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Feb. 7th, 2019 10:52 pm Small amounts of progress on the things I should be doing; which is a relief - it feels like something has unwedged a little inside me. Now I need to make the momentum last.
No more bugs spotted, yay! I still carry a big stick (it's a rain stick, a lovely-sounding thing) when getting up at night just in case, but hopefully the exterminator got them all. And I'm so tired of being irrationally scared that if I do see one hopefully I will just trap it under an upside-down container and go back to bed.
New reads: more Temeraire (still fun, though it's starting to strain belief that the protagonist has survived so much without damaging his health in such a low-tech era), plus Uprooted by the same author and the first of Bujold's Penric stories. I started a 2019 reading list just for the pleasure of seeing it grow. And I'm rereading the Fruits Basket manga for the nth time. It's a story I come back to again and again to marvel at how deftly the author weaves from a fluffy cute-talking-animal exterior inward to pain and darkness, not gratuitously but to say yes, I see you. This is what it's like to grow up in a broken and abusive family. The little ways you try to help yourselves and each other, the roles you play, the coping strategies that look like overdramatic acting out to people on the outside. The terrible secrets you share. And what a miracle it seems like when someone "outside" accepts and likes you as you are, and you can start to change. It's like 23 volumes of exquisitely drawn stealth therapy. :)
(That said, I suspect some people would be put off by a couple of characters who could be gay or trans, but nonetheless get straight romances and default pronouns. And...well, Tumblr discourse can object to anything including things I'd never have thought of, so there's not much point making a list.)
...Wow, the third season finale of RWBY is really doomed. Like "did Gen Urobochi work on this?" level of doom. I guess this is one of those shows where no character is protected by Plot Armor. (Except falling damage, you're apparently given blanket immunity to that when you enroll in hero school.)
No more bugs spotted, yay! I still carry a big stick (it's a rain stick, a lovely-sounding thing) when getting up at night just in case, but hopefully the exterminator got them all. And I'm so tired of being irrationally scared that if I do see one hopefully I will just trap it under an upside-down container and go back to bed.
New reads: more Temeraire (still fun, though it's starting to strain belief that the protagonist has survived so much without damaging his health in such a low-tech era), plus Uprooted by the same author and the first of Bujold's Penric stories. I started a 2019 reading list just for the pleasure of seeing it grow. And I'm rereading the Fruits Basket manga for the nth time. It's a story I come back to again and again to marvel at how deftly the author weaves from a fluffy cute-talking-animal exterior inward to pain and darkness, not gratuitously but to say yes, I see you. This is what it's like to grow up in a broken and abusive family. The little ways you try to help yourselves and each other, the roles you play, the coping strategies that look like overdramatic acting out to people on the outside. The terrible secrets you share. And what a miracle it seems like when someone "outside" accepts and likes you as you are, and you can start to change. It's like 23 volumes of exquisitely drawn stealth therapy. :)
(That said, I suspect some people would be put off by a couple of characters who could be gay or trans, but nonetheless get straight romances and default pronouns. And...well, Tumblr discourse can object to anything including things I'd never have thought of, so there's not much point making a list.)
- Orange maple chicken and rice: Tasty. Might actually be better with bottled juice instead of fresh-squeezed.
- Homemade pasta sauce with ground turkey, milk, diced tomatoes and wine: OK but not really better than a jar of sauce.
- Salmon baked with lemon slices and dill: Utterly simple and full of yum.
- Fingerling potatoes pressure-cooked and then sauteed with onions: WIN.
...Wow, the third season finale of RWBY is really doomed. Like "did Gen Urobochi work on this?" level of doom. I guess this is one of those shows where no character is protected by Plot Armor. (Except falling damage, you're apparently given blanket immunity to that when you enroll in hero school.)
