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Prayers // Checking In
Nov. 17th, 2010 10:56 pm**FIRST**
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dr_nebula and his community right now. A friend of his is missing and it's starting to look very bleak. Begins here -- go to the main page of Doc's journal and read up from there.
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Now then.
It's been a while, I admit.
Busy-busy-busy. Ok, where to start.
1) Searched for a new job, somewhat in vain; nobody can/will match what I'm currently making. So I am vaguely stuck with Walgreens for a while yet. This is frustrating because I want to go back to school, and J. and I are seriously talking about having a baby sometime in the next year or so, and I will need to be able to take time off from work to, you know, have the child. However, given that I have NO PARTNER at work, taking time off is a headache and a pain in the ass. Nevertheless, we can't afford for me to find a different job right now.
2) New apartment is still not to my liking, or J's, but we're working on it. Slowly. I can hardly believe that it's been a month already.
3) Yeah, I just wrote that thing in number one. J and I are talking about having children within the next year or so. Like, I would be somebody's mommy. The idea scares me on one hand and thrills me on the other. The part that's scared is the practical part: money is tight as it is, schools are becoming progressively more violent every year, the quality of education is sliding downhill at an equally alarming rate, are we TRULY capable of being PARENTS? The thrilled part is the part of me that thinks that my husband and I have something to offer to a future generation. And it's possibly my biological clock.
4) Thanks to the wonder that is myprecious Kindle, I can cheerfully reread Robin Hobb's Farseer sequence (9 books that grow exponentially as the sequence plays out) without enduring pain in my right arm. I cannot tell you how much I adore my Kindle. I bought it mostly because of the space problem (as in, we don't have much) but I'm finding that the physical benefits are amazing as well. I have a lot of problems with my right arm. It frequently aches, sometimes to the point where I'm unable to sleep at night (YES, I'll be making an appointment with an MD soon enough). I can't hold heavy books or even light ones very well because it's a big strain on my already sore limb. My Kindle, though, allows me to easily read one-handed.
4b) Did I mention that I'm blissfully rereading the Farseer sequence? This is possibly my favorite storyworld in all of high fantasy. Hobb has done very well with her setting and even better with her characters. She draws her protags in such tragic shades that you can't help but ache right along with them. Equally, her antags induce absolute fury in me in some scenes. Wonderful. I haven't read these in several years, and I haven't even reread most of them. They are vast, painful, beautiful, lush and I love them.
5) New project. New idea. Can't talk about it, because I am now convinced that when I have something big in the works that I am cursed to keep it silent until it comes to fruition. I'm also probably not going to ever talk about said project in this blog because it's something that I deeply need to keep separate from the rest of my writing. I can haz pen name? Yes I can. Anyway, suffice to say that this is something completely new for me and I need to do some research to see what's popular these days within said realm of writing. And no, it isn't porn, because I'd tell you if it was.
6) Thanksgiving coming up soon, hopefully with a minimal amount of family drama. Holidays tend to be such soap operas around here. I am not entirely certain how I missed out on so much of that when I was growing up. Do not get me wrong, I love my family-in-law, but they occasionally make me long for the low-tension, high-activity atmosphere that is my parents home during the holidays.
And now to bed, after a very long day and a very pleasantly exhausting evening.
If any of you are the praying type, please think of
dr_nebula and his community right now. A friend of his is missing and it's starting to look very bleak. Begins here -- go to the main page of Doc's journal and read up from there.__________
Now then.
It's been a while, I admit.
Busy-busy-busy. Ok, where to start.
1) Searched for a new job, somewhat in vain; nobody can/will match what I'm currently making. So I am vaguely stuck with Walgreens for a while yet. This is frustrating because I want to go back to school, and J. and I are seriously talking about having a baby sometime in the next year or so, and I will need to be able to take time off from work to, you know, have the child. However, given that I have NO PARTNER at work, taking time off is a headache and a pain in the ass. Nevertheless, we can't afford for me to find a different job right now.
2) New apartment is still not to my liking, or J's, but we're working on it. Slowly. I can hardly believe that it's been a month already.
3) Yeah, I just wrote that thing in number one. J and I are talking about having children within the next year or so. Like, I would be somebody's mommy. The idea scares me on one hand and thrills me on the other. The part that's scared is the practical part: money is tight as it is, schools are becoming progressively more violent every year, the quality of education is sliding downhill at an equally alarming rate, are we TRULY capable of being PARENTS? The thrilled part is the part of me that thinks that my husband and I have something to offer to a future generation. And it's possibly my biological clock.
4) Thanks to the wonder that is my
4b) Did I mention that I'm blissfully rereading the Farseer sequence? This is possibly my favorite storyworld in all of high fantasy. Hobb has done very well with her setting and even better with her characters. She draws her protags in such tragic shades that you can't help but ache right along with them. Equally, her antags induce absolute fury in me in some scenes. Wonderful. I haven't read these in several years, and I haven't even reread most of them. They are vast, painful, beautiful, lush and I love them.
5) New project. New idea. Can't talk about it, because I am now convinced that when I have something big in the works that I am cursed to keep it silent until it comes to fruition. I'm also probably not going to ever talk about said project in this blog because it's something that I deeply need to keep separate from the rest of my writing. I can haz pen name? Yes I can. Anyway, suffice to say that this is something completely new for me and I need to do some research to see what's popular these days within said realm of writing. And no, it isn't porn, because I'd tell you if it was.
6) Thanksgiving coming up soon, hopefully with a minimal amount of family drama. Holidays tend to be such soap operas around here. I am not entirely certain how I missed out on so much of that when I was growing up. Do not get me wrong, I love my family-in-law, but they occasionally make me long for the low-tension, high-activity atmosphere that is my parents home during the holidays.
And now to bed, after a very long day and a very pleasantly exhausting evening.
