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Monday, with caulk jokes and no cock

Friday, we caulked the tub in the House. Well, I tried, ruined my favorite shirt (still sad about that), and made a mess. It turns out I’m not very good at caulking. 🙁 T., on the other hand, is pretty good at it.

I can be a bit puerile at times, though, so there were more than a few “caulk” jokes flung about while I was making a mess – and the ugly tub is a bit less horrid for the new, clean, white caulk (however, the shower doesn’t work. Guess I’m getting new tub faucets sooner rather than later (the lever you “pull up for shower” is no longer attached to anything).

Then we were at Lowes ordering a window, sort of shooting the shit with the windows-and-doors guy, and I was talking about learning to use tools from my father, and the salesman asked…

…“Did you dad always want a son?”…

I swear, power tools and carpentry and toy trucks and I don’t think anyone has ever asked this. I think I answered “No, he just didn’t see any reason I shouldn’t know how to use tools,” which is probably accurate (Dad? Close?).

Wow.

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Djinni is having another free icon day; tips are appreciated & incentivized but not required. If you’re not familiar with Djinni’s work, here are 4 icons he’s done for me:

and some more

Did I mention meeks has illustrated Autumn in the very first story I wrote about her?

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Link du jour: a lego bedroom

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Thursday with the urge to spend

Sep8

The more time I spend thinking about the new house, the more I want to Buy All The Things for it. Part of this is totally justified – there’s a lot of Things that need buying for this place. But I have to be reasonable (I hate being reasonable) and prioritize the Need It To Live, and the Too Ugly to Bear, and then the Decorating Things can come later.

We ha- I haven’t worked much on the house since Tuesday (T. spent much of yesterday over there, in the pouring rain). The bathroom is the current project, fixing some O_O and some WTF into tolerable, adding towel rods, etc.

The previous owners left stuff, and then for good measure, stuff, all over the place. The current found list includes:

At least 4 toddler trucks (the ride-on-them sort)
Two screw-top bottles of wine
8 gallons of paint, all opened
5 vases
1 set of bedding, incl. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pillowcase
and a bedframe.

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meeks has illustrated (LJ) my story the Deep Inks; she’s also illustrated (LJ) ysabetwordsmith‘s poem Restoration.

(Comments help sponsor more work on the project; if you have not commented on Meeks’ work before, tell her I sent you! 🙂

ysabetwordsmith wrote a lot of lovely stuff from this fishbowl, but of the stuff that’s public, I like this the most.

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Links of the day – a very small cabin and

via ysabetwordsmith, and relevant to my fae apoc history writing: a potential ancestor

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Vocab will return when I’m less exhausted all the time.

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GUINEA PIG! Also, BLACK DUCK! Also, STAR RAYS!

Aug22

eseme!

Art by Moonvoice!

Also, meeks has illustrated again, stryck‘s short story Starlit Rays.

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Art Linkies

Aug19

moonvoice has posted some lovely art: Fairy Penguin and Emerald Tree Monitor as Totem.

meeks has posted an illustration (LJ) of a scene from The Henchmen’s Hitch, a poem by ysabetwordsmith.

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The World is full of Awesome today!

Aug8

Okay, the internets is full of wow today.

akumyo is hosting a Free Icon Day- http://akumyo.livejournal.com/420166.html

megamon_blue is too.

lilfluff has started the 30 Days Second Semester!

ysabetwordsmith has: “People Who Boost the Signal in Crowdfunding (also here) and Non-Cash Support Methods for Crowdfunding

pinkelephant drew ADORABLE Baby Dragons!

This Criminal Minds Fanfic is Teh AWESOME

Cluudle played in my newly-created Unicorn/Factory verse
and wrote an awesome piece to my prompt

meeks has illustrated again! (LJ) this time minor_architect‘s Wanted: One Gnome

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Meeks Art!

Aug1

(Okay, so, yes, I really like meeks art!)

Meeks has illustrated (and on LJ) the feather-blessed series of stories by wyld_dandelyon!

While you’re looking at her art, check out her post of icons; she selects a random commenter each week to get a free icon!

And of course, I should mention the art she’s done for me; since it’s been a Rinny couple of weeks:

http://meeks.dreamwidth.org/1534.html / http://meeksp.livejournal.com/13723.html

ALSO!

She is be re-launching her call for prompts (LJ link), annnd:
“As an added incentive, if I get prompts from two new participants before next Monday, I’ll let you all vote on a sketch from the archives to get another round of work!”

I am NOT a new participant, but YOU COULD BE!

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Updated Meeks Sketch!

Jul18

meeks has posted an updated sketch (LJ Link) of Shine On, to ysabetwordsmith‘s poem of the same name

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Diapering Dragons picture!

Jun14

Dragons Next Door

http://www.mikaspace.net/

meeks has posted a picture of Juniper and Baby Smith from my Dragons Next Door series! (LJ Link)

Some of meeks‘ other lovely art includes:
this Torn World Beastie (LJ link)

This scene from Tin Man
(LJ link)

and

A scene from book one of clare_dragonfly‘s Chatoyant College (LJ link)

P.S. Linkbacks (tell Meeks if it’s not on LJ) and comments on the art are beneficial: 6 comments gets the sketch updated, and the post with the most linkbacks each week is eligible for more work in addition to that.

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Summary of the last so often

Jun5

The Drakeathon E-book, Tales for the Sugar Cat, is now On Smashwords and Available for review on Goodreads!

I challenged you to write to dailyprompt. (Post here if you did so and want me to aggregate the responses to that challenge).

meeks did a lot lot lot of awesome art (including more on the Ayla sketch and on Rin’s nose and an icon for meee).

I’ve started three new settings, one of which needs a title, the other one of which doesn’t:
The Foundation/Library:
Hello
Training
Ants, Grasshoppers, Magpies
The Cathedral
The Inhospitable Planet:
Moving In
Dancing for Joy
(You’ll see the other one in the next few days, but that one’s Facets of Dusk)

I wrote some on Stranded World:
Stepping Around
Day Job

And on FaeApoc: Invisibles

We put in an offer on a new house, and it was accepted.
My job moved, and it was stressful.
We hiked a lot, and it rocked.

I’m planning on writing for kink_bingo, stay tuned for from 5 to 25 pieces of smut.

This piece was weird but fun
This piece was just weird.

I should do these more often

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