Long overdue - I've been meaning to make a master fic post for awhile now, and tada! Here it is! :) Please let me know if any of the links are glitched up, or any other errors. Sticky post, so it should stay at the top of my journal.

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Not sure why I remembered this today, but all through elementary school I had a Sesame Street alarm clock that would wake me up in the morning, and to this day I can remember the exact words and cadence:

Good morning!
It's me,
your friend,
Big Bird!
The old school house clock says it's time to get up!
Now wash your face,
brush your teeth,
and don't forget!
To wind the clock!

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Happy Valentine's Day all my loves! <3333333333333333333333333333

Enjoy some noise from our favorite pink Autobot!




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1. Today's traffic jam podcast: David Tennant (10th Doctor) interviewing Jodie Whittaker (13th Doctor) - so much fun! I could listen to them all day. The accents! Just give me delight, although I listened to it again on the way home because I couldn't quite catch everything the first time through. Here's the YouTube link - no video, just the audio, and if you do podcasts just look up the latest episode of "David Tennant Does a Podcast With..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLu06tlLIyk

So far I've made it through most of Matt Smith (11th Doctor) and as I suspected, it just took me a few more episodes to like him very much! All the convoluting plots and River Song, very fun, too.

2. In other news, discovered last week at a vet visit that our educational groundhog, that I've been calling "she" for three years, is actually a boy! Field guides don't go into that much detail on sexing groundhogs XD

3. Had to start over on my "Couch to 5K" exercise project - took a few weeks off due to a bad cold, and then polar vortex temps, and even though I scaled it back to shorter run segments when I started back up again, my knees started hurting almost right off the bat. And I kept going thinking "maybe they'll loosen up" - they did not loosen up! Knees were very unhappy afterwards, so gave it all a rest and thought I'd try glucosamine supplements. Seems to be helping! It might be psychological, but I do feel very springy, and knees are mostly fine now - one has a bit of soreness once in awhile, but I've started over back at the very beginning with the running app, with the little 1 minute runs, and it doesn't seem to be making it worse. I do like my little running park - I get to hear water gurgling in the icy creek, and there's a kingfisher that rattles every time I go by, and there's fun sand patterns and raccoon tracks on the trail.

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I think the picture says it all, lol


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This is my critter laundry for the education animals at work, and the squishy bed on top actually belongs to the opossum, but All Squish Belongs To Toast!


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Protectobot fic/snippet bunnies! My writer-brain still seems to be stalled out after this crazy year, but it does at least have a whole nest of bunnies to poke at if it ever decides to rev up :D

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1. I have made a Pillowforte. fort. thing. Haven't done much yet since it's running super slow due to being a little overwhelmed and still a baby site, but it is there and I've found a few folks and added them, and I know there've been a few others on there that scrolled past on tumblr that I lost track of - feel free to look me up if you're on there - playswithworms is the name, I have no game, or something. (Also, if you have changed names on tumblr several times I may or may not have any idea who you are, lol - I still think of everyone as their original LJ handles for the most part).

2. Have been home with a cold for a few days and binge watched "The Dragon Prince" on Netflix, super cute! Things I like:
More than one female character! It's...not quite 50:50, maybe, but I believe it's approaching it quite closely!
A plotline I mostly follow!
A kickass awesome character who is deaf and they use sign language and have an interpreter, and it's not heavy-handed (ha! I meant to do that) or overdone, just part of the story.
All the characters are fun and interesting and quirky and I like getting to know them
Everyone, including kings, baby-talks to their animal companions
Affectionate step-family and sibling relationships
Season 1 doesn't resolve all the threads (Season 2 is in the works), but ends on a satisfying note.

3. I have been running! Sort of, anyway. This is in an attempt to avoid having to take blood pressure medication, which doesn't seem to agree with me very well. My job keeps me pretty active, except for this time of year, but it's not usually aerobic-type activity, just a lot of continuous walking around. I downloaded one of those "Couch to 5K" apps that steps you up with gradually increasing bits of jogging vs walking and (until I came down with cold) have been heading out to a tiny local park to run(ish). The trail is soft enough it hasn't bothered my knees or feet so far, and I get to check out trees and plants and a nice burbly stream and occasional wildlife, so it's fairly easy to convince myself to do it. The only thing is it does have a huge stand of around 20 or so mature dead ash trees, wiped out by the emerald ash borer the last few years, so that adds an extra spice of danger! Yeesh. I don't go if there are high winds. So far I've made it to three-minute continuous runs, and it's fun to feel like I've developed a wee bit of stamina. The boobs are a bit of a pain - I have a jogging bra that isn't too bad if I put it on over my shirt and the whole kaboodle, instead of wearing it right next to my skin, but this time of year my coat works just as well to keep everything from flopping about too much. I'm a little self-conscious because I don't have any "jogging" clothes, and the park is right behind a big fitness center and there I am jogging around in my khaki work pants and hiking boots, lol, but usually there's no one else on the trail.

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I don’t always stab myself in the palm with scissors, but when I do I like to do it with the scissors I’ve been using to trim poop-balls from a bunny’s butt. *Someone* decided to try to escape the blanket she was rolled up in at just the wrong time. She still needs a bunch of loose hair brushed out of her back, but it had to wait while I took a break to not bleed over everything.

It’s actually a pretty tiny puncture, despite the bleeding - and the bleeding hopefully washed out any bunny poo. Bunnicula the bunny has been giving me the stink eye all day, but at least she doesn’t have poop balls dangling from her butt fuzz any more! Tomorrow she gets a brushing, which at least doesn’t involve any sharp edges.


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Took the lads in for vaccinations and check ups yesterday - had been trying to get Mr-Food-Vacuum-Gandalf’s weight down a bit since he’s been having more trouble jumping up on things, so started putting the dry kibble in ice cube trays to slow him down a bit. And it worked! Gandalf is down half a pound. Toast however has dropped a full pound that he really didn’t need to drop, hrm. The first day I tried the ice cube tray thing he scooped the food out with his paw right away, but then he seemed like he just totally forgot how to do it and now he just sticks his nose into the cube tray and gets the top bits and gives up on the rest. So, may have to figure out something else, scheduled mealtimes in three different rooms or something.

Miss Bones will get her check up in spring, but as far as I can tell by manual squooshes (when she’ll let me, which is only when I’m talking on the phone which = cuddle time for some reason) she’s maintaining her weight - she only comes out to eat after I’ve gone to bed and everything’s quiet, which presents its own challenge.

"What is this new devilry?"

In other news, I just deleted three porn blogs that started following me on tumblr since yesterday - penises, vulvas, dildos, strap ons, blow jobs, gifs of real people and cartoon people having sex, the works! So the "no adult content" algorithm whatsis is doing a bang up job there, lol.

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