stick to it. It seems very complicated at first, so I'm trying to streamline it for myself. I basically only need the "focus now" bit.


Fannish50 #8: BoyNextDoor

Jun. 27th, 2025 10:31 am
andersenmom: KwangHaeng with snear and hat over his eyes, predebut (Days Like These)
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BND debuted in 2023 with One and Only, a very cute song (that, now that I think about it, reminds me a lot of Boyfriend by Boyfriend, although without the twins).

Number Eight )

media update (late again)

Jun. 26th, 2025 09:58 am
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Still not doing much, but last week:

Played some What Remains of Edith Finch, on switch. What a cool and pretty game! I am not very far into it.

Read several people are typing by Calvin Kasulke, been wanting to read this for ages, because it takes place in slack, and I have slack nostalgia, but I was expecting a "workplace lulz about capitalism gone awry" kind of book - which it definitely is! But it's also very Weird Existential Horror. LOL. I had no idea that was coming, but I enjoyed it a lot. The end is kind of abrupt & easy, but I still rec it. Very weird book & a very quick read (bc slack chat format). (I need more Lydia!!)

Didn't write anything!!

Still reading a ton of fic, mostly rereads but some new.

I think that's it, tbh.

updated to add:



Iphoto tells me it's a northern pearly eye. I WAS VERY BRAVE!

Fannish 50 #7: Blitzers

Jun. 24th, 2025 11:39 am
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I discovered Blitzers through their song "Macarena." It's just so FUN. They actually do the macarena in the choreography, at 2x speed. I love it.

Number Seven )

hello from the heatwave

Jun. 24th, 2025 01:23 pm
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Kelly is home :D and to welcome him home, the car did the thing I told him it was doing, right before we were supposed to go shopping! Disastrous >:( It doesn't like to shift out of park, sometimes. Like one of those times, when I was in the drive thru, which was extremely anxiety provoking (trapped AND inconveniencing someone?? NIGHTMARE). But anyway, we put off shopping and he took it to the mechanic on his way to work yesterday morning and they were like "lol we had no idea what you meant until we tried to move the car later." :D Anyway, needs a new shift assembly. They don't have the part, so they have our car a couple days. And we have no car (but a full fridge, so it's fine, just kinda stir crazy)..

Of course, Sunny's eye immediately starts watering. Just clear, no conjunctivitis, but what's with that, Sunny?? I start panicking because our vet is 40 minutes away because I hate change. Anyway, seems resolved today. She slept by my head purring like a machine, which only worried me more, lol.

And then yesterday the AC broke! HAHA 🫠 it's getting pretty sticky here. The dog and cat are into it, though. We are mid-heatwave and it is melting my entire insides. An upside: I have ice cream cones!! Idk how, bc ice cream is already so great, but cones really do make it 300% better. Appt for the AC to be looked at tomorrow morning (hopefully)

Some crow pics 4 of em )

It looks like he's missing a couple feathers - you can see the down poking out. There was a whole tree full of crows yelling about something (no hawk that I could see, but man, I looked!) and this guy was the straggler who stuck around a little longer.