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A whole bunch of unrelated things
• I finished my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
wcpairings fic! Well, the rough draft anyway. And my beta likes it. \o/ So I just need to do a bit of polishing and then it'll be ready for its go-live date.
• That SF/mystery book that I was complaining about kinda falls apart towards the end, plot-wise. Possibly it's just that I read too much mystery/suspense, but I figured out a lot of things well in advance of the characters, and on top of that, their actions towards the end are pretty dumb, all things considered. I think it would have worked better for me if they'd had a more compelling reason to solve the mystery than simple curiosity, but what it basically amounts to is putting themselves in ludicrous amounts of danger just to find out what was going on, and OH LOOK, NOW WE'RE IN DANGER! So, yeah, disappointing overall.
• It is FINALLY WARM. Words cannot express how wonderful it feels, after the Winter That Would Not Die. It was 73F today, and the trees around town are starting to flush faintly green (though everything is still set on its default brown shade around our yard). Of course, all of this is happening just in time for me to leave ... for someplace ludicrously hot. I'm spending a few days in Florida to see family there. And yes, this is a silly time to go to Florida, but it happened that my husband was going to be there for business anyway, so we're combining it with a family trip. So I expect I'll be even scarcer around LJ/DW for a few days than I have been lately.
• I got my hair cut and dyed a very fetching shade of purplish red. It's a pixie cut, much shorter than my norm, and I think I actually look better with longer hair, but I do like the cut and I also like being a redhead. (I went red last summer, too, and liked it a lot.) The only downside is that hair dye is super painful. Is it like that for everyone? If so, I have all the respect in the world for people who dye their hair a lot, because seriously, OW. It's sort of like having your head set on fire, and I can't bring myself to do it terribly often (plus I suspect it's probably not very healthy). It looks great, though!
• Last but definitely not least,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
frith_in_thorns made me a thing. And it is AWESOME. She knitted me a pair of Voracious Gloves from Fallen London, with teeth and eyes! All my pictures of them basically suck, but you can get an idea here:
So yeah, my ridiculous picture doesn't do it justice because you can't see anything, but basically these gloves are THE BEST, and Frith is the best to make them for me. ♥
wcpairings fic! Well, the rough draft anyway. And my beta likes it. \o/ So I just need to do a bit of polishing and then it'll be ready for its go-live date.• That SF/mystery book that I was complaining about kinda falls apart towards the end, plot-wise. Possibly it's just that I read too much mystery/suspense, but I figured out a lot of things well in advance of the characters, and on top of that, their actions towards the end are pretty dumb, all things considered. I think it would have worked better for me if they'd had a more compelling reason to solve the mystery than simple curiosity, but what it basically amounts to is putting themselves in ludicrous amounts of danger just to find out what was going on, and OH LOOK, NOW WE'RE IN DANGER! So, yeah, disappointing overall.
• It is FINALLY WARM. Words cannot express how wonderful it feels, after the Winter That Would Not Die. It was 73F today, and the trees around town are starting to flush faintly green (though everything is still set on its default brown shade around our yard). Of course, all of this is happening just in time for me to leave ... for someplace ludicrously hot. I'm spending a few days in Florida to see family there. And yes, this is a silly time to go to Florida, but it happened that my husband was going to be there for business anyway, so we're combining it with a family trip. So I expect I'll be even scarcer around LJ/DW for a few days than I have been lately.
• I got my hair cut and dyed a very fetching shade of purplish red. It's a pixie cut, much shorter than my norm, and I think I actually look better with longer hair, but I do like the cut and I also like being a redhead. (I went red last summer, too, and liked it a lot.) The only downside is that hair dye is super painful. Is it like that for everyone? If so, I have all the respect in the world for people who dye their hair a lot, because seriously, OW. It's sort of like having your head set on fire, and I can't bring myself to do it terribly often (plus I suspect it's probably not very healthy). It looks great, though!
• Last but definitely not least,
frith_in_thorns made me a thing. And it is AWESOME. She knitted me a pair of Voracious Gloves from Fallen London, with teeth and eyes! All my pictures of them basically suck, but you can get an idea here:
So yeah, my ridiculous picture doesn't do it justice because you can't see anything, but basically these gloves are THE BEST, and Frith is the best to make them for me. ♥