Author: mizkit

Moving 2018: Goodbye, Manor House

April 30, 2018

Things have not gone particularly right today. Bank would not allow a standing order of sufficient magnitude to be set up online to pay rent. Went to bank. Ran into friend on the way. Lovely to see her! 20 minute delay on way to bank. Cannot set up standing order at bank kiosk either. Eyed customer service. Concluded they were the wrong people to talk to. Went to cashier. Stood in line several minutes for cashier. Turns out I should have gone to customer service. Customer service helps me. STILL…

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Moving 2018: The Induction Conundrum

April 22, 2018

So Monday night (we have no internet access and won’t for another week, if we’re lucky; if we’re not lucky, it’ll be longer) I set forth to Make Dinner in the new house. Except the stove wouldn’t work. Which was to say, it was obviously turning on and stuff, but not heating up. And that was how we discovered induction cook tops require pots with a certain iron content, which ours lacked. Tuesday, Indy and I marched all over hell and breakfast looking at induction-compatible cookware, much of which was…

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we’ve moved house!!

April 16, 2018

HI EVERYBODY EVERYTHING IS INSANE WE’RE MOVING AND AAAAGH IT’S ALL GOING BADLY! So my husband got a new job in Dublin (yay!) and we found a house to move in to (yay!) and, uh, the moveing van was only big enough to take HALF our stuff (boo!) and we can’t afford to rent another one and so I’m running a nutzoid, “pay what you can, throw it in the hat, in time there will be A NOVEL TO THANK YOU” kind of paypal-based fundraiser thing to try to help…

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Marvel Movie Marathon: Dark World

April 2, 2018

Marvel Movie Marathon: Dark World: this is much less bad than I remember. Like, if I had to choose between watching it again and watching Iron Man 3 again I’d definitely choose Dark World. Dark World is the second Marvel movie I hadn’t rewatched, although I’d rewatched parts of it. Going in a second time, I remembered it as half a good movie (the Thor & Loki Road Show) & half a bad movie (everything else), but honestly, it’s not that bad. It’s not *great*, and I think the Space…

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day two books!

March To-Done

April 1, 2018

What March did not have was a lot of is blogging. There has been an awful lot of Life going on, much of it positive in nature, but still, there’s been a lot of it. In March I: – wrote a 5k proposal chapter – wrote a short synopsis & 20ish pages of a proposal – wrote a very tiny bit on the new book …that is not nearly as much as I would have liked it to be. And I know for a fact that April isn’t going to…

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