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elanya at 01:23pm on 26/07/2014 under academic writing, creative writing, family, knitting, life, personal organization, rambling, travel, writing
elanya at 01:23pm on 26/07/2014 under academic writing, creative writing, family, knitting, life, personal organization, rambling, travel, writingI will go back and fill in that last post, really I will. Hopefully sometime this weekend!
I am going home to visit my dad and his wife (who I like fine but it still seems off to refer to as my step mother as they only married after I was no longer living at home), and see my sister and my nephews. I leave next Friday and (but really I don't get in until 11 pm -_-), and then I get back the following Wednesday evening. Fun times ahead! I have only been to my dad's place once, a few years ago, when it was a recent acquisition. It was the middle of the winter then as well.Now a lot of the repairs and renovations are complete, and it will be summer, so I can take more advantage of the fact that they live right on the river. You can walk into the river from their lawn. They have several kayaks and (I think) a canoe as well. There may even be fishing involved. It's gonna be amazing.
But since I'm leaving on Friday it means I need to start getting stuff ready now, so I'm not trying to rush through things in the evenings! I'm doing laundry now with an eye towards being able to at least set stuff aside, if not actively start packing. It is also making grocery shopping a bit weird - mind it has already been weird this month for other reasons. But weirder, let's say. I need to pick up a few things on Monday that will hopefully just get me through until Friday morning.
I also have one big thing on my plate, which is a book review for SHA! I keep forgetting hoe long it needs to be - I should go check gain. Either 500 or 1000 words (I'm preeetty sure 500). I have it started, and I'm hoping to get it mostly knocked out today, and then have some time to get it polished up. Plus there has been some movement on the pirate book I submitted an article for ages ago - it will be nice to finally get some material from my first (Sheffield) MA published!
Other than that, I have some drabbles to finish up, and god frickin damnit I need to get the stitches picked up to do the neck edging on firelight. I just can't get it even and it makes me want to burn the whole thing, argh. I don't know why I have such trouble with this - it was the same on ease :( I'm afraid it is going to look awful because I've had to undo it so many times. It shouldn't be fucking rocket science. And yet -_- I should just stay away from patterns where I need to pick things up I guess :p
I am going home to visit my dad and his wife (who I like fine but it still seems off to refer to as my step mother as they only married after I was no longer living at home), and see my sister and my nephews. I leave next Friday and (but really I don't get in until 11 pm -_-), and then I get back the following Wednesday evening. Fun times ahead! I have only been to my dad's place once, a few years ago, when it was a recent acquisition. It was the middle of the winter then as well.Now a lot of the repairs and renovations are complete, and it will be summer, so I can take more advantage of the fact that they live right on the river. You can walk into the river from their lawn. They have several kayaks and (I think) a canoe as well. There may even be fishing involved. It's gonna be amazing.
But since I'm leaving on Friday it means I need to start getting stuff ready now, so I'm not trying to rush through things in the evenings! I'm doing laundry now with an eye towards being able to at least set stuff aside, if not actively start packing. It is also making grocery shopping a bit weird - mind it has already been weird this month for other reasons. But weirder, let's say. I need to pick up a few things on Monday that will hopefully just get me through until Friday morning.
I also have one big thing on my plate, which is a book review for SHA! I keep forgetting hoe long it needs to be - I should go check gain. Either 500 or 1000 words (I'm preeetty sure 500). I have it started, and I'm hoping to get it mostly knocked out today, and then have some time to get it polished up. Plus there has been some movement on the pirate book I submitted an article for ages ago - it will be nice to finally get some material from my first (Sheffield) MA published!
Other than that, I have some drabbles to finish up, and god frickin damnit I need to get the stitches picked up to do the neck edging on firelight. I just can't get it even and it makes me want to burn the whole thing, argh. I don't know why I have such trouble with this - it was the same on ease :( I'm afraid it is going to look awful because I've had to undo it so many times. It shouldn't be fucking rocket science. And yet -_- I should just stay away from patterns where I need to pick things up I guess :p
I was in a good mood until I thought about my knitting, damnit.
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