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Just an update for the sake of it. Not that I've been up to much.

Still working on the Tron/Pacific Rim crossover. Haven't written anything on it today, but I've been poking away at it. I think my muse is finally running out of steam, so I don't know what's going to happen next, both with the story and with the other stories I'd like to work on. I would really like to get back to work on some of my more "important" stories (though that important is relative, of course). But this has been a fun diversion, and I'd like to see how long I can make it last.

I also rented some movies the other night. Hoping to get through most of them before they're due back on Saturday. Movies: Jumanji (the new one; it was amusing enough but not enough that I felt like watching the whole thing); Spotlight (watched it last night; VERY VERY GOOD); He Called Me Malala (documentary); Logan Lucky (Soderbergh's latest); and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Dredd, both of which I've seen before and love to pieces but really need to get for my collection. I might see if I can fit in a couple movies tonight or tomorrow; we'll see what happens.

Also happening tomorrow: I'm getting the Pacific Rim artbook!! I ordered it along with my younger niece's birthday present and wasn't expecting it til next week because it was backordered, but I got the shipping notification today and it said I'd be getting it tomorrow! I'm very excited; I've basically wanted this book for five years and for some reason never thought to buy it til now? I don't know. But I'm pumped about it. Can't wait to see all the cool cool concept art and stuff like that. :D

Not much going on in real life. My younger niece's birthday party is this weekend and I've been commissioned to help decorate cupcakes again. Luckily they'll be much easier than last year's design--just simple Mickey and Minnie cupcakes with a frosting swirl, mini Oreo ears, and candy bows on the Minnie cupcakes. (Last year's cupcakes were Sesame Street themed and I had to deal with SO MUCH FONDANT OH MY GOD. You can see them here on my Instagram.) Also I'll get to see my brother and SIL again, since they're coming up for the party. Looking forward to that.

Other than... all that, I'm not doing much. Hope you all reading this are doing well. :)

So I've been doing better since that last post. I'm actually doing things again, instead of just obsessing over one thing. It's a nice feeling, overall.

....it's weird, I come here with all these ideas about what to post, but when I actually sit down to do it, I can't think of anything interesting to say.

I've been writing again. Just doing 750Words (750words.com) for rambling purposes, mostly. I wrote a tiny bit on the Outpost (my TRON fic) last Saturday, and since then I've been poking at planning out a novel. I've had the idea for a while (almost ten years, actually), but actually figuring out what happens is giving me fits. Also I worry that my characters aren't complex enough and stuff like that. I have no idea what I'm doing, basically, and I don't like it.

I went out of town and visited my brother this past Thursday and Friday. Played Dungeons and Dragons with the group my brother DMs and had a lot of fun. We fought a dragon and managed to win, thank goodness. I wish I could play DnD more often, but I don't know anyone where I live who plays it (I don't know anyone at all where I live, in fact). There's a comic/gaming shop in a little town adjoining my town, but I think they mostly do Magic the Gathering and stuff like that. Meh.

My brother and I also went to see Pacific Rim Uprising yesterday. It wasn't terrible? But at the same time, it just wasn't as awesome as the first one. I feel like it misunderstood the things that made the first one work so well. It also felt like it was two different movies trying to be one movie. I feel like if they'd separated it out and just done two separate movies, it would have worked so much better. I dunno. There were some things I really liked, but it just doesn't have the same spark as the first one.

Oh well.

And now today I'm mostly hanging out. Trying to figure out how to plot this novel I want to write. Resisting the urge to write Pacific Rim fanfic. All kinds of stuff. I think I am definitely going to watch Pacific Rim at some point (I've got the soundtrack on as I write this). I need to get some medicine refilled and taken care of, so I suppose I'd better do that.

Not much else going on with me. Just taking things as they come. We'll see how it goes.

Or at least a little happiness.

I've given myself permission not to write for the next few days. I think I've been putting too much pressure on myself (esp. after the rather fantastic month I had in May, writing-wise), so a break should do me a little good. In the meantime, I'm brainstorming what to do for my TRONfest bingo card, since I feel like as admin I should at least post something.

I borrowed the second season of Community from the library the other day. It's due back tomorrow, so I sat down and watched the first two discs today. I forgot how much fun that show is. S2 also has the amazing "you CHLOROFORMED the JANITOR?!?!?!" scene and I was basically in stitches the whole time. What perfect comedy. XD

I knit a full pattern repeat on the baby blanket today. I measured it, too; I've reached 18 inches! Only six more to go, which seems pretty doable by the end of the month. :)

I also made some icons:


I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. I found a tutorial for using feathering to blend the edges between two caps, and used that on the last two. I will probably be using that a bit more in the future.

Not sure what I'm going to do with the rest of my evening. Maybe watch some Steven Universe or something. Or a movie. I'm feeling like popcorn right now, after all.