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Name: Maxi! But Max is fine too! (｡･∀･)ﾉﾞ

Age: Too old for high school, too young to retire!

I mostly post about: I've only posted personal journals so far, but I'll post about some of my interests soon! I like kpop, animanga, danmei novels, fanfiction, visual novels, chatsims, and lesbian movies! I'll also post progress on my knitting projects (if I remember haha)!

My hobbies are: Running, dance, creating art, going to concerts, and knitting! I'm tying to pick up crochet too!

My fandoms are: A Date With Death, Guardian, Killer Chat!, PMMM, BBC Merlin, and way more that I can't recall on the spot!

I'm looking to meet people who: Post! I'm not picky and I'm not easily upset or disturbed! I love to see what other people have going on! I'll be double happy if you post about your fandoms (even if we don't have any in common), but it's not a requirement! <3

My posting schedule tends to be: Whenever I get to it! Hopefully at least once a week!

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: I'm not cool with any form of bigotry. I won't tolerate that! Zionists are also not cool! I'm with Palestine all the way! <3

Before adding me, you should know: I'm a transmasc lesbian! I know this identity is a bit controversial, so don't add me if it's something you have issues with ^^;

If you see any spelling errors, no you didn't (/▽＼)

maju

Today I received an email from a settlement company which will be handling settlement of my house in Maryland. I had to fill in quite a lot of information, as well as talk to someone briefly to verify that the house had been my principal place of residence for at least the last three years even though I'm now living in a different state. I was also asked to send information about where to send paperwork to be signed since I'm not going to be physically present at settlement; my real estate agent says I should call and ask them about signing electronically, which is what he has done, but before I resort to a phone call I've emailed my contact person to ask the question.

My real estate agent says everything is going as it should and we're on track for settlement to go through on 1st May. I'll be glad when it's done, but it's also sad that this is cutting off access to the place which was my only home with S.

It was warm today (low 70s/low 20s) and should be similar tomorrow but with rain thrown in. But don't be too hasty to pack away those winter clothes - on Thursday the maximum is forecast to be about 47°F/8°C and also raining.

Aria and Eden had haircuts after school today. Both had hair past their shoulders, and now it's shorter and layered. Eden's doesn't look very much different, just curlier because of the layers, but Aria had quite a lot cut off and hers is now all bouncy around her head. When she came home she dashed in to show her father, exclaiming "I look amazing!"

bill_schubert

Today's dog was brought by a kill shelter not too far away.

Her name is Cherry Blossum. So named by the intake staff. The eyes are fixable. It is a condition called cherry eye that is tear ducts that have prolapsed.

Cherry is 25 pounds, a year old, and as cute as she can be. She's also, unfortunately, scared of everything so she's not happy right now. But once her eyes are fixed and she is spayed she will quickly go to a good home. She's not as chill as our Beaux is but she will be a great dog.

Meanwhile my other gig, the bookkeeping job, is turning into a real interesting side thing. The couple that runs the company is wonderful and they are making a lot of money so I don't feel guilty getting some of it (and they are paying me a decent amount) but really it is stuff I love doing. I always liked working in Quickbooks when I was running the company. So i'm liking doing this and have requested that they walk me through one of their company's records start to finish in a typical month (March, for instance). So next Thursday I'm going to remote in and we're going to process a customer. I really need to understand how things work to see if I can make them more efficient. If I can then the gig expands and I make more money and the owner's husband gets to go out to his ranch and do... ranch stuff instead of doing payroll for a bunch of the customers.

As long as I can WTF I'm happy to do it. The volunteer gig is the same. I'm doing some stuff that will result in my being able to help remotely too.

I could really use another monitor. Ah, the good old days.

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Merlin, We were liars, The seduction

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The usual seconds.

Watch on YouTube

It is snowing again, obviously. Gah.

In other news, I had my visit with the orthopedist and he did a throughout exam of my back and decided, instead of another shot in my spine to give me one into the bad hip. The back pain has improved so much that now it is better to do something for the hip, so I am able to walk better without limping.
I am really glad I changed doctor, this one is so much more attentive and also, knowledgeable about EDS, which the other one wasn't and didn't take stuff seriously.
I also got prescribed more physiotherapy. Yay!
The hip steroid dosage was also lower than the back one, so I should have less side effects. Also yay.

And tomorrow I don't have to go to work, triple yay :)

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Q1. How did you feel about T. Kingfisher's writing style?

Q2. Who was your favorite character? Why?

Q3. What was your favorite scene? Why?

Q4. The Hollow Places is inspired by the short story The Willows by Algernon Blackwood. If you've read it, is the inspiration obvious?

Q5. How would you describe Kara?

Q6. What are your thoughts about the Wonder Museum?

Q7. Do you have any favorite quotes?

greghousesgf

Last night my sister called me and invited me to come visit my family the weekend of May 1st. I said sure. I tried texting L. because she's moving to Pennsylvania in May but I don't know exactly what day in May but she didn't answer back.

Current Mood: worried
Current Music: Getz/Gilberto

oursin

I know I was born into a fortunate generation which had things like university grants and better employment opportunities and the ability to buy one's own house in one's twenties and so on -

I have also occasionally been heard to remark that, on account of the codliver oil and school milk dispensed by a caring Welfare State, Ma Generayshun probably has bones like steel girders persisting into the twilight years and that this very likely no longer pertains -

- I did not realise that life expectancy was actually going down (older article, feel I saw something much more recently but didn't keep the link).

Not to mention decline in actual expectation of healthy quality of life.

I was brought up with coal fires - the Clean Air Act was 1956 but I'm not sure how long the effects took to kick in - possibly various dietary things that might not be considered optimum these days? - various things like the foot-x-ray machines in shoe-shops that have vanished -

While maybe not the plethora of junk food there is now it was absolutely not that organic idyll that gets posited!

So there were adverse factors around, but maybe just enough counter-balancing things going on?

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Craveworthy Baking: Delicious Dairy-Free and Gluten-Free Cakes, Cookies, Breads, and More, by Danielle Cochran:

An attractive book with color photos for every recipe and helpful headnotes, but I can't recommend it because there are just too many things that can go wrong here. Recipes rely on unspecified GF flour mixes, which are fast and convenient, but every flour mix works differently, and they're not always interchangeable. The book also calls for a variety of dairy-free products like vegan butter, milk, buttermilk, sour cream, heavy cream, and sweetened condensed milk. These products also have different ingredients and consistencies and, thus, results. And that's too many variables when it comes to baking.

More than anything this reads like a baker's personal recipe box that's been sanitized to remove any brand loyalties. Cochran doesn't even recommend any flour mixes (commercial or DIY) in the introduction. She says this is because all brands aren't available in all markets, which any thinking person understands, but it also doesn't give us a chance to duplicate those flour mixes at home. The internet is filled with copycat recipes for popular commercial mixes. Those of us with restricted diets are used to making shit work. But this was nothing but a waste of my time.

If you're a baker with a lot of experience with substitutions, you could probably make these recipes work on vibes alone, though I'm not sure why you'd want to (I certainly didn't). If you're new to GF/DF baking, the author doesn't provide the tools to understand what, exactly, you're looking for, vibes-wise, so this probably isn't the best place to start.

susandennis

I got the official word yesterday when the Director of Health Services replied to my email. Jim Across The Hall is no longer Across The Hall. He has been taken to a memory care facility "until we have room for him here". So he's history. Our memory facility really stays booked.They only have room for 20. They can't remember shit but still they live on. I got to thinking about it this morning and think that moving him will be/is so disconcerting for him. He won't know anything. BUT moving him out of Timber Ridge is probably his best bet. Nothing will be familiar. Moving him to our memory care unit might have been way more confusing. He'd be locked in and not able to wander about like he liked to do. But, not understanding why.

So now, his sons will need to clear out his apartment. That should be interesting. Also new blood in the hood!

Yesterday was chicken day and today will be, too. Except for when the house cleaner is here.

I'm not totally happy with my first crop. BUT I have plans for chicken improvement.

Maju, this morning, talked about various Easter traditions and it reminded me of ours growing up. Easter Sunday outfits. New clothes, new shoes, little girl hats and little girl purses and little boy suits for my brother and a fairly bad photo of all of us in front of the house. We did some Easter egg hunting but it was not a huge thing. We were really into the Easter Parade in New York City although I'm not sure how or why. We were a church going family but not that religious actually. But on Easter we were sure fancy.

I also remember we had this very modern strip mall. It was the first of it's kind. It meant that now you didn't have to get dressed up to go downtown if all you needed was a spool of thread. (You ALWAYS got dressed up when you went to town.) Anyway, this strip mall which we called a Shopping Center, had a very large Woolworths Dime Store and a really large grocery store. And both of those stores, every Easter, set out a large sales area outside stocked with chicks and bunnies. And the chicks were died Easter colors. And we always wanted one of each. Not every single year but most years, Mom relented and let us get a chick. Never a bunny. We kept them in cardboard boxes with grass. It was very exciting for about a week. They either died or Mom rehomed them.

ahhhh Easter!

ganimede

Today is the Trans Day of Visibility.

Each year on March 31, the world observes Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) to raise awareness about transgender people. It is a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of Trans people, while also drawing attention to the disproportionate levels of poverty, discrimination, and violence the community faces compared to non-Trans people.

International TDOV was created in 2010 by Trans advocate Rachel Crandall, in response to the overwhelming majority of media stories about transgender people being focused on violence. She hoped to create a day where people could celebrate the lives of transgender people, while simultaneously acknowledging that due to discrimination, not every Trans person can or wants to be visible.

Hello, I'm a Trans person *waves* 👋 Ask me anything!

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Current Location: the UK

summersgate

March Goes Out. The forces of spring rainbow style. It'll be nice and warm today (70F) but rainy too.

A busy day today. Lunch with Chloe in Seneca and then Dave's eyeshots in Meadville. I had some dreams that lingered this morning. Something about losing Dave at some kind of festival. We had arrived with the dogs but Andy was sick and Dave took him off somewhere. The rest of the dream I was searching for Dave and asking different people about him and getting more and more annoyed that he wasn't answering his phone. Someone told me that he was in the nurses station so I went there and found him. Andy had turned out to be very ill and needed lots of care. I woke up thinking - how dumb am I? Why didn't I look at the nursing station first? Surely that would have been where Dave would have gone to get medical help. This dream could be partly because I'm worrying now about Rainy. She's so itchy. I started her itch pills again this morning. It usually happens in the summer time. She's been having an infected right ear too. I started using the meds we got for her in the past for that condition the day before yesterday. Now that Skye is gone I need to put more attention on the dogs. Questioning myself when or if I should take Rainy to the vet - how long should I wait to decide while trying these former meds at home. We really can't afford to go to the vets if we don't have to.

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

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This weekend, we went to the botanical gardens and we saw a big group of Bohemian waxwings! They are very rare guests here on their way to and from Scandinavia and I had never seen one before. I did know instantly what they were seeing them all sitting in the tree though.

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oursin

Happy birthday,

allhailthedramaking and

calimac!

poliphilo

So where did March go?

No, seriously, I'd forgotten where we were up to and looked to see what the date was, thinking we were still somewhere in the early twenties of the month, and was shocked to see it was already the 30th.

And here comes April.

And April, say the astrologers, is going to be HUGE.

Not that you need to look to the stars to see that things are riding towards a smash.

"Keep your buttocks clenched," says astrologer Steve Judd, "You head down, your powder dry."

The storm will be raging at every level, whistling in our chimneys even as it agitates and wrecks the tall trees. We have our own drama at the Meeting House. I won't go into it here but it matters to us- and it'll test us.

Expect the eye of the storm to hit around the 20th.

After which- well, May will be different......

twistedchick

I should be writing the Substack column, or at least trying. But I have no words right now. The words are just ... missing.

There is too much news going on, and not enough that's new. They weren't kidding about calling it a 'flood' of information, designed to bury us under extraneous crap. I can deal with that; I do deal with it, sorting through it to newsblog on FB as I've done the past few years. But this week nothing is standing out and waving for me to write about it. So much is either at a standstill or just not at a point that has changed. And what I need is something that is changing, so I can look at before and after or alternatives.

I am encouraged by the 9 million or so people who came out during No Kings, though the statistic is muddled -- I have seen it attributed to worldwide protests that day as well as to in-country protests, which is not helpful. But still, 9 million. And so many small places in Red states with sizeable crowds protesting -- and on my side of the street, too. So encouraging.

It just feels as if the Winter of our Discontent is still blowing winds. The only Son of York on the horizon is Jack Schlossberg, grandson of JFK and definitely a Son of York as he's New York born and bred. I do support him and if I still lived in that state would be out stumping for him -- but he's running for a Congressional seat, and that is not going to be enough to overturn the Joker in the Oval.

But it's a start. I can use a start.

days_unfolding

Things that you say only if you have dogs: “Gracie, don’t chew the stairs!” I quickly grabbed munchie bones for her and for Bella.

Woke up a little after 7 AM. Went back to sleep, and overslept work by a half-hour. Oops.

The radiology department at the local hospital called me for a CT appointment. Among other things, my phone is working.

Fed the catlings. The dogs don’t want to come in (no surprises there). I’m pondering how I can reseed the front yard when the dogs have trampled the lawn. Maybe I should just put mulch there? Hmm, I saw a grass-and-clover mix intended for lawns with dogs. Maybe I’ll try it and put down mulch if it doesn’t take.

Bella came in at 12 PM. Gracie came in at 1 PM. I put her food bowl under her nose, and she decided that she wanted to eat. Now both dogs are crashed out.

I’m having an IBS flare-up, but I’m hoping that I’ll make it to choir. I really need to be there. I think that I’ll skip dinner to settle my insides.

I picked up Lily and carried her downstairs for food. She clearly said “NO!” when I picked her up, but she ate the food. (It amazes me how creatures without a common vocabulary can communicate so well.) Fed the cats and dogs.

Choir went okay. My choir director wants me to come in with the book sale flyer tomorrow and leave it in the choir room. We’re trying out of solos next week, and there’s a song that I really want. I’ll send it to my singing teacher.

Ate while watching The Pitt. (Luckily, nothing gross happened while I was eating.) Got the dogs back inside and fed them.

Need to get to bed soon. Tomorrow will be a long day.

conuly

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ranunculus

Today was "Vet Day". Sometime in the late 1980's I realized that I had no idea if my horse pasture tenants were vaccinating their horses. I consider vaccines for things like rabies a must have. The thought of dealing with a thousand pounds of rabid horse is beyond frightening, and rabies is endemic here. As a result my pasture board includes one vet visit and the basic annual vaccinations. The vet loves it. Vets are totally overworked, so having 10 horses all lined up at one place is wonderful. The current vet, Kendall, does a mini checkup, takes vitals, looks at teeth and assesses general condition. She encourages people to ask questions. Time permitting she does any dentistry needed (horse's teeth emerge throughout their lives and often develop sharp edges and points that need to be filed down), though this is at the owner's expense. I rode a rather frisky Firefly over, jumping off when we got close and she got extra excited to see her friends. Firefly's teeth were fine, they had been done last year and are still in good shape.
As the vet was finishing with Firefly I got a call from Lily that there was a water leak at the Red Barn. She was confused about what to turn off, and, rather sensibly, didn't want to put her hand in the valve box that had a large black widow spider in residence. I went down taking a pair of heavy rubber gloves as protection against the black widow. The leak is in a faucet that I didn't remember installing. It looks like it is just a 3/4" PVC stand pipe, no PEX inside, so it must be old. Of course all the pipe I had with me was 1". So we left it turned off.
The garden is looking better and better the more grass I get out. Room 2 bed 1 was being a problem, the peas were languishing. The PH meter said the soil was quite acidic, so more wood ashes were applied to correct the issue. Everything else looks great, just dry. It isn't supposed to be this dry in March. Looks like early May, not March. Today's storm moved off to Wed and became a tiny sprinkle. Grrrr.
The lemon tree has an enormous number of blooms, it is really happy. Have GOT to get it in the ground.
Multiple irises have bud stalks coming up. I'm ready with lots of tags, to label individual plants as to color.
Half of my tomatoes are planted, need to get going on the other half. I was waiting till the beginning of April to make sure things didn't freeze. Seeds for squash and cucumbers are in seed trays. Also planted seeds for two varieties of basil and some cosmos. Marigold seeds arrive tomorrow.
The replacement grinding wheels arrived for the chainsaw chains, so I'm ready to go back to work on them.

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