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B1 is sick - down with a virus, apparently, which she's had for a while. Although her masseuse thinks it's mercury poisoning from the amalgam in B1's tooth.
I'm a bit worried about the house, tbh. We've neither of us been in really good condition since we moved into the house, and there are extenuating factors and reasons that things haven't been great but...it's bugging me. Also, I'm not entirely sure we don't have a poltergeist in the house - a force that moves things around when we're not looking. There are things that I swear I put down in one place but which turn up in other spaces, entirely unexpectedly, and which B1 swears she hasn't moved.
We've started tossing out house adjustment ideas. I want a root cellar, and another room would be good. Better wall insulation would help both in summer and winter, as well as better airflow because the summers are only going to get hotter.
I also need to plant out those hedge trees. MOAR HEDGES.
The garden is going well - at least, some things are. I have a knack for corn and tomatoes and pumpkins and eggplants. Everything else is a bit of a toss-up, tbh. The chickens seem pretty happy, although they're breaking out more often than I like and we have a couple of boiling days coming up, which is hard on them. We've worked out what happens with some of the 'weird' eggs we get (we got a couple of 'egg within an egg' from Honey, which is where the yolk is actually the mixed-up remains of another egg - white and yolk both - and it looks kind of creepy.)
The automatic door for the chicken coop is being delivered today, which, once installed, will hopefully end my need to go out in the early morning and let the chickens out before they start bothering the neighbours.
I need to sort out where the latest sprouting of plants is to go. I planted more corn behind the apple tree (I was planning to plant it in the front garden bed, but completely forgot), and I might see if I can get yet another planting directly in the front bed...
Otherwise, I have onions, parsnips, tomatoes, zucchini, melons, cucumbers, and an assortment of herbs and flowers to plant out in the coming days.
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holly_poly assignment is very obvious if you look through the stories and you know me.
I don't thinkhalfamoon is happening this year; I haven't heard anything, and if I had, I'd tell them I can't assist anymore. I'd still participate, but I don't think that I'm a very good promoter.
Stories/series I want to complete this year:
- sedoretu series (last story, two more chapters)
- MCU Pacific Rim series (4 more)
- Neighbours AU series (1 more)
- Meeting Halfway (30 Days of OTP)
- Skin Deep (kink meme)
I am also debating whether I want to write the manuscript for:
a) a Chosen One PNR or NA,
b) smutty polyfam PNR,
c) the Chinese AU/Steampunk trilogy my brain came up with last week.
Also, whether I can.
Work is going okay - may have a few days off here and there, but the work is pretty steady right now. (Although, interesting story, was coming out of a meeting, and the team lead mentioned a contractor in the office as 'a dud' which, no, he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer but I was a little surprised to have it said quite so openly in front of me.)
Health is...
The toe joint (giving me trouble the last two years) is getting worse. To the point where I don't think I'll be able to play hockey this year. Which is a big downer for me, especially after the grand final loss last year - would have been nice to go out on a win.
The tooth is also still giving me trouble, but I have the scans from August 2016, and I'm going to get a 2nd opinion. My regular dentist (not the one who did the work) is of the opinion it's nothing, or it's muscular related. But my body says it's swollen in there - tissue swelling, not bone or dental swelling, or an infection.
Anyway, lunch is over, back to work.
I'm a bit worried about the house, tbh. We've neither of us been in really good condition since we moved into the house, and there are extenuating factors and reasons that things haven't been great but...it's bugging me. Also, I'm not entirely sure we don't have a poltergeist in the house - a force that moves things around when we're not looking. There are things that I swear I put down in one place but which turn up in other spaces, entirely unexpectedly, and which B1 swears she hasn't moved.
We've started tossing out house adjustment ideas. I want a root cellar, and another room would be good. Better wall insulation would help both in summer and winter, as well as better airflow because the summers are only going to get hotter.
I also need to plant out those hedge trees. MOAR HEDGES.
The garden is going well - at least, some things are. I have a knack for corn and tomatoes and pumpkins and eggplants. Everything else is a bit of a toss-up, tbh. The chickens seem pretty happy, although they're breaking out more often than I like and we have a couple of boiling days coming up, which is hard on them. We've worked out what happens with some of the 'weird' eggs we get (we got a couple of 'egg within an egg' from Honey, which is where the yolk is actually the mixed-up remains of another egg - white and yolk both - and it looks kind of creepy.)
The automatic door for the chicken coop is being delivered today, which, once installed, will hopefully end my need to go out in the early morning and let the chickens out before they start bothering the neighbours.
I need to sort out where the latest sprouting of plants is to go. I planted more corn behind the apple tree (I was planning to plant it in the front garden bed, but completely forgot), and I might see if I can get yet another planting directly in the front bed...
Otherwise, I have onions, parsnips, tomatoes, zucchini, melons, cucumbers, and an assortment of herbs and flowers to plant out in the coming days.
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My
holly_poly assignment is very obvious if you look through the stories and you know me.I don't think
halfamoon is happening this year; I haven't heard anything, and if I had, I'd tell them I can't assist anymore. I'd still participate, but I don't think that I'm a very good promoter.Stories/series I want to complete this year:
- sedoretu series (last story, two more chapters)
- MCU Pacific Rim series (4 more)
- Neighbours AU series (1 more)
- Meeting Halfway (30 Days of OTP)
- Skin Deep (kink meme)
I am also debating whether I want to write the manuscript for:
a) a Chosen One PNR or NA,
b) smutty polyfam PNR,
c) the Chinese AU/Steampunk trilogy my brain came up with last week.
Also, whether I can.
Work is going okay - may have a few days off here and there, but the work is pretty steady right now. (Although, interesting story, was coming out of a meeting, and the team lead mentioned a contractor in the office as 'a dud' which, no, he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer but I was a little surprised to have it said quite so openly in front of me.)
Health is...
The toe joint (giving me trouble the last two years) is getting worse. To the point where I don't think I'll be able to play hockey this year. Which is a big downer for me, especially after the grand final loss last year - would have been nice to go out on a win.
The tooth is also still giving me trouble, but I have the scans from August 2016, and I'm going to get a 2nd opinion. My regular dentist (not the one who did the work) is of the opinion it's nothing, or it's muscular related. But my body says it's swollen in there - tissue swelling, not bone or dental swelling, or an infection.
Anyway, lunch is over, back to work.