Ramblings from the Outer Reaches

So yesterday I cut out the saplings (elm and ash) from my garden. I've been fighting the for years. I didn't get a chance before I left and with all that rain, they are more than sixty percent of the garden and the poison ivy from across the way is now everywhere too. Two years ago one of my two roses was half dead and then all dead last year. this year my remaining rose is nearly dead. It'll be gone by next year.

So I came to the sad conclusion I have to strip the garden down to bare earth. I can't win this fight. My disability makes gardening hard enough. Removing a shit tons of stumps and poison ivy is a bit beyond me. I'm waiting for the fall because I CAN save the lilies and I do have a lot of them.


I've been having my exhaustion episodes. Today was so bad I woke up, tried to read, fell back to sleep. Could hardly stand until 1 in the afternoon. I did what I wanted to do, dug into my bedroom closet and I learned nothing from doing the same in the coat closet. At least this didn't take 4 days to undo the mess but the living room is barely passable and my bedroom is barely usable but I put four garbage bags of shoes/purses/belts/clothes in the car for donation. 1 garbage bag of unsalvable garbage removed. two more piles of t-shirts sorted (one I can wear as work shirts the other are ones I want to use to do quilts)

Why did I still have 6 pairs of high heels in there? (argued with my boomer father over them because he's sure a) I'm too old and fat to be attractive b) women wear them for men only and still wear them in spite of me telling him I spend all my days with young women and for the most part they do NOT wear them any more and there aren't that many for sale in stores these days)

Why do I have a sweatshirt from 1987?

Why do I keep so much junk?

Why does cleaning make me so ill. I DID wear my damn mask. My chest is tickling. I'm coughing. My throat is sore.

I also have three giant bags of manga in there for donation. I managed to get most of it back in the closet. You can't tell i took out 5 literal bags of shit. I'm ridiculous.


And I'm not going to clean all the things I wanted to between selecting that closet AND finally opening the utensil drawers to find out the mouse shit in them. Well fuck. Now I have to go get my gloves, bleach, a better mask, new drawer inserts, fire.... I could cry

One of the artists I like for Hazbin's computer died and they were doing a live VA thing with the people they do that with so I chipped in a few bucks. At least there is something I don't regret about today.

I even regret not holding Rocket who was so desperate to sit on me at the computer he managed to tear bloody ruts in my leg trying to get up on my lap.

Today was extra, so extra I'll talk about it tomorrow. Instead let's just do the fandom rec part of the night for fannish 50

I wrote a story for spikesgirl58's 6 word challenge used also in summerofthe69, comment_fic AND lyricaltitles


Title: Make Me Feel Alive.

Fandom: Hazbin Hotel

Character/Pairing: Angel Dust/Husk
Summary: Angel wants to show Husk a great date night and he succeeds. The only problem with his plan is he needed a car. He helped himself to Arackniss’.
Rating: explicit

( Story at the above link or under this cut. Story is NSFW )

Fandom recs

Romancer? I hardly know 'er! Deadpool

Tired Torchwood

Sharing Is Caring FAKE

Asteroid Adjustment Torchwood

Doing It Right Babylon 5

The Hundred Year Heatwave Stargate Atlantis

Love's a gamble, and baby I'm all in.. Hazbin Hotel

who is in control? The Amazing Digital Circus

Silent and Brooding Deadpool

No Way In Hell!. Torchwood

Raspberry Chambord and Prosecco Cocktail Hazbin Hotel

And A Bucket Of Ice Water Hazbin Hotel

Get Shot, Be Hot Hazbin Hotel

During The Rainstorm. Hazbin Hotel

Help From Above Hazbin Hotel

when you go away, i still see you
Arcane: League of Legends

Two Dozen Roses. Hazbin Hotel


One of Them Was Me Stargate Atlantis

Herding Cattle is Easier than Herding Cats. 911

Singularly Unique Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV)

meddling Star Trek: Voyager

And a fannish resource The Star Wars Galaxy Map

Every. Damn. Time. Fanfic. My actual published novels….

I know we have two volunteers for July but I can’t remember who’s first so if someone wants to remind me…

This heat is destroying me. So nauseous. So tired. I did manage to bang out 880 words on a summerofthe69 smutty thing that wants plot to go with its porn.

Let me know what day you’re reporting in for. If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.

Day twenty -six cornerofmadness, sylvanwitch, badly_knitted, cmk418, nafs, trobadora, china_shop, carenejeans, brithistorian, the_siobhan,



( other days )

Things forgotten today a) breakfast b) my hairbrush c) my flashdrive d) a new mop Whee.

I put my new sheets on the bed. In the store they were soft with a nice pine branch print 100% cotton. On my bed, putting them on I was transported back to 1976. This are my great grandmother's sheets in look and feel. I can hear her talking to me in broken English. I can feel them against my skin sleeping upstairs in grandma's house, listening to the ghost train rocket by (that's another story)

I did get to jackson, had a nice new coffee (orange rind sprinkles was surprisingly good) but during coffee time I got an email I was waiting on from work about my travel reimbursement. I needed it in by noon monday. Yikes. I can't even remember where to find the paperwork in the stupid place we store this shit. Finally get it and don't remember if we work on fridays in the summer (we keep changing that) turns out yes I didn't have to run down there today

But since I was rushing to get this paperwork in, I leave my office without my flashdrive. Sigh. I was also busy talking to L who is cleaning out her office (post retirement) So I had to go back to get the flashdrive only to find TH there. Had fun talking to him. Didn't get home until 7 pm. I was supposed to be home at 3.

So much for getting cleaning done today. Doesn't matter because my dumb ass forgot to get a new mop

I do have a community rec for you, this one has to do with political activism in the US communityactionusa