Back from vacation!

[mistressofmuses]

I wildly overestimated how much internet access I would have while we were out of town...

We drove out to Maryland to visit some of Alex's friends. That's a really long drive, but it was fun! It was nice to have a break... it's the first thing more than a long weekend I've taken in a very long time. My mom was kind enough to loan us her car for the trip, which is the only way we were able to do it, so very grateful to her.

Though waiting to greet us when we got home... sometime, likely early in said trip, the breaker that controls our fridge flipped. So we had a whole fridge and freezer of rotting-body-smelling food to clean out. And I'm the one with a stronger stomach, so it was pretty much me. Ugh.

Other than that... things all feel pretty much the same.

I watched and became wildly obsessed (at least for me) with Good Omens. I had minimal expectations for the series beforehand, and was fairly lukewarm about the casting, avoided much info about production, etc, despite (and because of) it being a long-time favorite book. But... I really enjoyed it! Like... a lot.

Still working on my KH Big Bang fic. I took some advice from a fellow participant regarding getting a notebook in which to write, so I actually got some written while away, even though I never had a chance to get on my computer. It's been a while since I wrote things out by hand, but it turns out I enjoy it. I reoutlined the fic a couple weeks ago, to address some issues I had with parts that seemed repetitive. I think it improved it. I also reached out to a beta, so that part is done!

The next check-in is a bit over a week away, and I do have the minimum wordcount needed for it, so I don't have to stress beyond getting it into shareable format (since my computer uses such an outdated version of Word it runs into compatibility issues.) But I know I WILL struggle with next month's check if I don't get my butt in gear and get more words down more quickly. If I can write out one scene per day (34 remaining, per my outline), then I should be good. But finding the time is hard, since Alex wants to do stuff once I'm home from work (even if it's just watching something), and that's really the only time I have.

Also, Alex got hideously sick as soon as we got back from our trip, and I am trying desperately not to catch it. And I have an awful peeling sunburn, haha.

I'll post some pictures from the trip soon, I hope. 

Comments

[scarlipswolfwife]

Sounds like a good trip! Did y'all take lots of photos? Did Cy go with y'all? Ewwwww...bad fridge breaker. I've cleaned out rotten food before, one time entirely by myself at some dudes' apartment. Kass said she was going to clean it, and knowing that she and the guys were video gamers, nothing would've ever gotten clean because all three would've gotten distracted, so I went to clean, and I wasn't allowed in the one guy's bedroom because of the sheer amount of garbage it was, but I was cleaning the kitchen (oh my ugh) and then wound up with all the dishes he had stacked WITH FOOD STILL ON IT from his room. The main guy took all of us our to dinner at a really nice restaurant in San Marcos, but I told them that I'd never do it again. It was utterly disgusting. And I don't say that all gamers are like this, but I'm saying I've been around enough gamers who are that if a gamer asked me to help him/her clean their apartment, I'd probably flip them the bird and walk away because no. I hope your fridge didn't cause you too much distress!

[mistressofmuses]

Lots of photos, though just with my cell phone. My digital camera bit the dust at the end of my trip to Oregon a couple years ago for my grandmother's birthday, and I haven't been able to replace it. :'( And Cy did go along! He mostly had fun, I think, haha. Though he had to stay inside for a good part of it because the heat and humidity were so high.

The first of maybe 7 or so posts is up with a few photos from the trip! Though this one is just the road trip out there portion.

The fridge was SO GROSS. Alex took the trash out, but I had to get the rotting things into the trash bags, and... ugh. Most of the smell is gone, but there are still occasional whiffs of it, and I'm not sure what to do except try to neutralize it with baking soda. I've scrubbed everything I can reach, lol. (Mostly I'm mad that we have to replace so much food. It wasn't a ton, but it sucks to have to replace what there was.)

Ugh, I'm so sorry you had to do that for that other group. Gross. (My particular He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named and my ex had the grossest pileups of trash and rotting food (also often still on the dishes) in their room the year we shared an apartment... It still makes me a bit queasy to think of, so I imagine it may have been... similar.) Yeah, all gamers certainly aren't that way, but there's a venn diagram between "gamers" and "people who let their living space get that way" and the overlap is not insignificant, lol.

[scarlipswolfwife]

Awesome! I'll check out the photos soon! And that's good that Cy went. I'd say he probably wanted to be out more, but yeah, heat and humidity aren't good for doggies. I let Darji out in the backyard, but she only gets to go for limited time because it's so hot here.

Eh. It's okay that I did it. I mean, the guy treated us to a really really nice dinner at an expensive restaurant. But I'm pretty sure it wasn't long before the apartment was a gross wreck again. At one point, there were three guys living in the apartment, all gamers, all with that gamer mentality. I think I went up there once after the third guy moved in, and I was just like...nope. I think they asked if we wanted to come clean again and I just noped the hell out of there. Expensive dinner be damned. There's just no reason for that level of grossness. Just no reason at all.

[mistressofmuses]

Yeah, Cy would have been an absolute wreck if he couldn't have come along. Most of the days were all right, but a few of the days where we were out for longer would have been bad to have him along. (He was with us the day we went to the bay though, which was pretty funny because he very much didn't seem to get why we were in the water when we could just sit on the sand, lol.)

I'm glad they at least treated you to nice dinner, but it just baffles me that any adult can let their living space get like that. Like... *how*. I've known several who just seem... so confused that they need to ever clean. I know I get my space get cluttered, but it isn't *dirty*. I'm guilty of "this is the pile of laundry that maybe can be worn again, so it lives in this pile for now" and the "yes I have ten books and seven pens and some pins and loose change and misc stuff on this small table", but I'm very careful about nothing like food or spilled things or just straight up trash. Yuck.