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Dan's voice has gotten distinctly deeper, which kind of snuck up on me.

I've never been around a boy going through puberty before.

(life is calm, there is nothing else really to report.)

The kids' high school had a lockdown on Monday because (reportedly) several students brought ammunition to school. School went on as normal today, but we just got the message that the school is closed entirely tomorrow because of multiple tips concerning a potential threat building on Mondays, and I'm trying really hard to be calm but as soon as I remember this is happening I'm scared all over again.

I wasn't planning on having a drink before bed tonight, but now I'm pretty sure it's the only way I'll get to sleep.

I have now run through everything the several authors on ao3 that consistently write to my tastes have written, and have been cruising through tags trying to find other things, and wow, does the Discworld Death of Rats show up in a lot of stories. Including multiple takes on what happens when Peter Pettigrew dies.

My tastes are a little too specific. It's a problem. I finally got an account instead of just reading as a guest so that I can know the instant that the toasterverse, use your words verse, or foodieverse update again, after inhaling the almost million words involved in those three over this past weekend when I was sick.

(I thought Endgame did an okay of wrapping up the Avengers movies, but I want more time with the characters.)

D apparently has an ao3 where he has posted multiple stories, but he won't tell me the name because that would be embarrassing. I suspect I could figure it out, but have resisted the urge to do so, because respecting children's boundaries is important. (I am so frigging curious. But no.)

Today was the day of Dan's sleep deprivation EEG test, which meant that, even though we broke the keeping-him-awake time into shifts, I only got 4 hours of sleep last night, on top of a long accumulation of underslept nights. And went to PT in the morning (I graduated to all standing exercises!)

I feel asleep in my chair while he slept for the EEG.  We get results on Tuesday, though as I have poked around more I think this might have been a ruling-things-out test rather than a diagnosis confirming test, but at least it is forward motion.

Because of this, I will be heading super early at Norweson tomorrow to put up my art show stuff, and then coming home and dropping my car, which has lost the ability to find 2nd gear, off at the mechanic, and then maybe a nap, and then helping finish the kids' costumes for Sakuracon on Saturday.

If you are going to be there, O is going as "Sand Planet" Hatsune Miku (best costume ever, she will wear everything again in regular life but the wig), and D is going as the Prince from Hat in Time. He will be recognizable as himself; when you put a big teal wig on O, though, it gets more challenging to pick her out of a crowd. (There are always at least 3 Mikus wandering around.)

I will be at Norwescon Sunday late afternoon for art show checkout, but am badgeless.

I did not remember until 11:45 last night that I made D a doctor's appointment downtown at 7 am. I kind of hate myself right now.

It was Day 1 of GeekGirlCon, where I am vending, (That's going well, but I started the day exhausted so it's mostly a blur.)

The kids came with Sean for a short stretch in the afternoon, and Dan had dressed up in a costume which he referred to as "Jack" and I am assuming is a character from something or other I'm too old to know about. So he had this printed out jack-o-lantern mask and a big green cloak -- which is the wool cloak my mother bought when she was pregnant with me to accommodate her baby bump.

I think she would be pleased.

 My children are all officially teenagers now. 

 My schedule for all I was going to get done while Dan was away at school camp has been blown all to hell, becuase at 5:30pm yesterday I got a call and it was clear that he was too sick to stay (particularly at the NatureBridge camp, where each day has hours of hiking.)

So, 2.5 hours there, via the Edmonds-Kingston ferry, and then 3.5 back, becuase it was late enough that we couldn't make the ferry's last sailing. Ugh. What's especially dumb is that if I have family in Sequim that I'm not super close to but would have totally been fine letting us crash, but I don't have their phone numbers and no easy way to get it.  

I really, really hate driving on country highways at night, it's so horror movie waiting to happen, and when a car is far enough ahead of you in the dark, the red taillights look like monster eyes. 

The boy is going to the doctor, since apparently the problem is something he's been having for a while but it just massively escalated, S is taking time off work to take O to the dentist appointment I had scheduled for right when Dan's school usually gets out, and I had to drink cola to stay awake and so didn't sleep for shit once I made it home at 1. 

And my one rare-ish album offering is being discontinued, and etsy is raising their fees.

I am really not fond of the world right now. Wah wah.

I showed the children the Addams Family tonight, because we must attend to their cultural education, and it went quite well.  Olivia is now trying to figure out who would be who if we did it as a full family cosplay; I think I'd be a good Gomez, but Fester could work to. No one is up to being Morticia.

Tomorrow morning, the sequel (the library's DVD is a "double feature").

(Tomorrow afternoon, appointments)

On Friday we go to Ikea.

Clearly, my plan to have lots of activities for/with the children over MidWinter Break is going REALLY WELL.

I got imminently due album #2 90% done today and then the client stuck 5 more images into the source folder, but without a note as to what she wants done with them. Gah. I really, really, want all my album designs out the door by Friday morning, so they aren't on my mind when I go into art mode. 

I know I also did other things today, but other than driving O to and from Japanese I can't remember what they were. Bookkeeping? That there is still too much to do, and not enough brain to do it with.

Meetings with the school have been set up about getting O better set up with , so that's moving forward yay.

A set of weight "bars" that are between 1 and 5 pounds have arrived , which means I can properly start the kids on some strength training they both desperately need. Even unloaded, overhead pressing my (not full-size) barbell turned out to be just not something they can safely do yet, and it's too heavy to be useful, even if technically possible, for starting the other major lifts.

I have a sketchbook full of new statement piece designs but no time/place to even crank out more of the basics at the moment, though I have plenty enough stock that no one else could look at my table and think there are gaps. I am still hopeful I will have some done in time for GeekCraftExpo, though. Definitely I should have at least one spectacular thing to send to Arisia, in the worst case

This weekend is the first of my 5 holiday shows, with 4 being in a row and then there is one "off" weekend before the last:

• November 11: Artisans Harvest Fair, Snohomish (Thomas Family Farm)
• November 18: Pancakes & Booze, Seattle (El Corazon)
• November 24-35: GeekCraftExpo, Seattle (Magnuson Park Hanger 30)
• December 2: Cascade K-8 Winterfest, Shoreline (which includes a Scholastic Book Fair!)
  (pause for breath)
• December 16-17: Punk Rock Flea Market, Seattle

I'm probably not, given especially the last minute addition of PRFM, going to be getting stuff listed on artfire/etsy, so if you want to ask about what I have, just e-mail me. I have pulled all the earrings that are nickel-free alloys off the table now that I have enough stainless steel ones made, so they will go up online for sale in some form... sooner than the rest? Perhaps another instagram sale...

Lulu is starting to show her age a lot more; jumping up on/down from the bed has become a much more careful, multi-step process, and we are not convinced she still actually has much in the way of hearing. She is 18, so this isn't unexpected, but is also sad. She'll go in for her "super senior" checkup soon. In silver lining department, this does mean that I could actually get an aquarium now if I can just figure out a good place for it, since her jumping up on top to try and catch fishies clearly isn't going to be a thing anymore. (Scare them by sitting next to it, staring, and tapping on the glass is still well within her capabilities, though. Maybe the aquarium should wait some more .... )