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I've been trying to get back into writing after my illness and the heat knocked me on my ass. I couldn't motivate myself to take up my Forever Knight stories yet. So I, somewhat crazy pants, signed up for NaNoWriMo. I'm writing something I've always wanted to read: A m/m time-travel romance. HAHAHAHAHAH. Yes, seriously.

I doubt I'll finish it by the end of November but I'm hoping it will kickstart my writing bug again. I got 1700something words tonight. It's a good start, I guess. I'm on vacation later this month so I'll have more time then but I hope to be able to write some every day for at least an hour. ::fingers crossed:: Maybe somewhere in November, I'll return to Forever Knight.

The frustrating thing is I have most of the last two stories mapped out and about 5000 words already written on the two final stories. Not really a huge amount to finish. And yet...

Maybe I need to go back to the episodes to re-inspire myself. I don't know. I'll see how it goes.

What the title says, from Catherine Disher's ebay thing. It will come in handy the week or two of winter when I don't feel like turning up the heater. The jackets, I'd never wear since I rarely wear a jacket in the winter. The bathrobe I feel like I'd use at least some.

I have not been feeling well for a couple of months but it's finally worn me down. I take Ozempic for diabetes and my doctor increased my dosage to the full 2mg at the end of March.

The good: I've lost 20 pounds since I started taking it and my blood sugar is more controlled. Sometimes. Other times it goes wildly high or low for no reason (not food related).

The bad: the reason I've lost so much weight so quickly is that I can't eat. They tell you that it slows digestion and the emptying of the stomach, leaving you full longer and cutting down on the "food noise". The "nausea" is supposed to only last a few weeks as your body adjusts. Mine is constant after two months. Plus hunger headaches are pretty constant. I switched to eating tiny amounts and snacks (like breakfast is half a small container of yogurt, snack is half-palm full of nuts, lunch is a boiled egg, dinner is a cup of salad). It doesn't matter what I eat or don't eat, it mostly comes back up, sometimes immediately, sometimes after a few hours. The things recommended to eat on Ozempic are things diabetics shouldn't eat (crackers, bread, potatoes, etc).

All I want to do is sleep. So, I work and sleep and minimally take care of the house and cats. Every time I sit down to write, I can only focus on not throwing up.

The doctor keeps saying "give it more time". I guess he wants me malnourished before he changes anything. Hopefully, he'll switch it back to the lower dose and I'll go back on insulin which causes weight gain but I was never THAT overweight, maybe 20 or 30 pounds.

Anyway, just an update on me. And if anyone has experience with the full dose of Ozempic and/or has any tips on managing nausea, I'd be happy to hear it.

Finally finished and posted Last Chapter.

I'm about 1/4 way through episode 5. And, episode 6 is already in the notes and planning stages. I think it's pretty dark and probably ep 7 will continue the darkness before they emerge, somewhat changed, but back to 'normal'.

YAY

I bought a coat from Burlington Coat Factory before we went on vacation to Ireland. I think I wore it twice while there. In Texas, I rarely wear the coat except for, maybe, 10 days a year (not in a row) when it's really cold. We're currently in that 'really cold' phase. I pulled the coat out and have been wearing it whenever I go outside to feed the feral cats or get the mail or pick up a prescription. Tonight, the zipper broke! I've only had it for 23 years! LOL

We went to Ireland in 1999.

If you hadn't guessed, this was a joke complaint.

I'm re-watching Once A Thief. I'm at the ep that has Lacroix, Schanke, and Screed, and the guy who was one of the scientists in the ep, A More Permanent Hell (he was Death in Supernatural). It's old-home week I guess. And Nigel and Kapelos are hamming it up. I love it.

I described Once A Thief to a friend in Brazil as "two hot guys, an asian chick and a dominatrix" and he asked if it was a porno. HAHAHAHAHAHA. I guess it could be in fanfiction.

Edited to add: EVEN THE CADDY MAKES AN APPEARANCE. They did a Forever Knight reunion on purpose I think. Although I'm not sure if it was the same year as Nick's car, it was clearly meant to be.

Edited again: In the very next episode is Serena from Baby Baby.
I guess all the Canadian shows get incestuous because a lot of the same people are in due South and PSI Factor and other Canadian shows.

I found some of Ger's Stratford Festival plays on amazon (Broadway HD subscription channel). I'm watching Antony and Cleopatra right now. It's nice to see him in something he obviously loves to do. Like usual when I watch Shakespeare, the first 15 minutes, I can't understand what the hell they're talking about. Then, gradually, I start getting into the weird rhythm and often repetitiveness of the speech and finally start understanding. I really, really don't understand how they can remember their lines.

I watched "The Family" with Nigel Bennett and I was right, not for me but Nigel was good. And suitably creepy. I watched all his episodes of the Border and am now watching his episodes from Psy Factor (eye-roll, really Dan Akroyd? REALLY, pretending it's real?). I'm really enjoying Matt Frewer. He's, I think, unintentionally hilarious to me. I keep expecting him to glitch like Max Headroom or start running around like the Trash Can Man. The facial expressions he gets sometimes. I think next I'm going to rewatch Lexx and see how I feel about it now, 20 years after I watched it the first time.

No real progress on the last FK fic in the series. I don't know what the blockage is. So I started something new. Kinda a season 4 if Last Knight never happened. And it doesn't go too far off the rails.

This is what I've been doing instead of writing my Forever Knight story:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43739973

Just a bit of silliness I thought of one night when I was falling asleep. Yes, my brain is weird.

So, I've been binging Torchwood. I re-watched it once since it originally aired and that was several years ago. And I just watched part 4 of Children of Earth and WAAAAAA NOOOOO IANTO!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I guess I trauma-blocked it out but I had really forgotten it happened. Except in my world, it did not happen nope I'm trauma-blocking it again. Ianto and Jack are off somewhere frolicking.

https://fandomweekly.dreamwidth.org/

It's Due South since the challenge is Innocence and I couldn't think of anything having to do with any other characters I normally write about.

It was a fun challenge.