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Jul. 3rd, 2015 10:21 amI ended up awake until quite late last night due to reflux. I have no idea what set it off. I didn't eat anything challenging. I didn't eat after 8:00. I guess it's just one of those things. I do have a headache right now, probably from lack of sleep. Hopefully, when I take anaprox in fifteen minutes, that will help.
It's been nice and cool here pretty much all week. As a result, I felt okay in baking some tilapia last night. It meant running the oven for about twenty minutes, but I don't think doing that made the temperature in here unpleasant. It did have enough of an effect that Scott commented on it when he got home, but I don't think it was too much. I'm actually considering baking something today. I'm not sure if it should be brownies or a cake. I want to persuade Cordelia to help. It will mean leaving her books for ten minutes, but ten minutes isn't so very long.
Cordelia has gone back to GoodReads. She's not sure what she thinks of their recommendations, but she's trying a lot of different things. GoodReads has recommended Twilight to her, but she's not sure she wants to read it because she doesn't like vampires at all. She also understood, when I told her the bits and pieces I'd heard about the book, that Edward would be really creepy in real life, and she wasn't impressed by Bella's level of common sense, either. Still, I told her that, if she wants to read Twilight, she should go ahead. It is a very popular book. I pointed out that, if she doesn't like it after a chapter or two, she doesn't have to finish it.
She's got ten or so books out from the library right now and holds on at least a dozen more. She also wants to reread a bunch of books that she owns-- Heroes of Olympus, the trilogy that starts with Ruby Red, the Cinder books, the Hunger Games trilogy (she doesn't own book two and three yet), and the last four Harry Potter books (she says the first three are really boring which is the opposite of my reaction. She does say, though, that Half Blood Prince could be cut entirely without any ill effect on the series).
The dishwasher did get the dishes more clean this time. The bowls no longer have the gritty nastiness that they did after I ran them through last time. I'm not absolutely convinced they're really clean because they have some staining, but running water over that doesn't get rid of it, so... I really don't know. I really don't want to have to hand wash dishes, but I think that's where we're heading.
The Arbor Parents Yahoo list has been talking about acne. I've now got a couple of things to try with Cordelia, if I can talk her into them. If I recall correctly, we tried vinegar before, all of once, and she hated the smell enough that she preferred the acne. I'm not sure that the other suggestion-- diaper rash cream-- will go over any better. It won't smell bad, but there may well be a big embarrassment factor. There is one person who emailed me off list to suggest, strongly, that I should take Cordelia to a dermatologist, just in case her pimples are actually cystic acne. Cordelia has her annual on the 21st. I'll see what the doctor says then. I'm inclined to think that her acne is normal levels of bad rather than panic levels of bad.
I discovered that a fic I hadn't checked on in a few years updated with several new chapters. The update was still a couple of years ago with nothing since, but the story may actually not be dead which would please me. It's not the world's best story in terms of writing, but the author has a good grip on the action scenes (I can actually follow and enjoy them!) and a good handle on the actual canonical abilities of the various characters.
I have a document, tucked away on my hard drive, with a list of the urls for the various WIP that I was following with all the links going to the last chapter I actually read. I haven't checked any of those stories since some time in 2012, so if I do go back to them, I'm likely to have a lot of reading to do. I'm also likely to be quite lost because I won't remember the things that happened earlier in the stories. For things with a few chapters, going back to the beginning may make sense, but I'm not convinced I want to do that when I'm twenty chapters into a fic that's a decent read but not a really and truly great story. I think I had fifty or sixty urls in that document, all arranged in order by when the story last updated (the longer ago the most recent update, the less often I checked back on the story).
I should watch that Chinese movie today so that we can actually send it back. There's no reason I can't do that except my own tendency to dink around online and look up to discover that hours have passed.
I just told Scott's mother that we still don't know if we can come up tomorrow for 4th of July celebrations. At the worst, we should be able to make the fireworks; those don't usually start until nearly 10:00 p.m., so even if Scott has to work until 7:00, we should be able to get there in time. I almost hope there is work this weekend, even with the holiday, because working this weekend would make getting next weekend off considerably more likely. Our vacation rental starts Saturday, but Scott's actual vacation doesn't start until Monday, so we might have to arrive a day or two late.
I have brought up the question of how much stair climbing will be required at the rental with Scott's mother. I think I can manage most of it, as long as I'm wearing my brace. I just want to be sure there's a bathroom on the floor where we end up sleeping because I don't wear my brace to bed and don't want to have to deal with putting it on in the dark just so I can get to the toilet. I get up at least once every night, so it's a very real issue for me.
It's been nice and cool here pretty much all week. As a result, I felt okay in baking some tilapia last night. It meant running the oven for about twenty minutes, but I don't think doing that made the temperature in here unpleasant. It did have enough of an effect that Scott commented on it when he got home, but I don't think it was too much. I'm actually considering baking something today. I'm not sure if it should be brownies or a cake. I want to persuade Cordelia to help. It will mean leaving her books for ten minutes, but ten minutes isn't so very long.
Cordelia has gone back to GoodReads. She's not sure what she thinks of their recommendations, but she's trying a lot of different things. GoodReads has recommended Twilight to her, but she's not sure she wants to read it because she doesn't like vampires at all. She also understood, when I told her the bits and pieces I'd heard about the book, that Edward would be really creepy in real life, and she wasn't impressed by Bella's level of common sense, either. Still, I told her that, if she wants to read Twilight, she should go ahead. It is a very popular book. I pointed out that, if she doesn't like it after a chapter or two, she doesn't have to finish it.
She's got ten or so books out from the library right now and holds on at least a dozen more. She also wants to reread a bunch of books that she owns-- Heroes of Olympus, the trilogy that starts with Ruby Red, the Cinder books, the Hunger Games trilogy (she doesn't own book two and three yet), and the last four Harry Potter books (she says the first three are really boring which is the opposite of my reaction. She does say, though, that Half Blood Prince could be cut entirely without any ill effect on the series).
The dishwasher did get the dishes more clean this time. The bowls no longer have the gritty nastiness that they did after I ran them through last time. I'm not absolutely convinced they're really clean because they have some staining, but running water over that doesn't get rid of it, so... I really don't know. I really don't want to have to hand wash dishes, but I think that's where we're heading.
The Arbor Parents Yahoo list has been talking about acne. I've now got a couple of things to try with Cordelia, if I can talk her into them. If I recall correctly, we tried vinegar before, all of once, and she hated the smell enough that she preferred the acne. I'm not sure that the other suggestion-- diaper rash cream-- will go over any better. It won't smell bad, but there may well be a big embarrassment factor. There is one person who emailed me off list to suggest, strongly, that I should take Cordelia to a dermatologist, just in case her pimples are actually cystic acne. Cordelia has her annual on the 21st. I'll see what the doctor says then. I'm inclined to think that her acne is normal levels of bad rather than panic levels of bad.
I discovered that a fic I hadn't checked on in a few years updated with several new chapters. The update was still a couple of years ago with nothing since, but the story may actually not be dead which would please me. It's not the world's best story in terms of writing, but the author has a good grip on the action scenes (I can actually follow and enjoy them!) and a good handle on the actual canonical abilities of the various characters.
I have a document, tucked away on my hard drive, with a list of the urls for the various WIP that I was following with all the links going to the last chapter I actually read. I haven't checked any of those stories since some time in 2012, so if I do go back to them, I'm likely to have a lot of reading to do. I'm also likely to be quite lost because I won't remember the things that happened earlier in the stories. For things with a few chapters, going back to the beginning may make sense, but I'm not convinced I want to do that when I'm twenty chapters into a fic that's a decent read but not a really and truly great story. I think I had fifty or sixty urls in that document, all arranged in order by when the story last updated (the longer ago the most recent update, the less often I checked back on the story).
I should watch that Chinese movie today so that we can actually send it back. There's no reason I can't do that except my own tendency to dink around online and look up to discover that hours have passed.
I just told Scott's mother that we still don't know if we can come up tomorrow for 4th of July celebrations. At the worst, we should be able to make the fireworks; those don't usually start until nearly 10:00 p.m., so even if Scott has to work until 7:00, we should be able to get there in time. I almost hope there is work this weekend, even with the holiday, because working this weekend would make getting next weekend off considerably more likely. Our vacation rental starts Saturday, but Scott's actual vacation doesn't start until Monday, so we might have to arrive a day or two late.
I have brought up the question of how much stair climbing will be required at the rental with Scott's mother. I think I can manage most of it, as long as I'm wearing my brace. I just want to be sure there's a bathroom on the floor where we end up sleeping because I don't wear my brace to bed and don't want to have to deal with putting it on in the dark just so I can get to the toilet. I get up at least once every night, so it's a very real issue for me.
