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This whole thing where I don't sleep between 3 am and 5 am is not really working for me. I took a benadryl and even that wasn't enough to combat the itching for a while. Why do we need mosquitoes again?
On the plus side, I already had the high key "I'm going to be homeless come October 1!" freakout to L and she talked me down (...so I might catastrophize a little. I've actually gotten much better at not doing it over the years, but this whole thing really trips my anxiety wires), so I didn't freak out too much last night when I transferred $$$ to my checking account in order to cover the check for 10% of the down payment I'll be writing when I go to sign the contract tomorrow.
!!!!
It's still a tentative appointment at the moment (I will be confirming shortly - ETA: Confirmed! /eta), but yesterday afternoon I got a call from the mortgage broker, who was like, "Mike just told me you had an accepted offer. You didn't call and tell me!" (Mike is my lawyer. He works in the office next door to the mortgage broker.) and I said the realtor had told me not to until I had the signed contract, and she was like, "I like to get ahead of the game so you don't have to come in to sign stuff twice!" Especially since I have to take the LIRR to get there (the pitfalls of using people recced by family members who live on Long Island), which means leaving work at like 12:30 tomorrow. Eep!
Keep your fingers crossed, folks. This could be one step closer!
And since it's Wednesday, we've got books!
What I've just finished
Thick as Thieves by Megan Whelan Turner. I meant to reread the whole series before this but didn't get to it. I didn't really need to either, as it wasn't heavily dependent on previous books (...though I guess the Attolian's identity was? Though who else could it have been?). There was a lot more ersatz Assyrian poetry than I was expecting, casting Kamet and Costis as Gilgamesh and Enkidu, basically, so I was pleased with the ending where they go off to live together and spy on people for Attolia.
I was sad that Irene had suffered a miscarriage, but I thought her and Gen's appearances were nicely done. I love them a lot. Sigh.
So I definitely recommend it if you've enjoyed the series so far, and if you haven't read the whole series, I highly recommend it. The second book especially is AMAZING.
What I'm reading now
Aftermath: Empire's End by Chuck Wendig, since it came from the library. It's fine, I guess. It's mostly the events leading up to the battle of Jakku. We finally get more Mon Mothma POV and she doesn't want a robot arm!?!?!? Because she's afraid it will make her like Vader!?!?! I'm pretty sure it wasn't the prosthetics that made him evil. I am just saying!
Meanwhile, we've still got heavily pregnant Leia and get no thoughts whatsoever about that from Mon - does she really not know at this point that Leia is Padme's daughter? Because the parallels in Life Debt were killing me (i.e., pregnant with a husband missing/away for months), but she never remarked on any of it, and it's just. Ugh. They bring back fucking Jar Jar Binks for a cameo but Padme can't get a shoutout at all? What the fuck is that?
And Luke has still not appeared. Which. Why? I do not understand some of these narrative choices at all.
I guess the new characters are fine. Whatever. And Rax is Snoke? Is that where they're going with this? Or someone connected to Rax is Snoke?
What I'm reading next
*hands*
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On the plus side, I already had the high key "I'm going to be homeless come October 1!" freakout to L and she talked me down (...so I might catastrophize a little. I've actually gotten much better at not doing it over the years, but this whole thing really trips my anxiety wires), so I didn't freak out too much last night when I transferred $$$ to my checking account in order to cover the check for 10% of the down payment I'll be writing when I go to sign the contract tomorrow.
!!!!
It's still a tentative appointment at the moment (I will be confirming shortly - ETA: Confirmed! /eta), but yesterday afternoon I got a call from the mortgage broker, who was like, "Mike just told me you had an accepted offer. You didn't call and tell me!" (Mike is my lawyer. He works in the office next door to the mortgage broker.) and I said the realtor had told me not to until I had the signed contract, and she was like, "I like to get ahead of the game so you don't have to come in to sign stuff twice!" Especially since I have to take the LIRR to get there (the pitfalls of using people recced by family members who live on Long Island), which means leaving work at like 12:30 tomorrow. Eep!
Keep your fingers crossed, folks. This could be one step closer!
And since it's Wednesday, we've got books!
What I've just finished
Thick as Thieves by Megan Whelan Turner. I meant to reread the whole series before this but didn't get to it. I didn't really need to either, as it wasn't heavily dependent on previous books (...though I guess the Attolian's identity was? Though who else could it have been?). There was a lot more ersatz Assyrian poetry than I was expecting, casting Kamet and Costis as Gilgamesh and Enkidu, basically, so I was pleased with the ending where they go off to live together and spy on people for Attolia.
I was sad that Irene had suffered a miscarriage, but I thought her and Gen's appearances were nicely done. I love them a lot. Sigh.
So I definitely recommend it if you've enjoyed the series so far, and if you haven't read the whole series, I highly recommend it. The second book especially is AMAZING.
What I'm reading now
Aftermath: Empire's End by Chuck Wendig, since it came from the library. It's fine, I guess. It's mostly the events leading up to the battle of Jakku. We finally get more Mon Mothma POV and she doesn't want a robot arm!?!?!? Because she's afraid it will make her like Vader!?!?! I'm pretty sure it wasn't the prosthetics that made him evil. I am just saying!
Meanwhile, we've still got heavily pregnant Leia and get no thoughts whatsoever about that from Mon - does she really not know at this point that Leia is Padme's daughter? Because the parallels in Life Debt were killing me (i.e., pregnant with a husband missing/away for months), but she never remarked on any of it, and it's just. Ugh. They bring back fucking Jar Jar Binks for a cameo but Padme can't get a shoutout at all? What the fuck is that?
And Luke has still not appeared. Which. Why? I do not understand some of these narrative choices at all.
I guess the new characters are fine. Whatever. And Rax is Snoke? Is that where they're going with this? Or someone connected to Rax is Snoke?
What I'm reading next
*hands*
***
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Run your tap water as hot as it goes (this is usually about 120 degrees F or so), then stick the bite area under the running water (or pour it over the bite). No need to hold it under for longer than a moment so you don't burn yourself. The heat denatures the toxin and the itching stops immediately and for several hours. Repeat as required.
This trick has served me well ever since. It's like magic!
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