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Sunshine Challenge #1

There are at least a dozen bee-esque insects bobbing against the perspex roof of the verandah outside my craft room door. I'm not sure if they are confoozled honey bees or... not, but I have never seen such a collection of them in such a place before.

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Sunshine Challenge Time!

Challenge #1

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.

Goals for July

1 Complete UCAS application
2 Communicate with potential new Mosaic members
3 Work on Rainbows song
4 re-think the progress of Dragon in the Woods
5 finish the Gardens of Giverny scarf
6 block the big shawl
7 try to actually post to DW instead of composing things in my head and forgetting them

Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I have been going to a drawing class for the past three weeks—to my chagrin I won't be going today, because last night at about nine pm I was smitten with a vicious sore throat and a miserable nose. Having in consequence had far too little sleep, and being now obnoxious to be around, I won't inflict my woes on anyone else. (It's not Covid, at least not according to the test I took. But yuck.)

Anyway. I'm very pleased with this:

Excuse the dots at the bottom—I 'drew' a polar bear on the other side of the paper!

Rebuilding journal search again

We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

Current Mood: awake

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Fleeting

Seriously, how is it almost July?

Mom fell and broke her ankle April 22. This is my first full weekend in my apartment since. It feels so soon, and also, I can't remember my last weekend here.

She's doing brilliantly, has been discharged from pt and just needs to be careful and not overdo it for at least the next three months. Which is something she will absolutely try and do, or feel she needs to do.

I won't lie, it was rough. I spent basically 4 weeks there, except for two overnights, and then moved to 3 day weekends up there. It was exhausting and sometimes stressful, and I felt awful abandoning work so much. But I loved the extra time with my sweet puppy, and was glad to help mom, and was paid by the state for some of my hours caring for my brother. So I'm glad I was able to do it--and also glad that Dad is pushing off his other knee surgery until next year, ha.

My first night here, back in May, was stressful. I went straight to work, got home after 9pm, and left the next morning. It made me feel for a week that my space wasn't my space, and I didn't belong here. And it took me a long time to get used to the idea of what I usually do in my own space--reading, creating, writing, watching tv--and be able to do it. I'm back into the groove now, mostly.

I did have a nice birthday, and did get to see Thunderbolts with Unicorn, and did end up having to drive up that night instead of the next because they needed me. That was stressful, the quick change of plan, so I was more intentional about choosing to come home on a Friday instead of Saturday the next time it was a possibility. And it did happen, and I was ready for it.

Thunderbolts was AMAZING, a top five Marvel movie for me. I can't wait to watch it again on D+.

I bought myself a laptop, mostly for D&D that starts in August but also a little for the kidlit convention this fall, and because it would be nice to have on weekends/long weeks home. She's super cute and still getting decorated with the perfect stickers.

I finished both of the stories I wanted to in May, and have been steadily creating icons and graphics for fandom_empire. Some weeks are inspiring and some weeks I make crap. But I'm always making!

Yesterday, I read a big stack of Marvel comics and a new kids book, watched the first three episodes of Ironheart, Frozen the Broadway Musical, and the first season of Murder in a Small Town, and only the kids book disappointed. Today I've done some board and convention things, showered, did a face and body mask, and BLOGGED YAY.

I'm off Thursday and Friday for the holiday and because I work Saturday, and I am tempted to go home Wednesday afternoon until Thursday evening, and still get Friday and Sunday off. I know it will take a load off mom, and I do miss my puppy. Otherwise I won't see them until July 17, which is SUCH a long time after two months of constant visits.

July is Disability Pride Month and I will be super super busy at work with programs and the usual summer reading madness so maybe another set of two free days will help me relax. Especially since it's pretty likely they'd convince me to stay until Saturday morning and leave at 7:30am to get to work. (We don't drive on drinking holidays because my grandparents did and my step-grandmother was killed.) But puppy. So hmmmm.

The cleaning pro is coming Tuesday and it's been March since she was here. My goal was to get the Christmas tree down but honestly, I don't think I want to. I'm embarrassed, but I really like the light. So, well, I probably won't do that today. But I can still make some things, watch some things, and read some things.

Gratitute!
1. I am grateful I get to do impactful programs and displays to celebrate disabled people!
2. I am grateful for icon resource communities--I just downloaded dozens of new layers for the first time in at least two decades so my icons can get fresher.
3. I am grateful for my friends at work who supported me through the last two months.
4. I am grateful that my D&D adventure has an official start date!
5. I am grateful for my window a/c unit. We don't usually get into the 90s until late July, but we've had a week or two of them.

and we always have a story

I was given A Presumption of Death for my birthday. It's the Jill Paton Walsh Lord Peter Wimsey book set in the early years of WWII. It's all right. Mostly it catches the right sort of tone, but there are moments when the vocabulary doesn't seem quite right—would DL Sayers have called a dress 'sexy-looking'? Could do better, I reckon. And the Wimseys seem to be unusually perspicacious about the likely course of the War. I realise that it must be hard to restrict a fictional character's knowledge of what is to come when you are writing in the 21st century, not while the war is actually in progress, but for me, too many hints at the future were irritating.
However. Not bad, for fanfic.

devil in disguise

Has anybody been watching the newest season of Daredevil (Born Again)?

( cut for spoilers )