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My baby is a singing baby.
*My baby is an awesome baby. She impressed everyone at the doctors' office yesterday with her muscle strength and head control, and again spent about two minutes of post-vaccination screaming before calming down (with help from food) and then going back to sleep. About four hours later the pain kicked back in, but her "ow, everything hurts" cry is much less ear-splitting than her "help, someone's trying to kill me!" cry, and after the usual things failed to work I gave her a dose of baby tylenol (ok, generic brand, and probably a slightly lower dose than she's now rated for as I used last time's calculation) and she's been her happy if somewhat sleepier than usual self since it kicked in.
*We have a shiny new mortgage with a lender who isn't awful, though of course I just tried to log into the old lender's stupid website to double-check that the other side has gone through and after taking the password they admit that "this service is currently unavailable." (Yes, I did double check the site addresses & all that; they're just like this.) How do I not hate my chosen bank, let me count the ways...
*I keep all the short story beginnings I'm maybe-sort-of working on in one scrivener document so I can wander amongst them easily; this week I had a (multi-day) moment of aproductivity frustration in which I made a "time out" folder for the things I'd gone off wanting to finish, and then wrote little notes about the bits I knew of where each document was going. Or in some cases questions about what the heck the characters thought they were doing (& whether I ought to change some details...) And then I stared at the four sentences of something I'd jotted down in a new file because I wanted to play with the idea and had one of those stupidly obvious revelations: I do not actually need to tell this story in chronological or linear narrative fashion. I see other people not doing this in paid venues all the time. It could practically be considered trendy. And since tangentially-related dribblets that maybe even all add up to something are about how my brain is working right now, perhaps I'll actually finish something. Interesting theory.
*My new favorite things include marscapone and moss agates. I have also finally figured out what I can plant in a strawberry pot (whorled stonecrop! which I "rescued" a bunch of snapped-off fragments of from the native plant sale, and now need somewhere to put them...) that would work, but have yet to determine where I can actually find a strawberry pot to buy.
*In my alternate non-Megatherium life, I am at Fourth Street Fantasy Convention RIGHT NOW. (and going to Readercon in three weeks.)
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*We have a shiny new mortgage with a lender who isn't awful, though of course I just tried to log into the old lender's stupid website to double-check that the other side has gone through and after taking the password they admit that "this service is currently unavailable." (Yes, I did double check the site addresses & all that; they're just like this.) How do I not hate my chosen bank, let me count the ways...
*I keep all the short story beginnings I'm maybe-sort-of working on in one scrivener document so I can wander amongst them easily; this week I had a (multi-day) moment of aproductivity frustration in which I made a "time out" folder for the things I'd gone off wanting to finish, and then wrote little notes about the bits I knew of where each document was going. Or in some cases questions about what the heck the characters thought they were doing (& whether I ought to change some details...) And then I stared at the four sentences of something I'd jotted down in a new file because I wanted to play with the idea and had one of those stupidly obvious revelations: I do not actually need to tell this story in chronological or linear narrative fashion. I see other people not doing this in paid venues all the time. It could practically be considered trendy. And since tangentially-related dribblets that maybe even all add up to something are about how my brain is working right now, perhaps I'll actually finish something. Interesting theory.
*My new favorite things include marscapone and moss agates. I have also finally figured out what I can plant in a strawberry pot (whorled stonecrop! which I "rescued" a bunch of snapped-off fragments of from the native plant sale, and now need somewhere to put them...) that would work, but have yet to determine where I can actually find a strawberry pot to buy.
*In my alternate non-Megatherium life, I am at Fourth Street Fantasy Convention RIGHT NOW. (and going to Readercon in three weeks.)
Xposty from dreamwidth.