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Top Ten Things To Do While Tired

Caution: These activities were completed under controlled test-conditions.* Do not attempt in Real Life.

1. Attempt to open your son’s school locker by pressing the car remote.

2. Drop son off to school and get halfway home before you realise you’re not supposed to be going home, you’re supposed to be going to work.

3. Show up on time for Year 11 – when you’re supposed to be teaching Year 8.

4. Overbalance when you stomp on the non-existent clutch in your automatic car (after not having drive...

Happy New Year!

Family emergencies have had me out of action since Christmas, but regardless, happy (western) new year! I look forward to sharing the next 12 months with you :3 Let’s hope they’re good ones.

All Day I Get Bacon, Not Just When I Awaken

YOU GUYS THERE IS A CUTE DOG DO YOU REALLY NEED ANYTHING ELSE TO ROUND OUT YOUR YEAR?

…Yeah okay, it’s been a pretty crappy year. Good riddance. OTOH, YAY PUPPY.

Go on. Go watch the puppy and celebrate the cuteness in life

HAPPY LAST WEEKEND OF THE YEEEEEEEAR!!!!!

Happy Holidays! (A Themed Made-It Monday)

Happy lil Dino is here to wish you all a happy holiday season, regardless of which holiday you celebrate (e.g. ‘the holiday of not celebrating other people’s holidays’, a totes legit option here). I hope you all have a great week, that no one in your family is awful, and that you can take some time out to do something that heals you.

I love you all!

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Tis The Season

“I’m sure that you spent many years selecting a humble yet appropriate item.” *snort* That awkward moment when you realise you were supposed to bring a gift and you haven’t. Oops. O:)

Gnurgh.

I have nothing especially to say rn, but I also don’t have a great excuse to NOT be here, so here I am, being here, and hereing. Woo!

Anyway, writing is progress, if not apace then at least at a better pace than during term time. I have about 37k done now in How Not To Take Over The World (HNOT), and it looks like it’s going to be closer to 80k than 70, but never mind. Just means I probably won’t get it done by the New Year, but whatevs.

ALSO, I looked at my schedule again yesterday (toooooot...

New Storm Foxes Story On Darkness & Good

Another iteration of the Storm Fox story this time. I’ve picked away at it from a few different directions now, and I’m slowly getting a better idea of how this needs to form. Today’s version may end up being the first chapter of the novel, idk.

Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Back In The Saddle

Took aaaaaall day, but I managed to pull 4000 words yesterday. After not writing for nearly 4 weeks, it was like pulling teeth for most of the day – but near bed time I FINALLY hit my stride (helps that that’s my peak writing time anyway, when I’m not too exhausted for it) and it was like flying again for just a little bit. Wrote two whole scenes (this book isn’t having chapters, just scene breaks) plus tweaked and massaged a bunch of earlier stuff, and finessed the upcoming plot line to be m...

MadeItMonday: Of Course It’s Cake.

Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!

By Your Side (is where you’d better have the tissues, just sayin’)

Some inspo for your weekend today. This one tears me up every time. And you know what’s even more glorious? I actually know that I have friends who would – and have – rush to my rescue like this, to support me through dark times. If you’re one of those friends, THANK YOU. I love you wholeheartedly