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I was working from home this week and didn’t get anywhere near as much as I wanted done. Part of that was my own procrastination issues (I hate doing budgets, they are too insubstantial and based on assumptions, give me a set of accounts to do any day) and partly because there seems to be something about not being in the office that makes the staff I manage want to send me more queries than usual. My phone was buzzing constantly.

I did however start writing my Romancing McShep fic. It’s just a couple of scenes at the moment, not even in linear order which is really unlike me. As I’m researching the fic though I keep coming across things I want to include so I’ll jot stuff down, some of it is just notes and some are full fledged scenes. I’m looking forward to getting into the meat of it.

In other fest news,

sga_secretsanta opened for posting this week. I’ll need to get my butt in gear and organise mine for posting....or maybe I’ve already posted? Who knows? Let’s keep the mystery alive until the author reveals.

House wise, we got a taper in today to give us a quote for getting the cupboard that went in a few weeks back ready for painting. Despite saying he was just coming up to quote and wouldn’t be able to do the job until after Christmas he did the job today for us. He needs to come back tomorrow to sand once the filler etc has set but then that’s another job done! I may spend some evenings next week giving everything a coat or two of paint.

We also had more landscapers/builders come up to give a quote for the patio/retaining wall. They are all coming in much higher than the surprisingly low quote we received from the first company which is making me worry about that quote. I’m gonna email them next week and clarify their plans.

No quote yet for the chimney/harling after the guy was up last Saturday to look at what was needed. I’m not a very patient person when it comes to these sorts of things but I think two weeks is generally accepted as an ok time period to chase for quotes. With next weekend being the weekend before Christmas though I might try to be super patient and wait until January to follow that up.

Here’s to being another week closer to 2020 being done.

I finished my Secret Santa fic! Posting begins on December 10th and it’s my favourite type of fest where the authors aren’t revealed until a certain date. I love trying to guess who wrote what.

I also managed to post two short fics this week - both SGA and both McShep

Old Blue Eyes
This one has been unfinished in my WiP folder for a really long time and it felt really good to finish it!

In Sickness and In Health
In which I McShep my real life.

Here’s to more words next week!

There are 10 pages of this ship on AO3 and 4 of those pages are fic from this year.

That blows my mind.

Dare I try one?

I had such grand plans for my week off. We were going to get so much done in the house and (despite being restricted to our city limits because of COVID tiers) we were going to go on walks and get out and enjoy the fresh air and decent weather before winter really kicks in.

So much for that.

TMI maybe so under a cut ( Read more... )

We did manage to get the old, wood-rotted, garden shed that the previous owners left for us torn down which is good because I had hired a skip for that very purpose and didn’t want it clogging up the drive any longer than necessary.

Now that our old house has sold we can think about starting works at the new house (or at least getting quotes because I doubt any work will get done before Christmas. I don’t know if it’s the same where you are but contractors and trades are snowed under here and even harder to pin down than usual). Great, I thought. Stuck in the house so let’s get the ball rolling on the external render works we need done and get a quote, see if he needs us to level the garden first so we can arrange that...the guy we want to do it (he’s been recommended by three different people) is on holiday this week so we can’t even get that started.

On the plus side I’ve managed to get some writing done. Secret Santa fic is finished and beta’d (thank you

logicgunn! I even posted a ficlet that has been languishing in my WIP folder for over a year!

It’s been nice not being at work. Let’s focus on that!

Still chipping away at the secret Santa fic. It’s 4.6k at the moment. Still thinking around 6k total. I didn’t get much chance to write this week as I worked some long hours trying to get my work things wrapped up as neatly as possible before being off on annual leave next week.

Hopefully the week off will give me some more time for writing. 🤞🏼

I wrote 4 out of 7 days this week which considering I was ill early in the week is ok by me.

Still working on the Secret Santa fic, chipping away slowly at it in small (almost) daily chunks. I decided not to detour into another fic idea until this is done - no matter how much I may want to whump Rodney right now!

Sitting at 3.7k at the moment, I’ve revised the finishing word count up from 5k to around 6k.

I’m still enjoying it, trying not to edit as I go, just dumping words on the page and I’ll go back and clean it all up, add or delete sections at the end.

Here’s to possibly finishing it next week!

I felt a bit run down on Sunday and then just fell full out awful yesterday. Aches, shivers, a temp of 39.7 (103.6F). I panicked, of course I did, and booked a COVID test. Managed to get one within an hour of booking on Monday evening and results arrived within 24 hours which I was incredibly surprised by.

Thankfully, the test came back negative. My temp is still slightly elevated but nowhere near what it was. I’m working from home for the next couple of days just to be extra cautious.

Phew!

So, I’m enjoying my secret Santa fic. However, there is quite a severe lack of Rodney whump in it and I am feeling the need to indulge.......Must be strong and resist the urge to start a new fic before I’m finished with it. Right?

goddess47 posted about

mini_wrimo which seemed an excellent challenge to keep up the good work that I started in October with my Comfortween prompts to slide myself back into the habit of writing every day.

I signed up to do a minimum of 200 words a day and I’m pleased to report that I managed more than that every day this week. Not much more than that but I’m aiming for slow and steady here, especially because work is manic at the moment.

I’ve been working on my

sga_secretsanta fic and I’m already at the 2k marker. I don’t know how long it will end up, I’m cautiously guessing 5k at the moment but who the heck knows. The editing process can change everything.

Still, I wrote every day this week and I’m not hating what I wrote so I count that as win.

I just woke up from a nap, looked at my phone and got the alert that they called the election in Biden’s favour. Maybe I should nap more often? Although I still have some trepidation about what Trump’s gonna do next (obviously he’ll try and find a loophole to stay) I’m beyond thrilled, not just for my American friends but also for the world! If this could be a sign that the shit show that is 2020 is turning a corner that would be great.

That’s the up.

Now for the down.

A friend and colleague of mine lost their battle with cancer this week. She was 51, full of life and always the first person to offer help and support to anyone. She’s going to be missed by so many people and the fact that she won’t get the send off she deserves physically causes me pain.

Fuck cancer. And Fuck Donald Trump

Happy Halloween everyone!

I had been looking forward to handing sweeties out tonight in our new neighbourhood but COVID means that there won’t be any guising going on so George and I are gonna curl up and stuff our faces while watching something suitably spooky on Netflix.

In other news, I successfully filled all 31 Comfortween prompts! 31 ficlets, 13,879 words. This was my attempt at getting myself back into writing fic after months of writing nothing at all and I’ve really enjoyed writing these bite size fics.

Next on the agenda is my Secret Santa SGA fic which i already have notes written for so fingers crossed all goes smoothly!

You can read all of my Comfortween ficlets here

I started this week three prompts ahead of where I needed to be only to find myself a day behind today. I think having the work computer set up in the house again this week put me right back into lockdown mode where I was working much longer hours than normal just because the computer was always there, waiting.....

Still, I haven’t turned it on at all today and I managed to catch up to Prompt 18 so I’m back on track.

Working at the office this week (we’re now rotating in and out on a weekly basis) so will hopefully keep to schedule this week. 🤞🏼

My work has switched to a rota system to limit the number of people in the office at any one time and as of this week I’ll be switching between home and office working on a weekly basis.

Despite spending three months during lockdown working exclusively from home, it felt super weird today.

Maybe because this is the first time working from home in the new house?

I don’t know.

Hopefully I get used to it again.

Welcome to the new normal I guess.

Hello! I hope you're not too annoyed that you got saddled with creating a little something for me. I'm hopefully not gonna make it too hard for you. I’m a Rodney girl through and through so I would love something very Rodney centric but there are no ultra-specific things I need for you to include but here are some general likes and dislikes to help guide your muse.

Likes:
Hurt/Comfort - go as heavy on the hurt as you like, I am not squeamish!
AMTDI
Competent Team
The scientists realising how bad ass Rodney is
Found Families
Kid Fic of the ' they have children' variety
Amnesia Fic
Angst with a happy ending
Alternate Universe - No Stargate
Alternate Universe - SG1
Alternate Universe - Historical (especially Regency AU)

Dislikes:
ABO
High School/College AU
Christmas Settings
Gender Swaps
Crossovers/Fusions

I decided to try and challenge myself to focus on comfort rather than hurt for a while so Comfortween has commenced!

I am hoping to get through all 31 prompts (even if it takes me longer than the month of October to get through them)

2 fills down, 29 to go!

I wrote 1,347 words tonight. Unfortunately it wasn’t fic but it was my notes for a presentation I have to give at a job interview on Friday.

The presentation is supposed to be 10 minutes long and my first run through took 10 minutes and 3 seconds. Get in!

Well, it’s been a while since I posted here....Sorry about that!

I moved house. Which was...challenging. We decided in January to start looking for a bigger place, found one we liked, made an offer and got the keys in March, the day before lockdown so... yeah, we couldn’t move in until July.

This turned out to be somewhat of a blessing as the new house was in MUCH Worse shape than we thought and there has been a lot of work needed on it. Yeah, I bought a money pit. We’ve still got a lot to do but are at the stage now where we need to wait on the money coming in from our old house before we can do anything else. We had decided originally to buy before we sold because we thought it would be less stress. Oh, poor innocent us.

We finally got our old house on the market in August and we have now accepted an offer On that with the new people hopefully moving in November. So, 2021 will be filled with more home improvements. Joy.

I’m trying to focus on the positives of the new house; it’s much bigger, it’s in a better area, we have a garden. But it’s hard when there’s so much money we still need to put into it and the house is very obviously not that well built. I live in fear of what we’ll uncover when we start the more invasive works.

But, hey, given what’s going on in the world, I really, really can’t complain.

I have a roof over my head, my job is safe. I spent a few months working from the dining table but we reopened the office to a lower occupancy level back in June (I work for a social housing provider and that’s an essential service) and I was one of the first ones back so normality has been in place for a while now. George is a supermarket worker so he’s been an essential worker this whole time.

But, I digress. Basically, between home diy, the stress of moving, the stress of work, the anxiety and panic that has become crippling during this whole pandemic...I’ve not been very up for anything. I’ve not been writing and, holy shit, I miss it. I miss my SGA friends. I’ve still been reading but even commenting has seemed like a chore and I hope I can build some of my fandom friends back up again.

As of today I am making a concentrated effort to get my fandom happy place back. I hope all of my fandom friends are doing ok and I‘M sorry for going AWOL!

Some goals for the coming year....

Writing goal
Write more than last year - it's no secret that my writing output went down the drain in 2019. I missed it a lot and I want to make more time for it this year.

Fandom goal
Comment on fic more. I have a bad habit of getting lazy with my commenting. I'm gonna try to do better this year.

Reading goal
2019 was the year I started to read books again. I mean, I've always read books but I used to manage 2-3 a week and then I discovered fic and - well..... For 2020 I want to get at least 30 books read.

Professional goal
Update my CV and start hunting for a new job. I got passed over for promotion towards the end of last year and it's just not the same anymore.

Home life goal
Make a decision about the house. We need to either commit to this one and make some home improvements or cut our losses and move.

Health goal
I started walking a lot more in 2019 and I've seen lots of benefits but I need to get my fitness levels up. Walking on the flat is a breeze but the slightest incline and I feel like I'm dying. Stamina and fitness levels need to improve

George and I are watching Wonder Woman again for the first time since seeing it at the cinema and I can’t help but be struck again by the fact that the film would be SO MUCH MORE POWERFUL if Ares hadn’t been behind the war.

Wasted opportunity.

But the film’s still great and I love Gal Gadot and Chris Pine in it so much.

I’m a compulsive person. I’ve always fallen hard and fast for things that interest me but for a long time my fandom experience was kept offline.

Back when I was around 13/14 (mid-late 90s) I was a huge Backstreet Boys fan. My bedroom was plastered in posters and me and two of my friends would spend hours and hours every week talking about the band and taking turns regaling each other with imaginary tales of ways we could meet the band and what would happen. It now occurs to me that this was my first foray into fanfic, verbally at least! And, it was self-insert (shudders!)

I’ve been a fan of a lot of things (Buffy and Angel being the biggest) but my fanning was kept private.

The first time I connected online with fans was in the early 2000s (late teens age wise) when I “discovered” the band James (of Sit Down fame). The band were broken up at the time but their music got me through a very dark time and while immersing myself in it I found an unofficial fan website that had a still active message board that I became super active in. There was swapping of bootleg CDs, tracking down rare recordings, song discussions etc..

I fell away from the message boards when I met my now partner in 2003 and my fanning went back to being a private thing until 2013 when I was off sick from work, bought myself the Castle season 1-5(?) boxset to binge and fell in love with side characters Ryan and Esposito (And now my DW handle makes sense). I started googling to see if I there were any Ryan and Esposito focused episodes I could skip to (looking especially for any episodes where they got whumped - before I knew what the word whumped meant) and stumbled on a link that took me to FF.net.

I had never read fanfic before, had barely even heard of it, but - at the ripe age of 29 -I was suddenly hooked.

I devoured Castle fanfic and then decided to go looking for other Tv shows I loved. I moved into DCU, MCU, Star Trek AOS, found AO3, Merlin, then Teen Wolf, then fell in love with Agents of Shield enough that I actually started writing fanfic myself in 2015! (Fitzmack could have been everything, damn canon to hell). (there was one TW fic I wrote before that in 2014 but I try to forget it exists)

After a few months in AOS, I moved on to write for MCU after seeing Age of Ultron and falling heavy in love with Hawksilver. Those are still my most popular fics and was the closest I ever became to being tumblr famous, lol.

I stayed with Hawksilver for about a year with a slight detour into Star Wars and Finnpoe in there.

And then. Then I found SGA. I had been a fan of SG1 back in the day (while my fanning was offline only) but by the time SGA came around we didn’t have cable anymore so I never saw it. Jump to 2016 when I saw a mutual from the AOS fandom posting McShep content on tumblr, saw the show was on Netflix and started to watch.

190 fics and close to 4 years later I’m pretty sure I’ve found my forever fandom.

I still enjoy other fandoms, I still read other fandoms (most recently Reddie), but SGA is my fandom home. It’s quiet nowadays but it’s drama free, there’s so much amazing fic out there that I’m still stumbling across old classics that I haven’t seen before 4 years later, and the people who still play in this fandom are some of the nicest and most welcoming that I’ve ever come across.

Additionally, SGA and my various ships in it is the only time I have EVER read and written in the same fandom. I barely read any Fitzmack, Hawksilver or Finnpoe when I was writing but I will Never have too much SGA in my life.

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