Finn and Rey's Cat Cantina and Pizza Parlor (The Fanfic Social Thread)

Pretty clothes Ewok Poet.

Well I got off my lazy butt and confirmed today something i have suspected for months and that is that I have a VERY important doctor's appointment during Star Wars Celebrations so I guess it's a good thing my plans for it fell through. Yes, I could have rescheduled the appointment but since I'm getting married soon I need to keep this appointment and get some questions answered.

I'm not looking forward to having to get a new doctor, new medication specialist, etc, etc.

 

If that's what I think it could be, hope it all goes fine!

And thank you. The top's from NewYorker, a company from...err, Kiel, Germany that probably has no stores in USA. #theirony

I made some pretty upcycled button rings!

 

Some days just totally stink*. And all you can do is put on the grownup undies & deal with it...

*for "stink," please insert extremely inappropriate language that would get me a lifetime ban if I'd actually used it.

I'm glad you posted Agi & Judi pix, Ewok Poet. Needed that.

 

Speaking of Celebration, who'd going? PM me; we should organize a meetup. And what is with the wristband/sleepover thing?!!

Darn it, sorry, didn't mean to double post! I was trying to edit & I think I hit reply.

Really. Today is just...I'm just going to bed now. There are 5 hours left in the day, and I'm afraid of what fresh horrors will be unleashed.

 

Very pleased with the new direction your sartorial choices are taking, Ewok Poet.


Now, if I am understanding 24 hour clock correctly, 1am on Friday should mean Formula One Practice for the first race of 2017, starts in about 16 minutes.

 

Ewok Poet - I love that outfit! I love high-waisted shorts (though I don't own any yet ), they are so cute. Tartan skater skirt??
I also love those buttons! Old buttons are awesome.

O-Chem is less math, that's for sure, but it's a LOT of memorization (and I say this as someone who got an A in kinesiology, which is all memorization) and being able to think of things in 3 dimensional space but drawing it/seeing it represented in 2D. It's kinda like the English language... there are all these rules that apply, except when they just don't and you just have to know that. I would have probably been okay if there had never been a test and I could use the models you could physically play with and manipulate. I remember a few things that apply to my life now, but for the most part, I've blocked it out.


Mistress_Renata - I'm sorry you are having a rough day! I hope tomorrow is better!

I'm glad you are okay Sith-I-5!

 

mavjade, a new Thrawn book, you say? Glad to here Mr. Zahn is still in the business. I just listened to the 20th anniversary edition of the trilogy, unabridged, over the course of several daily commutes to work, finishing up the Last Command today.

 

18 years from one of the worst days of my life. And the next 77 were the other days I count as the worst.

 

I know life can be crappy sometimes, EP, but you don't have to tackle it solo. You can take a wookie with you.

 

Just google the date...

 

I just did and I can't even imagine. Hope you're doing okay.

 

I hope you never have to go through something like that again.

 

Yowch.

For the record, I wasn't trying to make fun of the worst day of your life, just offering some humor to try to cheer you up.

 

What a horror to have to experience, EP. I can't even imagine how terrifying that was.

 

That must have been terrible Ewok Poet. My father went to the Kosovo during the war with the red cross.
I rember how scared my mom and me were until he returned. He rarely speaks about what happened there.
I can't imagine how it must have been for you.

 

Yup. The thing is, they have finally honoured the victims of one of the worst specific incidents ever - the April 12th train bombing in Grdelica Gorge. I did not see the place from 1994 to 2016 and last year, the bus passed by the bridge the train was bombed on, on our way to Greece (it's the last bit of the road that's not a highroad) and I remembered thinking "Wow, it's so small. That was an attack on purpose, because in the war, there are ALWAYS power-hungry sadists. And those who think scheming to hurt others is great. Those who think that wars are a funny game and that all is fair in a war. No, it's not. It has never been and it will never be.

And I hate sadists and psycho types with all my loving heart. I do everything I can to make it worse for them when necessary, I am not a telltale, but when it comes to them, it's a fair game. I become a vigilant citizen, bitizen, denizen, netizen and I think they all need serious help. So, seeing sadism on a larger scale hurts me and the speech by the train driver, who survived by jumping in that tiny Grdelica River with his cabin mate was just...just... Poor, poor people. There was also a child, but they never found all the bodies, some were carried away by Grdelica to its nearby confluence with Southern Morava.

Given what was happening down there, I totally get it. Hope he doesn't have PTSD, though. Give dad a hug from me, unless he minds the idea of a Serb giving him a hug, since Milošević was the bad guy and there's no denial of that.

I know, don't worry. It's just that the part of suffering undergone by us who were not in Bosnia, Croatia and on Kosovo gets ignored, yet we're really messed up after all of it, too.

And a Wookiee WILL help, always.

The nights when the anti-aviation attack things were on the roof of the girl students dormitory in the same block as our apartment building were the worst. Because we found out only after they left. Seeing white laser-like stuff flying into the air was suspicious, but we didn't know.

That, and the time our car was targetted by somebody for funsies, in an area where they were not allowed to shoot everything that moves (they were allowed to do so below the parallel 44, but not above it). I guess the pilot thought it was hilarious. Dad saw this red light on the cockpit's instrument board and - YIKES.

Dad, however, made the whole thing worse later on, in May. He went fishing (yes, bombs are falling and he NEEDS to catch a carp) and caught a hi-voltage wire - the systems were not maintained because graphite bombs were thrown to cause the power systems to short-circuit and deprive the country of electricity for up to two days. He had fourth-degree burns on his feet. One toe had to be removed and he had a skin graph from his biceps transplanted to the other foot. He also had a minor burn just next to the parathyroid gland and escaped death only by not wearing rubber shoes. What followed was three weeks at the hospital, visiting him during the air emergency and him witnessing a bomb falling over another hospital block nearby that killed two pregnant women ready to give birth, among other things.

But it's all OK in 2017, or at least I think so. What matters is to live with own demons and struggles, the best way we know.

 

My father defenetly wouldn´t mind.
He felt sympathy for the Serbian people and is glad that he could help bringing humanitarian help to the region.
Since then it has been a dream of him to visit Serbia again.

 

He's always welcome here. So are you, if you can stand our LOUDNESS.*

* That had to be written in all caps.

 

Ewok Poet, I'd heard bits and pieces of this from you over the years, which are individually chilling enough. The number of things, though -- and yikes, pilot targeting your car for funsies? Pretty sure I didn't hear THAT one, I'd remember the kriff out of that. That's incredibly messed up beyond words. Glad to hear that you feel like this anniversary is not a complete ruiner of the week, which I'd quite understand!

 

I was just a child and didn't understand what was going on the few times I heard about Kosovo but when I got a older, about fifteen, I read a couple books about the whole thing and I couldn't understand why.

 

Don't worry - I live in Serbia and I don't understand anything to this day. Huge migrations on Balkans begun with a single incident on July 30th, 1906 and they've been going on since. It's been 110+ years and we have not learned.

Kahara - <3 <3 <3

Spent a wonderful evening with my bestie and her son today - we read a lot about ADHD, as it appears that all three of us have it - not just me, we celebrated her husband's birthday in his absence (he had to work, boo) and ate lots of cake, took a bunch of goofy pics and the little boy practiced an One Direction song for his choir audition. He wants to be Harry Styles. Since, from the little I know about the band, that's the one with the most beautiful voice and most delicate-looking of the four, I think it's a good choice.

And they gave me a belated birthday gift - a Darth Vader tumbler with a spiral straw filled with candy, and a pink Minnie Mouse T-shirt. Duki, the nine-year-old, picked the gift for me.

 

Took mum and her boyfriend to Mothers Day meal at a new Turkish restuarant that she picked in the week.

The Formula One race was broadcast at 6am, so was well out of the way, and there was no time conflict.

I'm back at work tomorrow, after a week off. Once more into the breech...

 

They're not doing it in the middle of the night anymore. Darn, when did this happen? It was, like, a tradition to wake up at silly hours back in the days and watch the Albert Park race.

 

Sounds yum! And it always stinks going back to work when you've had a long break.

I balanced my checkbook (yay!) and I'm trying to figure out which tax forms need to be filed when I send in my return. The language is so convoluted, and this is in the 'helpful instructions' for Joe Q. Public. If they want our money, they should just use simple words. And what the heck is "Form C" anyway?

After that, I banged away on my latest fic; got some of the dreary scientific explanation out of the way. Now on with the good stuff.

Saw Beauty & the Beast yesterday. Visually gorgeous! Gotta say, if I was staying someplace where the furniture started dancing & talking to me, I'd be right out the door! I did see the "big gay scene" that is SOOOO controversial... lasts about 90 seconds, if that. I was thinking "THIS is what's supposed to bring down Western Civilization?" Anyway...movie was great and I recognized a lot of the character actors from other things I like, so...recommend!

 

Today was rather uneventful, but I managed to find a good medicine for my medicine's annoying side-effect, get angry with only two people, receive a pack of beads, a jeans choker with stars and a mobile cover I never ordered and was definitely meant for somebody else...

...and sleep in the afternoon. I was never good with the latter. It was always "you fall asleep at five and LOL, you wake up in the middle of the night", so it was a pleasant surprise to wake up after just one hour.

I also managed to sell a large box for fishing gear and I have to have it shipped away to the town of Lazarevac in central Serbia tomorrow. Some guy seems to want a pack of weird Russian fake fish hooks, too; and on the clothing site, I sold an old plastic bracelet and found a taker for a freebie scarf and a turtleneck. This buying and selling thing is kind of fun.