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It has been a Weekend.

1) I've had and am still having internet issues which is frustrating. Wifi is on, then slow, and then off. Certain sites are slow to load, others won't function. There have been issues with ISP in the area but they're supposed to be fixed now. Might be router or our wifi extender. /sigh/

This means I'm struggling to keep with anything. I did manage to post the mega music mix with songs relating to colours which was good because I'd put a lot of work in and needed to make the deadline! I also discovered some new songs while making it which was good.

2) Youngest nephew came down what looks like norovirus on Friday evening. All the weekend plans went out of the window, including needing his and sis's baptism to be postponed. He's still being ill so they've called 111 and were told to get in touch with GP. Fingers crossed.

3) I did go to church and it was Pentecost and I still wore my red dress for the annual congratation pic. One of the young girls, 11ish, saved the day when Reverend Mandy's husband couldn't get his phone camera to work and the girl discovered he was using 'time lapse' and not 'timer'!

4) We've had good weather finally, though with some cloud cover and strong cooler winds so I've been able to read outside a little in lieu of doomscrolling as I'm wifi lacking, but not as much as I'd have liked.

5) Talking with [personal profile] melagan, re the question she answered about "what have you got in your pockets"? /obligatory gollum reference/

Having had kids she's learned that one approaches with extreme care, what's in those little pockets before going into the laundry. Hopefully, it's nothing that moves.

My response: "My brother in law is just as much a culprit for putting things in wash without emptying pockets. Loose change more than once and one time a screw from doing DIY.
Speaking of things that move: amazingly one time sis had washed a throw so a quick, half-load job. I opened the washing machine to help her put the throw on the line and there was a butterfly, still alive clinging to the door. We put it outside on a plant and it flew away. It must have been above the water level, an incredibly lucky escape."

6) I'm still editing the unconventional courtship fic. I don't need wifi for that. I'm on the text-to-speech part, with Balabolka reading to me I'm more likely to catch mistakes and clumsy sentence construction that I'd skim over when reading it for myself.

7) A cute OFMD merman love drawing "Don't Die" by mific at drawesome or directly at AO3

Date: 2024-05-20 04:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] smallhobbit
Delighted you got to wear your red dress, even if the baptism had to be postponed.

Date: 2024-05-20 07:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kitarella_imagines
ugh, internet issues are so frustrating aren't they. I had browser issues recently, Chrome stopped working and I had to download Firefox and deal with the new browser.

I hope your nephew gets better soon. Me and my daughter had norovirus before Christmas one year, we just basically lay on the sofa for days watching Christmas movies, so it was quite a good time of year. Still awful though.

I'm glad you got to church and what an amazing story about the lucky butterfly!

Oh isn't it fun getting a narrator to read out a story to you! I wonder sometimes what I was trying to write 😅

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