So Octocon was great fun. I went into it tired (because i was an IDIOT and i got a new phone on THURSDAY and i couldn’t get it to update properly and i stayed up until TWO IN THE MORNING getting it working right, the day before a weekend-long convention started!) and had a panel Friday night so I had to be vaguely functional through that, and more or less was. It was a weekend of selfies because I didn’t have the camera with me a lot because I couldn’t…
– buy better sugar – make fudge make MORE fudge if there’s time – shower – pincurl hair – pack M&M – pack RAVEN HEART – pack CHANCE – pack fudge – pack jam – pack dress – pack shoes – pack nylons – pack sturdy underwear :) – finish laundry – fold laundry – put laundry away if we’re really ambitious – finish setting up phone – eat something – chop up more crabapples – put the frozen ones into bags so i have room to freeze the new…
We picked apples on Sunday. This warped panorama does not do justice to the numbers of apples currently residing in our entryway: The bag in the back corner, and the white box, which is like 2×3′ or something, are also full of apples. There are So Many Apples. There’s a fairly large bag already missing, too, as I sent one home with my sister. A friend just dropped by and took away the small box next to the plant pots and the black bag at the foot of the photo,…
I’ve been having a hard time gathering myself to blog. Part of it is that I’ve been very busy (I got everything on the last post’s to do list done and a great deal more), and part of it is that I’m very tired. It’s been a terribly emotional year and as I’ve said to a few people, we’re not really so much scraping the bottom of the barrel as trying to claw our way back up to its great height. So this is what I’ve been doing instead of…
– mail voter registration stuff – go over AF galleys *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YAY* – shake down the crabapple tree (again tho) – process crabapples (again tho) – make crabapple jelly (again tho) – perhaps make crabapple jam (again tho) – but just you wait – make raspberry jam for octocon/etsy – make strawberry jam for octocon/etsy – make hot fudge for octocon/etsy – order this wig? for octocon because reasons nah – order/have made a Stetson Aviatrix (Peggy Carter’s hat) – email isbn info to isbn lady – email harry for…