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I'm going to do that meme where you list 10 things that make you happy.

1. This video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOyxCbeINFo

2. a good cup of tea. I had PG tips earlier this morning.

3. my friendship with L.

4. my friends online.

5. Monty Python.

6. Hugh Laurie.

7. Chinese food.

8. my library. I'm very proud of it.

9. chocolate.

10. swimming.

Current Music: George Harrison memorial concert

profiterole_reads

The Hazards of Love Vol. 2, written and illustrated by Stan Stanley, was as amazing as the first book! Amparo is stuck in Bright World. Iolanthe investigates from the living world, with the help of butch medium Al.

I love the weird, Addams Family-like worldbuilding and the colourful art. This tome expands on various secondary characters and the plot thickens with their help.

There's a Latinx non-binary protagonist (they/them), as well as many POC and/or queer characters. For more LGBT Quick Reads, check out my rec list.

lynn82md

I have been dabbling with an idea now for months. Yes, I will continue to do reviews. However, one thing I have thought about reviewing primarily is spicy stuff. You all know how I am (if you have been around for a while)...I won't stop making older content even if my channel becomes something predominantly. So, if I become a full time spicy product review channel...I will still review other stuff like make up, skincare, and non-spicy food. It is kinda like how I still make up and do paranormal stuff. If I become a full time spice review channel, I have already decided to call myself the Spicy Mama. So, what do you all think?
Poll 1

What I should address my audience as? What I have been (everyone-intro and ya'll-outro), Lynn Fam, My Beautiful Friends, or Carebears (because of my last name)?
Poll 2

greghousesgf

I wanted to hang out with L. yesterday but that wasn't possible. Hopefully it will be tomorrow night, especially since they have apparently got a little extra $$$ and rented a car I would love to ride in (when we get together it usually consists of us driving around while talking and listening to music). Anyway since I didn't have much to do I hung out on the Berkeley end of Telegraph Ave and had a yummy milkshake over at Super Duper but not much else was going on there apart from one wingnut throwing books at people.
I heard a rumor Ice is around here. There are a lot of immigrants in my bldg but I'm sure the fuck not gonna snitch on them.

Current Music: Paul McCartney

renfys

Some dragons I drew and coloured using alcohol markers on alcohol marker paper which I have never used before. I realised I hadn't finished yellow before I printed him and I don't have a lot of variations in red but that feels like a colour problem not a me problem.

Close ups

Current Mood: creative

greghousesgf

Had some Ceylon tea. I have now been ripped off three times in the past few days, first the PG&E business, then the thing with the watch, and yesterday when I was leaving L.'s house the damn bus driver charged me the transbay fare, which is THREE TIMES as much as the normal bus fare. Apparently bus drivers can fuck with that meter any old time they want to, and when I objected he LIED to me and said that was the normal fare. I looked it up on my cell phone and PROVED it wasn't. I argued with him and he bullshitted me some more and then ignored me. I actually reported this to the bus company, the guy who worked for the bus company was all "he's not supposed to do that".

Current Music: Concert for Bangladesh

profiterole_reads

duckprintspress's Pride Bundle 2025: General Imprint Short Stories (not available any more, but most of these stories can be found on DPP's Patreon) was absolutely delightful!

DPP is an indie press publishing diverse original works by fanwork creators, so it's not surprising that I vibed so much with these stories. Most of them are speculative.

There's non-binary rep (they/them, neo-pronouns, pronoun combinations or no pronouns), f/f and m/m.

tielan

Played two games on Sunday. Think I played 2 games a couple of rounds ago, too.

On the whole, the body is hurting quite a bit more than it was last time. But I've been having a few aches and pains.

Good feeling: I scored a goal - a beautiful pass from the wing straight into the middle of the circle, and I (and a defender whose stick clashed with mine) reangled it into the goal behind the keeper.

Bad feeling: all the twingy, twitchy hip and leg aches for which I am going to see a physio this morning.

Apparently, Team 1 is down to 13 players (there's 11 on the field) and they were going to move some of T2 up (myself and my friend J, who came and played for the club last year because I was here and her team was being relegated to a competition in the southwest; she still plays with them for the masters/veterans competition) but we've got about three injuries ongoing on the team - including one fractured foot and one pregnancy, who is taking it fairly easy.

Yesterday, we were missing one of our 'young runners', and the other had period cramps really bad. Both inners (women about my age, so perimenopausal) were nursing injuries, and our pregnancy is on the wing. Doing well, but...yeah. She probably won't be running much longer...

Our forward line is simply not able to get the ball up there with any kind of strength, so we're losing 3-0, but we're doing a really good job at playing. I know that doesn't sound like we are with 3-0 losses, but truly told, we're playing amazing. Passing, calling, talking, we just can't get it into the circle and into the goal.

Anyway, we're improving and we're having fun. Even the not-so-nice team was okay to play yesterday.

Back to Team 1, they're probably going to try to get myself and J qualified for the team in the finals series. Which...eek. That means at least another 2 weekends with 2 games for me. Which...I can maybe do if I keep my fitness up? Oof.

But I may reach my holidays and be like "here is a pool and a nice hotel in Sinagapore and I AIN'T MOVING A MUSCLE"...

tielan

I love my dad but...

( he's a cheapskate )

Otherwise, am making plans for places to stay in London, Bath, Porto, and Rotterdam, and finding things to do in those places, too.

Anyone done day tours in Porto, Portugal?

tellshannon815

Challenge #4

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
Creative: Write from the perspective of a house or other location.

There is one house I can think of that must have seen a lot over the years, would have stories to tell if it could, and that is Colony House in the TV show From.

Title: No One Here Is Free
Fandom: From
Characters: Colony House, Jasmine, Smiley, Old Lady Creature, Donna, Victor, Ellis, Fatima, Jade, Boyd, Nicki, Acosta, Kevin, Clara
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Spoilers all through S3, mentions of character deaths
Summary: Colony House was originally a family home.

( Read more... )

greghousesgf

I have to do laundry today, then after I have lunch I'm going to go over to L.'s house and pick up my tea. Last night I finished watching the last of the CSI DVDs my sister's husband was nice enough to give me the $$$ for, it was the first 8 seasons and I watched it over 2 months.

Current Music: Velvet Goldmine soundtrack

haebin

Please enjoy the next chapter! And of course, thank you so, so much for reading! ♥

( The Mistress of the Shadowland, Second Book, The next Chapter )

Current Mood: exhausted.
Current Location: home.

greghousesgf

That damn watch broke right after I made my entry yesterday but it only cost me five dollars and I couldn't bring myself to take money away from cancer patients so I didn't return it. I went to a leather worker but he didn't make watchbands so I just decided fuck it, I'm going to be one of those people who just looks at their cell phone when they want to know what time it is. The concert last night was just great. My cell phone got screwed up but I had it fixed this morning and it didn't cost me anything. Then I went to the Temescal street fair with a friend, it was super fun! Went home and went swimming, also L. texted me to let me know to pick up some tea I ordered at their house tomorrow, unfortunately L. will be too busy with home stuff for me to hang around tomorrow but at least I got my tea.

Current Music: Madness

profiterole_reads

Netflix's German movie Brick was intriguing. People end up stuck in their building when a mysterious black wall suddenly surrounds it.

I thought the explanation at the end was solid (movies like that tend to either leave you without an explanation or have an explanation so basic that no explanation would have been better).

Matthias Schweighöfer (Ludwig Dieter in Army of Thieves, Jack of Hearts in Heart of Stone) stars in this.

greghousesgf

PG&E doubled their damn rates. My landlady told me my electric bills should go down once they hook up the solar panels, which I thought they already did. There's supposed to be a bldg meeting about that Thursday, the odd thing is they're having the meeting 2 and a half hours after they normally leave.
I also got a new watch, the band on my old one broke, I was just going to have the band replaced but I found a nice watch in this second hand store that sends its money to cancer patients and they only wanted 5 dollars for it. It probably would have cost a lot more than 5 dollars if I just got a watchband at some other store. Plus, of course I'm all for helping cancer patients.
Looking forward to tonight, I'm going to the East Bay Gay Men's chorus concert!

Current Music: David Bowie

lynn82md

I review Old Bay Seasoning from McCormick that is based in my native Maryland

McCormick is not sponsoring this vid

Watch on YouTube

greghousesgf

I was so out of it when I got up this morning that I turned on the wrong stove burner when I was trying to make tea and I got a bunch of smoke in my apt. that stupid smoke alarm goes off if I just turn the stove on to do anything more complicated than make tea or if I turn the oven on at all unless I open the window and turn the stove fan and box fan on full blast (and, yes, I cleaned the oven). It's a pain because I love to watch TV or listen to music when I cook and I can't do that anymore because the fans are very loud and I can't hear the TV or music at all well when they're on.
I think deviled eggs go great with barbecue ribs so I hard boiled some eggies and put them in the fridge and I will devil them later.

Current Music: Nina Simone

tellshannon815

Challenge #3

Journaling prompt: What are your favorite summer-associated foods?
Creative prompt: Draw art of or make graphics of summer foods, or post your favorite summer recipes.

And yes, those who know me, that's Freddie-bulldog going after the halloumi.

greghousesgf

Went to the grocery store, among other things I got some ketchup and whisky to make barbecue sauce, I have some baby back ribs I got out of the freezer and I'm gonna make cornbread.

Current Music: Johnny Cash

tellshannon815

Challenge #2

Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like

Well, I'm an August bank holiday baby (even if Mum says I shouldn't say that since I wasn't technically born on the bank holiday, but eh, close enough), so I always had my birthday in the summer holidays rather than having to spend it at school (which I later found out I would have had to have done had I gone to school in Scotland rather than England, where the holiday dates are different).

But what I would mostly say for summer memories is spending time with family (bit of context for anyone who hasn't known me very long or doesn't know me at all, my family is pretty much scattered across the UK) so the summer holiday was always the chance to spend time with people I didn't see enough of.

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Rêveries d’une promeneuse solitaire

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The Hazards of Love Vol. 2 by Stan Stanley

Polls from My You Tube channel

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Dragons

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Pride Bundle 2025: General Imprint Short Stories

hockey

travel and family

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The Mistress of the Shadowland, Second Book, The next Chapter

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Brick

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Old Bay Seasoning

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