Keely's Way: 11/4/2024
On the brink...I'm not stressed AT ALL
The kitchen cabinet fell off the wall
I could be talking about that Big Thing that is happening tomorrow (Tuesday the 5th) but really what shot my nerves all to hell was a large section of my kitchen cabinets falling off the wall and crashing onto a bunch of stuff on the counter earlier today.
Yeah.
Mind you, it had been falling off the wall for several months and I had just been delaying calling the landlord. It was hanging by a couple of nails and hope, but I finally asked the landlord to send out his handyman, who proceeded to tap it and jostle it and then left. He told me he would be back tomorrow to bolt it back into the wall, but less than an hour later, it came crashing down.
RIP beloved air fryer. 😔
Weekly Roundup
A short list this week, mostly due I think to the ambient stress going on everywhere these days. I throw myself upon the mercy of the court. 😭
The story of how I failed as a productivity coach touches on what it really takes to get better and succeed at a creative goal is, unfortunately, to actually just do the thing. Sorry-not-sorry.
Dragon’s Grail Arc 1 is almost complete over on The Bibliotheca! This arc is free for all readers and will remain so forever, although I will make it a book you can buy down the road if you want!
The Bastards of Yumeng continues with Chapter 30!!! This fanfiction is a WIP and is in the 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) / 魔道祖师-墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù fandom. I’m going to start posting links to updates on The Bibliotheca, as well, so if you want to know more click this link!
THROWBACK!
This is one of my fave posts I’ve written here, but it came out over a year ago when I did not have much of a following. It uses the lens of the history of text technology to look at what we consider valuable and what we think is work remembering.
The Weight of Memory
It’s a Keely-Boo World
People always boggle at the fact that I get up so early every day, I guess because I come across as a native night owl. And I am! But also, I live in Florida and have a dog with black(ish) fur. To avoid giving her heatstroke, we’re usually out of the house for her long morning walk around 6am, or 7am in the winter.
But of late she’s been waking me up around 3am to go outside to relieve herself, due to aging bladder and illness recovery. Since I don’t have a yard, that means I have to get up, put on clothes, and walk her for a bit. Fortunately she’s usually as tired as I am and heads for the door once she’s done, but it means that when normal wake up time comes calling, I don’t answer!
Long intro to say: here’s a picture of Keely during daylight hours! This was from an 8am walk around Lake Ella last week. She looks as mystified about the daystar as I am!
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