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laurajvThe Sunblade of the Ceredada (100 words) by Laura JV
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Csethiro Ceredin/Maia Drazhar
Characters: Csethiro Ceredin, Maia Drazhar
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Csethiro Ceredin/Maia Drazhar
Characters: Csethiro Ceredin, Maia Drazhar
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:
A conversation.
2025 52 Card Project: Week 46: Melancholy
Nov. 21st, 2025 11:54 ampegkerrYou know, I do my best to just live my life and be a brave little toaster, but this week, it's just felt like...a lot.
I need to get a new car. Mine is twenty-five years old and leaking coolant. And I don't know where or how to start. Will I be able to afford anything decent?
Pain continues. The physical therapist has ordered me to use a cane. I have to use it in my (non-dominant) left hand, the one with arthritis, and just manipulating it with that hand is difficult enough that I have to start using my arthritis brace on that hand again.
I've also been told to wear an IS brace, a velcro strap that goes around my hips. Weirdly enough, it gives me nausea. Constantly.
Medical appointments. So. Many. Medical. Appointments.
All of this makes it difficult to exercise. And I NEED to exercise. I got the results of my bone scan this week, and my osteopenia is continuing to get worse. I need to get into the gym and lift weights and I'm not doing so, and so I'm beating myself up about it.
The news. Need I say more?
Christmas is looming, and the thought of preparing for the holidays is daunting.
I'm about to retire, and I am struggling with uncertainty about what it is going to look like. (Will I have enough money is giving me constant low-grade anxiety)
Rob's 70th birthday was this past week.
Both of the girls have been sick and stressed. Delia's internship is about to end, and she doesn't know where she will find another job.
On Wednesday, I had to sit through a meeting that droned on for an hour and a half. I kept standing up and sitting down again. I was so obviously uncomfortable that my coworkers sent me home, and I spent the rest of the day with the covers literally pulled over my head.
I'm sorry. I'm complaining, and I truly don't like that. I don't feel depressed, exactly? But I don't feel at my best, shall we say.
Image description: Background: a light-filled doorway in a room with gray peeling paint. Superimposed over it: a semi-transparent image of a woman's face with eyes closed, strands of hair blowing over her eyes. Lower center: a statue with green patina of a woman, holding her hand to her forehead. Upper left corner: a dried leaf clings to a twig.
Melancholy
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I need to get a new car. Mine is twenty-five years old and leaking coolant. And I don't know where or how to start. Will I be able to afford anything decent?
Pain continues. The physical therapist has ordered me to use a cane. I have to use it in my (non-dominant) left hand, the one with arthritis, and just manipulating it with that hand is difficult enough that I have to start using my arthritis brace on that hand again.
I've also been told to wear an IS brace, a velcro strap that goes around my hips. Weirdly enough, it gives me nausea. Constantly.
Medical appointments. So. Many. Medical. Appointments.
All of this makes it difficult to exercise. And I NEED to exercise. I got the results of my bone scan this week, and my osteopenia is continuing to get worse. I need to get into the gym and lift weights and I'm not doing so, and so I'm beating myself up about it.
The news. Need I say more?
Christmas is looming, and the thought of preparing for the holidays is daunting.
I'm about to retire, and I am struggling with uncertainty about what it is going to look like. (Will I have enough money is giving me constant low-grade anxiety)
Rob's 70th birthday was this past week.
Both of the girls have been sick and stressed. Delia's internship is about to end, and she doesn't know where she will find another job.
On Wednesday, I had to sit through a meeting that droned on for an hour and a half. I kept standing up and sitting down again. I was so obviously uncomfortable that my coworkers sent me home, and I spent the rest of the day with the covers literally pulled over my head.
I'm sorry. I'm complaining, and I truly don't like that. I don't feel depressed, exactly? But I don't feel at my best, shall we say.
Image description: Background: a light-filled doorway in a room with gray peeling paint. Superimposed over it: a semi-transparent image of a woman's face with eyes closed, strands of hair blowing over her eyes. Lower center: a statue with green patina of a woman, holding her hand to her forehead. Upper left corner: a dried leaf clings to a twig.
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Nov. 18th, 2025 04:44 pmthe_shoshanna1) I got water in one ear in my shower yesterday that has still not cleared. So I feel a lot of pressure in my head and it's given me a headache all day. (I have been trying all the recommended ways to clear it; no luck.)
2) Our ground-floor bathroom is being painted -- which, yay for being aaaaaaalmost done with the renovations, my god I cannot wait. But one of the painters has been coughing a lot, which may be nothing (I mean, I have a persistent cough myself, plus I just saw out of my office window him going out for a smoke, which sure could explain it), but nonetheless Geoff and I have been staying upstairs in our offices, which means I haven't done a bunch of things I might have done downstairs.
Ah, I see from my window that the painters are leaving, so we'll let the air filter downstairs run a while longer and then I can go start on food prep and other downstairs things. Also I can go look at which the bathroom looks like! We had to change our choice of flooring at the last minute and I spent five seconds going, yeah, I think the paint we chose to go with the old floor choice will go with the new one, sure, why not! because I could not face starting the color choice process over from scratch, and anyway it's not like we use that bathroom a lot, and if we hate it we can repaint it. Later. Much later.
And in the meantime I will take some ibuprofen and pull at my earlobe some more.
2) Our ground-floor bathroom is being painted -- which, yay for being aaaaaaalmost done with the renovations, my god I cannot wait. But one of the painters has been coughing a lot, which may be nothing (I mean, I have a persistent cough myself, plus I just saw out of my office window him going out for a smoke, which sure could explain it), but nonetheless Geoff and I have been staying upstairs in our offices, which means I haven't done a bunch of things I might have done downstairs.
Ah, I see from my window that the painters are leaving, so we'll let the air filter downstairs run a while longer and then I can go start on food prep and other downstairs things. Also I can go look at which the bathroom looks like! We had to change our choice of flooring at the last minute and I spent five seconds going, yeah, I think the paint we chose to go with the old floor choice will go with the new one, sure, why not! because I could not face starting the color choice process over from scratch, and anyway it's not like we use that bathroom a lot, and if we hate it we can repaint it. Later. Much later.
And in the meantime I will take some ibuprofen and pull at my earlobe some more.
Recipe: Spiced Nut Bread
Nov. 16th, 2025 02:06 pmrhiSo, it's too warm here for how dark it gets so early, and the leaves are still on the trees so it clearly cannot be deer season yet much less time to worry about holiday presents. But, weirdly, my brain is in fall baking mode. :sighs: Brains, man.
Have an old recipe I adapted years ago, originally from The Spice Cookbook by Avanelle Day and Lillie Stuckey, which I highly recommend and can be found in ebook if nothing else. Also, oh my gods but the buttermilk powder from Bob's Red Mill is the most cost effective thing ever. One bag cost me about... 2 pints of liquid buttermilk? It has made a great deal more than that so far and is nowhere near empty.
Spiced Nut Bread
Have an old recipe I adapted years ago, originally from The Spice Cookbook by Avanelle Day and Lillie Stuckey, which I highly recommend and can be found in ebook if nothing else. Also, oh my gods but the buttermilk powder from Bob's Red Mill is the most cost effective thing ever. One bag cost me about... 2 pints of liquid buttermilk? It has made a great deal more than that so far and is nowhere near empty.
Spiced Nut Bread
( Recipe below )
Hope y'all enjoy!
Fic posting: More Deadfall!
Nov. 16th, 2025 01:33 pmrhi Chapter ten is up! I will finish this damn novel yet!
Chapter ten is here; the entire story (novella at this point) is here if you need to reread from the start.
Now I'm gonna post a recipe I promised and then go back to work on it and hope to finish the damn thing in this next year. (Life, pls to quit throwing things like a new HVAC at me.)
due South: Ghost Song by exeterlinden
Nov. 16th, 2025 11:05 pmmific posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
fancakeFandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Diefenbaker, Victoria
Rating: author's rating is ?NC-17 for angst and violent imagery. I'd rate it Mature.
Length: 9998
Content Notes: see rating note above. No AO3 warnings apply.
Creator Links: exeterlinden on AO3, exeterlinden on DW
Themes: Mystery and Suspense, Mythical Creatures: werewolves, Angst with a happy ending, Friends to lovers, AU: fork in the road
Summary: It appears on the fire escape one late evening in early winter, big and dark and silent.
Reccer's Notes: This gripping and spooky story starts with a different version of Fraser's chase and snowy huddling with Victoria, then segues into current (AU) canon with Ray Kowalski baffled by the big, black, mysterious, wolflike dog that intermittently appears on his fire escape, trying to get in, sometimes with Dief trying to chivvy it away. Also, Fraser's been distancing himself, and when he finds out about the dog's visits he's most unhappy. Things get weirder, and Fraser gets weirder, and then Victoria returns to push them all into crisis. The ending took me by surprise, and I liked it a lot! An excellent read.
Fanwork Links: Ghost Song on AO3 and Ghost Song on Dreamwidth
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Diefenbaker, Victoria
Rating: author's rating is ?NC-17 for angst and violent imagery. I'd rate it Mature.
Length: 9998
Content Notes: see rating note above. No AO3 warnings apply.
Creator Links: exeterlinden on AO3, exeterlinden on DW
Themes: Mystery and Suspense, Mythical Creatures: werewolves, Angst with a happy ending, Friends to lovers, AU: fork in the road
Summary: It appears on the fire escape one late evening in early winter, big and dark and silent.
Reccer's Notes: This gripping and spooky story starts with a different version of Fraser's chase and snowy huddling with Victoria, then segues into current (AU) canon with Ray Kowalski baffled by the big, black, mysterious, wolflike dog that intermittently appears on his fire escape, trying to get in, sometimes with Dief trying to chivvy it away. Also, Fraser's been distancing himself, and when he finds out about the dog's visits he's most unhappy. Things get weirder, and Fraser gets weirder, and then Victoria returns to push them all into crisis. The ending took me by surprise, and I liked it a lot! An excellent read.
Fanwork Links: Ghost Song on AO3 and Ghost Song on Dreamwidth
2025 52 Card Project: Week 45: Pain
Nov. 15th, 2025 12:33 pmpegkerrAbout three or four months ago, I started feeling a vague pain deep in my right hip. Not a muscle problem, not an arthritis bone-on-bone feeling. It just...hurt.
I kept trying to exercise, but it kept getting more difficult. I vaguely thought, "I should see someone about this." I had my usual yearly appointment set with my doctor for several months away, so I waited.
I probably waited too long.
I have been walking around Lake Nokomis regularly but by the time the appointment came up, I had been reduced from walking all the way around to managing only about one-third of the way around, limping.
Then I realized I was starting to feel pain in my knee. And my lower back.
And then I realized it hurt just lying in bed.
My doctor sent me to an orthopedic specialist and I met with her this past week. The diagnosis: Gluteal tendinopathy, along with some mild osteoarthritis in the right hip and tranchaneric bursitis in both hips. What a mouthful.
Action plan: start physical therapy, and if that doesn’t help, will consider cortisone shots.
image description: a view of a pelvis portion of a skeleton with a muscular overstructure on one side. Lower left: close-up of one side of the hip, showing the IT band. Right: picture of a woman sitting on the ground, with legs pulled up close and forearms covering her face. Lower center: a cane.
Pain
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I kept trying to exercise, but it kept getting more difficult. I vaguely thought, "I should see someone about this." I had my usual yearly appointment set with my doctor for several months away, so I waited.
I probably waited too long.
I have been walking around Lake Nokomis regularly but by the time the appointment came up, I had been reduced from walking all the way around to managing only about one-third of the way around, limping.
Then I realized I was starting to feel pain in my knee. And my lower back.
And then I realized it hurt just lying in bed.
My doctor sent me to an orthopedic specialist and I met with her this past week. The diagnosis: Gluteal tendinopathy, along with some mild osteoarthritis in the right hip and tranchaneric bursitis in both hips. What a mouthful.
Action plan: start physical therapy, and if that doesn’t help, will consider cortisone shots.
image description: a view of a pelvis portion of a skeleton with a muscular overstructure on one side. Lower left: close-up of one side of the hip, showing the IT band. Right: picture of a woman sitting on the ground, with legs pulled up close and forearms covering her face. Lower center: a cane.
Click on the links to see the 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 52 Card Project galleries.
