Menage à Trois Bingo

Yesterday, while poking about AO3 reading new fic, I found one that really felt like a message from the universe.

Title: Make Me a Headline (I Want to Be That Bold)
Author: Anonymous for now (part of the anonymous Dracotops_Harry fest)
Word Count: 31K
Chapters: 6

Later chapters--probably starting around chapter 3--find Draco using his fear of [some action] as an indicator that he should do that exact thing. And what do you know, that is exactly what I am feeling led to do as well. Afraid to open up and be vulnerable in places like here? Time to do that thing. Afraid to go to the EarthFire Beltane ritual on Saturday? Guess what.

Also, back on the fic rec part of this post, it's a lovely piece of writing with one of my favorite tropes: a rekindled romance after many years of separation where both are independently yearning for each other. mac_arthur_park will know why that is. *blows kisses in the direction of North Carolina* Countdown = EIGHT!

I also enjoyed the friendship portrayed between Draco, Blaise and Pansy.

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow, you're only a day away!

Mom Taxi, day 2: Success.

Rosa's school abolished school bus service for this year due (ostensibly) to discipline problems on the buses. I'm not sure I believe that, since it seems like there should be some other recourse than to eliminate the service altogether, but whatever. In any case, she had been riding the bus to school for the last several years, but now she can't. Prior to that, I had been taking her to school in the morning, and Chris or Tammie would pick her up. But now, we only have two cars, and Tammie's working slightly later hours, so no one is available to do pick up.

We arranged a carpool. I drive Rosa and two other little girls to school in the morning, and the mom of one of them brings all three of them home. Started yesterday, and all has gone well both days so far.

And bonus! I get to work on time!

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I HAZ TIKKIT! Long time of no seeing my mac_arthur_park is near an end. It will have been just over three months. That is way too long and I miss her like mad. Soon now, my love.

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I have been rereading _Ink and Steel_ (aka "Will and Kit's Excellent Adventure") by Elizabeth Bear. Unlike my usual reading behavior, it's taken me over a week and I still haven't finished it. I don't seem to want it to be over: I keep rereading the same pages to enjoy them again. Would really like to listen to it, but it's not available in audiobook. *sadface*

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS!

*squee*!

Lazy morning snuggles with mac_arthur_park, waffles-n-bacon made with love by lavendargrrl, Kidlet in the corner with her computer, ohari in the comfy chair talking to his mom...life is very very good.

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Thursday
Massage that didn't happen. I had a massage appt for 6:30, but when I showed up they said it had been cancelled and rescheduled for 2/11. I recalled, then, that no one had called to confirm it. None of us, however, had cancelled it, and I never make appointments for Mondays. I left, somewhat disgruntled, but after a few minutes regained some gruntle and called them back to cancel the 2/11 and make yet an appt for Sunday morning.

Polymunch @ Shameless Grounds. Ampersand earrings are a hit, and give me an excuse to schmoop about mac_arthur_park to some people who hadn't heard about her yet. Not that I really needed an excuse, of course. *schmoop*

Friday
Pennie's BBQ. Enormous servings of meat; Sisuile's "Jumbo Rib Tips" was apparently referring to the size of the entree rather than the pieces of meat--or maybe both--and was a pile of meat about the size of a breadbox. Rosa and I split a full slab of baby back ribs, and unusually, she had leftovers and I ate my whole share. Apparently running 3.5 miles earlier in the evening had left me hungry. Food was good, though not my favorite BBQ sauce ever. Tammie found it way too sweet; I agree but I didn't find it so sweet as to be untasty.

Saturday
Swimstrong 2013. Signed up a month or so ago for this charitable event: a one hour endurance swim. I made 2633 yards, which is nowhere near the distance that some others got (upwards of 4300!) but was pretty close to what I expected. I'd told them I thought I'd get about 2750; I might have, if I hadn't had to stop three times to adjust my cap and goggles.

Fuzzy's Tacos. ona_tangent introduced me to this place and Saturday I took the family. Everyone enjoyed, so yay.

Last Saturday Strip. Bi erasure FTW. (Not.) The show is run by a bi woman, Charlotte Sumtimes, who comments every time that she's doing it for the LGBT community, for and by people of all sizes, genders and sexual orientations, and it generally lives up to that. But Saturday's show was produced by two of the drag queens in Charlotte's honor, and at one point one of them did a "roll call" of the audience: lesbians, gay men, straight people. And then she stopped, leaving me annoyed and unaccounted for. The show itself was also different from the usual, in that it was entirely burlesque babes stripping this month, several of them locally-famous performers who don't usually appear in LSS shows, with drag kings and queens doing an indifferently funny roast of Charlotte.

Sunday
Kolache Factory. We had a groupon for Kolache Factory which was due to expire (today), so Chris had tried to go redeem it on Saturday, only they close at 2:00pm and he arrived too late. So I went yesterday instead, and collected four savory and eight fruit-filled kolache. Basically they're filled buns, and quite tasty too. The store has tables and coffee/beverage service, but I got mine to go.

And today
Barely awake, zoning out in front of the computer (as you do), I get a call from Tammie with a flat tire. Meet her at the repair shop, back home to work. I was planning to go to see Christine for lunch today and schmoop at her, but she was too tired due to her children not sleeping last night. I briefly thought I'd go see Rachel instead, but no car. So I made myself a BBQ quesadilla out of Friday's leftovers and am back here with my computer again.

So that was my last few days, interspersed with snuggles, TV watching, insufficient sleep, missing Alicia, and attempting to glare the calendar into submission.