Sunny

Just baaaarely avoiding the "life burns down while hyperfocusing on a project" thing by NOT cancelling a much needed doctor's appointment to work on it AND by continuing to cook healthy suppers. Anyone know where can I redeem my Good At Autism points for a cupcake?

Behold a dragon tail made out of shrinky dinks and black light reactive sharpie! Shrinky dinks are so temperamental and the marker is not a good one! This took way longer than it should have!

Intense, 3:30 a.m. craving for a big mac and fries. I am allergic to both of them. Unfair.

2613 words in Drops of Gold tonight & I finally got to write That Scene. It was very short. It's probably not great that this is what I'd consider the 1st major spoiler for this book. Purposefully Vague Events: Nina finds an unpleasant surprise at Everyone Eats & meets The Polite Evil Asshole Duo.

I am always so sure so many things are compound words until I type them.

Happy Asexual Awareness Week! 💜

Depending on your point of view, I've either spent the day Spray dying and heat setting a custom upsycled Halloween costume Or Blow drying pants and a vest in my front yard

I'm getting ready to throw dye at my dad's Halloween costume and on a whim while looking for something else opened a box I didn't even know was in the craft room labeled wool roving and found spray dye, including glow in the dark. This is either about to go great or be a disaster. Yay Halloween!

Only 800 words in Drops of Gold tonight because I wanted tv late with my dad, and now I'm sleepy early because of this morning's migraine. And I still didn't get to That Scene. But it starts on the next sentence. Events: a transition scene involving a short chat with Darcy.

Noooo the horror of realizing a better way to do a craft you did earlier in the day and don't have time to redo nooooo

2762 words in Drops of Gold tonight, in a scene I didn't plan to write. Events: Nina is giving a client the last piece to leave the city & escape an Agent hunt when Agents barge in. The client decides they're done with indignity & running & attacks the Agents. Nina is horrified & can't save him.

2367 words in Drops of Gold tonight, hindered slightly my leftover migraine ick. Events: After a rough night Nina's friends and acquaintances make her go home and nap, because damn girl, you are running into doors. Her friendship with Klaus grows.

One of the many horrors of being disabled: The sudden jolt of "I feel WEIRD, did I take a wrong medicine?" I guess we'll frickin find out. Probably. My brain feels tickly. And I think I can hear it buzzing.

Ugh, going to vote knocked me out of my best health streak I've had in years. This is why I normally vote via absentee ballot & rarely leave the house. For the good of the democracy & all that but I reserve the right to whine about it. I was having fun. Anyway, vote early & in person if you can.

2566 words in Drops of Gold tonight. It would be more but I had to leave the house to vote & had a mini emergency nap as a result. Frickin dictators. Events: Nina finds herself pinned down with 2 Tinorkk kids during a gang gun fight, & the vampire kid does NOT trust her.

I'm putting so much thought in fictional store names in a fictional magical city when real world store names are like The Dollar Tree: where nothing is a dollar anymore.

2477 words in Drops of Gold tonight. Events: Nina and Klaus bonding time includes trying to find out why the encantados haven't paid Nina the fish they owe her, and Klaus trying to understand why Nina would agree to be paid in fish.

My sister & I had plans this weekend with her sheltering before, but she had an in person thing come up that was truly unavoidable, & was nudging me to do it anyways. I shelter & mask from covid, she doesn't. We're both disabled & high risk. GUESS WHO TEXTED ME SHE HAS A COLD. Hope it's a cold.

Eating the rich is only revolutionary if we also remember to feed each other.

The POTS is trying to convince me to put salt on my chips.

I have sewn So Many Buttons This vest is going to end up weighing 20 pounds 😅

I'm aro/ace and find many love songs dull. I'm autistic & I take great joy in purposely taking these songs way more literally than intended. I just heard "Don't want to fall in love with me" by Andy Grammar for the first time. It would make a HILARIOUS intro for a "fated mate". Flip that trope!😆

Slowed somewhat by writing group, but progress was made on the Halloween costume! The collar accent will be covered in buttons and spikes. Please zoom in to those purple pockets they took so long. I dyed a lot of buttons! A little synthetic rit dye & my white button hoard is a lot more fun!

3479 words in Drops of Gold tonight because I forgot time existed again. Events: Tinorkk who Nina's actions put out of business corner her in an alley with ill intent & claws. Klaus comes to the rescue &is invited to brunch, much to his confusion. Klaus tries to understand the very unusual friends.

this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved

I put in so many pyramid studs my thumb is numb 😅. I'm liking the studs but not entirely sold on the front front pockets or bottom back accent. The breast pockets certainly need some color. A trim on the bottom would probably look neat but I'm running out of cloth.

Hopefully the last round of dying things for the Halloween costumes is in the wash. I might have to do another round of neon green but hopefully I have enough because that is messy & tiring. But also very satisfying. That blue is way bolder in person.

Behold the glorious goober who believes an 84 degrees, high humidity sunbeam is cozy, actually, and I should leave the door open for her.

Only 1003 words in Drops of Gold tonight because I'm sleepy and going to try to go to bed early so I'll have more costume working time tomorrow. Events: Nina stresses about being repetedly followed on the street in a way that shows the readers weeks have passed since the last scene.

I didn't make a whole lot of progress on the costume today in part because I had some house responsibilities, in part because making unique fabric because JoAnn's got murdered takes a long time. But I started the metal accents and I'm excited.

I'm mad because I wasn't done using the day and it's over. I still have night writing time, and my body simply can't handle continuing to do physical things. But I was busy doing stuff. So I'm mad.😠

Let me call myself fat. I was talking to a friend about how having a hard time finding comfortable pants because I'm fat. They insisted I wasn't fat (I am) & admonished me for not thinking of myself as beautiful. They are not opposites! I've had this conversation with several people! Strangers even!