Life Update

[jedibuttercup]

So, those of you who are used to expecting a flood of twistedshorts Buffy crossovers out of me in August may have noticed I've been suspiciously absent.

Two reasons for that: I was sick with a bad summer cold I caught from my niece at the beginning of the month; and I'm currently glued to the Rio Olympics. I don't think I'm going to try to get involved, at this point, beyond working on some of my wishlist_fic entries still unfinished from last December. Kind of a relief, actually. I've been doing it for how many years now? And that's a lot of pressure to add to the rest of my schedule.

I'm almost to the end of my het_bigbang Little Bang; it's another Ichabod/Abbie, this one an AU of "Novus Ordo Seclorum/Incident At Stone Manor" aka Abbie Lost in Ziggurat Land, from the middle of Sleepy Hollow Season 3. After I did the AU of the S3 finale for not_primetime, I got a lot of ideas about other times Ichabod might have stepped up rather than looking on in dismay, and, well. I'm 16,000+ words into this one.

I signed up for all three of the big bangs I've worked on this year pretty early; I'm surprised and pleased to have succeeded at all three. Together, they'll add up to more than 133,000 words, enough that I've already surpassed my word count from last year, and finally crossed the two million word mark at AO3! But backagainharry and wishlist_fic will definitely be my focus for the rest of the year.

In other news, I went ziplining this year with my mom on what would have been my dad's 65th birthday. We had a blast. Pictures later maybe? On my way over to her house now to do some digging so she can move some trees out of pots in her yard ....

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[jedibuttercup]

Haven't had time to post the images yet, but I will soon; I've got them all saved on my computer now! I did indeed holler with glee; it was a lot of fun. And we did it at Tree to Tree Adventure Park near Forest Grove; so we tried out their aerial obstacle course, too. Mom actually followed me on all of them except the very hardest one; we both gave the Black course a miss. :)

One thing tape delays are good for; I know what to brace for in the primetime coverage. But I've watched parts of every Olympics since Seoul when I was ten years old, and can name every city they've been sited at since without looking it up; at this point, I can't resist.

You were right about the abused muscles, too. If it had been just the digging I might've been okay, since some other friends of Mom's showed up to help, too ... but the unexpected hours of cutting and dragging tree limbs afterward really did me in. Ugh! Still very stiff and sore from that.

Read the stories in your own time - I'm really curious what you think, but I know it's a lot of story to get through. :)

[sulien.livejournal.com]

LOL! You're as big a lunatic as I am, or at least as I used to be. :) I always loved doing that sort of thing, but between being in bad shape in general and taking a proton pump inhibitor (stomach med) that also tends to inhibit absorption of calcium, I'd probably break something. :-/

The Olympics are one of the few sporting events that I bother to look for clips of these days. The equestrian events and gymnastics are the things that I watch the most and though live coverage always follows gymnastics, they just don't bother with most of the equestrian events (though I don't watch the cross country event, too many horses get injured on those damned solid obstacles and downhill jumps).