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feeling: awake

I am way in over my head on the thing I'm working on for the MarvelReverseBang. Clothing is hard. However, I imagine nudity is also hard and is frowned on harder when looking for reference pics at work.

My second attempt at lasagna might have had too much meat sauce, though Wal-Mart gave me weird thin flat noodles instead of the thicker once with the wavy edge, so at least they definitely cooked through. However because of the substitution I have two more boxes of them, and I doubt I'll finish the extra in my freezer for another couple of months. So what else do people do with weird flat oven ready noodles?

Had to call for another visit from the plumber and I'm hoping they can fit me in today. The drain for the washing machine gets backed up and the water spews down the wall and I'm getting sad for my wood flooring. I mean I've mopped it up ever since I noticed, but still. I tried to stick the drain poker thing I have down it, but it's not long enough. I haven't washed clothes for the last two weeks and my lounge clothes are getting more and more ridiculous as I try to find clean things I evidently STOPPED WEARING FOR A REASON!

eta: they're here! Maybe I'll be able to continue to wear clean underwear!
eta2: oy that's a bad smell.

Mowed the lawn, but used the highest setting because I didn't feel like crying. This left enough of the weeds there that I felt fine finally spraying them so they will hopefully be deader when I mow them short next week.

feeling: hungry

I got mail from

dine I enjoyed the update quite a bit! If you don't have them as part of your circle, you're missing out on entertainment and great recs. : )

I made egg sandwiches for breakfast, both eggs were double yolked monstrosities. Creepy yet delicious. I'm making a lasagna now, it's my first attempt and I hope it goes well because I've been craving it for a couple of weeks now. I miss Fazoli's, it was a great fast food Italian option. The Everyplates meal kits have really upped my confidence in the kitchen. Is it false confidence? probably. Do I still have all my fingers? so far.

OTOH - I've gotten sucked into Epicurious' Basic Skills Challenge which takes 50 people gives them ALL the kitchen gadgets and then asks them to do something like core and peel an apple (spoiler alert, someone tries to use a meat tenderizer mallet and I absolutely lost all my shit) or separate an egg (which one man manages to technically do in the most wrong way possible) and then an expert shows you how to do it the right way. So I also see that I'm clearly not the worst in the kitchen.

I'm reading The Testaments right now and I'm enjoying it now that I checked the wiki page and know there are actually three narrators. I'm dim sometimes. I enjoyed hating the The Handmaid's Tale which I read a couple of years ago. It's just infuriating, and even though obviously everyone jumped on the bandwagon because of the current state of politics in so many places, I probably should have waited for a better time to read it. But since I'd already done it to myself, I figured I might as well read the sequel and see what happens. I tried to watch the Hulu series despite my distaste for Elizabeth Moss, but didn't make it out of season 1.

While reading, I got an idea for a AU Hydra rises/Winter Soldier army fic for Sam/Bucky. It glances the tropes for a slavery fic, but also lets me stage a coup and do some other things with the Avengers characters. Not sure it'll ever see the light of day. Sam fans have to deal with the short end of the stick a lot when it comes to race and fandom, and I don't want to add to that. But I wrote a real easy 1,500 words last night at work and I like a lot of the sex/vulnerability/trust/consent/political issues involved. I mean, sure I could have been writing my assignment for

idproquo but y'know, why do what you're supposed to?

feeling: numb

So I got a half off coupon for EveryPlates and have been pleased so far. Normally it's $10 for two portions of a meal and the minimum is 3 meals a week. I originally scoffed and thought the portions looked small, but it was 1)easy to cook, 2)very tasty, and 3)actually filling. I've done sweet'n'tangy cherry meatballs and crispy ranch porkchops so far.

They claim I have 3 boxes I can give away for free if I give them emails. If you'd like to take a chance, leave your preferred contact here or DM it to me.

There's also an option to get $20 off your first box and then I get $20 off my next box.

I've done several subscription boxes years ago, and as far as I can tell, this is the cheapest. Everything they sent looks like good quality and it was packaged well in a smallish box.

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Renae

May 2025