Consistently, predictably, dependably, unwaveringly ERRATIC

So the Big Red Greyhound did not prove cat-friendly upon further assessment and he's probably be better with another confident dog in the house anyway.

We didn't make it to the GAP adoption day nearby but they didn't have any cat-friendlies that day. We might have gone just for cuddles but Mum has been helping Roz with a huge clear-out project and they were coming up the deadline to the council clean-up pick-up.

There was another GAP adoption day the next weekend at a different location an hour away and a possible boy there but it was pouring rain and Mum wasn't comfortable driving up the freeway in that. He was adopted quicky - and so were the two cat-friendly puppies! A 4-month-old boy, blind in one eye, and an 8-month-old boy with growth plate issues in his front legs. We cooed over their photos - all legs and nose, absolutely adorable - but we were resolute. Not a puppy. Greyhound puppies are just as insane as any other breed.

I was deeply disappointed not to at least get some cuddles - I have't even seen a greyhound since Miss Shadow died - but we talked to Tina again last week and she picked up a cat-friendly girl on Sunday and we're going to visit her at her foster home tomorrow. I have a dentist appointment and said foster home is about two minutes away. Hound is young and unraced and very affectionate, so we'll see. I was leaning towards a boy but this girl looks nothing like Miss Shadow, which helps. I do like the big, rangy boys but Mum feels our new place is just too small for a bigger hound.

It's been quite the two years.

( Saying goodbye. Times three )

Because I knew you/I have been changed for good


I always liked this song and vid and now I'm crying. I had the time of my life/fighting dragons with you

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turlough , thank you so much!!! The socks are so pretty, they fit perfectly and were a delightful surprise. I put them on immediately and was very pleased with myself for wearing a pink dress today (it matches one shade in the socks perfectly.)

It has just started to get cold here and a bit nippy around the ankles in the evenings so I was thinking of getting out the Rose socks (as I think of them), instead I'm wearing the Cosmos socks!

After a decade or so of being the one responsible for arranging the Christmas lights on our artificial tree and getting scratched and generally beaten up by the tree every time (doesn't help that our tree has to go in a corner so the room is limited) I have finally discovered there is an easier way!

Instead of assembling the tree then winding the lights from the top down ending with the cord and plug, I started adding the lights from the bottom as I built the tree. I know the string was the right length, knew more or less how it should go and I didn't have to tangle with extra cord and plug. IT WAS SO MUCH EASIER. And it this how people normally do it, could someone have mentioned this earlier?!

Mum was shopping at Aldi today and happened to run into the same very unattractive and unprepossessing middle-aged bloke several times on the way through. On the third occasion he asked her quite seriously if she was trying to pick him up.

Mum said, 'Good heavens, no. I've got enough troubles,' and walked off.

A CERTAIN SOMEBODY has figured out how to delicately push open the low screen blocking the archway into the living room.

A CERTAIN SOMEBODY has been found on his favourite sofa when he was not meant to be in that room.

First time Mum thought she must not have closed the screen properly last time she was in there (and greyhounds can eel their way through remarkably narrow spaces.*) But this morning, who was on the sofa again but that handsome brindle hound, Mr Nosey! And we know the screen was shut last night! And he did it again today!

Cheeky bugger. But he knows we're on to him so let's see what he tries next.

*Unless they're like Miss Shadow and flatly refuse to deal with narrow spaces, leaving us perplexed (especially when our cattle dog would see any slightly open door as an invitation and barge on through.) It took time, training and help from The Boyo but she improved greatly. She also disliked going under things or having her tail touched. When we saw some footage of greyhounds being loaded into starting boxes we went "... oh. She must had some training." I also came across a thread on a rescue greys forum and discovered that a lot of rescues hate half-open doors and gates and dislike anything touching their backsides. She still prefers doors to be more than half-open - but she'll she follow Mr Nosey through a narrower gap! She hasn't tried for the living room yet ..

Veuve Clicquot is a superb champagne. I knew the risks of drinking but damned if I wasn't going to try some. And I managed most of a small glass over the afternoon (most alcohol I've had in years) before the intolerance symptoms kicked in - shaky, exhausted, had to lie down, but no immediate piercing headache?

Slept the rest of the day, may have oncoming migraine but it's been a long few days so I expected that.

Veuve Clicquot. My, my. I highly recommend it.

Day 3

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.

A friend recently hooked me up with Netflix and I watched both seasons of Stranger Things in three days. I love The Party, Winona Ryder is fantastic, Jonathan/Nancy/Steve is my OT3 and I laughed myself silly over babysitter!Steve at the end of S2. He was having a very bad day.

the heart its own rough animal (21644 words) by trepan
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016), His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler, Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper, the babies don't have relationships they are too busy fighting monsters
Characters: Eleven (Stranger Things), Mike Wheeler, Dustin Henderson, Lucas Sinclair, Jonathan Byers, Nancy Wheeler, Will Byers, Steve Harrington, Joyce Byers, Jim "Chief" Hopper, Benny Hammond
Additional Tags: Period-Typical Homophobia, Canon-Typical Violence, Alternate Universe
Summary:

The three boys are her age. 11 used to imagine other children, after 10 and 9 went away. For a moment, she thinks she dreamed them, but they all have daemons on their shoulders, pointy ones with glossy black all over their small bodies. Children don’t have daemons.

“Where’s her daemon,” says one of the boys urgently. “Guys, she doesn’t have one.”

(A His Dark Materials AU)

His Dark Materials!fusion with a gutpunch ending.

our most brilliant friends (1544 words) by GhostGrantaire
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dustin Henderson & Max
Characters: Dustin Henderson, Max (Stranger Things)
Additional Tags: Friendship, Ice Cream
Summary:

“How does that not bother you?” Max suddenly blurted out loudly. Dustin looked up at her in surprise.

“The ice cream?” He asked slowly, confused.

Max huffed, burying her spoon back in the vanilla sundae, which was starting to melt together with the chocolate syrup and maraschino cherries, the banana buried underneath. “The names.”

Fierce, angry Max and very awesome Dustin. Because he is awesome.

i never wanted trouble (but i sure got enough) (1644 words) by QueenWithABeeThrone
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: implied Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler/Steve Harrington
Characters: Steve Harrington, Jonathan Byers, Nancy Wheeler, Dustin Henderson, Will Byers, Eleven (Stranger Things), Max Mayfield, Lucas Sinclair, Mike Wheeler
Additional Tags: Pre-OT3, Road Trip, Road Trip from Hell, Attempt at Humor, Crack, steve is tired let him rest
Summary:

“Eyes on the road!” screams Mike.

“Our parents will kill you if you crash this car!” yells Lucas.

or: what happens when you cram six kids and three teenagers into a stolen van and put them on the road to stopping the apocalypse. again.

I laughed myself stupid reading this. The voices were PERFECT.

stranger things than polyamory (3545 words) by trepan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
Characters: Jonathan Byers, Steve Harrington, Nancy Wheeler
Additional Tags: Past Character Death, Polyamory
Summary:

Somebody spray-paints NANCY WHEELER HAS TWO BOYFRIENDS on a wall she walks by on her way back from school in May. There are a couple of other students watching her as she passes. Nancy gives the sign a long look, then smirks at them politely.

OT3 get together from three POVs. And they're happy.

A Heart Like Hers (7665 words) by EvieSmallwood
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler
Characters: Steve Harrington, Nancy Wheeler, Jonathan Byers, Mike Wheeler, Jim "Chief" Hopper
Additional Tags: ot3: monster hunters, features aspiring deputy steve
Summary:

Nancy Wheeler, the perfect poster child, is in love with two boys.

Nancy-centric OT3 fic. They're all trying to figure things out.

The Hawkins Three (15742 words) by Nonymos
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler, Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson, Steve Harrington & Will Byers
Characters: Steve Harrington, Nancy Wheeler, Jonathan Byers, Dustin Henderson, Joyce Byers, Will Byers, Eleven (Stranger Things), Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, Max (Stranger Things)
Additional Tags: Post Season 2, OT3, Gayer Things, everyone needs so much therapy, 80s trauma victims make do, steve lives in denial, jonathan has an inferiority complex, nancy’s tired of all the bullshit, some casual homophobic slurs, lots of teens and pre-teens figuring their shit out, babysitter steve activate!, Dungeons & Dragons, the byers boys need hugs, Angst and Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Polyamory, the answer to every love triangle
Summary:

It's two weeks after the Snow Ball, Nancy's officially with Jonathan, and Steve is trying to move forward. If only he wasn't on a path that keeps circling back to the both of them.

Steve-centric and worth it just for sheer hilarity of his conversations with Dustin.

Steve’s jaw drops. “Are you giving me relationship advice?”

“Low blow, Harrington,” Dustin says, swerving his front wheel threateningly. “Look. I may be just a little tadpole in the great mysterious pond of romance, but I do know this: when people don’t talk to each other, good people end up eaten. Or worse.”