Making Life Harder For Myself

[crossover_chick]

Tried to update my Windows Live Mail this evening with a patch specifically from Microsoft itself (I double-checked the e-mail that announced it) and ended up breaking it. I was piiiiissed, let me tell you. Ended up uninstalling and redownloading it just so I could have my handy "don't have to leave the desktop/guaranteed noise/oh hey I'D LIKE MY DRAFTED REPLIES" program back. Wasted a good half-hour of time raging over that. Urgh.

Had kind of a frustrating morning too, at work -- my coworker and I were supposed to have a meeting with two of the Catholic School Office people at 9 AM, but when we got there, the room were were going to be in was empty. Turns out one of the people we were to meet with double-booked herself and tried to tell us she moved the meeting to 11 -- but she sent the e-mail right at 9, and by that point we were downstairs already, because we didn't want to be late. We got it all straightened out and had the meeting, but it wasn't my favorite way to start the day.

Fortunately it hasn't been all doom and gloom -- two of my other coworkers went out to lunch and came back with candy canes! I ate mine with lunch -- guess we can say Christmas has officially started for me. :P And despite a slightly late start, I got another chunk of Chapter 25 done. We're on-target people! Though I'm not on-target for gift fics -- gotta start those this weekend as I finish things up. I have a few ideas, at least. . .even if I'm doing more than I usually do thanks to new followers and such. Probably gonna limit stuff to no more than 300 or so words if I can, just to make it easier on myself. And the Frostival is going well -- first weekend of double is upon us. I was kind of expecting it, since the weekend after next is Christmas, and they gotta go double for that. At any rate, I'm just gathering iceberries and plugging away on my missing dragons as best I can. Fingers crossed I manage to score some of my skips!

And now, having finished up tumblr queues, I should probably get on a few DW replies. . . Night all, sleep tight!

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[whitedove01s]

My schedule's rolling as usual and I just got up. Wanted to say, tho, glad you mentioned candy canes - I completely forgot I picked up a mini one on my last back trip a few days ago and it's still in my purse. Good luck on catching missing dragons. :)

[crossover_chick]

Good evemorn, then :P And you're welcome! Wouldn't want to miss out on actually having that. And thank you -- I think I might have gotten one of the Rift dragons I need, but the problem is, Light and Dark have identical eggs, so it'll be a while before I can really tell.

[whitedove01s]

Yeah, I'm going to need the peppermint to help settle my stomach after that comic book story... my PM bloated to 4 parts due to ranting about that in some detail, so I'll skip it here.

Don't know much of anything about that game, so I'll just wish you luck. :)

[crossover_chick]

So I saw -- gonna have to get some chocolate to read through that monster, I suspect. O.o

It's kind of a park sim -- you start out with one floating island and a handful of "primary" dragons, which you breed together to get "hybrid" dragons. They all need habitats, and you can grow food to feed them and level them up, which makes them produce more cash. And as time goes on, you can get more islands, more kinds of dragons, different kinds of food, and so on and so forth. It's pretty fun -- I've been playing for about two years now.

[whitedove01s]

Yeah, the only good news is in who isn't present for the mess... and who left early.

Heh, and again I almost want to dig out SimCity... even tho that's not the same game.

[crossover_chick]

*has read through it* Ah yes -- MAN, that -- wow. It'll take me a minute to think of a proper response.

LOL, no, but that's still fun. My Sims game of choice is Sims 4 these days. Never played SimCity -- though I did have SimTown, its little cousin. All my Sims biked because I didn't want roads to pollute everything. :P

[whitedove01s]

Yeah. Tho, that Lilith left early... I'm liking that more and more. It's possible, even likely, that the writer was enough of an idiot about character research that he thought she'd be prudish (maybe confused her with Raven?)... but before she was a Titan, Lilith worked as a barely legal stripper. Combine that with being a precognitive... and it puts a new twist on what she said before leaving. Probably knew she couldn't change anything by staying... but at least it means Duela might have still had one friend there.

What I should really get to is making those building blocks for Unity, while I almost have all my surveys beat down. XD

[crossover_chick]

Yeah, when I got to that bit, it struck me as a case of "character rebellion," even before knowing her history. Poor thing, I'm sure she wanted to be there to lend a helping hand, but... *sigh*

LOL, yeah, that would probably be the best plan.

[whitedove01s]

It'd have to suck to be a precognitive in a world where you'd know sometimes you're just not going to be allowed to change anything. I looked at it again, and it really does (unintentionally on this side of the fourth wall, I'm certain) end up looking like 'I've seen the script. You can force this to happen, but you can't force me to take part in it. I'm leaving.' Good for her.

[crossover_chick]

Tell me about it. It's like all the bad parts of being able to break the fourth wall without any of the fun bits. Good for her indeed for getting out of there.