So much for doing a weekly round up! Whoops.
HOME: life got busy and my decluttering/#orjenising stalled.
HEALTH my sleep patterns are still FUBAR'd but otherwise good.
LIFE ADMIN: looking at European alternatives to Gmail and Dropbox - eyeing up Proton.
DIGITAL DECLUTTER: have kept email at mail at 11,000 but not managed to reduce it; staying on top of transferring To Keep items from tablet to dropbox, my phone images storage is a mess.
GARDENING/ALLOTMENTING: nope - too cold and/or wet and lacked motivation.
COOKING/EATING: a few too many coffee shop lunches but resisting the lure of takeaways.
READING/LISTENING: not the last few weeks.
WATCHING: Still not caught up on Stranger Things and have only managed one episode of Heated Rivalry. Keeping up with returning shows and trying to avoid picking up new ones! Did bing Marple and Miss Marple in Wales.
CREATING/LEARNING: dealing with sewing in ends on Halloween blanket then need to block it and the granny square blanket. Hecicardi 75% finished but need to frog a bit and redo. While in Wales did 24 granny squares for small project bags and 13 for large bag. Just need to decide if I want more to make bags larger. Have plenty of wool - then must stitch together, line and finish.
CATS: all good.
VOLUNTEERING: still have one outstanding task.
SOCIALISING: nope - not even phone calls. Proper hermitting other than crochet club and class.
WORK: a bit meh for the last few weeks and have unfortunately scheduled 3 consecutive weeks of weekend working.
Plan for this coming week - work long office days Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, TOIL Wednesday, off Friday and Sunday, working Saturday.
HOME: life got busy and my decluttering/#orjenising stalled.
HEALTH my sleep patterns are still FUBAR'd but otherwise good.
LIFE ADMIN: looking at European alternatives to Gmail and Dropbox - eyeing up Proton.
DIGITAL DECLUTTER: have kept email at mail at 11,000 but not managed to reduce it; staying on top of transferring To Keep items from tablet to dropbox, my phone images storage is a mess.
GARDENING/ALLOTMENTING: nope - too cold and/or wet and lacked motivation.
COOKING/EATING: a few too many coffee shop lunches but resisting the lure of takeaways.
READING/LISTENING: not the last few weeks.
WATCHING: Still not caught up on Stranger Things and have only managed one episode of Heated Rivalry. Keeping up with returning shows and trying to avoid picking up new ones! Did bing Marple and Miss Marple in Wales.
CREATING/LEARNING: dealing with sewing in ends on Halloween blanket then need to block it and the granny square blanket. Hecicardi 75% finished but need to frog a bit and redo. While in Wales did 24 granny squares for small project bags and 13 for large bag. Just need to decide if I want more to make bags larger. Have plenty of wool - then must stitch together, line and finish.
CATS: all good.
VOLUNTEERING: still have one outstanding task.
SOCIALISING: nope - not even phone calls. Proper hermitting other than crochet club and class.
WORK: a bit meh for the last few weeks and have unfortunately scheduled 3 consecutive weeks of weekend working.
Plan for this coming week - work long office days Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, TOIL Wednesday, off Friday and Sunday, working Saturday.
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tsuki_no_bara Feb. 22nd, 2026 11:15 pm)
tsuki_no_bara Feb. 22nd, 2026 11:15 pm)i watched miracle last night, about the 1980 olympics and the miracle on ice (when the us hockey team beat the soviets, for them what might not be familiar), so today i had to watch current olympics hockey because they reran the men's gold medal game this afternoon. us-canada, us gets the gold in overtime. very exciting. :D i love that one of the us players, his uncle played on the 1980 team and his grandfather played in 1960 (also a gold medal year). and not only was this the us men's first hockey gold since 1980, we won it on the same day. just, you know, forty-six years later.
(in 1980 i was in the denver airport and when the us team won the crowds of people standing around the gates watching the game on those tvs in the waiting areas lost their collective shit. it's hard to overstate how big a deal it was. i mean aside from the geopolitics the soviet team was highly trained and the us team was made up of college kids who'd only ever played college hockey against each other. which is not to discount their talent and hard work but just that they were trained under a very different system and expectations were very low.)
i'm kind of going to miss the olympics and to be honest i'm really going to miss the olympics themed ads. especally the little girl skating in the attic in front of all her stuffed animals, the other little girl who wants to skate so bad and falls the second she gets on the ice - and then you see her thumbs-up before she hauls herself upright again - and the "we're all on the same team" one. (all the folks in competing sports jerseys giving each other the stink-eye cracks me up.) i'm also going to miss curling being such a big part of the national conversation. and it would've been nice to get another curling medal but i'm not in any way complaining about the silver we did get.
in that vein, have a video about the weird-ass physics of curling stones (among other things). no one can figure out why they spin the way they do.
a farm in vermont has a tournament every year using cheese wheels as curling stones. no word on whether or not the winning team wins its own cheese wheel. if not, it should.
you can learn something from every sport. like that skeleton is the most terrifying sport in the winter olympics, second only to luge. either you go down an ice chute feet first or head first but both are extremely scary options.
so we're in for another storm around here and according to the french toast alert we're doomed. by which i mean A LOT of snow. curling was canceled tonight and tomorrow and the u is closed altho that just means campus is closed but if you can do your job remotely you still have to do it. one of my monday meetings was canceled anyway so we can, in the words of the pi, "enjoy the blizzard". i got food, i got a shovel, i got a metal ruler to measure how much snow lands on my car, i'm prepared. and i missed the last big storm on account of i was in florida so maybe mother nature thinks i'm owed one.
(in 1980 i was in the denver airport and when the us team won the crowds of people standing around the gates watching the game on those tvs in the waiting areas lost their collective shit. it's hard to overstate how big a deal it was. i mean aside from the geopolitics the soviet team was highly trained and the us team was made up of college kids who'd only ever played college hockey against each other. which is not to discount their talent and hard work but just that they were trained under a very different system and expectations were very low.)
i'm kind of going to miss the olympics and to be honest i'm really going to miss the olympics themed ads. especally the little girl skating in the attic in front of all her stuffed animals, the other little girl who wants to skate so bad and falls the second she gets on the ice - and then you see her thumbs-up before she hauls herself upright again - and the "we're all on the same team" one. (all the folks in competing sports jerseys giving each other the stink-eye cracks me up.) i'm also going to miss curling being such a big part of the national conversation. and it would've been nice to get another curling medal but i'm not in any way complaining about the silver we did get.
in that vein, have a video about the weird-ass physics of curling stones (among other things). no one can figure out why they spin the way they do.
a farm in vermont has a tournament every year using cheese wheels as curling stones. no word on whether or not the winning team wins its own cheese wheel. if not, it should.
you can learn something from every sport. like that skeleton is the most terrifying sport in the winter olympics, second only to luge. either you go down an ice chute feet first or head first but both are extremely scary options.
so we're in for another storm around here and according to the french toast alert we're doomed. by which i mean A LOT of snow. curling was canceled tonight and tomorrow and the u is closed altho that just means campus is closed but if you can do your job remotely you still have to do it. one of my monday meetings was canceled anyway so we can, in the words of the pi, "enjoy the blizzard". i got food, i got a shovel, i got a metal ruler to measure how much snow lands on my car, i'm prepared. and i missed the last big storm on account of i was in florida so maybe mother nature thinks i'm owed one.
(petra Feb. 22nd, 2026 11:05 pm)
petra Feb. 22nd, 2026 11:05 pm)Pity and Terror (463 words) by RiaSaun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Slings and Arrows, Medea - Fandom
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Geoffrey Tennant, Darren Nichols
Additional Tags: Humor, Drama
Summary:
This was inspired by one of the first fanworks I ever put on the AO3, back in my Slings & Arrows heyday. It has an excellent use of Darren Nichols' off-kilter genius.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Slings and Arrows, Medea - Fandom
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Geoffrey Tennant, Darren Nichols
Additional Tags: Humor, Drama
Summary:
Darren sells Geoffrey on a production. This is inspired by Petra's "Grace and a Cod-piece."
*This was inspired by one of the first fanworks I ever put on the AO3, back in my Slings & Arrows heyday. It has an excellent use of Darren Nichols' off-kilter genius.
This post is about Erotica 4 Barbarians, a challenge to write smut in words of one syllable.
I neglected to include all the Marvel characters I could write, in part because I did not think it through, so -- Wade, I already mentioned, but also Steve, Nat, Bruce, Thor, Clint. (I just heardminoanmiss cheer and punch the air.)
Anybody who wants a flashback to 2012 Avengers fandom, The Avengers Kink List Team Bonding Sessions: the files is a collaborative project that happened in my comments back in the day, in which we played with all kinds of Avengers pairings.
If anyone wants more in that vein, I will see what I can do to scrape off the rest of the MCU and chill in that headspace. In words of one syllable.
\o/
I neglected to include all the Marvel characters I could write, in part because I did not think it through, so -- Wade, I already mentioned, but also Steve, Nat, Bruce, Thor, Clint. (I just heard
minoanmiss cheer and punch the air.) Anybody who wants a flashback to 2012 Avengers fandom, The Avengers Kink List Team Bonding Sessions: the files is a collaborative project that happened in my comments back in the day, in which we played with all kinds of Avengers pairings.
If anyone wants more in that vein, I will see what I can do to scrape off the rest of the MCU and chill in that headspace. In words of one syllable.
\o/
I was backreading one of my tumblr tags looking for a joke, and I refound https://www.spidersge.org/ which is, I promise, not a rickroll.
This DW post has the Spiders Georg reference I was looking for. Since that posting, my friend's partner has gone into remission! Yay!
This DW post has the Spiders Georg reference I was looking for. Since that posting, my friend's partner has gone into remission! Yay!
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oh my flist i am so tired and of course it has nothing to do with the fact that i stayed up late last night watching the curling. ahem. the us women lost to great britain and i'd feel bad about it except britain's last stone - which won them the game - was an absolutely beautiful shot. seriously, it was perfect. i went to bed partway through the us men vs britain, which was apparently the right move because it was such a rout they called it early. good job, british curlers, and i mean that sincerely.
(and yes i did think ofamberdreams while the brits were winning. :D )
tonight i watched someholy shit thighs men's speed skating and the women's figure skating free skate and was alysa liu having fun or what? hers was such a joyful program. afterwards it looked like she was both congratulating and comforting ami nakai for her bronze - she's like seventeen! i thought her skating was beautiful but evidently it wasn't good enough for gold - and then she hugged the japanese coaches and her coaches hugged the japanese coaches and everyone was hugging (and poor kaori sakamoto was crying and i felt so bad for her because her program was also beautiful) and i gotta say, i love it so much when the medal winners (and almost-medal winners) are so excited for each other.
now i'm watching women's hockey, the gold medal game, and i know how it ends but it's fun to watch anyway.
if you've been watching the norwegian curlers at all (i haven't) you may or may not wonder where the funkypants are. the reason is kind of sad but very sweet.
someone who knows about catholic ritual objects will have to tell me what these altar boys are curling with. and no, i don't mean the brooms. :p
wrap-up of the first week of olympics now that we're almost through the second week. since they mention boopgate i can share that i've had like four conversations about it - with fellow curlers, with the group text, with some of my fellow admins, and with friend s from the libraries. (she's telling everyone that she knows someone with the inside scoop on curling and i keep telling her i probably don't know as much as she thinks i do. like, i had no idea double-touching was a thing, much less that it was an illegal thing.)
this year the cross country skiiers were joined by a very excited doggo. he wasn't fast enough to qualify for a medal run but definitely seemed happy to be there.
in non-olympics news i share pancake day pics from london. people are so weird sometimes but also so fun and silly. and you can't deny the power of the pancake. :D
(and yes i did think of
amberdreams while the brits were winning. :D )tonight i watched some
now i'm watching women's hockey, the gold medal game, and i know how it ends but it's fun to watch anyway.
if you've been watching the norwegian curlers at all (i haven't) you may or may not wonder where the funkypants are. the reason is kind of sad but very sweet.
someone who knows about catholic ritual objects will have to tell me what these altar boys are curling with. and no, i don't mean the brooms. :p
wrap-up of the first week of olympics now that we're almost through the second week. since they mention boopgate i can share that i've had like four conversations about it - with fellow curlers, with the group text, with some of my fellow admins, and with friend s from the libraries. (she's telling everyone that she knows someone with the inside scoop on curling and i keep telling her i probably don't know as much as she thinks i do. like, i had no idea double-touching was a thing, much less that it was an illegal thing.)
this year the cross country skiiers were joined by a very excited doggo. he wasn't fast enough to qualify for a medal run but definitely seemed happy to be there.
in non-olympics news i share pancake day pics from london. people are so weird sometimes but also so fun and silly. and you can't deny the power of the pancake. :D
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I realise it's only mid month but February has been a MONTH.
( The Oh Noes cut for those who'd rather avoid them- not personal ones cos I'm OK )
7. It has been grey and wet here in London for ever - at least from the start of the year with maybe 2 days of blue skies and sunshine and it's taking a toll.
8. Went to Wales last week and only took one of the two cats. The other hid and so stayed home with a pile of food. Athena - the usually quiet reserved cat - came with me and we had some bonding time without her sister getting in the way. Artemis, the little fiend who stayed home, has been making up for the fact that she was cruelly abandoned - in a warm flat with plenty of food and water and oodles of toys - ever since!
9. Relatedly having spent the week in the cosy, tidy cottage I'm even more determined to subdue and sort out the utter chaos of my living situation in London where I have tried to effectively cram the. Contents of a 3 bed house into what is essentially a two room flat.
10. I've not been able to get to the allotment or do any gardening because WET. Not amused.
The Hell Yes's
1. I spent last week working remotely from the cottage which also included a lot of naps, TV, good food and a ridiculous amount of crocheting. And though it took me 2 days to get the cottage warm - it was Wales and the mountains looked fancy with a good dusting of snow. I beached myself on the couch and barely moved from Monday to Saturday (it was grey, wet and cold there too). Of course coming home on Saturday the weather did change and for a few precious hours there were blue skies and sunshine.
2. I gave myself a pass this week and lived on ready meals while trying to bring some order to 3 work related email inboxes and 2 personal ones. I'm getting there.
3. Work has at least been productive if not enjoyable. But tomorrow I'm going to a Park colleague's community planting day for a couple of hours, next week I'm spending a day handing out free trees and the week after we are having our borough wide seed swap - all of which should be fun things.
4. Crocheting has been super productive - at the beginning of the month I finished a blanket I started the week before Xmas, I've got about half a hexi cardigan finished (even though I have to frog some back), I've almost finished the granny squares for two project bags (just need to stitch them together, line them and make handles), and I'm just over halfway through some Wednesday evening classes to crochet an Easter/Spring wreath. Crochet club every Friday from 1 to 2:30pm is the non-negotiable in my diary. Time to be creative, learn new stuff, have a chat and hang out with 5-7 other fun women.
5. The ex is at the cottage this week which means I get to use his washing machine tomorrow before and after work (2-3 loads of washing) and do some more if needed early Saturday morning.
6. On that note I'm taking myself off to bed with a giant mug of Horlicks and a couple of eps of Starfleet Academy!
( The Oh Noes cut for those who'd rather avoid them- not personal ones cos I'm OK )
7. It has been grey and wet here in London for ever - at least from the start of the year with maybe 2 days of blue skies and sunshine and it's taking a toll.
8. Went to Wales last week and only took one of the two cats. The other hid and so stayed home with a pile of food. Athena - the usually quiet reserved cat - came with me and we had some bonding time without her sister getting in the way. Artemis, the little fiend who stayed home, has been making up for the fact that she was cruelly abandoned - in a warm flat with plenty of food and water and oodles of toys - ever since!
9. Relatedly having spent the week in the cosy, tidy cottage I'm even more determined to subdue and sort out the utter chaos of my living situation in London where I have tried to effectively cram the. Contents of a 3 bed house into what is essentially a two room flat.
10. I've not been able to get to the allotment or do any gardening because WET. Not amused.
The Hell Yes's
1. I spent last week working remotely from the cottage which also included a lot of naps, TV, good food and a ridiculous amount of crocheting. And though it took me 2 days to get the cottage warm - it was Wales and the mountains looked fancy with a good dusting of snow. I beached myself on the couch and barely moved from Monday to Saturday (it was grey, wet and cold there too). Of course coming home on Saturday the weather did change and for a few precious hours there were blue skies and sunshine.
2. I gave myself a pass this week and lived on ready meals while trying to bring some order to 3 work related email inboxes and 2 personal ones. I'm getting there.
3. Work has at least been productive if not enjoyable. But tomorrow I'm going to a Park colleague's community planting day for a couple of hours, next week I'm spending a day handing out free trees and the week after we are having our borough wide seed swap - all of which should be fun things.
4. Crocheting has been super productive - at the beginning of the month I finished a blanket I started the week before Xmas, I've got about half a hexi cardigan finished (even though I have to frog some back), I've almost finished the granny squares for two project bags (just need to stitch them together, line them and make handles), and I'm just over halfway through some Wednesday evening classes to crochet an Easter/Spring wreath. Crochet club every Friday from 1 to 2:30pm is the non-negotiable in my diary. Time to be creative, learn new stuff, have a chat and hang out with 5-7 other fun women.
5. The ex is at the cottage this week which means I get to use his washing machine tomorrow before and after work (2-3 loads of washing) and do some more if needed early Saturday morning.
6. On that note I'm taking myself off to bed with a giant mug of Horlicks and a couple of eps of Starfleet Academy!
(petra Feb. 18th, 2026 10:10 pm)
petra Feb. 18th, 2026 10:10 pm)The main post is here.
What I said:
Let's write smut in short words for the spring Fools' Day! This will be a lot of fun. For me. And for you, too?
A list of folks I could write from my works is next. If you see a pair, group of three, or big group that you want me to write, drop me a line!
( Cut for length (that's what he said) )
What I said:
Let's write smut in short words for the spring Fools' Day! This will be a lot of fun. For me. And for you, too?
A list of folks I could write from my works is next. If you see a pair, group of three, or big group that you want me to write, drop me a line!
( Cut for length (that's what he said) )
I have just been to Aldi on my way home because I was low on cheese and out of bananas for my oatflakes. They have installed self-service check-out since I shopped there last - generally I approve of this very much. But, they apparently expect high-speed customers. I really am known as someone who works very fast. Possibly a bit sloppy, but really very fast. But I could not even quickly shove my bag into a proper position to throw the goods in inbetween, or fish for something less easily squashed to put further to the bottom in my cart without the stupid thing loudly admonishing "Scan the next item or pay, please!" Several times I felt a great urge to holler back "HETZ MICH NED!!!!" (I feel my full level of annoyance there can only be conveyed in native dialect, "don't rush me" doesn't transport it adequately ;-) ). Maybe next time I bring pen and paper and stick a note saying that to the machine. Really, if this thing isn't satisfied with *my* speed, there will be a whole lot of people not fulfilling its expectation. Actually, it successfully stressed me so much that only outside I realized I had forgotten to scan two kohlrabis. They should be grateful that I am well-raised enough that I didn't consider them compensation and instead left my bags alone and went back inside all through the store to pay for the two kohlrabis, also on the infernal thing, because there now was a huge line of people on the check-out counter with a human cashier (it must be very new, I'm certain most queuing hadn't realized the self check-out.)
And when I just unpacked the groceries I realized I had forgotten to buy bananas.
And when I just unpacked the groceries I realized I had forgotten to buy bananas.
i hope the americans in the audience who had the day off had a relaxing and/or fun one, and that for everyone who didn't have the day off (or who doesn't live in the us...) it wasn't too monday a monday. i have watched almost no olympics but i did take myself out for lunch (steak tips! side salad! a pile of very good rice pilaf!) and, uh, bring a bunch of clothes to goodwill. and i read! an actual book! for once! which was very relaxing.
(i also got a rice pudding to go because i wanted it but i was too full after lunch. i got it with whipped cream which might have been a mistake because said whipped cream has totally lost its structural integrity in the fridge. rice pudding still looks good at least and will probably be breakfast tomorrow.)
canada finally won a couple gold medals - both kazakhstan (men's figure skating) and brazil (men's alpine skiing) beat them to gold - brazil got a gold altho the guy used to ski for norway (his mom is brazilian) so, y'know, he grew up in a winter-sports country - also his gold was the first winter olympics medal for any south american country ever which is pretty cool - anyway. canada set off a curling scandal! boopgate. which is evidently only partly about the fact that some of the men were touching the stone after throwing it, which is technically illegal but unevenly enforced (i think the whole thing started when sweden wanted some clarification on the rules over booping), and more about their very unsportsmanlike conduct. like, there was swearing. and lying. (a hint: if you're going to insist you didn't boop the stone and fuck you, sweden, for suggesting it, maybe first make sure there isn't video evidence of you doing that very thing.) (because one of the canadians was caught on tape very obviously booping the stone.) it's apparently a thing that happens - the booping, not the swearing, i mean curling is generally a pretty polite sport - and there's always the possibility someone booped the stone unconsciously, but did i mention the highly unsportsmanlike swearing? it seems to have snowballed a bit and caught the canadian women as well and now that everyone's so focused on the booping a bunch of other teams have been seen doing it.
curling, man.
the baby has a broom. SOCUTE.
i've seen mostly bits and pieces of other sports - a few ends of the women's curling (us vs china), some pairs skating, some women's monobob (not monoboob, self), some women's biathlon (i wanted to see the greenlandic biathlete but no luck), some men's figure skating. poor quad god. he fell twice and came in eighth and i felt so bad for him altho he sounded very mature and thoughtful and philosophical after his program when he got off the ice and some reporter stuck a mic in his face and basically asked "so how does it feel to have fucked up your chance at a gold medal?" so many of the guys fell tho. and he and the kazakh skater hugged and it looked like ilia congratulated him and it was very sweet.
i have yet to see any skiing. just moguls, no downhill.
local curling last night went better than last week - by which i mean no one fell and hurt themselves - and i made a couple good shots altho we lost anyway. and saturday for valentine's day i went to the dentist and got my comics (well, comic) and met my sister for dinner and a 40th anniversary showing of pretty in pink. pretty in pink is forty, good lord. it was never my favorite john hughes movie but jon cryer and annie potts remain extremely adorable. but the love story is kind of half-assed - like, why are these two kids interested in each other in the first place? - and for all the judging of blane being rich it's andie's hangup, not his. he seems legitimately earnest and sincere in his attraction to her and she second-guesses him because he has money and she doesn't. also i didn't like her remade prom dress the first time i saw the movie and i don't like it now. it's ugly and boring. but the soundtrack is still *chef's kiss*. whatever else you want to say about john hughes movies, they always had absolutely banging soundtracks.
for the heated rivalry fen in the audience, if you haven't seen it, have an interview with rachel reid. i keep wondering how many people are watching olympics hockey because of the show and/or books.
(i also got a rice pudding to go because i wanted it but i was too full after lunch. i got it with whipped cream which might have been a mistake because said whipped cream has totally lost its structural integrity in the fridge. rice pudding still looks good at least and will probably be breakfast tomorrow.)
canada finally won a couple gold medals - both kazakhstan (men's figure skating) and brazil (men's alpine skiing) beat them to gold - brazil got a gold altho the guy used to ski for norway (his mom is brazilian) so, y'know, he grew up in a winter-sports country - also his gold was the first winter olympics medal for any south american country ever which is pretty cool - anyway. canada set off a curling scandal! boopgate. which is evidently only partly about the fact that some of the men were touching the stone after throwing it, which is technically illegal but unevenly enforced (i think the whole thing started when sweden wanted some clarification on the rules over booping), and more about their very unsportsmanlike conduct. like, there was swearing. and lying. (a hint: if you're going to insist you didn't boop the stone and fuck you, sweden, for suggesting it, maybe first make sure there isn't video evidence of you doing that very thing.) (because one of the canadians was caught on tape very obviously booping the stone.) it's apparently a thing that happens - the booping, not the swearing, i mean curling is generally a pretty polite sport - and there's always the possibility someone booped the stone unconsciously, but did i mention the highly unsportsmanlike swearing? it seems to have snowballed a bit and caught the canadian women as well and now that everyone's so focused on the booping a bunch of other teams have been seen doing it.
curling, man.
the baby has a broom. SOCUTE.
i've seen mostly bits and pieces of other sports - a few ends of the women's curling (us vs china), some pairs skating, some women's monobob (not monoboob, self), some women's biathlon (i wanted to see the greenlandic biathlete but no luck), some men's figure skating. poor quad god. he fell twice and came in eighth and i felt so bad for him altho he sounded very mature and thoughtful and philosophical after his program when he got off the ice and some reporter stuck a mic in his face and basically asked "so how does it feel to have fucked up your chance at a gold medal?" so many of the guys fell tho. and he and the kazakh skater hugged and it looked like ilia congratulated him and it was very sweet.
i have yet to see any skiing. just moguls, no downhill.
local curling last night went better than last week - by which i mean no one fell and hurt themselves - and i made a couple good shots altho we lost anyway. and saturday for valentine's day i went to the dentist and got my comics (well, comic) and met my sister for dinner and a 40th anniversary showing of pretty in pink. pretty in pink is forty, good lord. it was never my favorite john hughes movie but jon cryer and annie potts remain extremely adorable. but the love story is kind of half-assed - like, why are these two kids interested in each other in the first place? - and for all the judging of blane being rich it's andie's hangup, not his. he seems legitimately earnest and sincere in his attraction to her and she second-guesses him because he has money and she doesn't. also i didn't like her remade prom dress the first time i saw the movie and i don't like it now. it's ugly and boring. but the soundtrack is still *chef's kiss*. whatever else you want to say about john hughes movies, they always had absolutely banging soundtracks.
for the heated rivalry fen in the audience, if you haven't seen it, have an interview with rachel reid. i keep wondering how many people are watching olympics hockey because of the show and/or books.
(petra Feb. 14th, 2026 03:54 pm)
petra Feb. 14th, 2026 03:54 pm)Take action today because the public comment period on two gender-affirming care bans at the federal level closes 2/17. Anonymous comments are allowed. More details at the link.
ETA: If we share a fandom, I will write for you if you make a public comment on this subject. If you make two, I will write for you twice!
See this post for details.
ETA: If we share a fandom, I will write for you if you make a public comment on this subject. If you make two, I will write for you twice!
See this post for details.
first important thing: the us mixed doubles won silver against sweden, which isn't as good as a gold but is the first us medal in that branch of curling so i'm not complaining too much. it was a good game too, very tense. (i may or may not have missed an admim meeting because i was watching it online at work. ahem.) and my curling club got a shoutout. :D
2 fast 2 curlious. hee.
(last night i watched some of the women us vs sweden and cory thiesse who was on the mixed doubles team is on the women's team and she must be so tired.)
second important thing: i got snowed on tuesday on the way home. :DDD it was very exciting.
other sports i've seen include some ski jump (looks both fun and absolutely terrifying), some speed skating (holy shit thighs), and some ice dancing (my favorite was the spanish couple who skated to the music from dune). i was briefly distracted by more norwegian drama, namely the biathlete who used his bronze-medal interview to admit he cheated on his girlfriend (she broke up with him) and then also admitted he hoped his public declaration of love would win her back. it did not. there's also drama in the figure skating but it sounds less like "guy did a stupid thing" drama and more like "everyone's covering for the rapist" drama and that is just way more serious.
i also randomly caught the gold medal run for women's snowboard cross which was won by an australian with a huge cheering section all wearing pink hats. so cute. the snowboarders all hugged each other after the run and that was also extremely adorable. now i'm watching the men's halfpipe and one of the japanese snowboarders is wearing pearly nail polish and how can you not love that? shaun white is there and his reactions to the tricks and the falls are fantastic.
now you're gonna get curling links because it's me and i only get to do this once every four years.
snoop dogg hangs with the curlers. korey dropkin's mom taught him about curling. (mom's name is shelly and while i don't know her i think she was president of the club at one point and was basically kind of a big deal. everything i've ever heard about her is positive.)
the oldest athlete at the games is a fifty-four-year-old lawyer on the us men's curling team. :D one of the other guys on the team, this lawyer curled with his dad. it's gotta be weird to be old enough to have fathered the other folks on your team but it sounds like they're all very cool about it.
i don't know what to call this. there are wrestlers. it's weird. also cute.
how about a curling stone cake?
and finally an article about my club, because god knows i've mentioned it enough. (that should be a non-paywalled link.)
couple more general olympics links:
meet one of only two greenlanders at the olympics. she's a biathlete there with her brother (also a biathlete) and if you saw people waving the greenlandic flag along the course? danish fans showing their support.
the olympic village ran out of condoms in THREE DAYS. someone seriously underestimated the amount of sex these attractive, athletic folks were going to be having.
speaking of curling i was way off my game on sunday altho the ice was quite weird but we had to call the game when someone on the other team slipped, fell, landed on her wrist, and had to get off the ice. her hubs took her to the er. they were ahead so we just gave them the win and ended it. i'm sure she's out for the rest of the season but i hope she's ok. i consequently did not see any of the super bowl or the halftime show which was kind of a bummer because i wanted to watch that.
and saturday for dinner i was really feeling it for hawaiian food and fortunately! there's a place not super far from me that can provide. i get there and the guy behind the counter asked me "you want some free food?" and i went "uh..." because on the one hand yes, who's going to turn down free dinner? but on the other, why were they giving it away?? because they were about to close. so i went home with my spam musubi and my mix plate and a random container of poke (yum), a random container of mac salad (yum), and a random container of pickled cucumbers (yum). a++, will order late from them again.
wednesday was the anniversary of the day the good voters of nevada passed a constitutional amendment prohibiting people who'd participated in a duel from voting or holding office. they voted on this in 1889. it may or may not still be on the books.
in honor of tomorrow beingcheap chocolate eve valentine's day i need to share that angry orchard hard cider will take your ex's stuff and exchange it for cash. and then you exchange the cash for cider. everyone wins. :D
you can preorder squishable toilet paper. you know, if your life needs a toilet roll plushie in it.
2 fast 2 curlious. hee.
(last night i watched some of the women us vs sweden and cory thiesse who was on the mixed doubles team is on the women's team and she must be so tired.)
second important thing: i got snowed on tuesday on the way home. :DDD it was very exciting.
other sports i've seen include some ski jump (looks both fun and absolutely terrifying), some speed skating (holy shit thighs), and some ice dancing (my favorite was the spanish couple who skated to the music from dune). i was briefly distracted by more norwegian drama, namely the biathlete who used his bronze-medal interview to admit he cheated on his girlfriend (she broke up with him) and then also admitted he hoped his public declaration of love would win her back. it did not. there's also drama in the figure skating but it sounds less like "guy did a stupid thing" drama and more like "everyone's covering for the rapist" drama and that is just way more serious.
i also randomly caught the gold medal run for women's snowboard cross which was won by an australian with a huge cheering section all wearing pink hats. so cute. the snowboarders all hugged each other after the run and that was also extremely adorable. now i'm watching the men's halfpipe and one of the japanese snowboarders is wearing pearly nail polish and how can you not love that? shaun white is there and his reactions to the tricks and the falls are fantastic.
now you're gonna get curling links because it's me and i only get to do this once every four years.
snoop dogg hangs with the curlers. korey dropkin's mom taught him about curling. (mom's name is shelly and while i don't know her i think she was president of the club at one point and was basically kind of a big deal. everything i've ever heard about her is positive.)
the oldest athlete at the games is a fifty-four-year-old lawyer on the us men's curling team. :D one of the other guys on the team, this lawyer curled with his dad. it's gotta be weird to be old enough to have fathered the other folks on your team but it sounds like they're all very cool about it.
i don't know what to call this. there are wrestlers. it's weird. also cute.
how about a curling stone cake?
and finally an article about my club, because god knows i've mentioned it enough. (that should be a non-paywalled link.)
couple more general olympics links:
meet one of only two greenlanders at the olympics. she's a biathlete there with her brother (also a biathlete) and if you saw people waving the greenlandic flag along the course? danish fans showing their support.
the olympic village ran out of condoms in THREE DAYS. someone seriously underestimated the amount of sex these attractive, athletic folks were going to be having.
speaking of curling i was way off my game on sunday altho the ice was quite weird but we had to call the game when someone on the other team slipped, fell, landed on her wrist, and had to get off the ice. her hubs took her to the er. they were ahead so we just gave them the win and ended it. i'm sure she's out for the rest of the season but i hope she's ok. i consequently did not see any of the super bowl or the halftime show which was kind of a bummer because i wanted to watch that.
and saturday for dinner i was really feeling it for hawaiian food and fortunately! there's a place not super far from me that can provide. i get there and the guy behind the counter asked me "you want some free food?" and i went "uh..." because on the one hand yes, who's going to turn down free dinner? but on the other, why were they giving it away?? because they were about to close. so i went home with my spam musubi and my mix plate and a random container of poke (yum), a random container of mac salad (yum), and a random container of pickled cucumbers (yum). a++, will order late from them again.
wednesday was the anniversary of the day the good voters of nevada passed a constitutional amendment prohibiting people who'd participated in a duel from voting or holding office. they voted on this in 1889. it may or may not still be on the books.
in honor of tomorrow being
you can preorder squishable toilet paper. you know, if your life needs a toilet roll plushie in it.
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