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[tomakeanoffer]

I'm coming to you a little late this week but it is still here nonetheless! I hope everyone is okay, that you are holding your head up and being kind to yourselves.

~

This post is for:
• being excited about the things you've done this week
• asking for help if you need it
• venting about anything that might need to be flailed over.
• showing off something cool you've done/made/experienced this week.
• being generally enthused and excited about things that have happened.
• just being thrilled that you survived.

Come drop into the comments and let us know how you're doing and how things have gone. While I may not respond to every comment myself, all of you are free to respond to each other and get encouragement, help or whatever else it is you need. If you want to vent without advice being given, please say so and if you want cheering or tips or anything, let us know that too.

I do ask that if you have any triggering topics, that you mention them in the subject line or first line of your comment. This is just so people can make informed decisions on what to read and keep everyone okay. <3 Thank you so much.

Comments

[dreamerinsilico]

Hey, you survived, too! I hope you're having a better-than-baseline day. <3

I have a Hannibal WIP that has some of the best dialogue (I think) I've ever written, and I'm super excited to get it fleshed out/finished and published. I don't think it's going to get done tonight, but it will, soon, and I'm wiggling my butt like a cat ready to pounce with the anticipation.

[bladespark]

I have something cool I did to show off and also something I need to vent/flail about, and they're the same thing.

I finished a MLP fursuit I've been working on what feels like forever and ever, and it came out pretty good, I think. I sent pics to the customer, and he was like "nice, but what about the wings?"

Fuck.

So thankfully that can just be added, but I was so happy to be done with the damn thing, and now I'm not. :(

[bladespark]

Good dialog is so nice! My husband/sometimes editor polishes up my dialog to be so damn amazing when I can rope him into helping. I wish I were better at it myself!

On the move

[ng_moonmoth]

Successfully moved (with professional help for the big stuff) our bedroom furnishings from the part of the house that is having its bathrooms remodeled to the part of the house that will have a functioning bathroom while that happens. We seem to be settling in OK (got up too early and crashed for a while after the movers left), but the cats, who were in protective custody while the movers were here, are still edgy and uncertain about the environmental changes. We're hoping they will figure it out and come join us in our new location this evening.

Next, we get to empty all the stuff out of the target bathrooms and figure out where to put it while the work is in progress. Said work starts Tuesday. Wheee!

[tomakeanoffer]

I'm getting pizza today and actually managed to sleep, so I could definitely be worse.

Oooooh! I am definitely excited to hear this. I will just be in the corner cheering you on.

[tomakeanoffer]

Oh no! Well, at least it's an easy fix.

[dreamerinsilico]

It used to be my Least Favorite Thing To Write, but then I fell headfirst into an online freeform RP group, and now it's one of the easiest aspects of putting a story together for me. It's amazing what that style of practice will do for your sense of how individual characters speak.

Re: On the move

[tomakeanoffer]

Moving can be such hard work. I know i like environmental changes every now and then but having to move entire rooms can be a horrible drain. GO you guys for managing the thing and I hope your cats recover from the changes soon.

[dreamerinsilico]

Pizza and sleep are both good things to have/have had on a Friday :) (I will quietly envy you the pizza; parents are on a low carb thing for now and while I certainly don't object to a high volume of vegetables, I like my starch, too, dammit.)

[tomakeanoffer]

Yeah I get that entirely. I love vegetables, I do, but I like noodles too much to stay away fully.

Re: On the move

[ng_moonmoth]

Thanks for the good wishes.

Yeah, we're hoping the cats come around. We won't want them to be escape threats or trip hazards while the work is in progress, so they will be confined to our quarters (which can be isolated from the work area). And that is not their comfort space right now, so we're hoping it will become their comfort space now that we are there. That will make it less traumatic when the door closes.

If they'll spend the night with us in the new digs, they can roam the house while the workers aren't there, and we can keep them safe in the morning.

[shadaras]

This week has been long and tiring, but I had a job interview for substituting in another district (and got it, so now there's just... Paperwork...) and it's my girlfriend's birthday this weekend! So some nice things to balance out the winter grays.

[teaotter]

I just got my assignment in a crafting exchange, and I am SO THRILLED by the options my recipient gave me!!! I've actually already started on the part of it that I have materials for, I'm so happy!

[mdlbear]

Yesterday I got my car out of the driveway and onto the street and did the grocery shopping yesterday. Today it snowed again, as expected, but the household will be okay for the weekend.

[alatefeline]

Today I am looking sideways at the weather forecast with great skepticism. Youse?

[tomakeanoffer]

I got sleep today, that was a Go0od Thing, cause sleep was not happening the way it needed to. This week has been kind in many ways and rough in others but new days are coming which always means potential for good.

[tomakeanoffer]

*offers hugs, if they are wanted* I am glad there's some good to balance out the tiring. I hope your girlfriend's birthday is a delight and you have a good time.

[tomakeanoffer]

Woooosh! I am so pleased it is something you jive with. <3

[tomakeanoffer]

OH good to know. <3 Snow is lovely in very small doses, I find. I hope you all will get through the winter well.

[leiacat]

I don't even know which of these things this response will be - vent andor showing off andor being thrilled I survived, I think.

I have a friend, in whom I have unrequited interest in being other things. We're both obsessive communicators, so interests and boundaries are acknowledged as asymmetrical, and there's sufficient emotional investment on his end that I'm not using "friends" casually, and I count us a net good thing.

Which did not make it terribly easier when he started dating after a long, long dry spell. It's a _good_ development, which I genuinely approve of and am happy is happening, but concurrently it's damn hard to observe someone else experience the very things I wish I could.

Anyway. This week I was able to locate and deliver a gag gift for friend's new dating-person, a perfect punchline to an in-joke, which she enjoyed in precisely the way I had hoped she would. I'm more than a little smug about making date (and thereby friend) happy, and a whole soup of conflicting emotions about the overall scenario.

Friend turned up at Spouse's birthday party, that was nice...

And oh, yeah, a birthday gathering for Spouse happened despite both of us anxiety-deferring planning until the actual day of, and it was Good, and the existential angst of being the age we are is at no higher than usual levels, which is pretty awesome.

[tomakeanoffer]

Ohhhh, that's a fun situation to be in. I feel like you're handling it marvelously though and that is awesome.

Happy survival to your Spouse and good survival and many days to come for all of you.

[shadaras]

Thanks! :) The weekend's going well so far, and there's sunlight to help keep up the joy.

[alatefeline]

Yes sleep is very important! and can be difficult in proportion to that importance. Glad you got some.

Here is to a new day!