Just hanging out with Sue…

Kids and hubs have the day off! Museum trip!

We just got the bill for my oldest son’s 1 week hospital stay. $1900, which I knew a lot would be covered by insurance. The amount billed to insurance: $190,000 😱😱😱

Sunday funday was spent with the fam doing watercolor, playing, watching Lego Ninjago… read a good, cozy day inside. What did you all do for Sunday funday?

Oh me gawd! That is the frog I gave John Scalzi! 🥰🥰🥰

Someone caught a meal where I let the dogs out. The dogs are not pleased and made it abundantly clear to me.

Author fair today. Went better than I expected!

My children are rounding up my crochet critters and throwing a protest that I can’t sell them. How is your Saturday going?

Oh my goodness... i found one in the wild (and it makes me sad). An AI crochet pattern on Etsy. Depressing. And also goodness that looks so fake. As a crocheter, that is not how the stitches look or work.

Honestly never would have expected Sonic to essentially meet the walking dead. (It’s still awesome just… ugh! So gut wrenching)

Why TF did the Sonic IDW have to hit me in the feels THAT FREAKING HARD! Like dang… this is up there with gut wrenching rip your heart out x-men one shots.

It is a fantastic show!

Time to go ish prepping for Loteria night at the kids’ school!

I feel you. I started Sonic 3 last night after the kids went to bed (they do not have any interest in the movie, otherwise I would watch with them).

This really highlights the foundational importance of The Bluesky Way (“immediately block anybody who says anything even remotely unchill to you or to anybody you like”)

Apparently whenever I go to a new app, I am reminded of the weirdest marketing ideas from companies. I have now learned that kfc made a drumstick tamagotchi. Released only in Spain.

Went down a rabbit hole talking to hubs about movie adaptations of video games and found out there was an animated animal crossing movie?

I have dishonored my marshmallow.

This!

It is always interesting to self reflect on any written fiction you make and figure out why you wrote it. There is a reason. Probably something you are processing.

There really be a character we never move on from. And that is all good. Also…. Nice. Write the hell out of that fanfic!

I have resigned myself to rebrand a bit and take the pressure off of myself to publish. I do still plan to publish things but not make it such a serious endeavor.

No idea why it took so long but I finally got a new desk chair. I was literally using the desk chair I had as a kid (maybe 30 year old chair).

DO NOT SULLY WHAT DR. DANIEL JACKSON HAS SPENT HIS LIFE RESEARCHING! For we shall sic T'ealc on you...

1. Design Engineer (Chemical Engineer) 2. I have two degrees, one in Music Business and later in Chemical Engineering 3. I never changed majors, I went to school twice because Music Business didn't pan out without moving 4. stay at home mom (I did work for nearly a decade before that though)

Also, why is it that the air is freaking colder than the Artic, but my senior 15 lb dog feels the need to go wander around outside and just... bark and lick things? WHY?????

Not that I expect there to be tons of people in my geographic area... but I'll be at the Glen Ellyn Emerging Author Expo this Saturday, January 25th!

Parent life is: children wearing shorts and t-shirt in the house and the temps feel like -6F outside. “I’m cold….” 🙄🙄🙄

Oh boy, not sure if there is a #3dprinting group here on bluesky, but I just heard about the bambu labs update that does not allow for using 3rd party slicers. Is this accurate?

Harbinger on how the next four years will start: broke the glue gun I could find (the one I have had for 35 years) and can’t find the other.

I have lost control of my life. Or at least my laptop. Kiddo asked about the solo rpg I started and wanted to do it himself. #writingcommunity

My based in absolutely nothing predictions on launch/close to launch Switch 2 games: -Mainline 3D Mario game -Splatoon 4 -Metroid Prime 4 -a let’s go style Pokémon game of gold/silver/crystal We know Mario Kart 9 is confirmed.

And just like that, less than a day later TikTok is back.

Just starting up a solo journaling rpg called Curious Creatures. Does anyone post their solo adventures anywhere?

3 months of worries, sick family members, hospitals, pt and ot, and more sickness. I am exhausted. I have pushed pause on all the things I was trying to do to take care of my family. Today is the first day in a LONG time I felt good enough to put on make up or do my hair.

#Tiktok #AssuaultRifles #USA 🇺🇸🔫

As a parent I only usually get to boot up the ps5 about once a month (sad I know). Thought I would keep going with Lego horizon adventures tonight.

Oh I did not think about CapCut being shut down.

Wow I saw a post on other social media that TikTok was down so I tried and dang… I was unsure if they would do it. #tiktok

3 months I have been away from writing. I am finding it so hard to bring myself back in. I'm working on it so slowly. I feel so distracted. I'm not working on something that will be for sale... just something that makes me happy but it's so hard right now.

Current read is the 5th Apothecary Diaries Light Novel! OMG it is a slow down from the race that was volume 4 (which was INCREDIBLE) but sorely needed. Maomao and Jinshi though... everyone can freaking see it! I am screaming every time they are together! OMG #Anime #Animesky #weeb #Booksky

I didn’t mean to make an angry chicken. But I am not mad about it.

Ok… finish it February is finally coming along. 2.5 chapters left of this… well I guess novella. Gonna end around 30k.

She went from blorbo to mothman… moth-woman… I don’t know.

Mwahahahahaha cosplay for capricon obtained! The future king of the pirates!!!

Well, not sure people here will need it but my writing group wanted to do a “how to write fantasy” presentation and it did not get picked up so I made a blog series about it. The first is out today. open.substack.com/pub/jmguilfo...

Trying my hand at moodboarding my fanfic. And digital planners.

🤣🤣🤣 My husband: why can’t there be rainbows and sunshine…? Me: TRAUMA FOR YOU AND TRAUMA FOR YOU! All the trauma for my fanfic characters!

Look at that little tongue sticking out! 😍

Oh and I thought I was the only one.