boring old days, drifting away

 I really didn't feel well yesterday. Today is better, but no real post either. 

 Well, day 2 of 30. 

Today was my dog Mae's birthday! The noodle-face is two years old today. I celebrated it by not putting her in doggie-jail (aka, her crate, which she has due to torn up carpet by the door when I've been gone). And also not doing any errands. *\o/* That said, the big one was returning a hideously expensive set of scissors (org. $50+ but $35 with coupon, and that don't even work that well), and buying more fabric. I think I can live. Mae got a (dog) cupcake too. It was adorbs. 

I also did dishes. And baked! I made loose crostata with raspberry filling. It was very yummy, and only one piece is left.

A very significant portion of the day was spent listening to Vienna Teng's new CD. Songs are growing on me, as they do. I'm just waiting for a connection to be made in my writing back-brain. Vienna has always provided a good selection for my writing music. 

I've got to say, I'm really enjoying this fall weather. I'm looking forward to drinking more hot tea now. 

Also, if anyone (mostly looking at fateofshadow here, but anyone else too) wants to toss me a writing prompt, go for it. I'm planning to do a post 10 fics in 10 days thing, and I need to start building up for that.

I bought a new laptop. 

It was my birthday present to myself. It is also the reason I'm going to be budgeting tightly for the next few months (well, and a trip later this year). 

I'm hoping it will help my writing habits and general internet interaction frequency. Now, I said the same thing about the tablet I bought last October, and we all saw how that worked.  (To be fair, it did help with my RL twitter, but 160 characters isn't the same.) The tablet was more of a media consumption device, and less a creative one. It was impossible to write anything from start to posting on it. 

The laptop I bought myself is almost a more recent and souped up version of my old one. By more recent I mean 6+ years ahead and  3 or 4 OS too. There's a deal of new things to get used to and figure out. 

But first thing is first. I need my writing files and music. 

And sleep. 

Hmmmmm. 

So...

I ran out and bought a tablet yesterday. I'm now the happy owner of a Toshiba Thrive. We'll see how I feel about in a couple months, but I think it was a very good choice. I also bought a keyboard to go with it, so that I can also use it to write easily. I'm planing to put on Ubuntu later today. Android is fun, but I want a proper OS with easy to access documents. 

Title: The Importance of Truth
Author: stellawind
Artist: v_son_sayian
Genre: Drama
Pairing: very minor Sam/Gabriel
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Manipulation, Character death
Tier/Word Count: Second Tier / ~11,200
Summary: Mystery Spot AU. One Tuesday, Gabriel slips up, and Dean is sent to Hell months ahead of schedule. Now, this early Apocalypse wouldn't be a problem for Gabriel, but Sam's stubbornness has made things...complicated.
Link to art: Here!
Also on AO3!

( The first and most important thing: it was not his fault. )

At start:

2800/10,000 words

ETA

2900/10,000 and I'm kinda distracted. I really should be studying, but it's only the first day of class, and I can't get the book til Thursday. *sigh* I think it's the cold meds talking.

HAVE DONE NOTHING. FLAIL.

Next week I'm going on vacation, and I have done nothing to pack. FLAIL.

...Okay, mostly nothing. I'm like 1/2 packed. I just need to go out and buy stuff, like my vacation books (the latest Dresden Files book was supposed to be one, but then I finished it the day after it came out. Er, some of the wasted time might have also come about me hunting down all the meta posts I could finds about Harry Dresden and his many Issues.).

I really should remember that I have an LJ some days.

It's been a kind fun week, so maybe it deserves a place somewhere other than my slipping memories.

Last weekend was an anime con, which is always fun, and I spent Monday night and Tuesday night sleeping in, so there's not much I can say about that. My week seemed to start on Wednesday.

After work, I went directly to one of the many farmers markets around the city. I shopped around for a short bit, then bought some strawberries, zuchinni, garlic scapes, lemon balm, chives, and radishes. It was a decent hual and I soup for dinner for the first time in months, and it was awesome. Edamame, carrot, radish, chives, ginger, and soy sauce in chicken broth, but it made me remember that one summer trombonesonmars  and I shared an apartment. And that evening I broke out my typewriter and tea~!

Thursday was more cooking and writing and tea, followed by Supernatural (er, yes, the thing I might be writing right now could be SPN fic).

Then Friday after work, I went to another farmers market and spent way more than one should be able to at a farmers market. To be fair, there was far more than produce there and I bought a few snacks, bread, jewelry, a skirt, herb plants, and a CSA share. Then, more tea, writing, and Supernatural.

On Saturday, I hauled myself out of bed around 9:30, and made it down to (you've probably guessed by now) another farmers market. This one was the big one and more of combination with a flea market too. I bought two types of tea, more plants, and a pound of sugar snap peas. It was off to fabric store after that and me failing to find something that match my furniture, no big surprise. Then, a little bit of apartment gardening, which consists of everything I bought just getting repotted in a bigger pot. I made bibimbap, around three and then talked with drkotobuki  and  trombonesonmars. I puttered around for a little longer, watched Supernatural (I'm marathoning season 4, aka Apocalypse Now, aka Dean has issues, aka  sqeee Cas!) tried to read a paranomal romance – which ended up agaisnt the wall, and then read fic for while before deciding to make my tea and write some more. Around 11 pm, I noticed I had no milk, and ran out the grocery to correct this so I could have my chocolate milk and ameretto.

Today? I've gone two nurseries, bought two plants, payed bills, and watched three episodes of Supernatural and started in on the pile of laundry which had been threatening to engulf my bathroom. It's been kinda disgustingly productive, but really nice.

...So I realized why I hadn't gotten an reviews on my fic on FF.net in almost four months.

My alerts had been disabled. *head desk* Also? Explains why I thought no one else was writing.