Where Insanity Lingers

Hey! Third week in a row! Look at me go!

Not too much to report. My house started the week a complete and total disaster area. I've downgraded it to just a total disaster area. Kitchen renovations and my husband's need to jumpstart before I can organize are the culprits. The good news, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Plaster repairs are done so we are slowly getting to the painting. Which is a pain because I can only do one wall at time because of having to move appliances around. But if things go well most of it should be done before my parents arrive on Friday. Here's hoping.

New job still going well. I've decided I definitely do not like putting out new magazines and cleaning that area up. I am way too OCD to work in that section, lol. But I'm enjoying my time there and some of the titles of books that I have come across just make me giggle.

On the writing front. Sorry if any of you got bombarded with TtH and AO3 notifications. I'm trying to get everything uploaded from where some of these fics have only been hanging out on my LJ. But I did get the next part of the Buffy/Bones series up, so yay! I'm hoping to start working on my heroine big bang fic this week, which is a Buffy/Steve fic crossing BtVS/Marvel MCU.

Cheers to all!

So I realize I have been really rather absent as of late. Real life has been a struggle and it's hard to find the energy to write, post, respond, etc with any sort of regularity when all you want to do is sleep and worry about, well, about everything.

( What happened? )

*looks at clock* 11:30pm. Yup, the earliest I've ever been done on Christmas Eve. I even have Miss Thing's birthday presents wrapped and ready for her party on the 26th. (For those who may not know/remember her birthday is the day after Christmas)

So yeah, been a while since I've posted, but I swear, I've got the bestest of the best reason ever.

( And Pol's reason.... )

My June word count: 3091
My June fandoms: BtVS, Avengers, and Star Trek AOS

June was a rough month. I dropped out of Tamingthemuse for two weeks because RL sucking beyond all reason and needed to spend some time with my family and recouping. But July is a new month filled with the annual sister camping trip, wedding anniversary, and the first time I've had the 4th off in about ten years. :) I'm determined this month will be better.


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My YTD word count: 26,709

And so I've been sick for the past week or so and Miss Thing has been horribly concerned that Mommy doesn't feel well. On Friday it was just me and the munchkin that day while my husband was at work so I just kind of let her go and do her thing while I rested in the chair in the living room. At one point she comes in with one of her teacups to her kitchen set.

"Here mommy, I made you tea."

"Thank you."

"It has a spoon in it."

"Yes, I see that, thank you."

"Use the spoon to drink mommy, it's hot."

lol, someone has watched mommy drinking her hot tea. And seriously, my kid is awesome. All of three years old and she was 'taking care' of her mommy when she wasn't feeling well.

Miss Thing has been spending this evening 'trapping a ghost' in our dining room. One would think a child of 2 and a half to run screaming from whatever 'ghost' she has discovered. Mine, decides to trap it. *shakes head*

Yes, one day, I will get my shit together and be on top of things. Of course, that will be the day the world collapses.

Continuing with the He-Man theme from the last post...

So we have introduced her to She-Ra as well, and she likes it, but is definitely more interested in He-Man. And she gets a real kick every time he transforms from Prince Adam into He-Man. So much so, that today while I was getting ready for work, she was playing in the bathroom and managed to get my swiffer duster off the shelf. I hear her mumbling something, so I stop and listen a little harder and she starts talking louder. Next thing I know, she comes around the corner, holding the swiffer duster high and saying. "I have power!" Then continues doing this repeatedly. Ocassionally throwing in, "By Greyskull. I have power!" *shakes head*

Also, was fixing pepperoni rolls yesterday and she was 'helping'. She had her own little bit of dough to play with and a few slices of pepperoni. She was kneading/stretching the dough, imitating me. Then suddenly she's pushing the dough on the table trying to stretch it out saying, "Come on He-Man!" *facepalm* I laughed so hard. Then of course, all night any time she was doing something 'tough' (like trying to open a cabinet door that had child safety locks) she would keep saying it.

I think I need to find her a new show to watch...

Yeah, I know, I missed yesterday. But Miss Thing has passed yet another cold onto me and I was barely functioning yesterday. Ugh. But onwards....

So this is somewhat of a continuation from the Day 5 story. She's got her 'obsessions' with what she wants to watch on tv, and she definitely has favorites out of her video collection for her 'obsession'. For examply, she absolutely adores Mickey's Christmas Carol, even going so far as to cheer when the video starts.

In effort to steer her away from watching the same things over and over and over again, I began to make suggestions that always started with "How about..." I also did this when she would continually ask for chocolate milk. However, my intelligent little girl began countering my suggestions.

A typical conversation for a while went like this:

Miss Thing: Mickey!
Me: How about Phineas and Ferb?
Miss Things: How 'bout Mickey!
Me: No, we just watched Mickey. How about Phineas and Ferb?
Miss Thing: How 'bout Mickey!

Now just picture this conversation going on with just about everything from what she was eating to what clothes to wear. (and yes, she's started being picky about clothes already)

We took Miss Thing to a nearby zoo when she was 7 months, her favorite part - the aquarium and the penguins. Took her again at 20 months, her favorite part - the aquarium and the penguins. The lady who cuts my hair has a huge fish tank in her salon and Miss Hailey is fascinated the whole time we're there.

So the weather here is doing its weird its warm for a week and then freezing for a week thing it always does instead of an actual spring. Hubby decided to buy some feeder goldfish to put in the two watering troughs for his parents horses, and Miss Thing took a great delight in watching these fish and setting them free.

This morning, as Miss Thing and I were doing our morning ritual of Mickey Mouse watching, hubby starts bringing in one of our old fishtanks. (At one point in time we had three going - 2 ten gallon tanks and one 55 gallon. We still have them but stopped using them years before we moved into this house) Now granted, it was one of the ten gallon ones, but I was like wth? He grinned sheepishly at me and said he figured we'd buy some feeder goldfish for Miss Thing and if any of them died, we'd be out 28 cents.

So we went to Walmart and bought six fish along with some food. All the way home, you hear "Fishies! I got fishies!" Now, she won't let you turn the light off on the tank. "Daddy! Turn light! Fishies!" And was tickled to death when hubby let her feed them before bedtime.

Already, we are down to five fish. One didn't make it through the evening, not that she noticed. I have a bad feeling I'm going to be replacing feeder fish every few weeks. Of course, knowing my luck, one will never die.

Another favorite game of Miss Thing is when I'm sitting in the chair or on the couch and she'll stand just outside of reach. She'll hold her hands out like she wants to be picked up and adopts this upset look on her face and says "Reach you! Reach you!" You are expected to reach your hands out as well and respond "I can't reach you! Oh no!" Then she grins and launches herself at you and expects to be covered in kisses and hugged to death. Then she repeats the whole process over again. She could do this forever.