survived chrimmus

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i never did write an update, i’ve just been letting the queue take it away. sry.

IDK where i left off in the saga of my ongoing life. We did get the goose cooked for Christmas; Dude steamed it while I was at work, and got like, a half-quart container of fat out of it, and then we roasted it the next day and got literally an entire 1.5qt corningware casserole full of fat from the thing. So I have all of that in my fridge and am deciding whether to like. Combine them, or attempt to like. Re-render it a bit more cleanly, there’s some drippings in the casserole that settled to the bottom, I could probably skim the top layers out and combine them with the clean white fat from the steaming and use that for baking, and then use the drippings stuff for frying.

Last night I coated rutabaga and plantain slices in the goose fat and air-fried them and chefkiss not too shabby you guys.

The rest of Christmas was also lovely. My BFF’s kids were adorable, I managed to display adequate Pokemon knowledge to keep up with a conversation with the boy. I managed to engage the MIL in conversation enough to keep her from wildly irritating BFF, who she usually drives insane. (She’s from Noo Yawk, I’m very used to the conversational patterns, that’s my elderly relatives too, it was sort of home-like. I had fun. I wound up with some of her accent for a bit but nobody noticed i don’t think.)

I did not sleep, which was incredibly irritating. We’d been given the basement guest room, which is wonderfully quiet, and the electric space heater meant it wasn’t cold as it often has been in the past, and it was comfortable and quiet and cozy and I spent two nights lying there wondering why I was awake. Sigh.

I did inwardly panic several times about being in close-quarters with so many people who are not in my circle. But we were all vaxxed and boosted. And last night after work I went to an appointment I’d made to get a test. And discovered that an appointment there doesn’t matter for jack-shit. I arrived at 3 for my 3:30 appointment, waited in line until 4:45, and finally got my test finished around ten after 5. After like an hour I did bond with the other people in line, and when I got my rapid-test results (they didn’t ask, they did both, but if you didn’t want to wait they’d just discard your rapid-test results, they’re only going to contact you once) the other person getting them at the same time had the same first name as me which was hilarious. We all bonded over not having been prepared for the weather– we’re all locals, but none of us were actually prepared to stand for two hours in 32-degree rain. The other My Firstname was wearing Converse; the boy behind me had mesh sneakers he’d been wearing for the nonslip soles at his restaurant job. I was wearing only leggings, and my coat wasn’t waterproof.

But I got a negative rapid test, and my PCR results will be in before I leave for my older sister’s house. We’re all getting tests, we got at-home ones, but I thought I’d get the formal lab one done just to be safer, since they’re now locally-available. If I’d known it was going to be my whole evening I might not have, but. Too late now.

OH my EXCITEMENT though– I got the Blu-Ray set of the original Cowboy Bebop from Dude, which is AWESOME, but I’m still trying to struggle my way through Witcher S2, I watch so little TV, so I don’t know when I’ll get to it. I’d watch it on the exercise bike but Dude wants to see it too, so. Guess it’ll have to wait.

We also got a Blu-Ray player, which I accidentally discovered the day before CHristmas while trying to find something else in the Derelict Technology Drawer. “When in the hell did we get this?” i asked, and Dude, oddly blankly, was like “I– don’t know, does it matter” and was weirdly indirect about it and I just gave up on the concept and moved on with my life because when he’s like that you never get any answers out of him. He’s not a good liar, but he’s very good at just not being available for conversation. Now I know why, in that instance.

I am currently tired to the point of cognitive impairment, I think. I’ve forgotten where I was going with this sentence, in fact. Slogging through video transfers at work, we got a ton of orders before Christmas that were not marked urgent, but that I was trying to get done anyway, and I’m bogged down in one where they asked for eight DVD copies and there’s too much footage to fit onto a single DVD so that means I have to burn 16 DVDs and they take about 20 minutes apiece and it is unconscionable that we did not immediately just talk this customer into getting them on USB and copying the relevant ones for the people who want them. It’s absolutely inexcusible and I’m throwing in a free USB with it. Except the USB will also take me a couple of hours to put together. So. But. Nobody wants four hours of entirely unsorted, assorted 3-minute 8mm movies of small children from the 60s. You want to go through the files and sort them by subject matter, or put them in chronological order, or something. You absolutely don’t just want them crammed together into a single track on a DVD, which is all I know how to do.

Anyway. This order is going to take me the rest of the week. But that’s fine.

Also, I’ll post separately about it probably, no I won’t, my vague notions of having a nice final push of updates to round out all my WIPs before year-end have sort of gone out the window because an idea for a future Fit For Pearls sequel where Ciri goes adventuring to other worlds and drags Morvran and Luliana along for funsies has seized my brain and i’ve written 10k and it’s really terribly written, so that’s going to need extensive rewriting sometime in 2022. But that’s on the docket, at least.

No ok fine I’ll post separately so I can put in a snippet. This is too long and meandery to stick a snippet into.

yeah anyway I’m alive and apparently covid-negative so that’s exciting and I’ll sort out the rest later. (Your picture was not posted)

Comments

[j00j]

Hope you get some good rest.

I'm super psyched about Ciri and Morvran and Luliana's adventures!

[resonant]

I wound up with some of her accent for a bit but nobody noticed i don’t think

Wonder if it's like this for mages/fae. Oh, I got really into our conversation and I stole your name briefly but I restored it to you as we said our goodbyes so no harm done.