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itsabattlefield Supernatural battle. Entry count was only 20, but... I'm me, and I have a bunch of extras... What can I say? I love me some werewolves, vampires & witches ;D

[20] Being Human (US & UK)
[03] She-Wolf of London
[02] Sabrina the Teenage Witch
[07] Grimm
[01] Moonlight
[02] Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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I did end up going to bed super early last night - I hit the sack at 8:30 pm and slept, with minor interruptions, until 8 am, and it was fantastic. I don't know why I was so exhausted yesterday, but I'm glad I didn't try to fight it like I normally would to stay up until my usual bedtime.

My meetings next Tuesday have all been cancelled, so I've added the day to my vacation next week, so I'll be in Monday and then done until the next Monday. I also discovered I had booked 2 separate optometrist appointments, so I cancelled the one next Thursday and will go in August as usual.

My plan this weekend is to bake a blueberry crumb cake* to take to my brother's on Sunday for our birthday bbq, and then make a key lime pie for myself on Tuesday, since my birthday is Wednesday. I haven't figured out what I'll make myself for dinner, but that is always the less important part of things to me. As long as I have a good birthday dessert, the dinner can be anything.

*Note: it will be an orange blueberry crumb cake since my sister does not like lemon. We'll see how it goes!

I am also once again waiting for the cleaning service to let me know if they are coming on Monday or not. They did not come this past Monday since I said it wouldn't work for me, but then there was radio silence, so today I reached out again, but have not gotten an answer. I appreciate the work they do immensely. I just wish they were better at communicating!

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Current Music: Beautiful Day - u2

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My dental appointment went well - it was just a cleaning! - but they still want me to come every three months instead of twice a year. Sigh. Anyway, the appointment was timed so that I did not have coffee or breakfast beforehand, and didn't get home until a little after 1 pm, so I should have just had lunch. But I was so tired that sleep won out over food and I ended up taking a THREE HOUR ~~tour~~ nap. I did finally eat, but now I'm like, maybe I should just go back to bed? Idk.

Anyway, it's Wednesday and I have read some books!

What I've just finished
Radiant Star by Ann Leckie. This was enjoyable but very low-key, even at the climax.

Long Live Evil and All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan. Hiilarious and very genre-savvy portal fantasy. I enjoyed both books and am hoping the third one sticks the landing. Sadly, it's not due out until next summer. Alas.

What I'm reading now
Dead Hand Rule by Max Gladstone, which is the third (and final?) book in the Craft Wars trilogy? series? Idk. I'm enjoying it but he is pulling people from all over the first series and I don't always remember who they are since it's been a while since I read those books.

What I'm reading next
As ever, it is a mystery.

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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Ask - the Smiths

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Edinburgh has been good so far! Our hotel is lovely, the food is good, and it has an elevator and working a/c, yay!

My pain levels with my back and hips fluctuate, and sometimes for no discernible reason. BUT! One of the things we were wondering about appears to be true: I’m far less inflamed and in general background pain, and it’s almost certainly due to the food. This is something I’ve read a lot about; people with some sort of chronic pain issue finding it eases up when they’re eating outside of the US. Hell, it turns out that the bun of the breakfast sandwich I’ve eaten for the past three days has traces of corn in it, and I’ve had no reactions. And I’m less bloated. That’s it, moving to the UK to live off salads, black pudding, and scones with clotted cream.

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As is traditional, I went to Marks & Spencers and bought a lot of underthings. I may hit another M&S to buy additional bras, because the two I got are fantastic.

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Proof that I can go out in the sun and not immediately die!

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I meant to post last night but I could barely keep my eyes open so I went to bed early (and missed a super rare Mets comeback in Atlanta!) and slept for 10 glorious hours! I felt great at work today, and got some stuff done, and made some suggestions about the September board meeting agenda that I am sure the CEO and the Chair will not like, but they wanted to get radical and also not overrun the meeting time by 45 minutes again, and I offered a good way to do it to my boss. We'll see if anyone bites.

I am off tomorrow for the dentist - it should just be a cleaning (though I am braced to hear I need yet another crown) but I am always so tired when it's over. And my team meeting on Tuesday got cancelled so I am tempted to take next Tuesday off since I'm already off Wednesday (my birthday), Thursday, and Friday of next week. My boss was like, sure! but I'm still thinking about it.

I thought I had something else to post about but I can't remember... oh right, I finally watched Project Hail Mary the other night. I enjoyed it but it was too long. And there was not enough Eva Stratt, who was the best thing in the movie.

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Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Mets vs Royals on tv

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Had a couple of baking fails this weekend, so I guess it's granola bars for breakfast this week! Oh well. Eventually I will bake those myself too, but for now, store-bought is fine. *g* Luckily, this hoisin garlic chicken (NYTimes gift link) turned out well. I added soy sauce in place of salt, and also a sprinkling of Chinese five-spice powder instead of red pepper flakes, and it was delicious. And I have leftovers enough for a couple more meals. I also made bacon this morning, so it'll be another week of chicken bacon ranch wraps for lunch. Uh, not the hoisin chicken, though. Perdue short cuts roasted chicken strips.

And I had the first plums of the summer this weekend and they were so good. Plums! I love them so much! Cherries have also been good, but are much more expensive. And I figured out a use for the leftover seltzer for when Friend L was here - it's a good vehicle for the electrolyte powder I otherwise don't end up using, and this weekend it came in handy.

In other news, this morning, my cleaning service texted me asking if they could come tomorrow. I responded promptly saying, no, but I was available on these other dates. They have not responded. So now I'm like, are they coming tomorrow? Do I have to be ready? Because I am not ready and that is why I said no. Ugh. So now I will scramble to get ready and they won't come. Bah.

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Booooooo I didn’t get to do anything I planned for today because I woke up with a “pray for a coma” migraine that had the bonus fun of chills. London is suffering a heatwave, and I spent the first half of the day bundled under two duvets. I’m mad about all of this.

But! We leave for Edinburgh tomorrow, and that will be fun!

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Current Mood: weird

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The good:

I slept on the plane!
Even more shocking, I fell asleep around 10:30pm the first night and got ten TEN! hours of sleep. A miracle.
We went to a highly recommended place to have “full English” breakfasts, and my god have I missed black pudding.
We went to the V&A and ogled the jewelry.
We met up with a dear friend and had a fancy high tea, then went to see the Beetlejuice musical!!! eeeeeeee!

The bad:

We’re on the 4th floor of our hotel. There is no elevator. My legs HATE me.
My body clock refused to believe that I needed to fall asleep last night so I finally drifted off around 3:30am.
The Stroppy One is sleeping worse than I am, and he’s meeting with M:tG fans to do the signatures and sketches thing.
I’d somehow forgotten that most tube stations don’t have elevators, and many don’t have escalators. Did I mention my legs hate me? Yeah, so does my back.
I PACKED MY LIGHTEST WEIGHT WARDROBE, DAMMIT, I SHOULDN’T HAVE OVERHEATED THAT BADLY.
The fashion exhibit at the V&A is closed until 2028. Booooo!

And that was the first day and night. Today I’m doing nothing but working in the hotel room, so hopefully my legs and back will forgive me and I’ll be ready to go wandering. Tomorrow’s plans: go to The Last Tuesday Society, and then hit Accessories of Old, which is someplace the Stroppy One saw a sign for when he was walking back to the hotel after getting snacks. The Stroppy One won’t be with me when I hit the Accessories of Old, and has told me to only buy “truly exquisite things”, and that if I have any doubts I am to text him photos for a judgement call. This may seem harsh, but it’s not: my magpie brain is easily dazzled, and the local friend who’s going with me has never qualified as a designated adult in his life and will all too readily encourage nonsense. Wheeee!

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I finally caught up on the last 3 episodes of this season of Abbott Elementary and ( spoilers )

Also, my internet and cable went out for several hours this afternoon, I'm guessing because of the heat? but I was able to use my phone as a hotspot, so it didn't deter me for long. *wry* I took today off because originally I was supposed to be dog-sitting at my sister's before plans changed, and I decided to keep the 4-day weekend. I'm glad I did. I like my job and I mostly like my coworkers, but I am so tired of people asking me for things. Hopefully, I can get a bit of a respite and a reset.

I hope you are all staying cool if you're in the heatwave. <3

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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: gripping your pillow tight

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Tall Ships!!! So beautiful!!!

Wednesday reading, also beautiful!

What I've just finished
Six of Crows: A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam by Leigh Bardugo. I don't know why the title is longer than the short story but I loved it! It's an epistolary story, using an investigation of the mysterious captain of The Wraith (tall ships!!!) as the framework, and letters between Kaz and Inej make up many of the documents the investigators are using. Ugh, I love them so much! ( spoilers )

I really hope this isn't the only time Bardugo chooses to revisit the Dregs and Ketterdam, because I would pay full hardcover price for a full-length, getting the band back together heist novel.

What I'm reading now
Radiant Star by Ann Leckie. I'm enjoying it but I only have a very vague recollection of what happened in the main trilogy, so some of it is probably going over my head. And I also realized I haven't read Translation State so hopefully that is not to relevant to this one. I do enjoy how Leckie plays with POV though.

What I'm reading next
As always, who can say?

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Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Into the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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June recs update:

unfitforsociety has been updated for June 2026 with 10 recs in 3 fandoms:

* 8 Heated Rivalry
* 1 Dungeon Crawler Carl and 1 The Locked Tomb

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Current Mood: listless
Current Music: The Weatherman - Gaslight Anthem

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Current Mood: productive

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So I did finish season 5 of The Bear last night - instead of the episodes being shambolic and overly long, they were mostly a tight 22 minutes (there were 3 I think that were longer, out of 8) and ( spoilers )

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In other news, my sister and brother-in-law took Baby Miss L and her parents to Disney World this week, and I've already gotten adorable photos of them with Winnie the Pooh! Hopefully there will be many more where that came from. *g*

Also, I forgot it was a short work week and made myself a big tray of chicken cutlet parm for lunch/dinner. Oh well, it will still be delicious.

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Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: The Diamond Church Street Choir - Gaslight Anthem

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- I just realized that I’ll have to take the 24/7 mess of talisman pendants off to go through security, because even tho’ they’re sterling silver and I only take them off for baths or showers, the clasps are magnetic. Hmmph.

- I have unfollowed two people on Tumblr. I plan on refollowing them when we get back from the UK, but they always manage to have gifs of the latest episode of The Vampire Lestat at least two days before the show airs in the US. While I generally don’t care about spoilers, I’m going to miss three episodes while I’m away, so I don’t want everything spoiled.

- The weather in the SeaTac area is having rapid mood swings, and damn, my body doesn’t approve. Today is a day of massive pain, but no migraine :: knocks wood ::

- I can’t find the package of extra large pill containers that I bought at the beginning of the month, grrr. I did the wasteful but easy solution of ordering some more, and they’ll be here tomorrow. When I eventually find them, I’ll use them for bead storage.

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I slept in this morning, but I am still so tired. Luckily it's a short work week and I have a 4-day weekend next week for the 4th.

I got a late start, but I did make blueberry corn muffins and they turned out well, but I think maybe I just prefer to have blueberry or corn muffins? Idk, but I still have corn meal so maybe I'll just make corn muffins next weekend.

I also have cherries which I am excited to eat - there is so much fresh fruit now and all of it was on sale this week, so I had to choose, because I can't eat all of it before it goes bad. And last night, I set up the first coffee granita of the season, and had some earlier and it was so good.

Now I've started watching season 5 of The Bear and will probably try to finish it this weekend so I don't get too spoiled. I also watched that one-off episode Gary but did not enjoy it much. Bernthal and Moss-Bachrach have great chemistry, but ( spoilers ) It had some good needle-drops, though. Anyway, hopefully they stick the landing. I'll guess we'll see!

After that, I have so many other things to watch, so I will probably just end up rewatching something I'm already familiar with so I don't have to make a choice. *wry*

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Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra

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