Plant your hope with good seeds

Whew! Update on the doggo: Stella is responding to treatment and is keeping food down! She's now on a completely wet food diet, which gets expensive considering her goal weight is 70lbs, but that's okay. She's a good old dog and she's worth it. <3

My mom also seems to be responding to her treatments well; we're remaining cautiously optimistic. ;3;

Things are continuing apace with work! It seems like every time I think I have something down, something else goes wrong; my boss and coworkers all seem to like me and I've been called a rockstar and an overachiever so I think I might be doing something right? But also, aaahhh, I ended this week being called out on a really stupid mistake. :( BUT NOW IT IS THE WEEKEND AND I HAVE NO PLANS WHATSOEVER. I mean, I have house maintenance stuff which is something I generally enjoy. And also probably some fandom stuff; I have several exchange deadlines drawing near and I need to finish things up. The last thing I've posted was this NSFW Uriel Ventris/Honsou comic for Flash Exchange Made Them Do It. Part of me is horrified that I didn't ink and paint this; the other part of me is pleased that I did this amount of work in a day and a half. You win some, you lose some, I guess. :P

I'm also slowly (so slowly) working on my seasonofkink card. I, for some reason, am super into sequential art right now, so everything I'm working on is extremely slow going. XD

Have some photos!


My plant shelf came in! I'm so pleased with how nice it looks. ;3; And you might think, Nan, they are in front of a nice big window, what do you have those plant lights for? Friends, some of these lil motherfuckers need so much light. And I live in Seattle. So, plant lights.


Someone was selling some lithops in one of the facebook plant communities so I had to scoop them up. They're so weird, I love them!


This little bloodleaf arrived looking pitiful and dead. It was just a cutting so I stuck it in some water and hoped for the best and lo and behold, it not only grew roots but also grew new leaves! I'm so proud of it! ;3;


Also one night this week, idek which one, the moon was looking especially spooky hiding behind this tree. I was very pleased.


And then, a photo of Mt Rainier being out and lovely. ♥ Always good to see that snowy top.


My partner and I were invited by a friend down to Olympia to partake in this adorable little pottery place, where you pick out a piece you want to paint and then they fire and glaze it for you. This is what we came up with! Mine's the little space cactus. I'm really excited to see how they come out! Our friend is coming up for the 4th of July and is going to bring them up.

Anyways, that's probably enough of an update for me! I'm so glad it's the weekend!

It's quiet. The Olympics are on tv but it's turned low, so we can pay attention if we want and ignore it if we want. It's just Mom and me. She's in her chair and I can faintly hear the sounds of her clicking the mouse. I'm on the couch. The air purifier is humming away, creating a lovely white noise. The kittens have been playing in non-destructive ways and now Penelope is sitting on the couch with me. The dogs are quiet. It's a little bit cloudy out, so the sunlight is a soft grey where it's trickling in from the blinds and the glass door leading out to the back porch.

It's a good morning. :)

OH and I suppose I should add that I'm reading A Year's Temptation by lomonaaeren, which is an oldie but goodie.