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oh, ffs, I can't for the life of me get this draft to save properly on AO3. So much for getting my

marvel_bang queued up and ready. ::frowns::

Random question: has anyone ordered from both welovefine and threadless? Can you tell me how the sizing runs in comparison? I've been eyeing the Banshee Squadron t-shirt, but the sizing is giving me headaches.

This week's distraction to keep me from screaming at work is the countdown to the Disney Food & Wine Festival trip, which is currently at T minus 3 days and counting. Crossing my fingers that #2Son will be able to go with us, but if not, BabyBoy and I will go and meet friends and D/#2 will stay home and watch college football. (This is where I am contractually obligated my the terms of my marriage to add a WAAAAREAGLE. Sorry about that.) Anyway. BabyBoy is angling for an extra day in the parks to ride mountains, so we'll see how that unfolds. On the plus side, this is the first time in ... many years I haven't had to have a conference with his teachers about how he hasn't been turning in any assignments, so a little positive reinforcement probably isn't a bad idea. On the minus side, the kid is a born Slytherin so if I give him an inch, he'll weave it into a nonstop argument for a suite at the Animal Kingdom Lodge. He smiles so cutely when he argues, too. I can't wait until he turns that into an actual career and I don't have to finance it.

Seriously. Why will this not save the extra chapters in draft format?

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1) I've only ordered one shirt from Threadless, but it was about a size and a half smaller than what sizes usually run. Think American Apparel sizing. I can't remember if it was box cut or fitted cut, though. (It's currently in the pile of "tshirts that proved too small for me to wear and will someday be tshirt-hacked".)

2) While you're in the World, if you're looking for one last restaurant: Restaurant Marrakesh apparently recently redid their entire menu; we did a F&W tasting there and the food was fabulous. Before it was tolerably good Moroccan; now it's so great I even ate the shrimp tagine and I generally hate shrimp.

Thanks--both for the sizing and for the restaurant rec! When the boys were little and unadventurous eaters, I used to duck into the counter-service restaurant there and have them wrap me a plate to go and then feed the boys at the burgers/fries place in America but I haven't been by recently. I'll keep it in mind; we're staying at the Beach Club villas, so we'll be close by.

Good luck getting your story formatted and posted!

Have fun at Disney! My brother, SiL, and niece are there right now too.

Done, finally--now I can go read everything that's been posted previously!

Someone else on my flist was having trouble posting to AO3 last night/this morning, so it might be a known issue...

Thanks--I can't decide if I was just too tired and missing the way to do it on the UI or if there was something weird going on. I'm leaning toward the former, but I did finally get things posted in the right order.

(This is where I am contractually obligated my the terms of my marriage to add a WAAAAREAGLE. Sorry about that.)

Lol.

Anyway. BabyBoy is angling for an extra day in the parks to ride mountains, so we'll see how that unfolds. On the plus side, this is the first time in ... many years I haven't had to have a conference with his teachers about how he hasn't been turning in any assignments,

Oftentimes all your hard work just comes together, and they mature all at once like that. (I've seen it in my best friends' boys and my own).

Have fun on the trip!

It took his oldest brother until senior year of high school, so I'm crossing my fingers that we're ahead of the curve here.

I ordered from welovefine, and was happy I ordered a Women's Large T for myself -- it fit more like a medium. But nicely tailored. I'd go up a size of what you normally wear...

Thanks--that's kindof what I was thinking... What I should have done was brave the lines at their booth on the dealer floor at DragonCon so I could have actually seen the size in person, but it was always mobbed.

Well, I just ordered, knowing that if it was too small I could pass it to kidlet. As it turns out it all worked out, but I can't afford to gain weight now, lest I lose my Hawkeye shirts!!

Ah, F&W Festival. I wish...we're aiming for the Flower and Garden Festival in March, which now has food, because Disney is not stupid and they know what the people want.

Mountain riding is something I have a hard time arguing against.

We might be there for the Flower & Garden Festival, too -- the varsity team is playing there over spring break and we're tagging along... More food, yay!

Someone on my twitter feed just reblogged something off of your tumblr. I'm all--there can't be two Topaz119s right? Right! A small world moment.

How are things?

Oh, wow I sincerely hope it was something from Much Ado & not one of my "look! A new Renner slash pairing!" reblogs...

Things are... up & down. You?

Up and down is a good way to put it.

Big up tomorrow. Robert and his team play football in The Big House. They are having professional photographers on the field (all the better to induce you to buy pictures). I am hoping (I assume in vain) that they'd pony up for a professional videographer too, so that Steve and I would be off the hook for this game.

But the day to day grind seems to only be getting worse as the kids get older (or maybe it's that I'm getting older). I think I need to plan a trip or something to have something good/exiting looming a bit farther away on the horizon.

Absolutely loved Much Ado. How does Clark Gregg make everything he does look so easy?

And the suits. Sigh!