My paid DW account has jut expired and the wife is attempting to start a journal on DW and I don't think I have a code to give her. Can anyone supply me with one??

Thanks!!! (screened comments)

I got back to NS just fine. Stayed in Edmundston overnight (slightly cheaper than Rivière du Loup if you have a dog, and infinitely easier to find) and when I started the car this morning, the cabin fan is broken. Again. For the third time.

The dog has broken out in blisters (we are a week over her last antibiotic skin shot).

My sister says my resolution should be to think of one nice thing before I go to sleep instead of the shitty things, so here goes:

YAY! I get to go to sleep now!

Ensconced in Ottawa after being Pho'd, IKEA'd, groceried, fed and chatted by awesome folks. Currently in cosy bed planning trip to Air Museum tomorrow. So lovely!

Miss Skud a lot, too.

Five possible employment opportunities applied for/email today. Two of them aren't even theatre related!!! (But ok, one of them is fucking USHERING but it was a theatre that had Kevin Smith twice this year already, one is not actually even a job so much as a person mentioned they might be doing a thing, one is a receptionist position, one is a dressmaking thing, and I don't remember what the last thing is).....

So far I'm working at Acadia again in January, haven't got anything else lined up, but a couple of so-far-non-paying consultations may turn into something if the projects turn out to be actually funded or whatever.

Plans for visiting Ottawa and commodorified, [Unknown site tag] et al and various museums seem to be set into motion... hopefully going up on Monday, coming back on Tuesday. FUN TIMES!!!

Ok, run out of things to do in Ontario and probably am here for another week or so.

This can't last. I might give up soon and go back to NS.

So I am in Ontario, with family and dogs and xmas and everything. We didn't have enough time on xmas day to actually open all the presents (because my brother was coming in from Toronto and didn't get here until 1pm, we didn't start opening gifts until 2 and had to get ready for company at 3:30), so we finished it today... I got a great pair of BOGS boots and great new shiny white safety gear for derby (all of which I had specifically asked for; the only way to shop for me is get the thing I want, not a thing *like* the thing I want). I also got a bunch of socks and underwear, a "hipster" gift pack that included a flashing camera key chain, paperclips in the shape of bicycles, a TENTACLE MOUSTACHE, 'hipster' underwear from Old Navy and all packaged in a PBR box she found on the street!!!! HOW AWESOME IS THAT!!!

I also don't do boxing day sales (because I hate people) so this morning I ordered myself a Buster action figure. I am now browsing Red Canoe's selection of messenger bags and contemplating what I need in a shoulder bag for the next ten years to come now that my old Bundeswehr bags are dying.

Of course, the search for proper bags led me to looking at military reproductions, and now I'm actually looking for the RCAF tan/khaki summerweight wool from 1953. FML. Crazy Airplane Guy can suck it. He's looking for altimeters and metal tools that don't get eaten by moths: I have to find replica fabric that hasn't been made for 60 years.

Not dead. Just floating. I don't know if it's in a bad way or a good way, I am continually stressed out and then equally depressed, I am not sure what's causing it but I'm looking forward to going home for xmas.

Yuletide is stressing me out, as is the challenge I am currently two days late on but am trying to finish RIGHT NOW so I don't renege. I am not an ass, I am just terrible at writing anymore. And it's SO FRUSTRATING.

Oh my goodness.

I hope I can fulfill expectations this year because WRITING IS HARD YOU GUYS but I am going to try my best.

That said, ( ...here are my requests... )

And Yuletide author, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

Happy Hallows, you guys.

Also, today I had to quit my job at the fucking tattoo place because "part time" DOES NOT EQUAL "casual" and I have not been scheduled for FOUR WEEKS and that is bullshit.

Roller derby collected food for the Food Bank last night with Trick or Eat, which was pretty fun. I went as a zombie derby girl and we got a HUGE PILE of food. From a neighbourhood of only about 70 houses, this was really great! (Also someone donated like 6 different packages of cheese, which we can't donate, so YAY FOR CHEESE!)

I am also getting the bronchitis that's going around, so I feel mildly like shit but have the worst cough ever. Suck it, winter, I hate this part.

Got an invite code if anyone wants it, first come first served. Please, do good!
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