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better things
Jun. 18th, 2023 06:03 pmI feel like I should post about some good things to balance out that last post (and for myself, too. It IS good to remind myself of the good things).
❧ Our tart cherry tree has a really excellent crop this year. We already picked enough for a pie (and made the pie) and there's more still on the tree that'll be ready in a few more days.
❧ I finally have some concrete book design ideas for You Yao/Are You OK, and I tracked down the untranslated extras (the novel is locked on jjwxc, so it wasn't just a matter of buying them unfortunately).
❧ I took my bike to the shop for a tuneup (storytime: my father in law decided to give me a bike he didn't want to take with him when he was moving, so he left it at our place, only he didn't tell us he was doing that, so I let it sit outside for like two years thinking it was our downstairs neighbor's, and only realized otherwise when he moved and didn't take it with him). The two oldest kids are steady enough on their own bikes that I only have to figure out how to manage biking with the youngest, which sounds--doable!
❧ My mom's visiting soon, which should be mostly good--she's iffy about a few things, but apparently did ultimately come down on the side of being supportive when my sibling came out as nonbinary so she might be better about it this year than she was last summer. (I'm probably never even going to mention my own gender questioning to her tbh, but 4yo is also genderfluid and that's more important).
❧ I recently read Copper Coins, a historical/supernatural danmei featuring a monk with amnesia and a dragon searching for his stolen bones (the two things may be connected). It didn't grab me in a fic-writing way but I did enjoy it enough that I'm starting one of the author's other novels, Cultural Relics Are Not To Be Disturbed, which is an urban fantasy, and I'm not very far along but it's fun so far.
❧ Our tart cherry tree has a really excellent crop this year. We already picked enough for a pie (and made the pie) and there's more still on the tree that'll be ready in a few more days.
❧ I finally have some concrete book design ideas for You Yao/Are You OK, and I tracked down the untranslated extras (the novel is locked on jjwxc, so it wasn't just a matter of buying them unfortunately).
❧ I took my bike to the shop for a tuneup (storytime: my father in law decided to give me a bike he didn't want to take with him when he was moving, so he left it at our place, only he didn't tell us he was doing that, so I let it sit outside for like two years thinking it was our downstairs neighbor's, and only realized otherwise when he moved and didn't take it with him). The two oldest kids are steady enough on their own bikes that I only have to figure out how to manage biking with the youngest, which sounds--doable!
❧ My mom's visiting soon, which should be mostly good--she's iffy about a few things, but apparently did ultimately come down on the side of being supportive when my sibling came out as nonbinary so she might be better about it this year than she was last summer. (I'm probably never even going to mention my own gender questioning to her tbh, but 4yo is also genderfluid and that's more important).
❧ I recently read Copper Coins, a historical/supernatural danmei featuring a monk with amnesia and a dragon searching for his stolen bones (the two things may be connected). It didn't grab me in a fic-writing way but I did enjoy it enough that I'm starting one of the author's other novels, Cultural Relics Are Not To Be Disturbed, which is an urban fantasy, and I'm not very far along but it's fun so far.
