And now they are on the road again

Jun. 27th, 2025 11:05 am
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We had a lovely breakfast and a visit and a chat about their next trip here and then they got into the car and headed out.

It was really fun to have them here. They have a short list of places in the US they still want to see and those they want to revisit. And then I showed them, on the map, the route western from Charlotte through Asheville, over the mountains and then to Memphis and beyond. It's section of the country they have never seen that is very different from what they have seen. They think 2 years and that that might be their last trip.

It is 11:15 and the Pride parade is downstairs at 11:30 and I'm not going. Martha will shame me for it but I'm peopled out. I did my Pride bit for the year with the dolls.

I just want to put my feet up and knit and not talk to anyone for about a week. Or at least a day.

I do need to do a load of laundry.

Oh one interesting bit to note. Years ago, before Kripy Kreme donuts even had retail shops, you could get them in any grocery store always. Then they opened stores. I'm pretty sure, in the south, you could still get them at grocery stores, out here they have always been a shop only donut. Until now. We first found them at Walmart. I bought a box of 6. They were fabulously fresh! Then, yesterday, we were in a Target and they had them! I bought a box of 6. They were fabulously fresh! I told Scott and Julie that I have to buy a box everywhere I see them to let them know how much I approve of this third party retail scheme.

Also of note, TJ Max has some lovely clothes for fat girls. I did not know this until this week. I am now over clothed but not unhappy about it.

Julie pronounces Minneapolis Minini-apolis. It's very cute.

Sweet, sweet silence.

Jun. 28th, 2025 03:35 am
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My parents have gone away for a couple of months! Finally! I get some time to myself. And also. Quiet. Just. It's so much quieter, it's great.

Anyway, nothing huge today. Slept a lot, because no one to make me get up (and also tired from yesterday). I even did some tidying! :D Also sewed a patch on my bag awww yeah :D :D :D

The next Bond?

Jun. 27th, 2025 08:26 am
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OK, who should be the next Bond? I’m impressed by the wide range of suggestions here. I especially liked the suggestion for Rege-Jean Page. No one mentioned Joseph Mawle, Edward Bluemel, Harry Lloyd, or Matthew Goode, though. Or Tobias Menzies!

What do you think?

Guardian readers make nominations for the next Bond

A good time was had by all - the dets

Jun. 27th, 2025 06:54 am
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TL;DR My friends came. They loved Timber Ridge. We shopped and shopped and shopped and shopped. And had a great visit. My feet are broken. I have an appointment with a new (to me) podiatrist on Tuesday. The Pride monsters were a huge hit and now it's back to dolls. My new window shades have a fatal error. Regular life resumes this afternoon.

The details.

Julie and Scott live on the South Island of New Zealand in a beautiful tiny town. They have been all over the United States in all the big cities. This tour - two months - is driving around - first Canada and then the western United States (except California).

Even in the biggest town in New Zealand, they shopping opportunities are not what they are here in the US. They just don't have the selection and they have the add on of 'shipped to small island far away' tax. So here, particularly Julie, wallows in all the choices available. The last time they were here, two years ago, they wanted to shop and, for some reason, we ended up down in Federal Way where we discovered chain shop heaven. Lovely stores of Old Navy, Skeechers, Walmart, Target, etc.

This time they wanted to go back to all those places plus they found North Bend Outlets on Google and wanted to go there.

So we started at North Bend which is not too far up the road. And a lovely drive. But the outlet mall there is a bust and a half. The stores were sparse and empty. But, they drive was lovely. And we saw other stuff.

So we came back here and toured Timber Ridge and Issaquah. They are pretty impressed with Timber Ridge. and Issaquah always presents nicely.

Tuesday we went back to Federal Way and did not miss any stores. Julie had a ball and Scott got new shoes and it was a huge hit. Wednesday, there was more shopping and we found the Issaquah troll which was way more impressive than I expected.

Yesterday, Thursday, it was into Bellevue to that huge, lovely, downtown mall. And then to the conveyor belt sushi place for lunch. Fun and delicious.

In between, we've been enjoying Timber Ridge. We've eaten in all the dining rooms and tried all the various serving options except lunch. All have been pretty impressive.

Today they leave. They are taking the next few weeks to drive from here via Salt Lake City and Yellowstone and Mt. Rushmore to Chicago where they will fly to San Francisco and then home. It's such a wonderful trip.

Meanwhile, my feet are just screaming at me. Finally, on Wednesday, I sent a note to my doctor asking for referral to a podiatrist or any other suggestion. She got right back to me with a couple of podiatrist options and I was able to get an appointment here in Issaquah for this coming Tuesday! Yeah.

Oh and it's window washing time at Timber Ridge. I have a panel of three windows. The middle one opens. They use it to hang out and wash the outside of all three panels. It's a good system. Except. When the shade guy designed and the installer guy installed, none of us realized that the scheme will completely bar me from ever opening that window again. So no cleaning. Ever. I have now sent him a note asking what he can do about it. I'm guessing nothing. And it's not fatal. But they should not have been installed that way. Weird and a little annoying.

Today is the Timber Ridge Pride parade which is just about the same time Scott and Julie were planning on leaving and will block in their car. I suspect it will be a short parade and not interrupt the leaving for long.

And now I think I'm caught up. I should get dressed and ready. They will text me when they are up and we'll meet in the dining room for breakfast.

motor vehicle here I come

Jun. 27th, 2025 02:47 pm
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Driver's license learner permit acquired! Total cost:

Application fee: 25€
Driving lessons: 875€
ADHD tax: 152€

I'm going through the obligatory little quizzes and informational videos about traffic safety and they've been machine translated without proofreading and then dubbed into English with an AI that speeds up or slows down its talking speed sometimes multiple times per sentence to ensure that it takes exactly the same amount of time in English as in Finnish (which means a lot of surreally slow talking that sounds like a tape got stuck in the player and might catch fire soon).
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On Monday we decided to head up toward the Pawnee National Grasslands. Back when I was in college we lived much closer, and went out there pretty often. There's a birding "trail" (it's a driving route with a handful of stops around where certain birds are frequently seen), some good scenery, and sometimes other wildlife. We were hoping to see a rattlesnake, since we often did when we were up there before, but alas.

We didn't have a terribly specific plan, beyond maybe some of the birding areas, or just anywhere that seemed interesting to pull over and check out. Part of the road for the birding route is closed, and while it seemed like you could still go through, it also headed into a fee camping area, which I do not remember from before... but it has been 15+ years since we were exploring up there, so things may simply have changed! (The website also has one stop on the birding trail crossed out, just saying "this stop has been removed" and I want to know why!)

We pulled over at one informative sign, and went on a brief walk into the grasslands. Mostly there were a ton of wildflowers! It was lovely.

Unfortunately I also got bit by a fuckoff big mosquito and some of her friends. I swatted her while she was biting me and there was a pretty gross explosion of blood. Uuuuugh.


A beeplant! Actually mostly being visited by ants. With a photobomb from a little tiny wasp or some sort coming in from the lower right.


I took more cactus flower pictures than anything else, ha.


Ten more pictures:

Globemallow again!


A mystery fungal pod. (Probably some sort of small puffball?)


A lone prickly pear.


Asters.


I just really love prickly pear flowers! The petals are so delicate looking for something so stabby.


More prickly pear flowers. With bonus bug friends.


Not sure what these are, but they looked neat.


Seems like we'd just missed whatever these were blooming.


One more cactus flower picture!

We did drive one stretch of the birding route, and we did see quite a few birds! Lark buntings, horned larks, a few I couldn't quite identify... of course they mostly flew off as soon as the car was close, haha.

But...


One lark bunting, I swear! (On the top fence wire.) Lark buntings are the state bird of Colorado, but I only ever see them up on the plains here.


A pretty long drive both there and home, but it was still nice to see some areas we haven't been in quite a long while.

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Jun. 26th, 2025 04:07 pm
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1. I got a Surfans F20 for my birthday to replace my dying ipod touch. (It was last hooked up to a computer in 2012 and spent it's life in airplane mode. Battery no longer holds a charge for more than 20 mins and charging is unreliable.) I combed through all the backups on my external to find all my little stashes of music. Now to comb through it all and figure out what of the 263GB (+ because some of it's zipped/rar'd) I want to load.

1b. If you have a suggestion for music organization software, please share. Especially something that can find and replace duplicates.

1c. I should check to see if I've got any podfic that had been lost.

2. I'm going to be in Seattle early July for the My Chemical Romance show on the 11th. If you'll also be going and want to hang out while waiting for doors, I'd love to hang. Siblings, BiL, and Spouse will also be attending.

3. I've been dealing with a ovarian cyst the last few days and I'd like it to be over now, thank you. Pain is finally fading, but the first 24hrs were awful.

edit: I've unzipped everything. 259 GB over 20,819 files in 11,339 folders. The Surfans only sees 15,000 files so I've got to cut 5,819. I guess first pass will be album art. I know I have a lot of fanmixes in there. Second pass will be podfic and audiobooks because it turns out I don't actually like those.

edit2: Found a stash of unzipped fanmixes in a folder. After deleting non-music stuff from the I-tunes folders I've got 107 GB over 21,490 Files, 11,275 Folders. Mostly deleted video I have elsewhere and old copies of podcasts I don't listen to anymore.
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So I didn't actually get any tidying done today, either.

However, as this was mainly because I was helping my parents move furniture around, and put blankets over the one large gap? Pseudo arch? IDK the thing where there's no wall between rooms, open plan bullshit except this is baked into the bones of the house from well before open plan was a thing (it's between the lounge and dining area. Not unusual to have glass double doors somewhere like that, but no doors here, just a gap. IDK). Anyway that was a LOT of lifting/coordinating/maneuvering and it was fairly tiring!

Also later in the evening I helped my father download all his books onto his new kindle - the previous one died, and he was happy with how it worked so he got a new one, as you do. ExpandWhat the shit, Amazon. )

So anyway the upshot of that is that if anyone knows of an ereader that's kindle-level reliable and doesn't do that shit, plz to let us know. (My father had a Kobo originally but it died in less than a year, so he's a little skeptical about Kobos specifically. The previous kindle lasted 8-9 years and my father is not a light user, which is the main reason he just went and got another one when it died.)

Anyway! Not really a lot else in between all that. Lot of time spent flopped recovering! Furniture is heavy! (Particularly the couch. I mean, the solid is good most of the time, but...)

Sleepin' nao, yes.

Heat Spell Breaks

Jun. 26th, 2025 07:31 am
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Heat spell finally broke.

Hal-lay-LOOL-ya.

I have lived through heat spells before, but I can't remember any as bad as this past three days. (That's probably due to my incredibly bad memory more than climate change.)

Since yesterday was supposed to be marginally cooler than the two preceeding days, I went over to the New Paltz community garden to water the seedlings I'd planted last week.

I was expecting to find the seedlings had all died. And maybe some did, but not all: Dried grass clippings turn out to be a very effective mulch.

Place was like the asylum grounds of Hell—completely deserted with a kind of pitiless stark white HD light. It was weird to be the only person present in that vast garden! Maybe I walked 50 yards total, and so much sweat poured off me, I looked as though I'd just come out of a shower.

###

My stomach is still not 100%. I've been sleeping badly, and never more than five hours a night. I remind myself that it is these factors—and not the inherent Evil of the Universe—that are responsible for the pissy mood I'm in. And these factors are controllable. When DonkeyBody ([personal profile] smokingboot™) is back to optimal functioning & I can sleep eight hours, the Universe will once more go back to being a pleasant place filled with laughter & magic.

At least, that's what I am telling myself.

Busy busy

Jun. 26th, 2025 03:48 am
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I did SO MUCH SOCIAL today omg. Went in and got lunch with A, like I said yesterday, and it was stupid crowded so it was extra draining. Was fun, though! :D

And then I came home and like... five minutes after that my parents came home, and Sibling wasn't long behind them, so I didn't get much of a nap. I mean, I still tried but it wasn't as easy as when the house is quiet, bleh.

But we had dinner (thankfully take away, not going anywhere!), and it was good? But yeah, I am drained as hell. Not helped by catching up on Azy's game thing which ate like... an hour and a half just before now um. >>;; Should've put the off until tomorrow, but too late now!

Sleeps nao though. Attempt to do more house stuff tomorrow, yes.

Still having a grand time but

Jun. 25th, 2025 08:04 am
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no time to post. I am collecting notes and will catch up. promise.

Gaskets

Jun. 25th, 2025 08:46 am
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I would have voted for Cuomo.

Cuomo is an old-school Democrat and a loathsome human being by all accounts, but Cuomo is also an able administrator—and a city the size of NYC needs able administration. Weren't DiBlasio's two terms in office enough?

But hey! Maybe I would have been wrong.

Cuomo did kill a lot of old people who would have voted for him because they remember his father.

Plus, Zohran Mamdani is incredibly appealing, and I'd like to ride city buses for free-eee-eeee! Galvanizing 50,000 volunteer canvassers—Cuomo had to pay his—is no mean feat. Mamdani is like a male AOC or a younger, mega-photogenic Bernie Sanders. Mississippi Marsala is a lovely little movie. And I think it may be true that Mamdani is Trump's worst nightmare.

So, yeah: Zohran Mamdani.



The oil change yesterday went on forever, because I asked them to check the brakes and the suspension. The Prius is 14 years old & runs like a dream, but the roads in Ulster County are like one long Tourney of Potholes. If I don't rejuvenate my car's suspension system every year, one day it's gonna go over a bump and the wheels are gonna fly off.

Plus my mechanic stripped a gasket as he was finishing up, so all the new oil he'd just put into the Prius spilled all over the garage floor.

Even though I knew exactly what was happening—gasket! not a biggie—I could feel myself edging into a massive panic attack. I wanted to start sobbing. Like so many women of my age, I have Fear of the Big Box—basically because I wasn't taught about tools & engines & machinery growing up. Things with engines operate through a kind of magic that I am ignorant about! I was at the mercy of these alien priests in their grease-stained denim jumpsuits! All I could do was tremble in awe and fear—

Thankfully, I managed to talk myself out of the panic attack—because really, who wants to see an elderly lady get hysterics?

The verdict on the car: Back wheels need new shocks; car needs four new tires.

Cost will be about a grand.

Of course, I'd far rather spend $1,000 on hazelnut truffles and subscriptions to generative AI video services, but I must have a safe vehicle—my own driving abilities are wildcard factor enough on the roads.
###

My mechanic was horribly apologetic about the gasket when he brought the car out to me. He was an elderly gentleman with a very thick accent. I imagined him as a refugee from one of those countries in Africa beseiged by a gruesome civil war, Sierra Leone or Uganda or someplace.

"You know, stuff happens," I assured him. "You did a great job. Thank you so much!"

And I wrote him a five-star review, singling him out by the name embroidered over the breast pocket of his grease-stained denim jumpsuit.

Because I didn't want him to get fired over a gasket.
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I got a great idea that I was going to make image posts on Tumblr for my top lists of fountain pen ink (favorite inks and inks at the top of my to-buy list), but you need good swatches for that. Or I mean, that was my vision: the whole point is they're pretty.

And so I went to my favorite ink review blog, Mountain of Ink, and discovered that she's got a no-rightclick javascript over all her individual ink swatch images. Obviously, since I'm a 42-year-old millenial who has been using computers since I was a toddler, I could get around this, but I don't want to use her images if she doesn't want people to use them. (I would only have done so in the good-faith belief that normal credit and linkback was all that courtesy required. And I would have earnestly recommended her blog too, because that's what I always do!)

So that means I'd have to make and photograph my own ink swatches. Making's easy (if slightly time-consuming), but taking good photos of them is hard! Like here's some swatches I had knocking around in my folder: my favorite CRAZY expensive ink, Sailor Ink Studio 160 (a light minty green); my favorite all-purpose ink, J Herbin Vert Réséda (a bright teal with a very slight leaning towards green); a lovely dark moody ink, J Herbin Poussière de Lune (a saturated reddish plum purple).


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See, it's overcast but bright today - the sky is a solid opaque cool milky white. I took these photos two feet from an open window, with my bright light therapy sunlamp shining from the other side at the same distance. And the color reproduction is still not good! You can see it in the whites - everything looks cooler and dimmer than reality.

Sure, I could color correct them with an image manipulation program, but I think that defeats the point of swatches. And I'm not into it enough to, like, sign up for a Skillshare course in photographing art. So IDK. Maybe I will get more into making swatches. I actually bought a glass dip pen for this exact purpose a couple of years ago, only I broke the tip of the pen the first time I used it and then I didn't buy another (I have regular dip pens though so it's not really necessary).
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This week I picked sea creatures, because it was my grandmother's memorial, and she was a volunteer at the Oregon Coast Aquarium for 25 years. Jellies were one of her favorites.


Business card from the hotel we stayed at. The logo is nice. (Though again, "The Sage: A Concept Hotel" seemed to mean that, conceptually, this hotel is like a lower-end Motel 6.)

This week was better than last, but I still had a rough time sometimes. Going down to New Mexico was nice. Bittersweet, but nice to see family, and it was a pleasant break from work. The memorial itself was nice. I started the week sick, but recovered reasonably quickly. Trying to get caught up with all the things I feel behind on, trying to figure out a plan. The state of the world isn't great!

Goals for the week:

  • I did attend my grandparents' memorial
  • I called my dad... but his phone was broken
  • I packed for my trip
  • I did not call my dentist
  • I did not finish Camp Damascus, though I did read more of it
  • I watered my plants
  • I got crickets
  • I transferred things into my new notebook
  • I did not update my reading page
  • I did work on reviewing the book I did read this month
  • We visited my mom so that Alex could get the cat routine down
  • I did not finish the third part of the snowflake outline

Tracked habits:

  • Work - 3/7 - I took Sunday and Wednesday off for the memorial
  • Household Maintenance - 3/7
  • Physical Activity - 3/7
  • Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/7
  • Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
  • Meta Work - 4/7
  • Personal Writing - 4/7
  • Other Creative Things - 2/7
  • Reading - 5/7 - Read some of Installment Immortality with Taylor, read Camp Damascus, read some Duma Key with Alex, read a bit of my ebook side-read
  • Attention to Media - 6/7 - Sunday I listened to music; Monday and Wednesday we listened to music on the drive; Thursday I don't remember; Friday I caught up on Re: Dracula and we watched some storm chasing and listened to music; Saturday, music again.
  • Video Games - 1/7 - Taylor and I played a bit of Final Fantasy XIV, starting part four of Shadowbringers
  • Social Interaction - 7/7

Total words written: 0

School stuff

Jun. 24th, 2025 02:23 pm
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Welp, I just got my Listening assignment back. You know, the one that I kinda phoned in?

I got 100%.

This is important information for me on how hard I need to work on future assignments.

Up next is our informative speech. I'm contemplating topics (to be discussed in class tomorrow evening), and am leaning towards either Apopo or Esperanto. We'll see how my classmates feel about rats.


In Philosophy news, the remaining class periods are going to be dedicated to gearing up for the final exam, and then actually taking the final exam. The teacher has assured us that any classwork in the remaining days will be bonus points, and also that he's dropping the lowest score of the three exams in class, so if we're happy with our grades, we don't have to continue to show up. We're certainly welcome to do so! But not obligated.

I got 100% in both Philosophy exams, and have been participating like heck in class discussions and such. I feel very confident in my grade. As such, I'm planning to skip six thirty minute drives and stay home instead.

Tuesday again

Jun. 25th, 2025 02:40 am
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I DID manage to go get meds before lunch, so I'm pleased with that! :3

Other than that, fairly standard day. Kinda falling off the tidying wagon, whoops. >>;; Going to go meet A for lunch tomorrow, and then we're having dinner with Sibling, so may also not do any tomorrow, but should definitely do some on Thursday! >: >: >:

Good time being had by all

Jun. 24th, 2025 09:30 am
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My company is keeping me busy but we are having a wonderful time. Recap to come.

Conveyor Belt

Jun. 24th, 2025 06:40 am
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The whole Israel/Iran 12-Day War thing is such a blatant piece of political theater.

When the dust settles, we will all find out that Bibi & the Khomini were burning up those back-channel phone lines, maneuvering to get Trump that Nobel Peace Prize he so covets.

###

Meanwhile, yesterday was fairly productive, although it was really fuckin' hot and cat ownership disqualified me from a potential housing situation—to be honest, I know the housing situation owner through the Shawanagunk Dems, and he is kinda weird, so maybe the cats saved me.

Did the rest of the trip-related errands, had an unsatisfactory phone conversation with RTT, and shortly will be taking the car in for its oil change. I am on that conveyor belt! And it is just possible I will hit my Remuneration quota before I leave on the trip.

I have been bemoaning my own lack of agency: Why don't I have more control over my life?

But, of course, agency is a relative thing. However aggrieved I may feel about my own, I still probably have more of it than 85% of the people who live—or have ever lived—upon this planet.

Forward, little conveyor belt!

petty and global concerns

Jun. 24th, 2025 03:10 pm
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A few weeks ago I trimmed my hair slightly too short. My intention is to always be able to tuck it behind my ears, but although I could then when it was all stretched out (right before washing), it shortens a bunch after washing because the front bits are the curliest, and now I have to wear a barrette or a headband constantly to keep it back again.

This has been an exceptionally cool summer so far. I think the season has been drifting later though, and we can probably expect the warmest part to be in the end of July and August again, so maybe it will even out. But right now it's past Midsummer and I have only worn shorts outside twice, and one of the times it was too cold and I had to go in and change. Having the warmest winter ever and then following it with a cold summer... it's weird. It's more pleasant than record highs though, probably (which are still not hot like my childhood in Alabama, but unlike there, there's very little air conditioning here, and there's also a lack of cultural knowledge and preparation for heat: people don't dress appropriately or take advantage of shade, for example, and employers don't make allowances or arrangements to help people cool off). It's definitely better than long droughts like we had a few years ago, but it's still uncanny.

In my dream last night I was trying to remember the correct route through Turku's student village (lived there my first year in Finland and walked all around it with the dog) and stumbled into a bunch of political gatherings both for and against the establishment of a new community of nuns in Finland (lol) that were going to be in the student village (impossible because they're not students), and were causing controversy, among other reasons, because their habits were too sexy (?), only then I walked by them in a procession and they were just wearing normal shapeless floor-length black robes but with yellowed lace tabards over top that looked like someone's granny crocheted them as a table runner.

TBR dismay... again

Jun. 23rd, 2025 11:03 pm
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I've read 30 books this year, which is something I'm really happy about. (That's more than the last several years combined!) Yet somehow the TBR list just keeps getting longer.

I finished up my old writing notebook (the bugs-and-mushrooms one that I keep getting gifted new copies of, haha.) Starting a new notebook always means I copy over a few pages of things that I refer back to fairly often, and one of those things is my TBR list, because I like having a physical version of it that I can look at. It got a minor reshuffle from the version I put together at the beginning of the year, accounting for some new purchases, and moving a few titles up or down based on interest. (According to a complicated system of vibes, trying to space out the books I am most excited about, as well as the ones I expect I might struggle with, or to avoid a bunch of really long or short books in a row, going back and forth between physical and ebooks, etc.)

I was upset at the beginning of the year when I discovered that I had more than 90 books on my list, which is what prompted me to really start pushing to read more than the 25 I'd originally set as my goal for the year. (I also quickly realized I'd forgotten some books, and I knew that didn't account for instances where, say, I have book one of a series as a TBR but may end up liking it well enough to immediately add the rest once I read it, etc.)

And then of course I acquired more:

I bought a charity book bundle of queer-themed ebooks, so I'll start on those once I'm done with the horror ebooks. The physical books I got for my birthday, and the ones I bought for myself a couple months ago have been added in. Toward the later part of the list, I did start working in the Ursula K Le Guin books as well as some of the Terry Pratchett ones, though I haven't added in all of their works yet, so there are plenty not yet counted in the total. The TBR list also doesn't include all the other ebooks I've acquired. I keep picking up free indie romances and such from promotional events, and now have SO VERY MANY of them. I count them toward my total number of books read, but I pick them based on the whim of the moment, so they don't get TBR slots. It also also does not include some that I want to read but don't own yet. (They probably deserve to be formally on the list, but I have enough books on there that I do own in some fashion, it makes sense to focus on those first.)

That dismaying list of 90, minus the 30 I've read this year, has turned into... 153. :/

Not sure how, but it feels like I really need to pick the reading speed up a bit more!

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Unrelated, but I got a really sweet comment on one of my fics this morning, and it made me really happy.

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