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Trying to make it a point to write a livejournal at least weekly - we'll see just how long this lasts....especially since I'll be out of town from the 8-13th, visiting Tanya in Chicago...and clearing out my storage unit there. It's only been there since 2005/2006.... >,>.

I am so excited to see Tanya!!!!!! I can't wait!!! :-D

Ah, well.

Not much up with me - my brother in law (and his wife) who live in the upstairs half of the house have decided to let her Aunt come live with them...without discussing it with Bobby or I. Really??? These are the same people who use up most of the water - showering daily (and running the water for 10min before getting in. we've timed it.), doing 4 loads of laundry a week... Bobby and I shower every other-to-three days, and maybe 4 loads a MONTH! Wtf. (We have a surface well, it sucks, and they insist on acting like we have city water. YOU DON'T. YOU NEVER HAVE. STOP IT.) It's really frustrating and annoying - but my list of grievances against them is horrendously long and it's terribly negative. Let's avoid that for now, shall we?

The power went out today, but it's back now (obviously). :)

I finished all the Unofficial Sherlock Cookbook stuff for my part, and have sent it to my sister for editing and understandability. I've really had a ton of fun, researching, measuring, testing and adapting and changing things out. I love to cook, so this was the best project for me to dive into! I'm really really happy/proud of my recipes, since I've been using them for ages, or like some, I've recently come up with....or I've BEEN using it and had to remake it because I cook by scent and taste and sight, so I needed to measure.

For my SSHG fanfiction realm... I'm nearly done with the next two chapters of Another Dream, and I'm 7 chapters into another fic which I need to rename because I don't like it, and I'm 8 chapters into another... My Promptfest fic is completed, barring editing, and that's due on the 30th... Yikes!. I need to update Guilt, but my muse is telling me to finish AD first, then I will be allowed to focus on Guilt. No matter how much I yearn to write the next part. (Thanks a lot, muse.)

I'm still poking my original fiction, and very tempted to try this NaNoWriMo? thing for my novel. I would love to work on Bean's world some more!! :)

I still can't log into my Guild Wars 2 account and am actually very angry/annoyed. 8 years with them and this is the first time I've ever had such terrible service. Can't log in since 26 October...and not a damn thing done to fix the main part of the problem. >(

Bedtime with the hubby now, whee! :)

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Sometimes I really dislike my brother in-law and his wife, who live upstairs.

Bit of background…
They consistently forget things, like leaving the dryer running (the timer is broken) for 4+ hours, or that they have pets who need to be walked (we frequently get texts ‘oh can you walk the dogs? We’re still in bumblefuck’), etc.

We don’t complain, we just try to help, since we ARE home and the dryer costs us $ to run, and we don’t really want the upstairs ruined by dog/cat shit/pee.

Their dogs are big, stupid, and clumsy. Their cat likes to knock stuff over. We frequently hear crashes caused by said overweight animals.

Yesterday, the power went out at noon. At 6:20, everyone was home and we still had no power - so Bobby and I blew the popsicle stand and went out to dinner…a super-rarity. (The last time we went out to eat was August, for my birthday.)

9:30, we returned, and the upstairs was deserted. But power was back! So Bobby went up to turn on the router (which is there).

While up there, he noticed that they had left four candles burning - granted, in large glass containers that he knew their cat had knocked over before.

Now, they have often “joked” about burning the house down. To the point of “planning” it.

Bobby blew out all four candles after much internal debate, and returned downstairs. After all, why risk it?

At 12:30, his brother comes bursting downstairs.

Apparently, they’d left candles burning on purpose - and now the “expensive” candles are “ruined” and “won’t melt right”. So they’re mad at us.

…I’m sorry, but what the bloody hell?!?! You left candles burning entirely unattended with three animals. No, we don’t often come up, but can’t they see it wasn’t done out of malice or to “ruin all their shit”??

Of course not.

Because it’s all about them.

…*sighs*