various updates
Jul. 11th, 2019 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skye_writerKitten update: he's still adorable. We gave him a bath yesterday, and he put up with it fairly well. He did try to get away a couple times, but other than that, there wasn't any crying or clawing, so that's a win in my book. He is exceptionally playful now, and he loves to get in the way when I'm trying to do something in here. But that's how it is with youngsters, so I don't begrudge him.
Other updates:
- I am slowly but surely making my way through the Good Omens TV show. I've watched the first two episodes, and half of the third (up to the opening credits). I would have watched the rest of ep3, but my internet decided to crap out and I couldn't get it to work again. That said, I am deeply enjoying the series. It reminds me a lot of Pushing Daisies, which I absolutely adore, so that's about a million points in its favor. And it's just... delightful. Can't wait to get to the end of it. And maybe reread the book at some point, too.
- After a week and a half of fits and starts, I'm writing again. On a random story idea I've had for a while, but that I wasn't planning to touch at all at any point this year. At this juncture I"m just writing whatever strikes my fancy, and so it's pretty plotless, but I don't care, so long as I'm getting words down. It's a werewolf story with a female lead, though I'm trying to avoid a lot of the female werewolf tropes I've seen before in fiction (mainly that female werewolves are... b*tches because being a werewolf means (for whatever dumb reason) that you can't have kids, and then also mean because they don't enter into the leadership of the pack and just dumb patriarchal stuff like that). So I'm playing with a lot of ideas and stuff, and just writing whatever works for me at the time.
But hey: it's words. That's all that matters.
- I need to start reading again. I finished the library book I'd been reading, The Radium Girls, which was an excellent if harrowing read. So I'd like to get back into Priory of the Orange Tree, but I just... haven't been reading? So maybe I need to whet my palate with something I've read before. I might pull a Pratchett or a McKinley off my shelf and read that, just to get back in the groove of it.
- Also need to get back into doing cross-stitch (which was on hold because I'd been doing at my desk in the spare bedroom, which is now a Bad Idea because Kitten) or crochet or knitting. Just. Making something with my hands. I've been playing too many video games, it seems like. Need to make something for a change.
- In the non-interior realm, Nintendo announced the Switch Lite yesterday. It's basically a handheld-only Switch, which after some reflection I don't have a problem with? I don't play a lot on my WiiU anymore; I'm mostly sticking with my 3DS. I don't want to get a full-on Switch and then let it gather dust because it's too many steps to turn it on (thanks, executive dysfunction). So I think this handheld unit will serve me just fine. (I will say, though, reading the comments on an article about it was both amusing and frustrating. As someone pointed out, if you're asking "who is this for", it's obviously not meant for you, so shut up.) That said, I wish we knew at this point whether or not Animal Crossing: New Horizons is going to have handheld mode. I'm guessing yes, given that it's probably going to be their flagship release for next spring, but... it'd be nice to know before I got one and found out I need to buy something else in order to play ACNH.
- Garden update: My squash plants (the zucchini and the pumpkin) fell victim to squash bugs YET AGAIN this year. We got several good sized zukes off the zucchini plant, though, and a couple of smallish pumpkins, so it's not a total pointless loss, but STILL. STILL. I was so upset when I found squash bug eggs on the pumpkin last week. And then on the zucchini. I'm not surprised about the pumpkin, given how its vines were going everywhere, but I'd really been hoping that, with the stilts for the planters my dad made, the zucchini could avoid that plague this year. But I guess not. At least the tomatoes are still doing okay. I've got enough off them to make tomato sauce this weekend.
...Can't think of much else going on. Hope you're all doing well, of course. Best wishes and all that.
Other updates:
- I am slowly but surely making my way through the Good Omens TV show. I've watched the first two episodes, and half of the third (up to the opening credits). I would have watched the rest of ep3, but my internet decided to crap out and I couldn't get it to work again. That said, I am deeply enjoying the series. It reminds me a lot of Pushing Daisies, which I absolutely adore, so that's about a million points in its favor. And it's just... delightful. Can't wait to get to the end of it. And maybe reread the book at some point, too.
- After a week and a half of fits and starts, I'm writing again. On a random story idea I've had for a while, but that I wasn't planning to touch at all at any point this year. At this juncture I"m just writing whatever strikes my fancy, and so it's pretty plotless, but I don't care, so long as I'm getting words down. It's a werewolf story with a female lead, though I'm trying to avoid a lot of the female werewolf tropes I've seen before in fiction (mainly that female werewolves are... b*tches because being a werewolf means (for whatever dumb reason) that you can't have kids, and then also mean because they don't enter into the leadership of the pack and just dumb patriarchal stuff like that). So I'm playing with a lot of ideas and stuff, and just writing whatever works for me at the time.
But hey: it's words. That's all that matters.
- I need to start reading again. I finished the library book I'd been reading, The Radium Girls, which was an excellent if harrowing read. So I'd like to get back into Priory of the Orange Tree, but I just... haven't been reading? So maybe I need to whet my palate with something I've read before. I might pull a Pratchett or a McKinley off my shelf and read that, just to get back in the groove of it.
- Also need to get back into doing cross-stitch (which was on hold because I'd been doing at my desk in the spare bedroom, which is now a Bad Idea because Kitten) or crochet or knitting. Just. Making something with my hands. I've been playing too many video games, it seems like. Need to make something for a change.
- In the non-interior realm, Nintendo announced the Switch Lite yesterday. It's basically a handheld-only Switch, which after some reflection I don't have a problem with? I don't play a lot on my WiiU anymore; I'm mostly sticking with my 3DS. I don't want to get a full-on Switch and then let it gather dust because it's too many steps to turn it on (thanks, executive dysfunction). So I think this handheld unit will serve me just fine. (I will say, though, reading the comments on an article about it was both amusing and frustrating. As someone pointed out, if you're asking "who is this for", it's obviously not meant for you, so shut up.) That said, I wish we knew at this point whether or not Animal Crossing: New Horizons is going to have handheld mode. I'm guessing yes, given that it's probably going to be their flagship release for next spring, but... it'd be nice to know before I got one and found out I need to buy something else in order to play ACNH.
- Garden update: My squash plants (the zucchini and the pumpkin) fell victim to squash bugs YET AGAIN this year. We got several good sized zukes off the zucchini plant, though, and a couple of smallish pumpkins, so it's not a total pointless loss, but STILL. STILL. I was so upset when I found squash bug eggs on the pumpkin last week. And then on the zucchini. I'm not surprised about the pumpkin, given how its vines were going everywhere, but I'd really been hoping that, with the stilts for the planters my dad made, the zucchini could avoid that plague this year. But I guess not. At least the tomatoes are still doing okay. I've got enough off them to make tomato sauce this weekend.
...Can't think of much else going on. Hope you're all doing well, of course. Best wishes and all that.
no subject
Date: 2019-07-12 03:09 pm (UTC)Re: bugs, hand-picking bugs/eggs early on has always been my go-to strategy, although I do not always practice what I preach! (This year for me it was caterpillars on the kale - could not keep up with it, the result was super gross.)
no subject
Date: 2019-07-12 04:33 pm (UTC)The weird thing about the squash bugs this year is that things were fine for a few months and I thought maybe I'd dodged that bullet. And then the pumpkin plant started dying and I spotted eggs on a leaf and then closer inspection yielded eggs on both plants. But the weird part is that I didn't see any nymphs like I did last year. I dunno. I'm either going to not grow squash next year, or else figure out a way to stop the infestations in the first place.