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I don't mean to be away for that long at a time. I think the issue is actually that I seldom use my laptop at home anymore - I'm on my work laptop at work or when I'm working from home, and when I'm at home not working, I get my internets on my phone, where it's harder to post to DW and much easier to post to Facebook or Twitter. (I'm on the work computer now, of course, because I'm at work. It's not like I can't use it to read and post. But I generally don't, because I'm generally working. Only right now I have done all the work available to me except one project that I really am going to have to dig in my heels before I can face it. So here I am.)
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The latest cuteness, was walking home from day care yesterday. He asked me to pick him up at one point, and I didn't argue, so I was carrying him when a neighborhood dog started barking at us from its fenced yard. The prince was alarmed, but he patted my face and said "It's okay, Mommy." ♥
I don't remember who recommended An Ever-Fixed Mark eight million yonks ago, but I had it open in a tab on my phone for many, many months and finally read it. For the benefit of anyone who's further behind than I am, it's a soulmark/wristname treatment of Pride and Prejudice, and that's all I'll say about that except to note that it got me to dig out the 1995 BBC miniseries again (I do love the Netherfield ball scene, before it all goes sideways; in fact I generally like the ballroom scenes in the TV and film adaptations, because the directors pretty uniformly use the scenes properly and achieve what they're going for, as far as I'm concerned, and everyone looks great doing it; I think late Regency fashion might have suited me) and I may one day actually - gasp! - get one or more volumes of Austen down off the shelf and actually read them again.
I sort of miss being fannish about things. I don't consume much new media anymore, because we're not ready for the kid to be watching TV so we don't turn it on until he's in bed, and then there's only a couple of hours at most before we go to bed ourselves, so it's generally hockey or curling or old familiar comfort viewing rather than anything a person would have to pay attention to. Plus Himself and I have different tastes in TV shows; we both like sci-fi, there's some overlap on fantasy, but he's not much of a one for most procedurals (legal, medical, police, political, whatever) and would generally prefer to eat glass than watch a half-hour sitcom from any era or costume drama of any length. (That might be a bit harsh. But he doesn't care for them, and in fact he doesn't watch nearly the amount of TV on his own that I do or did on my own, so if I'm going to "make" him have the TV on in the limited time we're together without the prince in the evenings, I feel it's fair not to "make" him sit through something so far down his list of preferences.) So when I do DVR those, I save them to watch when he's out, which isn't super often. One falls behind. And of course getting out to the movies requires a week's worth of planning these days. We can just about keep up with Star Wars; we might have been able to get a babysitter so we could get to Avengers: Endgame, but we're so far behind on Marvel movies that we're having to do a lot of DVD catch-up before we're prepared, so we're going to have to get that one eventually as well.
No idea if anyone is even reading me anymore. I'd hoped to get back into the posting habit when you all came back from Tumblr, but I haven't managed it well. I'll keep trying, though.
( obU.S. politics )
( Family )
The latest cuteness, was walking home from day care yesterday. He asked me to pick him up at one point, and I didn't argue, so I was carrying him when a neighborhood dog started barking at us from its fenced yard. The prince was alarmed, but he patted my face and said "It's okay, Mommy." ♥
I don't remember who recommended An Ever-Fixed Mark eight million yonks ago, but I had it open in a tab on my phone for many, many months and finally read it. For the benefit of anyone who's further behind than I am, it's a soulmark/wristname treatment of Pride and Prejudice, and that's all I'll say about that except to note that it got me to dig out the 1995 BBC miniseries again (I do love the Netherfield ball scene, before it all goes sideways; in fact I generally like the ballroom scenes in the TV and film adaptations, because the directors pretty uniformly use the scenes properly and achieve what they're going for, as far as I'm concerned, and everyone looks great doing it; I think late Regency fashion might have suited me) and I may one day actually - gasp! - get one or more volumes of Austen down off the shelf and actually read them again.
I sort of miss being fannish about things. I don't consume much new media anymore, because we're not ready for the kid to be watching TV so we don't turn it on until he's in bed, and then there's only a couple of hours at most before we go to bed ourselves, so it's generally hockey or curling or old familiar comfort viewing rather than anything a person would have to pay attention to. Plus Himself and I have different tastes in TV shows; we both like sci-fi, there's some overlap on fantasy, but he's not much of a one for most procedurals (legal, medical, police, political, whatever) and would generally prefer to eat glass than watch a half-hour sitcom from any era or costume drama of any length. (That might be a bit harsh. But he doesn't care for them, and in fact he doesn't watch nearly the amount of TV on his own that I do or did on my own, so if I'm going to "make" him have the TV on in the limited time we're together without the prince in the evenings, I feel it's fair not to "make" him sit through something so far down his list of preferences.) So when I do DVR those, I save them to watch when he's out, which isn't super often. One falls behind. And of course getting out to the movies requires a week's worth of planning these days. We can just about keep up with Star Wars; we might have been able to get a babysitter so we could get to Avengers: Endgame, but we're so far behind on Marvel movies that we're having to do a lot of DVD catch-up before we're prepared, so we're going to have to get that one eventually as well.
No idea if anyone is even reading me anymore. I'd hoped to get back into the posting habit when you all came back from Tumblr, but I haven't managed it well. I'll keep trying, though.
