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Updates on Seattle stuff:

So it turns out people were trying to get in touch with me! They had the wrong contact info though, which is why I wasn't hearing from anyone. I caved in and emailed them on Monday asking about it and yes, that's what happened.

So yeah, that's all sorted out now, and I have a bunch of links to do stuff for moving. I filled out a few things for getting benefits, and I have to make a phone call, but that's fine. I can make that happen.

I'm going to need to decide how I want to tackle all this now that I've got stuff to work on. It's a lot of information to sort through and act on, but I'm not quite sure what to do in regard to an order.

I'm going to try to take the rest of the week to sort that out. I have a workspace set up in my browser just for all this, so I think that'll help. Gonna try to organize tabs in the order I need to go through them, and then just start from the top and work my way down.

Writing and DW plans:

I have Fic Or Treat stuff I need to get back to, but I think I'm going to take Friday and Saturday to do that. I also have one or two toher trickortreatex fics I want to write, and i want to doa final read through of the three I already managed to write.

I also have a non-fic writing thing I need to get done by Sunday, as well as doing a recording of a thing. So yes, these next few days will be buys.

Reading stuff:

I read two books this week, a beta read for someone I met recently, and then I finished the second half of Dead Girls Don't Dream by Nino Cipri (who I also know, and is an excellent human.) I'm hoping I'm going to get one or two horror type books done before the end of the weekend, but we'll see.

I have Mistress of Birds by Celia Lake for some gothic romance vibes, and I started Linghun by Ai Jiang which I've been meaning to read since it came out. I have a few other novella length options too, and what I might do is save MoB for Sunday and use that as my transition into November.

I've been writing less this last week, but I think part of it has been these headaches I'm getting. They start in my eyes and then spread from there, which tells me it's probably my pressure being wonky again. I'm...not thrilled by that, but I've upped how often I take my eyedrops and that seems to be helping.

I also did some thinking and figured out a little bit why writing has been so much easier. It's got a lot to do with some of the weird baggage I put onto writing words for publication versus words I'm writing for myself, and how I've just had obligations and stuff tied to one, and nothing tied to the other. Not really shocking, but yeah. It is what it is.

I did talk to some of my writing people about it and everyone was lovely. Several also offered to read stories I'm working on which is great! I'm going to try and take them up on it this time. I knew all of them would be willing before now, but there's a part of my brain that is still kind of caught against a situation that I'm no longer in where someone was reading my work even though they didn't really like it. I don't need everyone who reads my work to love it, but there's a difference between a story not being for a person, and someone gritting their teeth and doing the thing just because I was the one who asked them. I would have much rather they just say that my writing isn't their thing.

So yeah, I'm going to try and use them for reading submission fic and some of the for me fic too. Because it does feel nice to have folks read a thing I made, even if it's only one or two people. Normally my partner is the one who gets all my writing, but I've had the itch where I've wanted more than just him to read stuff which is new for me. When I was talking to people before, I said "So is this what having ambition feels like?" Because wanting more than one person to read my stuff feels...both good and bad, I'd say? I don't know, it's just put me in a position I'm not normally in.

Semi-related: I signed back into 4thewords again. I have had an account for a while, but never really used it. I want to see how adding this plus time tracking does for my challenge/motivation chasing brain. I think it'll be decent, especially with the new desktop app that'll count stuff straight from Scrivener/Notepad. The only thing it won't count is if I'm writing on the iPad, but I'll just paste those words in and call it good.

Tomorrow will have my partner being gone for part of the day, so I'm going to try and maybe steal his bedroom and play with his good, good kitten for a while. Not that I can't do that while he's here, but that kitten is obsessed with him. It's both very cute and kind of a problem when she fly leaps right into him before climbing him like a tree with her little pointy feet.

Unrelated to anything else: I need to remember to go back and tag my entries. I keep meaning to do that now that I'm using DW a little more and just forgetting to. At the very least I need to start tagging new entries so the backlog doesn't build up anymore.

(He does not mind this, mind you, but I do often hear him crying out in surprise/pain as a kitten climbs her way to his shoulder.)

I'm the only one awake in the house right now though, so I might take advantage of that and either do some reading, or do some writing and see where that gets me. There's also the sleep option, but I feel a little too awake for that and I'm hoping doing something to occupy my brain in a proper way for a bit will help it.

Wordcount: 1,414
Notes: So, I wasn't planning to do more with Sable and the rest of their flock, but I was stumped on the prompt until this crossed my mind.

( The first time Cyrus goes traveling, Tabitha comes with him. )

So uh, I guess I'm going to be shouting about the Get Vale Out Of Tampa gofundme again? But for good reasons!

I had an interview today with an organization that helps trans folks move out to the PNW. The woman who talked to me is pretty sure she might be able to get most of a living situation set up by the time I leave Seattle in December? Somehow?

So yeah, I'm going to be shouting about this again because I had to use some of this money to pick up my other pair of glasses (these ones are reading glasses) and now I need to start getting money together to cover quickkly upcoming moving costs!

If you would like to donate any money to helping me move, here's the link.

They're also going to keep an eye out for places that look like they might hire me, so that's going to be useful too. Hopefully I won't have to ask people for money again once I'm up there.

I'm just sitting here being so confused and excited and maybe also a little bit scared.

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Right now I'm doing communal_creators and tracking my time with a spreadsheet someone made there. After that's done though, I'd like to keep doing that, but don't really know how I can.

So, does anyone have a spreadsheet they'd be willing to share that can either let me put in number of minutes/hours I worked on a particular thing, or something that would let me put in a start and end time to track it? It'd be really cool if I could see how much time I track each week, but if I can only do it by month, that'd be okay too.

I don't need to get into huge detail on labeling things. I'd just put in things like 'writing' or 'editing' or 'reading' instead of saying what particular thing I was doing. Though if you have something that will somehow use tags/a dropdown menu to label something and then a line where I can fill in exactly what I did, that'd be very cool.

I really need to learn how to spreadsheet myself, but I get so overwhelmed thinking about it.

- Flights of Foundry went mostly well. I missed one of my panels, which I felt horribly guilty about, though. I also remembered just how much of an introvert I really am. I didn't do a lot, but I was so, so tired by the end of Saturday. Even in an online setting, I find groups of people to be A Lot.

- The panel I was most nervous for went...okay, I think? I can't explain why the one on disability made me so anxious, but I had initially backed out of it. Someone else on the panel (who is a friend of mine) convinced me to give it a go though, which was so sweet.

- I did manage to keep up writing over the weekend, which I truly didn't expect, but I'm so proud of myself for doing it.

- I saw S on Monday, which was amazing. She's mostly in Tallahassee now, so I don't get to see her nearly as much as I used to. We weren't sure if we were going to before I went back to Seattle, but our schedules worked out. I'm going to see her again tomorrow.

- Vision therapy is coming to a close soon. I think next week is my last one. It was/is a good experience, but it's so important to know what you're getting into. I'm glad I did it, I got some useful stuff out of it, and I have exercises I can keep doing to strengthen my eyes even more, which is great.

- I am so, so behind on therealljidol reading. I haven't even started, honestly and I'm so overwhelmed every time I try and start Next round I'm tracking the post and trying to read stuff as it comes in so I don't end up in this position again.

- Speaking of, I've had such a good reception on my entry! I was mostly pleased with the story (with the usual general nerves from sharing anything I make) but many people have been so lovely about it, and that's been lovely.

- The rest of the week I have two more VT appointments Thursday and Friday, and then nothing on the weekend. I might go to a coffee shop with my mom, but we'll see about that.

- I'm now going to contemplate my no_true_pair story for the day and pet my cat.

- If anyone wants to come see me talk about horror media tomorrow, or more horror stuff and disability stuff on Sunday, please come join Flights of Foundry I've done this free, virtual con for two years in a row now, and for some reason they keep letting me talk to a bunch of people about stuff.

- Things are going pretty well for the challenges I've taken on this month. communal_creators is going really, really well. I think something about keeping start and end times for the work I'm doing is hitting my brain in such a good, pleasing way, so that's something to remember.

- no_true_pair is going well too! I've posted something for days 14-19 so far. Which is more days of writing than I've had in a little bit now. And just, I don't know. It feels good to play with my set of weird little nexus storybirds. If you wanna read any of that, it's at worldswecallourown and while the comm is locked, it's open joining.

- ...no, no I have not done anything for therealljidol yet. We're not talking about that.

- However, I did write a totally id-tastic origific for fandomgiftbox so there is that at least?

- This weekend is mostly taken up by FoF, but I'm going to try and keep writing a little bit. I'm not sure I'll manage it on Sunday, as my horror panel is at 8am and then my disability panel is later that day (5pm technically, but still). I do have a lot of panels I want to poke my head into tomorrow, and I have a couple of hang out sessions lined up with people I know too, so we'll see how it goes!

- I'm very behind on DW, but I'm going to try and get back into the swing of things after this weekend is over (I'm going to try during the weekend too, but I'm giving myself a break on that if it doesn't happen0> The main reason I'm even doing this post is to mention FoF but the other stuff is good too.

Okay, real entry now that I've gotten some sleep!

- Sleep is actually weird right now. I'm not sleeping a whole bunch, or I'm oversleeping. Which is fine, I go through these phases, but it makes me twitchy because I really don't like sleeping for 12 hours at a time.
- I've left the house three weekends in a row. The first weekend we went to an Asian food festival, the second weekend was a trip to the beach, and this last weekened we went to an oddities fair that happens every year. (Pictures of what I got at the end of this entry.)
- I've been writing a tiiiiiny bit. Not much, but I did stuff for the last two days which I consider a win and I think having something to aim for every week will help (Hence my doing therealljidol also communal_creatives)
- At the end of the month I'm going to the dentist to get a bridge fitted. I'm...I don't know. I need to get it done but I'm a little flat at having to spend the money, even if it's not as much as it could be.
- On Oct 9th I head to Seattle! I'm so excited because this means I'll be there for my birthday!

I feel like there was more I meant to say, but my brain is currently flat. If I think of things, I'll just throw them up later, I suppose.

( Tabernacle haul (a skull, some bones, and a very silly cat head statue.) )

So, I was originally only going to ask mistressofmuses this question, but I decided to ask all of you instead.

If you're someone who uses stickers for any reason, please do the following if you're so inclined:
- Tell us where you get your stickers
- Show us your favorites

I have a sticker book that I keep a bunch of mine in, and I'll take a few pictures of that later. I'm not sure I can tell you all the places I get mien from, though Stickii is definitely in there. Also a lot of Backerkits, and I have a bunch of stickers from Crow Time.

Please feel free to throw links and pictures in the comments! I'm really curious to see what all shows up. And also, any kind of stickers count. Gold star stickers? Yes! Stickers that are mini art prints? Yes! Planner stickers? Also yes! Give me all the stickers!