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And now, a third fic. Maybe a fourth.
Oct. 29th, 2017 04:34 amOctober 28th, 1966 was when the world was introduced to Lucrece Posey and her bizarre gang of crooks in the Wild Wild West episode The Poisonous Posey. For the 50th anniversary last year, I made sure to watch the episode. For the 51st anniversary this year, I also wanted to watch the episode and was able to. I also got to see Count Manzeppi's second episode, The Feathered Fury, and ended up going to look over my Wild Wild West story that heavily involves both of those episodes as well as The Sudden Plague. And I just wrote a little bit for the next chapter. That felt pretty good too. It's always liberating coming back to a fic and finally feeling the time and inspiration are right to do a little more. Maybe I'll actually be able to get it finished. I really liked it.
I do need to see if I can get the current Turtles fic done by Halloween, since it's slated as the Halloween fic, but I have the feeling it won't be done by then, especially since it's a humor fic and those sometimes move slower. Also, I may still want to detail some of the Halloween preparations and this fic would be better for that, pushing the actual Halloween venture to still a later fic, and probably a post-Halloween one, if I do it at all.
Earlier in the week we watched the Emergency! episode where the lady keeps thinking her dead sister is haunting the house and wanting her husband out, since the sisters had a falling out over the now-dead one thinking the husband wasn't good enough for her sister. It ends where they think the lady set a fire in the house and honestly believes the sister did it, but actually, no one saw her set the fire. The husband just naturally assumed she did it, as did the paramedics, since none of them believe the place is haunted. I got a plunnie where Ginger and Lou are contacted by the husband, who discovers that while he's in the house alone as his wife is undergoing psychiatric observation, something else really is there with him. He's terrified, as well as horrified that he's sent his wife to the psychiatric ward when she doesn't belong. Ginger and Lou come to investigate and find that instead of the sister, something dark and evil was summoned at the seance that started the madness. That would be a nice Halloween fic too. I'm sure I wouldn't get it written in time, though, but I really want to give it a whirl.
I did a dry run of my costume Tuesday night, as I figured that would be better than putting it on for the first time right before the party the next day. It came out pretty good. I took a few selfies, which I posted here: https://cubeupload.com/codes/bff957 The thumbnails don't show the entire picture, though, so they have to be clicked on to see it all. Hopefully later I can get someone else to take a picture or two to get the whole costume in. It is a pity I couldn't find a brown wig, as I prefer Baxter with brown hair, but I'm glad I found a wild one, at least!
The Halloween party went alright, but there wasn't much of a turn-out and hardly anyone actually wore costumes. I was disappointed, especially compared to previous years. At least the girls weren't uncontrollably wild. And they had fun. And there were leftover cookies from the ones they were decorating to give people, so I got to bring some of those home. Yum.
I found out that the most one can earn at the book fair is indeed $10. I also discovered that working two shifts in a row is exhausting, just as I feared it would be. I only did it because that was the only possible point in the week when I could do the extra shifts. But they had dinner for everyone afterwards, both because of teacher conferences that night and the book fair. So many different delicious soups! I had a cheddar and potato one, along with a roll and ice water. Perfection! Then I brought home a combo of chili and taco soups and three dessert things: a pumpkin and chocolate chip cookie, a raspberry cheesecake cookie, and a brownie. I love copious leftovers so I can do that!
I also decided that for all the work I did, the meatiest book choices were the two Pokemon ones. As much as I wanted the Pony storybook, it is for episodes I've seen. And it's a short story picture book. The Pokemon storybook was a chapter book of episodes I haven't seen, and then the other was the guidebook to the original 151 Pokemon. I was a little surprised that some of the things firmly ingrained in my mind weren't introduced until Gen II or later, like Pichu. The books are fun and I feel like they were worth what I did.
Still, I'm not sure that I'll do the book fair again when it comes time. It really was a bad week to try to do it, so I guess I'll have to see what things are like on the week it comes back. Also, though, maybe next time they won't have anything I'd consider worth all the work. We'll have to see. I did end up finding one other thing there I thought was pretty cool, a book about gems with some raw samples of some. But getting that would have meant not getting anything else, so I stuck with what I'd already chosen. That looked pretty awesome, though. I love rocks, minerals, and gems. Always have.
I do need to see if I can get the current Turtles fic done by Halloween, since it's slated as the Halloween fic, but I have the feeling it won't be done by then, especially since it's a humor fic and those sometimes move slower. Also, I may still want to detail some of the Halloween preparations and this fic would be better for that, pushing the actual Halloween venture to still a later fic, and probably a post-Halloween one, if I do it at all.
Earlier in the week we watched the Emergency! episode where the lady keeps thinking her dead sister is haunting the house and wanting her husband out, since the sisters had a falling out over the now-dead one thinking the husband wasn't good enough for her sister. It ends where they think the lady set a fire in the house and honestly believes the sister did it, but actually, no one saw her set the fire. The husband just naturally assumed she did it, as did the paramedics, since none of them believe the place is haunted. I got a plunnie where Ginger and Lou are contacted by the husband, who discovers that while he's in the house alone as his wife is undergoing psychiatric observation, something else really is there with him. He's terrified, as well as horrified that he's sent his wife to the psychiatric ward when she doesn't belong. Ginger and Lou come to investigate and find that instead of the sister, something dark and evil was summoned at the seance that started the madness. That would be a nice Halloween fic too. I'm sure I wouldn't get it written in time, though, but I really want to give it a whirl.
I did a dry run of my costume Tuesday night, as I figured that would be better than putting it on for the first time right before the party the next day. It came out pretty good. I took a few selfies, which I posted here: https://cubeupload.com/codes/bff957 The thumbnails don't show the entire picture, though, so they have to be clicked on to see it all. Hopefully later I can get someone else to take a picture or two to get the whole costume in. It is a pity I couldn't find a brown wig, as I prefer Baxter with brown hair, but I'm glad I found a wild one, at least!
The Halloween party went alright, but there wasn't much of a turn-out and hardly anyone actually wore costumes. I was disappointed, especially compared to previous years. At least the girls weren't uncontrollably wild. And they had fun. And there were leftover cookies from the ones they were decorating to give people, so I got to bring some of those home. Yum.
I found out that the most one can earn at the book fair is indeed $10. I also discovered that working two shifts in a row is exhausting, just as I feared it would be. I only did it because that was the only possible point in the week when I could do the extra shifts. But they had dinner for everyone afterwards, both because of teacher conferences that night and the book fair. So many different delicious soups! I had a cheddar and potato one, along with a roll and ice water. Perfection! Then I brought home a combo of chili and taco soups and three dessert things: a pumpkin and chocolate chip cookie, a raspberry cheesecake cookie, and a brownie. I love copious leftovers so I can do that!
I also decided that for all the work I did, the meatiest book choices were the two Pokemon ones. As much as I wanted the Pony storybook, it is for episodes I've seen. And it's a short story picture book. The Pokemon storybook was a chapter book of episodes I haven't seen, and then the other was the guidebook to the original 151 Pokemon. I was a little surprised that some of the things firmly ingrained in my mind weren't introduced until Gen II or later, like Pichu. The books are fun and I feel like they were worth what I did.
Still, I'm not sure that I'll do the book fair again when it comes time. It really was a bad week to try to do it, so I guess I'll have to see what things are like on the week it comes back. Also, though, maybe next time they won't have anything I'd consider worth all the work. We'll have to see. I did end up finding one other thing there I thought was pretty cool, a book about gems with some raw samples of some. But getting that would have meant not getting anything else, so I stuck with what I'd already chosen. That looked pretty awesome, though. I love rocks, minerals, and gems. Always have.
