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I feel rather accomplished. I just replaced the light in my ancient wall oven. Works!

I still have the books I bought at the library sale, having finished them and wanting to give them away. Can't go back to the library, they've made it clear they've washed their hands of them. So I was looking around for Little Libraries around town. Looking on and off and then forgetting about it.

But I found one on the map that seemed to be just up the street. The next street over from where I drive to get to the stores I frequent. I thought I should just walk over there. And after a while of procrastination, I did, the other day. Well, it was a longer walk than I envisioned (isn't it always?). It was a nearly two hour walk back and forth, though I was kind of shuffling at the end. My feet were aghast at my temerity.

But I saw a new neighborhood. There's somebody selling sourdough bread or has a little cafe; that was unexpected. It's a two lane street and at one point there are houses on one side and fields on the other. And, weirdly, the individual mail boxes for the houses are on the field side. You have to cross the street to pick up your mail. Why would it be more convenient for the mail truck to go up that side then the other?

Also there aren't many sidewalks on this street. We likes to feel rural.

Challenge #9

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

What will attract me is a male/female platonic partnership, like Elementary or The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (the original one). No ust for me, thanks.

Also, ghost stories where the ghosts are just hanging around putting in time, not out to murder anybody. Like the UK Ghosts or the Australian show Spirited.

Challenge #8

Talk about your creative process.



I probably haven't written enough to have a process. The one thing that usually happens is that I have the first line and then the last line will come to me. So I only have to fill in the gap, don't I? Lol. The same thing would sometimes happen in a drabble.

If I'm writing I can only listen to classical music, nothing with words. I usually start at the beginning and add one thing after another. Though I will get inspired for paragraphs that I can fit in later. I have a working on version and a final one, the latter so I can keep track of how far I've gone.

Another adventure in home ownership. It's the coldest week so far this winter so naturally my electricity failed. Only in about half of the house. I still had hot water, kitchen stove and internet. The bedroom was dark and I had to move the frig to the other side of the room. It happened after I plugged a space heater in a socket, which was asking too much of it.

So I had to call somebody, a stranger had to come to my home and I had to talk about it on the telephone. I worked myself up to it after feeding the birds, retrieving the trash bin from the sidewalk, taking a shower. Usual delaying tactics. I was told somebody would be here Friday afternoon. Ok. I took off my 'meeting people clothes' and got into my robe, which is warmer. Five minutes later I see the company's car in my driveway. It turns out the owner just stopped by to check out the problem.

He was here about 4 minutes. Just did something at the electric panel and everything was on the way it should be. Now I had turned the main off and on, as I believe he did. But nothing changed. So now I look like an idiot or maybe just a confused old person.

But I'm back in the bedroom watching tv, so all's well. Electricity hates me.

Back from the 6 month eye dr visit. Yeah, glaucoma still there, come back in July. Dilated eyes,dilated the hell out of my eyes. Very cautious drive home. The visit seems so far away, and then it's here.

Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

I owe fandom for my creativity, such as it is. I wouldn't have written the stories I have without the inspiration of the characters on the screen. Most of my stuff are moments that could have happened offscreen when characters interacted.

And icons! I have absolutely no artistic ability so making icons was a joy to me. I made art, not just had appreciation of talent.

Snowflake Challenge #2

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want

I have two cats. In the last place I lived I fed the strays everyday. In the summer I had an open window and some of the cats came inside when they wanted. It was open house! I took these two to the vet, spayed/neutered, chipped. They were mine now.

The female surprised me. I thought she was a kitten and I could only tell her from the other gray small cat because of the rings on her tail. But the vet said she was about three. Now she's a little bigger and kinda chubby.

They get along and groom each other but are ready to start a John Wick type fight at any moment. They both really, really want to go outside and I have to go in and out by the back door because I can close the laundry room door before I open the back one.
Thwarted.

Fanwise, I get upset at Dr Who because they kill animals too often, like the dinosaurs. And that cat in the last Dr incarnation.

So it's Friday and seems like Monday, so I'll be confused for a few days. Tomorrow's Saturday, right? I'll be reassuring myself several times, I'm sure.

I was going to stream some movies on Christmas but I never got around to it. Insomnia, slept the morning away, made bread 'cause I was out. And…it was too late and I was tired.

I saw two wren-like birds taking baths in rain puddles today. Cute. I put seeds and sunflower seeds in the backyard. I notice the squirrels hog the sunflowers. Everybody's gotta eat.

The fire alarm started beeping on Christmas night. I'd already had my holiday bourbon and soda so climbing up to disengage it was…ha, ha, fun.