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I am reading, writing, and preparing to sell my house.
Only not really.
But definitely yes.
It's sort of complicated.
When we bought our house, where Alpha, her husband, daughter, and father-in-law also live, it was the original plan that she would buy the house from us, when she was older and more financially stable and we were due to retire. In the meantime the plan was she would pay rent. However... she is an aerospace engineer and already makes more money, has better insurance, etc etc than her father and came to the conclusion she should buy our house now, at a profit to us, while we continue to live here and pay rent.
Essentially we will not move, pay the same every month, and get a little profit.
We've already signed the contract and her loan is approved etc etc. But we are all putting in some work in advance of the appraiser coming over.
But it makes me feel my age that our bald-headed baby is buying my house.
In other news Beta may have found her calling and is working at a pottery studio, getting paid more and enjoying it a great deal. But her neighbor threatened to stab her when she asked her to move her car, since she was boxed in and couldn't get to work. In related news she's moving to a new apartment in april, along with of course, her husband and granddaughter #1.
Delta is waffling between art and law, but in any case should be finally starting college in the fall. Honestly I'm good either way, as long as she doesn't major in philosophy, like her father did first time around.
Only not really.
But definitely yes.
It's sort of complicated.
When we bought our house, where Alpha, her husband, daughter, and father-in-law also live, it was the original plan that she would buy the house from us, when she was older and more financially stable and we were due to retire. In the meantime the plan was she would pay rent. However... she is an aerospace engineer and already makes more money, has better insurance, etc etc than her father and came to the conclusion she should buy our house now, at a profit to us, while we continue to live here and pay rent.
Essentially we will not move, pay the same every month, and get a little profit.
We've already signed the contract and her loan is approved etc etc. But we are all putting in some work in advance of the appraiser coming over.
But it makes me feel my age that our bald-headed baby is buying my house.
In other news Beta may have found her calling and is working at a pottery studio, getting paid more and enjoying it a great deal. But her neighbor threatened to stab her when she asked her to move her car, since she was boxed in and couldn't get to work. In related news she's moving to a new apartment in april, along with of course, her husband and granddaughter #1.
Delta is waffling between art and law, but in any case should be finally starting college in the fall. Honestly I'm good either way, as long as she doesn't major in philosophy, like her father did first time around.
Today I learned the staff at The Elf School in Iceland are 100% vaccinated, which means no one else has any excuse. None whatsoever.
Also I would like to go to the Elf School.
I got my copy of the TTRPG game I worked on at the beginning of the pandemic. I hope to get my comics soon, but for now I need to get back to work. There's always more to write.
Also I would like to go to the Elf School.
I got my copy of the TTRPG game I worked on at the beginning of the pandemic. I hope to get my comics soon, but for now I need to get back to work. There's always more to write.
And spring break will be over. I find myself wishing I had longer to spend with Sweetpants but I know that's how things are. The day before spring break started he was notified that one of his school's 4 campuses (there he helps inmates earn high school diplomas) will be shut down. The last hired will be let go in order to find positions for senior teachers at the campus that is being closed.
So he's been job hunting. But that isn't all he's been doing. We've been watching Dark Shadows. We've been singing together and sitting and writing at the same time side-by-side. We've had silly dancing in our socks with the black light on and the curtains drawn. We've had long serious talks. It's felt like a kind of 32 and 1/3rd anniversary honeymoon. But tomorrow the party hats will be put away. Our oldest granddaughter is coming for a sleepover and we'll be focused on her, not each other. It's loving but a different kind of loving when you are enjoying a 4 year old together.
After that 2 more nights before he's back to school and I will be back to working away, seeing how many books and comics I can finish this year.
So he's been job hunting. But that isn't all he's been doing. We've been watching Dark Shadows. We've been singing together and sitting and writing at the same time side-by-side. We've had silly dancing in our socks with the black light on and the curtains drawn. We've had long serious talks. It's felt like a kind of 32 and 1/3rd anniversary honeymoon. But tomorrow the party hats will be put away. Our oldest granddaughter is coming for a sleepover and we'll be focused on her, not each other. It's loving but a different kind of loving when you are enjoying a 4 year old together.
After that 2 more nights before he's back to school and I will be back to working away, seeing how many books and comics I can finish this year.
Just saying Hello before I sit down to a day of work. My dog, Stella is currently barking/whining/fidgeting her head off, closed in the office with me, while the cable installer adds a second internet line for Alpha, who is working from home permanently now.
Since I am zooming for professional reasons a lot these days myself it only makes sense to put in another line.
Lately my time is devoted to looking for another agent, but I have a few (read 5) manuscripts to get ready before I start looking. If I can't bowl them over with quality at least I can deluge them with quantity.
From the outside my credits look good but I can't help but wonder if the work itself stands up. In the end all I can do is work, try to be objective, strive with all the issues I don't want to delve into at all, and hope maybe, just maybe, the work will be good enough.
In other news this dog smells so bad I wish it was warm enough to give her a bath but alas it's snowing. Tangential to that I think I will change tonight's supper plans from spinach-mushroom enchiladas to soup and rolls. I love soup and rolls.
That's all the news that isn't.
Catch you on the flip side, hep cats.
Since I am zooming for professional reasons a lot these days myself it only makes sense to put in another line.
Lately my time is devoted to looking for another agent, but I have a few (read 5) manuscripts to get ready before I start looking. If I can't bowl them over with quality at least I can deluge them with quantity.
From the outside my credits look good but I can't help but wonder if the work itself stands up. In the end all I can do is work, try to be objective, strive with all the issues I don't want to delve into at all, and hope maybe, just maybe, the work will be good enough.
In other news this dog smells so bad I wish it was warm enough to give her a bath but alas it's snowing. Tangential to that I think I will change tonight's supper plans from spinach-mushroom enchiladas to soup and rolls. I love soup and rolls.
That's all the news that isn't.
Catch you on the flip side, hep cats.
During my fanfiction years I struggled with something I saw over and over but was at a loss to understand. I saw over and over a focus on sex, which I like, written by women, which I also like and think is good and healthy, and yet it had a disproportionate focus on men's pleasure rather than women's. It also had a disproportionate focus on masochism, but not a universal across the board sexual masochism, but masochism as almost the sole natural domain of women.
And any time a thing is presented as only for men or only for women the chances are that representation is unhealthy, at least in my opinion.I don't think men and women as fundamentally different creatures. Having been raised in a culture with different assumptions about men and women it's always been pretty clear to me that we are socialized into our differences.
Today I read a line that illuminated a question that has been hanging in the back of my mind for a long time. An emphasis on female (and even the partner viewed as effeminate in a relationship between two men- which is another thing I have beef with- the gay men I know are nothing like the slash I have read) masochism is the result of sexual liberation without female liberation.
I'll leave you all (on the assumption that anyone is reading this) with that thought.
Maybe tomorrow I'll start tackling the big ways European (read also white American) culture stands out as different from the one where I was raised.
And any time a thing is presented as only for men or only for women the chances are that representation is unhealthy, at least in my opinion.I don't think men and women as fundamentally different creatures. Having been raised in a culture with different assumptions about men and women it's always been pretty clear to me that we are socialized into our differences.
Today I read a line that illuminated a question that has been hanging in the back of my mind for a long time. An emphasis on female (and even the partner viewed as effeminate in a relationship between two men- which is another thing I have beef with- the gay men I know are nothing like the slash I have read) masochism is the result of sexual liberation without female liberation.
I'll leave you all (on the assumption that anyone is reading this) with that thought.
Maybe tomorrow I'll start tackling the big ways European (read also white American) culture stands out as different from the one where I was raised.
Considering my LJ icon is 18 years old I have decided it was time for a new one.
I've migrated to DW, finally. It fits with the way I usually do things; either as
an early adopter or as one of the last stragglers. My career is busy, with more
projects by the week.
I'm selling my house to Alpha, who is now an aerospace engineer with a baby.
Beta is now a potter, working in a pottery studio, with a 4 year old, soon to be five.
Delta is starting college, pre-law, in the fall.
Sweetpants is still handsome, and I'm here, now.
I've migrated to DW, finally. It fits with the way I usually do things; either as
an early adopter or as one of the last stragglers. My career is busy, with more
projects by the week.
I'm selling my house to Alpha, who is now an aerospace engineer with a baby.
Beta is now a potter, working in a pottery studio, with a 4 year old, soon to be five.
Delta is starting college, pre-law, in the fall.
Sweetpants is still handsome, and I'm here, now.
Excerpts, poetry and other offerings are available here.
https://www.weyodi.com/
Book One : The Root and the Seed and the Thief In Between
here for kindle
https://www.amazon.com/Root-Thief-Between-Glicksberg-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B074XD3D8C/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1517847227&sr=8-6&keywords=weyodi
here in paperback
https://www.amazon.com/Root-Seed-Thief-Between-Glicksberg/dp/1549501607/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517847227&sr=8-1&keywords=weyodi
Book Two: The Burning Lie
Here in for Kindle
https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Lie-Book-Glicksberg-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B078SHML96/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1517847227&sr=8-4&keywords=weyodi
Here in Paperback
https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Lie-Glicksberg-Chronicles-Book/dp/1976752167/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1517847227&sr=8-2&keywords=weyodi
and now the third and final book: The Bees Made Honey in the Rich Man's Skull
for Kindle
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079L4VY83/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1517847227&sr=8-3&keywords=weyodi
and in paperback
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977069991/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1517847227&sr=8-5&keywords=weyodi
I hope you enjoy it, it was a lot of work on the part of quite a few different people.
https://www.weyodi.com/
Book One : The Root and the Seed and the Thief In Between
here for kindle
https://www.amazon.com/Root-Thief-Between-Glicksberg-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B074XD3D8C/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1517847227&sr=8-6&keywords=weyodi
here in paperback
https://www.amazon.com/Root-Seed-Thief-Between-Glicksberg/dp/1549501607/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517847227&sr=8-1&keywords=weyodi
Book Two: The Burning Lie
Here in for Kindle
https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Lie-Book-Glicksberg-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B078SHML96/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1517847227&sr=8-4&keywords=weyodi
Here in Paperback
https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Lie-Glicksberg-Chronicles-Book/dp/1976752167/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1517847227&sr=8-2&keywords=weyodi
and now the third and final book: The Bees Made Honey in the Rich Man's Skull
for Kindle
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079L4VY83/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1517847227&sr=8-3&keywords=weyodi
and in paperback
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977069991/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1517847227&sr=8-5&keywords=weyodi
I hope you enjoy it, it was a lot of work on the part of quite a few different people.
Last night I dreamed crazy dreams all night- I dreamed I lived in a city one mountain over from Machu Pichu, it was exactly the same but never abandoned and never discovered and was called Machu Bitchu.
You had to come and go from town in a wicker basket on a crane. I worked at the municipal pool, handing out towels and cupcakes. Herod (the ancient historical king) lived there too, and spent a lot of time bugging me at work about how he hadn't killed those innocents, no, that was a wild exaggeration. He actually spanked them and sent them to bed without supper. No one wanted to hear it, but I was at work and thus a captive audience. There were beautiful towers and gardens and we brought bucket loads of dirt from a local valley to make our city even higher.
As a weird aside there were surveyors and construction work everywhere, which mirrors my neighborhood at the moments.
In other news I think Sweetpants is trying to be subtle.
He asked if we had enough peanut butter for cookies, roughly 3 days after buying a case of peanutbutter.
"Do you want me to make cookies?" I asked.
"No, no , I was just askin'," he said, as though cookies were topics for idle conversation like the weather.
I think I'll make cookies before he strains something with his hinting.
You had to come and go from town in a wicker basket on a crane. I worked at the municipal pool, handing out towels and cupcakes. Herod (the ancient historical king) lived there too, and spent a lot of time bugging me at work about how he hadn't killed those innocents, no, that was a wild exaggeration. He actually spanked them and sent them to bed without supper. No one wanted to hear it, but I was at work and thus a captive audience. There were beautiful towers and gardens and we brought bucket loads of dirt from a local valley to make our city even higher.
As a weird aside there were surveyors and construction work everywhere, which mirrors my neighborhood at the moments.
In other news I think Sweetpants is trying to be subtle.
He asked if we had enough peanut butter for cookies, roughly 3 days after buying a case of peanutbutter.
"Do you want me to make cookies?" I asked.
"No, no , I was just askin'," he said, as though cookies were topics for idle conversation like the weather.
I think I'll make cookies before he strains something with his hinting.
I became the mother to an adult male
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v664/yanniconny/will9-10-17_zpsqcc9ztia.jpg
Thanks be to Thoth or whoever
He's starting university in January-
Can you see the relief on my face?
If only I could get him to study law instead of comic books we would be set, but there you go.
In other news I am starting a job on the 28th and am trying my damnedest to finish my editing of book three "The Bees Made Honey in the Rich Man's Skull" before it starts so I can get my next three books done, a history of the Comanches based on oral history, a play about my great great grandparents Weckeah Old Bear and Quanah Parker, and the next Polycorpus Singularia book, which features uncolonized steampunk Natives.
Of course having to work a second job is frustrating when all I want to do is write, and I have been considering a patreon account but will that really help or will it simply mean I will have even less time to write?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v664/yanniconny/will9-10-17_zpsqcc9ztia.jpg
Thanks be to Thoth or whoever
He's starting university in January-
Can you see the relief on my face?
If only I could get him to study law instead of comic books we would be set, but there you go.
In other news I am starting a job on the 28th and am trying my damnedest to finish my editing of book three "The Bees Made Honey in the Rich Man's Skull" before it starts so I can get my next three books done, a history of the Comanches based on oral history, a play about my great great grandparents Weckeah Old Bear and Quanah Parker, and the next Polycorpus Singularia book, which features uncolonized steampunk Natives.
Of course having to work a second job is frustrating when all I want to do is write, and I have been considering a patreon account but will that really help or will it simply mean I will have even less time to write?
Long time, no read.
I've been busy, to put it mildly.
My house still hasn't sold, and I haven't been able to find a renter with decent references, or any references, frankly. Which is disheartening. It also means I am paying rent on one place and mortgage on another. To add to the misery Sweetpants' paycheck was misaddressed so we have been literally living on beans and rice and almost paid a couple of bills late. Although I will be the first to admit beans and rice are much better than nothing.
To alleviate the strain I have been looking high and low for a job, but the sad truth is I'm not technically qualified to do much of anything. I finally landed a job bagging groceries. Yup, that's where life has brought me. Every time I think about it too hard I get incredibly depressed.
But onto better news.
"The Root and The Seed and The Thief In Between" is for sale on Amazon both as a digital download and in sniffable low-tech paperback. Its sequel "The Burning Lie" should be coming out in October, with the final installment in the series "The Bees Made Honey in the Rich Man's Skull" being released in December.
https://www.amazon.com/Root-Seed-Thief-Between-Glicksberg/dp/1549501607/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503685802&sr=1-3&keywords=weyodi
You can buy it here.
I've been busy, to put it mildly.
My house still hasn't sold, and I haven't been able to find a renter with decent references, or any references, frankly. Which is disheartening. It also means I am paying rent on one place and mortgage on another. To add to the misery Sweetpants' paycheck was misaddressed so we have been literally living on beans and rice and almost paid a couple of bills late. Although I will be the first to admit beans and rice are much better than nothing.
To alleviate the strain I have been looking high and low for a job, but the sad truth is I'm not technically qualified to do much of anything. I finally landed a job bagging groceries. Yup, that's where life has brought me. Every time I think about it too hard I get incredibly depressed.
But onto better news.
"The Root and The Seed and The Thief In Between" is for sale on Amazon both as a digital download and in sniffable low-tech paperback. Its sequel "The Burning Lie" should be coming out in October, with the final installment in the series "The Bees Made Honey in the Rich Man's Skull" being released in December.
https://www.amazon.com/Root-Seed-Thief-Between-Glicksberg/dp/1549501607/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503685802&sr=1-3&keywords=weyodi
You can buy it here.
Last night I dreamed I was trying to get to the Indian Health Service Hospital to see "The Dr." while I was writing the last episode of Dr. Who, ever. At one point I hitched a ride to what I thought was IHS but turned out only to be a 1/12 scale model built by two guys in the mountains. When I finally did get to IHS (built terrifyingly into the side of a cliff over a rushing river) I discovered that my former online friend turned meatlife friend and neighbor grinnifer/fukingprole/typodmary was a doctor there (which was extra frustrating since I started the adventure at her house- if I'd only told her where I was going I could have hitched a ride with her). Also the final doctor in the Dr. Who series was played by a remarkably well preserved Tom Baker.
Oh my brain is weird.
Oh my brain is weird.
I have some weird things I do. Or imagine. You see I dislike death...a lot. I'm not afraid of it. I've seen it. I've even dressed deceased loved ones for their burial. But I am filled with bitterness and sorrow for slow sad death by disease in particular- So when celebrities I like die of some sad painful drawn out illness I imagine that instead they died in a big heroic duel to the death with another celebrity who died around the same time. For instance Alan Rickman and David Bowie went out like crazy sexy pirates with swords. Now George Romero and Martin Landau had their blaze of glory, but I think they used axes.
