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It's Sunday and the weekend is half over. I have a lot of shit to get done today. I've got at leasst four, maybe more garbage bags to take out, I have to clean the fridge, which will engender more garbage bags. I really don't feel like doing any of it, but I shall.

At some point this week, Jess' drains need to come out, but the one is still draining a bit of fluid. Soon, though. Hopefully, the left one settles down soon. I'm not looking forward to the drive to Sibley, but I want them to be drain free, so it's all good.

The dog is having some major allergies, just taking his paws and rubbing around his eyes raw, so he's going to have a vet visit on Wednesday. I'm going to ask them to draw his labs, so we can see how his liver enzyme is, and if we need to do more testing for Cushing's disease. My thought is that he may, and I don't know what we'll do then. They only tend to have a 2-3 year life span after diagnosis. If he starts having problems, we'll have to make decisions that I don't feel my sister is capable of making rationally.

Tomorrow, it's back to work. Yesterday's work went fine. I took calls, tried to fill appointments. I've got a cardiac MRI at Bethesda to fill tomorrow, so that'll be fun.

I know I've got a ton to do today, but after our morning game, I may take a little nap. (after I take the dog out for a walk.)

Okay, time for me to get myself together for game. Everyone have an amazing Sunday!

dine

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beanside

It's Saturday! And it's a work Saturday, so I've got that to do. My weekend went from having some games to play and not much else to "well, that's a lot to get done." We got a message from the apartment, saying that we've been chosen to be upgraded to an in-unit washer and dryer. While this is very nice, and I'm very excited about it, I'm also dreading it. The wall in the dining room that they're using is currently where the boxes live, so that needs to go. They also need to get in the kitchen, so that's me moving into my sister's room to work. I also need to clean the kitchen and our room, since one of them will need to host the dryer vent. It's going to be a busy weekend.

Yesterday was not horribly busy. I did a lot of calling people and filling slots. I did a damn fine job at it, too. Got in like seven different people for STAT studies. The secret truth of our "wait list." If someone doesn't cancel, we can't get you in sooner. We don't have slots held just for patients who need immediate appointments. We can build in a few of those, but those get taken quickly. And some spots are to filled up for us to hold them. My Cardiac MRIs and CTs are booked out to January in some cases. And I've got nothing to offer, but "I'll keep an eye out for cancellations."

We got the letter about the new appliances in the afternoon. So I immediately ordered dinner, and started working on the shelves we had gotten and not put together yet. It took me about an hour doing it solo, and now we have shelves to put shit on!

Okay, time for me to go forth and do some work. Maybe I'll put together a chair or two so that we won't have that box in the way. Everyone have a wonderful Saturday!

dine

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petra

Less exciting by a long shot than yesterday's Huntington treatment news, but I was feeling extremely icky today and then Genghis Khan by Miike Snow came on in the café where I stopped for lunch, and it made me chair dance.

I didn't link the official video. I linked a shot-for-shot remake from Phineas and Ferb, a tv show about which I know approximately nothing not found in the vid. And I ship it anyway.

Current Mood: a little bit genghis khan
Current Music: I don't want you to get it on with nobody else but me

beanside

IT's Friday! I'm actually working tomorrow, so it's not that big of a deal, but Fridays are still nice. I'm kind of sorry that I'm scheduled for tomorrow and next week, but that's okay. I shall deal.

Jess' drains are still being difficult, so we're not driving to DC today. They're just stubbornly refusing to get below a 25ml output for 24 hours, so they said to just call when they do, and they'll work Jess in. We adjusted the compression vest a bit, and we'll see if that helps. The actual site looks really good. Everything seems to be healing well, and the incision site doesn't look bad at all. Dr. Chen really did some awesome work. I can't wait for the tape to fall off, so we can get a good look.

I got an email from the people doing my ring. They're getting ready to mock it up in the CAD, and then they'll send the proof to me to approve, and then it'll go into production. It's going to take about 4-6 weeks to arrive, same as my dress. I had a pendant made for me, but that was years ago.

As per my usual, I've done a ton of research about the vow renewal. It looks nice, though. People who have done it seem very happy with the service. Our first handfasting was in our friend's attic, which doubled as the ritual room for our coven. There was maybe a dozen people there, none of whom I'm in regular contact with now. Our first marriage was done as a quickie in a now closed Irish restaurant with

poisontaster signing our official certificate. Both were special in their own way, but I'm also looking forward to a vow renewal with Holland America.

It'll be the first time I've worn a full length gown. Our first wedding, I wore a denim dress, and the second, I wore jeans and a nice shirt. This one is going to be a lot more...catered. We'll have the passed appetizers, and staff waiting on us, and a cake!

I think it'll be very cool, and hopefully meaningful.

Yesterday, I was productive. I both took out trash and did laundry and washed Jess hair as a bonus. I still have a load of laundry to do this weekend, but that's not too bad.

Tonight, we have game which the lovely

poisontaster is running. Then tomorrow I have a game, and Sunday i have a morning game that

coyotegestalt is running and I think that's it for the weekend.

Sunday, I might have a quiet day. But we'll see.

Okay, I'm going to go get a nice hot shower and get ready for the day. Everyone have a most excellent Friday!

dine

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ride_4ever

Title: Bend It Like Benton

Author:

ride_4ever

Fandoms: due South x FlashForward crossover

Categories: Gen, M/M

Archive warnings: creator chose not to use archive warnings

Characters: Ray Vecchio, Stella Vecchio (formerly Stella Kowalski) mentioned, Benton Fraser mentioned, Ray Kowalski implied

Relationships: Ray Vecchio/Stella, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski implied

Rating: Teen and Up

Length: 300 words (triple drabble)

Summary: On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time nearly everyone in the world lost consciousness for two minutes and seventeen seconds during which time most saw a vision – a “flash forward” – of their lives six months into the future: April 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM PDT. Some people, however, merely lost consciousness without experiencing a vision…people who were then presumed to be fated to die by April 29, 2010.

AN: Written for both Ray Vecchio Day and for the dSC6D snippets comm on DW.

Fic on AO3.

Current Mood: feel like saying hooray
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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lannamichaels

-Adventures of buying a serger: I have gone from "the bottom looper always comes out" to "the upper looper always comes out" with the occassional "the right needle always comes out" and yet somehow I did manage to sew a couple seams before this inability-to-keep-the-machine-threaded problem started, I have watched videos, I have called the company, I have not yet wept tears over it but I am so frustrated, so hopefully telling people will make the machine stop unthreading and then I figure out the tension issues and then I can serge.

-Where is a good place to buy desk lamps? The one I had broke and then I spent a while trying to find one including going to a hardware store, and then I found out that home depot has two listings with what appears to be the exact same lamp, but a different company for each and slightly different cost, and this decision has now left me lampless for a month as I figure out which to buy and decide on neither. Lamp is used to be on a timer so it goes on at the time my alarm clock sounds, this is helpful for the time of year when the sun is not up yet at that time, which -- not to worry anyone -- is approaching. So I need a new lamp. Looking for 12-14 inches, not LED, no random bits at the bottom for pens and stuff that'll just collect dust. Not a sun lamp; I tried that and it gave me a headache immediately.

What is keeping me from buying a new sewing machine is falling in love with one that's out of stock and then scrolling down today on my usual check of it's in stock to see multiple complains, 2 and 3 years old, that it's out of stock. Perhaps I should settle on my second choice, rather than falling in love with an out of stock sewing machine with features I do not need. (but! the one I have now is not great and I've wanted to replace it rather than keep fighting it, and all it really does is straight and zigzag, so I do not, in fact, need to replace it with a machine with 240 built-in stitches and two fonts, I just need a machine that has a speed I can set rather than try to be perfect on my foot pressure. But if I'm going to upgrade, I wanna upgrade.)

I have no intention of writing a Tishrei fic. No ideas, nada. Happy to take a prompt if someone has one but this may just be the year where it stops happening, and I'm okay with that.

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