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[dragonlady7]

day?, how many years long was today?, i'm glad i accomplished something, it comforts me

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1) I am hanging in there largely due to the lovely replies and comments here, on my latest AO3 things, and (astonishingly) at Facebook. Also my immediate-family groupchat is kind of hilarious today. It’s hard, though; I was the one who scrolled down and found the thread that didn’t have Dad on it to send the first reply to, because I knew his phone blowing up would just upset Mom. 😭 But we’re all on that thread now. (It was so great when dad got his own phone after years of Mom having the smartphone for the two of them. He could be relied on for one good zinger per major conversation. 😭)

1a) family groupchat highlights include M-L defending herself about letting Mom shovel the roof, me discussing being middle-aged and needing a new roof, two of my sisters simultaneously declaring that i needed a thatched roof for the middle ages, and M-L telling a story about her cat possibly being possessed by a demon but actually just being a snob. Farmsister said she was “on tenterhooks” to hear the end and Mom asked if we all knew what tenterhooks are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenterhook but we are her children so of course we all did.

2) I am also hanging in because my coworkers brought me a tray of sushi for dinner, which was super sweet of them and, as I think I started to mention before, I am sure they thought of that specifically because the one dude is of Jewish extraction and feeding mourners is one of the many, many things about which the Jews are 1000% Correct, it made my day.

3) I was completely unable to account for the passage of time today, and had real trouble completing thoughts, but I did manage to haul myself down to the basement and once down there I actually did a lot of fairly fast reasonable-quality work, and I made a series of furoshiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furoshiki in which to wrap my Christmas gifts. I still have to make one more, and finish a small impromptu bag I made for a bottle gift. I already had one completed, a pieced one I’d made entirely by hand using the pojagi technique so both front and back are usable sides– and I’d done it in contrasting thread. I’d made it for myself to wear as a hair scarf but honestly I only wear hair scarves on slaughter day so it’s too nice for that, so instead I’m going to wrap one of M-I-L’s gifts in it because I know she will notice and appreciate the sheer time it took me to make it. I had made it while stuck on a long car ride, I think, though– I don’t entirely remember. I know it’s the kind of handsewing I do while bored, though, as it’s fairly mindless.

4) My Christmas gift for Farmsister, which I ordered the first week of December and which was supposed to arrive a week and a half ago, arrived while I was sewing, so it got a wrapper made for it and is already wrapped up. Huzzah!

5) While answering comments on AO3 it suddenly struck me that the scenario in which Aiden wears a crop top, which my mind has for some reason been chewing over for quite some time, is definitely firmly set in a modern A/U crackfic and involves him wearing a shirt that belonged to young-teenage Ciri and is completely inappropriate for him, for trolling purposes / to make a point. So, maybe someday I’ll write that. (It’s related to the one I was trying to finish for Halloween, so.) (There are also Inappropriate Booty Shorts, because I love you all very much.) Also, I was describing Aiden there to a commenter and hit upon the realization that he is sort of like a cross between a gazelle and a moose, because he is quite beautiful, extremely dangerous, and incredibly awkward. I might simplify that to Sexy Moose. Like, you like to look at him, sure, but probably from quite a distance if you want to live.

6) I thank everyone for their contributions on my post about using Facebook Messenger, and I have to actually get the spoons to like. Give it serious contemplation. Yeargh. (Your picture was not posted)