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Let's see, what's happened since my last post. Yuletide assignments went out and I'm on take two of mine, hopefully this one will work. My current craft project is a crochet blanket that should use up all of the rest of the yarn I bought via an excellent deal during 2023's Black Friday sale (I'm currently just about half way through so I should finish just in time to buy new yarn assuming there's decent sales for this year's as well, 2024's was meh but I still do have a chunk of yarn from that.)

Had some "excitement" two weeks ago when we had the annual maintenance on our boiler and they discovered an issue and we had to turn it off immediately and then replace it. That was a fun week and $24k unexpected expense.

Last year (nearly exactly, Nov 18th apparently) a small crack developed on the old igloo playmate cooler I bought for lunches when lifeguarding sometime between 1987-1990. Son kept using it but last week he dropped it and the whole handle cracked so he's finally retiring it. I can't quite recall what I paid for it (I want to say $20) but whatever it was, it was money well spent.

I made hobo bread the other day. I love this recipe (which I posted here years ago, so incredible simple, such delicious bread:

Here's two weeks of

recthething recs (tumblr art for DMBJ, FMA, IwaV (TV), MCU (DD+Spidey), MDZS and SPN and

trickortreatex collection art recs for Addams Family, Guardian and Original Work)

DMBJ/Lost Tomb:
- Pierce (perfect rendition of Xiazi spearing the fish in the Mystery of the Abyss opener)
- Ragged (Xiazi/Xiao Hua covered in slime but lost in each other's eyes. Perfect)

Fullmetal Alchemist
- the house on the hill (love so many things showing Ed and his childhood home here)

Interview with a Vampire (TV)
- Armand drawing (amazing)

Marvel (Daredevil and Spiderman multiverses):
- Do you think other Spideys and DDs in other universes are also good friends? (amazing 30 second animation)

MDZS/The Untamed
- Ah yes me and my ~~rival crush zhiji~~ Wei Ying (wonderful sketch of them immediately post-Xuanwu of Slaughter)
- Mn. Mn! (adorable qin lesson between LWJ and a-yuan)

Supernatural:
- Castiel (Love the bloodied, sleeves rolled up with wings out look here)

trickortreatex collection recs, creators anon until Nov 7th:

The Addams Family:
- It Takes Two... Summary: "Oh, Tish....that's French." (gorgeous art of Gomez and Morticia)

Guardian:
- The Ghost and the Snake Summary: They are tiny and cute and (not very) spooky. (really cute art of Wang Zheng and Zhu Hong)

Original Work:
- Dog in a fog (wonderfully ominous art of British folklore's Black Dog)
- Prima Donna Summary: A little orangutan’s dreams come true (adorable art)
- [Art] If You Dare Summary: Go ahead, knock. (delightfully creepy comic)
- Witch and Company Summary: Witch cat and their mouse familiar (really cool papercraftish art)
- Long Night Detective? Summary: "I do so hate to drop in after hours but there's just one last thing-" (absolutely amazing Fairy Prince/Noir Detective art)
- Joyride (hilarious art with a mouse familiar who really isn't enjoying the ride on their cat witch's broom)

(I know I've said this a few times already this year but sadly I do suspect I'll be breaking my 4+ year steak of weekly reccing soon, it'd been getting harder and harder to find things to rec.)