Everything happens at once

[rallamajoop]

Somewhere in the middle of all the running around sorting out moving-related stuff this week, I had a birthday. Proper celebrations are going to be delayed this year until things calm down (needless to say) but I got to go out to dinner with my family to mark the occasion at least, so at least I get to feel remembered. ^^; Thanks also to everyone who wished me a happy birthday via online channels especially the ones who did so via email and whom I completely forgot to reply to in the busy couple of days that followed. And lots of love go especially to saqra for drawing Sol/Ky birthday fanart just for me. <3

Right now, we're hoping to have a combined house warming/birthday party the weekend after next - it may depend how organised the place is at that stage. Speaking of moving, the official date to lug the bulk of the furniture across and set up properly has been set for next Saturday. Still tons of packing to do between now and then, but the bulk of the phoning around for power/gas/etc is done about we're making decent headway with the furniture situation. Got to experience Ikea's extra giant new Perth store yesterday in all it's airport-scale glory, but I'm sure we'll be back again once we've moved in properly and have had time to really figure out everything we're still missing around the place.

On the writing front, the next chapter of Ghost Stories is going to take a little longer than I expected - not so much because it's giving me trouble or I don't have time to finish it, but because earlier this week I got hit with actual inspiration! for one of the harder scenes to come in chapters not so far ahead (and which I've been dreading having to put into words since way back when I started all this), and so editing the chapter 24 into shape got shunted down the priority list a few rungs. Hoping to get to it within a day or two though. I've also finally got my latest Guilty Gear fic back from my beta reader and only needing a few edits before it can be posted (also put off on account of the need to write out that Ghost Stories scene before inspiration left me again) and a piece of Discworld fanfic in the works (which I have told myself I was going to work on just about every evening for the last two weeks, hahaha ><) just for something a bit different. Come to think of it, I should really ask for betaing volunteers for that last one while I'm here. Anyone?

With a little luck, I can probably hope to get at least the first two of those fic uploaded in the next week or so, considering how very close to finished they are already. But considering that we'd probably have to be very lucky to get our Internet connection at the new place sorted out without any trouble, after this week, all bets may be off for a while. If I vanish from the Internet for a bit, at least you'll know why.

Meanwhile, I keep planning out all these posts I want to make about Crisis Core and the new xxxHOLiC episodes and everything and then I keep not finding time to write them. Oh well. Maybe next week. Or the week after that...

Comments

[aphelion-orion.livejournal.com]

DDDDDDD: LJ neglected to inform me about your birthday. HOW RUDE.

So... belated congratumalations! I hope you get to have a properly awesome party. :D

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

And without LJ, how would any of us keep track of these things anymore? >.> Speaking of which didn't there used to be a thing on the main page that told you who's birthday was coming up? Have they disabled it, or is it just not talking to me because no-one on my f-list has birthdays any time soon?

After all this moving fuss, I think I'm going to deserve an awesome party for that if nothing else. pinneagig and jaseroque too, for that matter. As long as all the presents don't turn out to be toasters, I'm sure all will be fine. XD

[aphelion-orion.livejournal.com]

Well, I use it to keep track of my LJ friends' birthdays this way. Since I'm bad with dates.

Yes, it's still there, and it should be working alright, except it doesn't. Sometimes it randomly chooses not to mention people on my f-list to me. Alas. I probably need to start keeping a list.

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN!

[gonsai.livejournal.com]

I MISSED YOUR BIRTHDAY! -made of fail-

Oh well, nothing I could produce will top that cavity inducing art anyways.

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel better, I have quite a solid record of forgetting people's birthdays myself even with LJ around to remind me. ^^; I've gotten around to writing gift-fic for other people's birthdays all of once in living memory - always seems like those dates only crop up when my WIP pile is already looming dangerously. But saqra's art is a danger to all of our teeth and no mistake.

[gonsai.livejournal.com]

I may do a bit of a drabble anyways. Playing Kuro Ky at siebenrpg has been inspiring me to write something along those lines again.

[sethyhide.livejournal.com]

Happy belated birthday!

Hope all goes well for the moving. =)

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Thanks, and believe me, so do we. (With the weather around here right now, we may be lucky if it's not pouring with rain. It's been the wettest April on record this year.)

[sethyhide.livejournal.com]

What.... It's 33-34 degrees C here in Singapore. We could do with some rain.

[sassamifrass.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! ^_^ I can certainly understand postponing at this point ^^; In fact, my 25th is in June this year, and I think I won't actually have a party at all... contemplating finding the time to organise it made my head turn into a bunch of butterflies and cog wheels. I'll still go out for dinner, though!

Ikea is nifty and full of pine-smelling(ish) goodness.

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the party we'll be having will probably be the kind with the absolute minimum organisation involved. I expect we'll just say 'everyone show up around such-and-such a time and we'll order pizza! And if you could all pretend not to notice how much furniture we're still missing, that would be cool!' I'm pretty sure we're all going to be well and truly sick of organising things by the time the day rolls around. Going out for dinner isn't half a bad celebratory substitute though.

[lunargeography.livejournal.com]

Moving eats one's life. And sanity.

*shudders*

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

So we are discovering. And we can't count on the worst of it being over when we're moved in either, can we?

[lunargeography.livejournal.com]

It depends how much work needs to be done on the house, I think. Buying our house was a series of fascinating discoveries and exciting learning experiences, and it still hasn't ended and it's been almost 2 years.

[velithya]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR LAST YEAR