Got no plans to beat myself up—if I do, I'll use a feather on a scale of weighing heart

[sovay]

My godchild said I looked amazing in this picture, so I'm sharing it. We now have matching Sir Fabulous T-shirts.



There was an extraordinary moon earlier this evening, a parchment lantern against dusk-blue. Patches of snow are still shining in the moonlight. I made fig-jam hamantashn for the first time ever and they aren't half bad. I am re-reading Tom Holt's Goatsong (1989), which I last read in 2015 when choco_frosh gave it to me. I had entirely forgotten it begins with the Plague of Athens.

Comments

[pameladean]

Your godchild is entirely correct.

Fig-jam ones sound really lovely.

P.

[sovay]

Your godchild is entirely correct.

*hugs*

Fig-jam ones sound really lovely.

My only problem is I want to eat them with some kind of goat or sheep's milk cheese!

[pameladean]

*hug*

I can quite see why goat or sheep's milk cheese seems like a natural companion to those hamantaschen.

P.

[selkie]

I've got to say, I've never seen you side by side with their more mature facial features, or maybe it's the particular camera angle, but I had a keystone from arch moment and now I am going to bed knowing I was right about something I saw once a long time ago. I mean, I was wrong in that way such things often seem wrong at the minute, but the payoff happened? I am going to BED.

[sovay]

I am going to bed knowing I was right about something I saw once a long time ago. I mean, I was wrong in that way such things often seem wrong at the minute, but the payoff happened?

"He saw, too, a turbulent stream with a great boulder in the middle of it. On the boulder lay Fflewddur's harp, which played of itself as the wind stirred the strings."

*hugs*

[selkie]

A Fflam is always ready with an appropriate quote from the canon. [Citation missing]

*hugs*

[thawrecka]

That is truly an excellent look.

[sovay]

That is truly an excellent look.

Thank you. There has been little flannel in my wardrobe since fifth grade, but I have become extremely partial to this shirt.

[cmcmck]

It IS a nice picture! :o)

[sovay]

It IS a nice picture!

Thank you!

[sholio]

You look lovely! Also, now I'm hungry. Those sound delicious.

[sovay]

You look lovely! Also, now I'm hungry. Those sound delicious.

Thank you!

. . . I am not sure they would survive being mailed across the continent in person, but in the same way as internet hugs, I would totally offer you internet hamantashn.

[sholio]

. . . I am not sure they would survive being mailed across the continent in person, but in the same way as internet hugs, I would totally offer you internet hamantashn.

I expect you're right, but I appreciate the thought and I shall happily accept internet hamantashn!

[asakiyume]

A plus plus! Matching T-shirts, comrades in adventure ^_^

[selkie]

So, I texted them this photo thinking they’d be seeing it in the daylight when their screen time turned on; their phone pushed it as a notification which overrode our careful parental foils; they pottered out to where I was writing (on paper), said they needed to use my computer, and fired off their comments to S. It was when S replied that I noticed it was about 1:00 am. While we’ve conveyed that they have access to their godmother at any time, this is not quite what we meant.

[asakiyume]

Perhaps they've intuited something about their godmother's [frequent lack of] sleep schedule....

[selkie]

Their own, too. *sigh* Their petard is thoroughly hoist this morning, as they had a Scouts meeting at 10:00.

[sovay]

Their petard is thoroughly hoist this morning, as they had a Scouts meeting at 10:00.

Yeah, how did that go?

[selkie]

Where, please, did you last leave that conveniently cued Galop Infernal ?

They woke up at 9:40 and were on Zoom at 10:04 and we dragged them in chains the whole way over an ant-hill covered in honey.

[sovay]

Where, please, did you last leave that conveniently cued Galop Infernal?

Playing in the background until such time, please God, as it is no longer needed.

They woke up at 9:40 and were on Zoom at 10:04 and we dragged them in chains the whole way over an ant-hill covered in honey.

This differs from the usual morning routine how?

[selkie]

Oooooh, you get that vaccine and you just wait, you wait for the nice postal person and Godchild Box Brown.
[in short there was more child screaming, because joint custody child was also having to get on the meeting and they were amping off each other, and just now trying to feed them lunch I learned they had learned A New Word from joint custody child!]

[sovay]

A plus plus! Matching T-shirts, comrades in adventure

Thank you! They seem to have taken to the rest of Minority Monsters (2017), too, which delights me and mildly stresses their mama.

[selkie]

You know, it’s funny, I’ve just this second learned they know current vernacular for person theoretically engaging in fellatio and what it actually is, so now I’m elsewisely stressed.

[sovay]

You know, it’s funny, I’ve just this second learned they know current vernacular for person theoretically engaging in fellatio and what it actually is, so now I’m elsewisely stressed.

How did that come up? (Has it changed since our vernacular?)

[selkie]

Shouted at a multiplayer video game (not mic’d up)!

It remains a three-syllable word starting with C. Edit: and this word is nowhere in Minority Monsters and should not deter anyone from the book!

[sovay]

Shouted at a multiplayer video game (not mic’d up)!

Jeez. Adolescence has truly begun.

I could teach them Latin equivalents instead?

[asakiyume]

Hahaha, they will be totally in-the-know, for sure.

[sartorias]

She's right!

[sovay]

She's right!

They have a much more acute fashion sense than I can remember at that age!

(Thank you.)

[a_reasonable_man]

The picture, the flannel shirt, and the t-shirt are great. I'm particularly glad that you and your godchild have such a strong connection.

[sovay]

The picture, the flannel shirt, and the t-shirt are great. I'm particularly glad that you and your godchild have such a strong connection.

Thank you. So am I.

[gwynnega]

That is an excellent ensemble.

[sovay]

That is an excellent ensemble.

Thank you!

[thisbluespirit]

You do look fabulous!!

[sovay]

You do look fabulous!!

Thank you!

[ashlyme]

I agree with your godchild - you really are stunning.

I have just come back from a long walk; we stayed out until we could see the moon, and it was worth it. She shifted from coppery-pink to rose-gold to lemon to silver and ohmygod I have seen the hare in the moon for the first time and I LOVE IT.

[sovay]

I agree with your godchild - you really are stunning.

Thank you.

The shifted from coppery-pink to rose-gold to lemon to silver and ohmygod I have seen the hare in the moon for the first time and I LOVE IT.

Oh, that sounds wonderful. Long may the tinners' rabbits run.