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Just noticed my handy dandy 'update other journals' uploader seems to not be uploading over half my posts here. Sorry about that. Also noticed that it's messing with posts made under filters and putting them under different filters or posting them unfiltered, so NO ONE WILL BE ON ANY FILTERS HERE, and almost no one will be granted 'access', whatever that means.

My primary Journal is still over at LJ, feel free to stop by, and maybe I'll figure out the problems here at some point. ETA3: this may be changing, but it will not be a quick process.

ETA: And I've just noticed Dreamwidth isn't accepting my updater anymore as of the end of 2012. That's just great.

ETA2: I've used Dreamwidth's built in updater, which seems to have worked for now, though I seem to have duplicated entries and misdated entries everywhere, and if I mirror this way again it may all duplicate again, so mind your step. :-P

ETA4: I will be making this my primary journal due to a disagreement with Livejournal's new owners' TOS. This is going to be a very bumpy process, and I may have to delete all the content here and reupload from scratch. I also have no idea what I'm doing with the image library that hasn't uploaded here, and that all the links in posts are linking at LJ's Scrapbook. It's going to be a LONG process as well, especially with RL kicking me in the teeth from several directions.

I may be mostly hiatused while life continues to suck, but I'm not forgetting the annual 'I torture a seasonal song' Carolling post.

Since this started as LJ Carolling, and was sort of 'Journal carolling' but this year I'll be posting it on Twitter too so it's more "Online Carolling", I'm going back to the beginning this year with a rendition of "Let It Snow".


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Fanfic written in 2017...


...none. Nothing. Nichts. Niente. Nada. Bugger all. Last story I posted was Dec 12, 2016.

So. I actually hadn't noticed that. It was a bit of a shocking realization.

I got a lovely comment on AO3 today that along with lovely things said that they were sad I wasn't writing anymore. I bristled a bit at that, and went to look and nope, nothing. But on reflection, it's not hard to see.

I had to skip watsonswoes July Writing Prompts, I couldn't do Mininano in November and now... Nothing. Between work, health issues, and the drain of keeping up with the mayhem happening in my personal world as well as the greater world, I've written nothing at all, for the first year since I started writing fanfic. I haven't even been writing much and just not posted it, maybe a thousand words. And that's not good.


So, for 2018 I aim to write and post more than 2017. Which is obviously not a huge challenge to beat a posting total of zero. Yeesh. *facepalm*

What even is this year?

Anyway, tree's up, only about 10 days after I'd intended.


I'm now going to see if I can find the original (and only as far as I'm concerned) How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and eat the first Mandarin orange of the season.

Hope the rest of you have been keeping as well as you can. I may or may not sing at you this year, but either way, not tonight.

I've got 12 hours to pack up things and clean/wash/launder things so I can pack them and I'm at the "stare at thing I need to do and think of 15 other things I need to do first and end up not doing anything useful". In 12 hours I have to be loading all my crap on the truck. And sometime in there I should sleep some. I guess. AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

On the up side, the internet is supposed to be getting hooked up right after I move, or possibly during if the Tech shows up when he's said he might.

ETA: it's 4AM. I need to get some sleep.
( list of things I need to do by noon PDT )

It'll all get done because it has to. But it will require some loud music and inadvisable amounts of caffeine.

People are idiots. In other news, water is wet.

Got a call and a vague yet urgent message from the property manager at quarter after 8 AM today. Spent 90 minutes fending off a panic attack trying to get hold of him to find out what was going on, because his phone line was going to the answering service until 9 am, and then he was not in the office and I had to wait for a callback.

The landlord is putting the place on the market. I need to take time off work to let a realtor in to take pictures of the place, and then more time off work to let random people wander around in it whenever they feel like it. I've been through this crap twice before and the situation pretty much triples my regular anxiety levels. I really don't need that, especially considering tax season is in more than full swing and I'm already drowning trying to keep up with the crap at work.

In short, I'm probably going to move rather than put up with this bullshit again. Somehow.

Happy freaking birthday. :-P


In other news, I see some much happier birthday greetings in my inbox! Thank you guys, I'll be reading and responding to you later tonight probably. :-)

"10 Minutes at Nubble Light House" by Hank Green of YouTube is lovely and relaxing. It's just a sunset, a lighthouse, and gentle waves.