#getting settled

Speaking of the arrival of a baby... The first trimester was pretty much a nightmare for Penny (yup, she has denounced her Landgraab name and fully embraced her cover name 'Penny Starr' now. Also, if she writes books, they will have the right author's name), with nausea, lightheadedness and extreme fatigue.

But the rest of her pregnancy went surprisingly well. They had settled into the house and she worried less about how she would give this little baby a good start in life. Jess brought her in contact with an obstetrician, who confirmed everything was going very well and she was doing a great job.

Kit, who was at first overwhelmed by the idea of having a baby as a teen (I mean, very understandable) , absolutely fell in love with his future child. He often caressed Penny's belly, talked to the baby and felt if he could feel some movement, looking up to Penny with big, happy eyes.

@mixberkaan @pinkatron @lindariellanthir @mulasawala @do-androids-dream-ao3acc @i-am-pinkie ugh why can't I remember more @distinguisheddwarffriend @snailqueen42 I'll keep trying to rack my brain. <3

Yes I went with another ridiculous blog name. What did you expect.

It was pretty surreal. I noticed there was very little porn besides my own flying around this morning. Then, all of the sudden, I'm booted off the site. It took several seconds for it to click, lol.

It shows that I have made MAJOR progress in the last two years. When I accidentally drunk-deleted my 12 year old blog 2 years ago, I lost my ever-loving mind.

We actually have a branch pretty close, and I still need to roll my ass over there to get a physical card to check out stuff in person. But, it was easy enough to get online access now that I do have a personnummer and all. You can apparently register without that, but do need to show ID in person.

The library does also carry a decent amount of English-language stuff, including a section at our currently small local branch. (Which is in temporary quarters at the nearby shopping center until the new building is finished sometime next year.)

But, a good part of my idea here--besides a general Libraries Good--was as a convenient supply of fodder to work more on language skills in a fun way. On the plus side, given my current proficiency and concentration levels: the library system's "two e-book loans per week" limit shouldn't be much of an issue right now! 🥴

Today, I decided to check out their YA selection, which is not entirely small on the e-book side. Browsed a while and added half a dozen things to my list. Then decided to start out with this, from the recently added category:

The Space Dog: A Journey to Jupiter

It's '50s SF, involving at least one Space Good Boy. May turn out to be cheesy as hell, but that's not always a drawback.

Almost a shame the publisher didn't run with what appears to be the original cover.

Which just has that certain very period je ne sais quoi.

everything changed when the fire nation attacked or how I (finally) organized my closet

We’ve lived in our home for five months but I was still ‘living out of boxes’ in my closet. Actually ‘boxes’ was a plastic bin and big blue IKEA bag of shoe boxes and loose shoes, and a big bag of every random thing from my night table with jewelry trays of earrings on top. These things were all in the bottom of our closet. Every time Baby K comes, she finds a new pair of earrings to get excited…