it’s only tuesday? how can this be?

[topaz119]

In its effort to be the sh*ttiest year ever (not including the 14 month span where both my parents passed away but coming close), 2018 doubled-down this week with:

Yet another fraudulent money issue stemming from the theft of D’s truck, this one serious enough that we shut down the main account so that I’m scrambling to re-direct deposits and re-populate bill pay accounts (in YET MOAR IRONY, the sh*tty back-end system that won’t let me migrate payees to a new account but instead insists that I re-enter them all is one that I dodged working professionally on for years b/c of exactly how frankensteined-together it was)

AND a dying water heater, complete with water all over the floor and a $1500 US replacement bill right in time for the holidays.

sigh

My time-honored way to deal with all this is to, of course, turn my id loose and write whatever it effing wants, which would currently appear to be a sequel to the Han/Lando PWP and what’s turning out to be a sweet, kinda sad Fraction-Aja Hawkeye/Fab Five crossover, but since it is also the crazed holiday season, these are moving rather slowly.

My brain keeps poking me every time it sees set photos from Star Trek: Discovery with Anson Mount as Christopher Pike (fingers crossed he’s more Bruce Greenwood than the original iteration) but this morning there was one with Pike and Number One and I would really really really like it if she was a) not a robot, and b) not an alien. Optionally, I would add a c) gets an actual name that is not Eunice. (These ramblings brought to you by the research I did when I was writing Shining On The Quay and the aggravations of the portrayal of women in a) the original series; and b) what limited extended universe information I could find on Number One.)

Also re: brain pokings, every time it sees that shot of Hawkeye from the End Game trailer, it yells at me that we should really write more of the (pre-Snap) small town girl series. Since we've already covered Strike Team Delta & the family at Disney World, I guess an in-depth farm Christmas might not be a bad thing.

Of course, my house is a wreck, there is a D&D party on Thursday night taking place in the middle of said wreck, I only have about a third of the holiday decorations out, the gingerbread was a disaster, and I haven't started on cards or the serious cookies, much less gotten even half of my shopping done so I don't know when La Brain thinks we're going to have time for any recreational writing, but yeah, there we are…

I hope your week is going well!!

Comments

[lilly_the_kid]

Oh man, good luck with all that stuff! I hope you can still have relaxed and cozy holidays :)

[anoyo]

Oh no! Here's hoping it all turns out all right! ♥

[jenab]

Good luck with everything. It sucks this is happening during the holidays.

[colls]

I'm sorry to hear you're going through all that crap right now. I hope the D&D party goes well and that you have a good holiday.

[lilacsigil]

What a mess! I had my credit card stolen by someone in the hospital accounts department while having major surgery and it was just awful for months afterwards. I'm sorry it's making your life difficult!

Our water heater also went this year, to the tune of $3000, and we were just glad it didn't go at a worse time! Sorry yours did!

[ancarett]

That sounds awful. I'm hoping my week is making a positive turn the last few days with computer failure, appliance failure, and annoying illness being our limit of woes.

[stripytights]

That sounds absolutely awful - and it had to kick up during the holidays. Really hoping that the last couple of weeks of the year improve and that 2019 kicks 2018's arse.

Also, Han/Lando you say? Good news.

[turps]

Oh man, that is terrible.

I do hope things get better, fast.

♥

[spikedluv]

That is a lot of suckage all at once. Good luck getting it all sorted. I hope the rest of the year (what's left of it) and 2019 make up for that.

[kaelie]

Oh Missy. I'm so sorry. I just deleted a long-ass paragraph of commiseration and listing my own reasons for this being the sh*ttiest year ever (which scarily mirrors a bunch of your reasons), but suffice it to say I'm in complete agreement about it's designation. And I hope you get to take a deep breath soon.

[sperrywink]

Hang in there!!

[topaz119]

Thank you--I mostly just ignored the stupid RL stuff and went a littttle overboard with the holiday distractions, so, y'know, it was all good!

[topaz119]

Thank you! They at least did not get any of our money, so that's good.

[topaz119]

Thank you! I used the holidays as a splendid, OTT distraction, so that was good. *g*

[topaz119]

Thank you! The holidays did go well (I used them as a massive, overdone distraction) and the D&D parties were apparently a great success (I was out doing mad, last-minute shopping.)

[topaz119]

Ugh, I remember how careful we had to be with my mom's stuff during her hospital stays. I'm still fixing things but at least we managed to triage the accounts before they really got into it.

[topaz119]

I hope things turned up better for y'all--ridiculous stuff kept happening here, to the point where you either scream or laugh. I chose Option C: go really OTT with the holidays and ignore the stupid stuff, aka: denial, *g*.

[topaz119]

I am holding out hope for 2019, but 2018 was a bitch all the way to 11:50 p.m. when I knocked over an entire tray of (full) champagne flutes, sigh. Fortunately, we had an amazing, kind, competent server who literally swooped in and made it all better and gave me a hug, too.

[topaz119]

Oh, it got worse, Terri. It was a mess right up to the end, but we had a good time regardless.

[topaz119]

Thank you! 2019 is on notice, because 2018 was a bitch right up to the end. We had fun, though, so I'm holding onto that.

[topaz119]

I did take a deep breath or two, and had a fun holiday, but the sh*tty stuff kept up right to the very very end. I hope yours eased off on you, at least.

[topaz119]

By my bitten-off fingernails!

[ancarett]

Things appear to be turning for the better *knocks on wood* but there are still silly amounts of snow out there and more coming.