Troper Updates II, Part II

Nice!

My boyfriend and I celebrated his birthday yesterday, by going to the local Japanese arcade bar by our house. (such a cool sentence!)

As You Know, I am taking a medication that does not play nice with alcohol. One drink, for me, has the same effect as about three drinks for a normal person. After one, I'm Unsuspectingly Soused. My inhibitions are gone, including that pesky "I shouldn't have another drink" thought. So, I had a beer. And then I had another. At that point, I was hammered. I was stumbling over both my words and my feet, and having a great time doing so. Finally, I poured myself into bed and forgot to set the alarm, but the dogs know when it's Food O'Clock, so they woke me up on time for work.

The moral of this story is that someone needs to bring me some coffee and some big fatty breakfast sandwiches.

(Seriously, though, days like this are why I rarely drink. And that makes me sad, because I love my craft beers and Luxurious Liquor.)

Good news. Those styes on my eyes have finally gone down. :)

After waking up and falling asleep again, I had a strange, vivid dream this morning.

I'm in a dorm, in college (not the one I actually went to), and for some reason, one of my coworkers is in there also, but I avoid him. I look at a map and try to figure out where my room is, and I return to that map more than once to try and figure it out.

Meanwhile, there is a place there in the unusually shaped dorm that is selling food, and has a small set of tables and chairs, and I go there, and find my online friend there. I talk to her, and tell her that I have a class I haven't been attending and that I really need to go to this class, and she looks up information on it and finds out that the class is in a building that's 5 hours away, so I don't stand a chance of going there now. I think about how I'm failing the class because I hadn't even been taking tests, and wonder if there's a way I can drop the class.

Somehow, we end up in a car together, both in the back seats, but with no view of who is driving. We go to Mc Donald's and get food, and we talk while we eat (with the dream having much detail of how I'm eating the Mc Donald's, including its unusually small bag of fries, and even putting salt on them), and I mention that there's this movie director who always puts a giant spider in every one of his movies, even if it makes no sense. She says, "Are you serious?!" I tell her that yes, I am, and he even put a giant robot spider in a movie set in the Wild West. Trying to figure out who he is, I look up his name online to try and see his list of movies or any articles about him and his love of giant spiders.

As we're riding in the car, we pass some scenery that includes fields with trees in the distance. I also happen to notice, as we're talking, that she's wearing socks but no shoes.

Eventually, the car we're in ends up right behind another car at a Mc Donald's drive thru in a strip mall, and I say, "Mc Donald's again?!" She says, "Actually, I'm about to get up and run away right now."

I think about how I'm going to have to get into the driver's seat (since I'm in the backseat of this car that apparently no-one is driving) so I can get out of here and not end up in the drive thru and be asked my order. And that's when I wake up and the dream ends.

edited 3rd Mar '18 5:16:15 PM by BonsaiForest

I accidentally a new video on my channel.

I scheduled it to get more time for adding end screens and subtitles. Then I clicked the wrong option.

I took yesterday off as a mental health day. (I often do this after the parent support group meeting at the local GLBT center, as it keeps me out way past bedtime.) It turned out to be a legit sick day, too, I came down with a cold.

Then, in the middle of the day, my boyfriend came home from work with an upset stomach.

Time for a Sick Episode...

We spent all day playing chicken with each other: We stayed in separate rooms, each with a pack of bleach wipes. We sanitized everything we touched, right after we touched it. (Our remote control is sparkling.) We kept an informal tally of how many hugs and kisses we owe each other. (Answer: a buttload) And now, we're both just waiting and hoping that the other's illness hasn't infected us.

Speaking of health and wellness issues, one of those styes I was dealing with came back. x_x

So I took a measure tape and checked whether I can fit a 9' green screen in my living room. Technically, I can, but lighting it up will be an absolute bitch.

The alternative is a 5" one that will limit the range of my gestures, as I need to keep 3 feet away from it.

I'm watching the Red Carpet segment of the Academy Awards. :)

Seeing all the unique fashions sure is fun.

Yes it is!! I missed it, since I went to bed early due to the aforementioned Sick Episode. So now I'm scrolling through all the looks on the Fashion Magazine websites, squeeing out loud whenever I see something cool (most recently, Janet Mock in Christian Siriano).

I love fashion. I love haute couture. It's so fun to look at! And yet, more often than not, I dress like a suburban mom lady who just wants to be comfy.

Me too. :)

Recently dyed my hair purple (a different kind of purple color this time) and love it :D

Nice! I kind of miss being able to dye my hair awesome colors. I've had purple before, and I loved it. Take advantage of it for as long as you can, and remember to deep condition. ^_^

Spring Break is coming up. I don't go to school but I still work for one, so I get the time off for that as well. I plan on doing some cleaning, some reading, and more writing. Simple enough plans I think. I hope all goes well.

I finished reading Maskerade and Small Gods of the Discworld series, and now I'm trying to read American Gods again because I tried reading it a couple years ago but it was so long that I put it down, and I figured it was better to start over.

Goodreads has been an excellent app to track my reading progress.

Spring Break is coming up soon. The kid and their dad are going to visit my twin bro and his husband, and I'm staying home.

That means...I get three days off. Like, off off. No work. No kid. I could spend the whole time lounging around in my pajamas if I wanted! (Probably will, but only for one day) I could go hiking! I could stay up late with the boyfriend, have a couple drinks, and get DUIs on Mario Kart!

That also means...the kid gets to go on a plane! And see their favorite uncles! And talk about transition-related stuff with Dr. Twin Bro, an actual transgender medical doctor! :D And they get to do it up in The City and see the Met and the American Museum of Natural History and Times Square and Central Park...Squee I'm so happy for them!

...but I will be carefully watching their flights on FlightAware. I know that air travel is safer than car travel, and that planes rarely crash, but I worry anyway when it's my kid up there. Mom instincts don't always make sense.

Last night I finished another book on my reading list: Deception Point. I thought it was just pretty good. It's not especially good, but it's not terrible either.

Also, I have to ask. So what's the deal with that unwritten rule that Dan Brown apparently made for himself when he wrote this, that he has to say the character Marjorie Tench's full name almost every time that she came up? I mean really, if I never see the name "Marjorie Tench" again, it'll be too soon.

But what is your feeling about Marjorie Tench as the character, Marjorie Tench, and how she, Marjorie Tench, works as a Marjorie Tench-type character within the story that includes a Marjorie Tench?

Speaking of literature, the main story idea for Volume X came to me in a dream last night. I can't remember all the details, but this one is going to involve the Voynich Manuscript.

Spring break is underway now! So far I have actually de-cluttered quite a bit of my space, which is more than I could say for the entire year. I'm making the most of my time off. I'm also wondering about where I'll go next with this Fan Fic that I'm writing. I should really get on to writing in my digital diary too.

I am just feeling tired and wanting to do nothing since I was out and about today.

I have errands at the grocery store tomorrow, but that won't take long.

I think I'll continue reading The Last Hero, which I got as a birthday present and American Gods too.

Still tracking myself on Goodreads!

I have some good news. There are 100 more days until I publish my seventh novel.

Fuck my life.

I managed to thread the 8' cardboard tube my greenscreen has been rolled on onto a metal bar used to hang backdrops on. Then I put the entire thing on two wobbly 7' stands. When I tried to unroll enough screen to reach the floor... entire eighteen feet of it merrily unrolled from the cardboard tube and dropped to the floor.

Trying to roll it back on was a nightmare. That and I am seriously considering bolting two hooks to the ceiling instead, because those stands ain't worth shit when it comes to backgrounds of this width.

Nice!

FFFFFUUUU--

This week, my kid and I have an appointment with the pediatrician about their "not quite male and definitely not female" gender identity. (quote is the kid's direct words) We'll be referred to the gender identity center at the local Children's Hospital from there, and start the process of...puberty blockers? Hormones? No idea. I've seen a gender transition before, but never with a non-binary person, and never with a kid. And this is happening to my kid, to boot.

I hope I'm doing this right. Listening to my kid and letting them be their most authentic self, while also teaching them all the grown-up skills like keeping house and managing time and budgeting money, and making sure they do well in school, seems right. Oh, and lots of love. Kinda like a cross between an Education Mama and a Doting Parent.

edited 15th Mar '18 4:41:05 AM by RaspyMink

So I'm going to be building a 20*10*7' (lwh) greenhouse when july/August rolls around and going to tend to it and sell organic crops such as rosemary and lemongrass amongst other things.

I think I just torpedoed my girlfriend's heart...

That can't feel good for either of you. I'm sorry.

Spring break continues on. It seems like it's going more or less how I've planned it, with some home repairs sprinkled in there too.

I haven't finished either of the books I'm reading, or the fanfic that I'm writing just yet. But I still have time. That's how I have to look at it. I still have all the time I need. I won't be going back to work for a while still. <3