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Wow, it's been a while...

Weird month. We learned how to dye fabrics, I finished a big ass quilt, and also just finished quilting one more today, only missing the binding. I also binge watched a ton of movies based on Jane Austen's books, and now apparently I have covid, though it's mostly just making me tired and sweaty, so it's fine.

Wow, that last sentence sounded like Jane Austen gave me covid. Clearly, no.

The public insurance peeps invited me over for a revision of my sick leave this week, and I've been confirmed to be temporarily incapacitated. What an exciting experience. Apparently there are programs designed as permanent damage prevention means, but I am not entirely sure what that's supposed to entail in my case. Massages? Church? (I have sadly come to associate the publicly funded psychiatry in Poland with church.)

Oh, random thought, I would really like to try burning sage. It's one of those weird things that I have only ever seen in movies, nobody I know has ever come near such a thing. I wouldn't even know how to approach purchasing a ...wad of sage to burn. I do love drinking it though, so I wanna. Is that even the same sage?

Current Mood: calm

althea_valara

There is a very important news post in

dw_news that you all should read carefully.

TL;DR - Dreamwidth is forced to start blocking those accessing the site from a Mississippi IP address starting September 1st. This is because the state of Mississippi has passed a law requiring residents verify their age before accessing social media. As the burden of doing this is WAY HIGH for Dreamwidth (plus they don't want to do it anyway!), they have made the reluctant choice to block those users.

Dreamwidth is fighting the law in court with the help of Netchoice;

denise is pretty confident they'll eventually win, but there's been a setback with one of the courts and thus are forced to take this action in the meantime.

I know I have some UK folks on my access list - I have not read all the comments on the news post yet but the very first comment from

denise says the UK law doesn't apply to Dreamwdith because the number of users from the UK is too small.

I continue to be happy that Dreamwidth is one of my homes on the Internet. I stand by and agree with their principles.

Current Mood: calm

crafty_packrat

8lbs of peaches, black amber plums, pluots, figs, a quart of whole milk, goat mozzarella, baguette, roma tomatoes, bell peppers, peach and plum cake slices, and walnut dark chocolate cookies.

I'm making a toasted caprese sandwich again and will be making peach salsa mid-week.

althea_valara

Someone - I forget who, sorry! - linked to this list of 15 questions for fanfic writers, put together by

maevedarcy. I do so love questionnaires and writing memes, even if I'm not that big of a writer (yet!).

( questions and answers under cut to spare your reading pages the length )

azurelunatic

Visiting the out-laws with Belovedest. Last night we had dinner out at the Dirty Bird (chicken bar & grill) so this morning's breakfast is leftovers. Which I had in bed, due to the scarcity of tables in the hotel room, and my general unwillingness to get out of bed before nine.

Unfortunately, breakfast was crispy chicken Caesar salad, with buffalo sauce on the side. And after I finished that, I was dipping baby carrots in the sauce. And there was a spill.

I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
I can't sleep, 'cause my bed's on fire
Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire
Spicy pillow, qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa, far better
Run-run, run-run-run away
Oh-oh-oh

Current Mood: silly
Current Location: far away
Current Music: The Talking Heads

azurelunatic

Thursday's appointment was one that I knew was going to stir up trauma. The doctor ended up listing that aspect of it as PTSD, which I guess is fair. I always have thought of it as "trauma" rather than PTSD, which is kind of odd in retrospect.

I wound up taking a small dose of my "street cred" when I realized I was starting to have a trauma response. That turned out to be a good idea. There's a follow up in a few months, and I should pre-medicate for it.

Afterwards I got the 32 oz reverse mocha from a local coffee shack. (Not one of the bikini coffee shacks.) With chocolate whipped cream, thank you very much. My first time encountering white coffee espresso in a drink. Interesting and almost floral. I had Belovedest (a bitter supertaster) try it. Still coffee tasting, but not as strongly.

Although that's also possibly due to me only having 3 shots of espresso in the drink instead of the usual 6.

I would much rather discuss the coffee than the source of the trauma and the appointment, in any event.

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