Everything is Difficult, Post #16
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usedtobeljsOh so tired, so out of initiative. But we persevere.
*Miss Adventure has decided that Adventure is NOT her middle name, as she does not like loud trucks/cars/machinery and the outside is full of them. I'm rereading a Sarah Fisher dog-training book to try to figure out how to shift her out of meltdown mode.
(But she is so sweet, and so funny, and a lovely presence in the house.)
*Just finished reading C.S. Harris's latest Sebastian St Cyr mystery, Who Speaks for the Damned. Really wonderful, one of the best in the series: find out more here.
*Enjoying the genre pleasures and visual splendor (hee) of Christian Kane's new TV show Almost Paradise. (I will follow Kane just about anywhere.) A teaser here.
Two three-sentence fics on the subject of Difficult:
"Why do you have to make everything so difficult, Lindsey?" Fred snaps, as she binds up yet another wound he's collected during a sortie against some new downtown Dallas demons.
He waits until she looks up at him, and Lord, the twinkle in his eyes about lays her out.
"You're right, darlin', I just shouldn't go out do-gooding any more," he says, and on a groan, she stops his mouth and his stupid teasing with her kiss.
Harriet only vaguely remembers how difficult her life was before her marriage -- the anxieties of work and bread-winning, the lingering scars of her time with Phillip Boyes and the aftermath.
Her difficulties now are intellectual -- how will she finish this story? -- and in a sense, managerial, in her emotional dealings with her lord, her children, and (oh heavens) her staff.
But when at the end of a long day her Peter stoops to kiss her, even those difficulties are subsumed in golden joy.
Happy days to all!
*Miss Adventure has decided that Adventure is NOT her middle name, as she does not like loud trucks/cars/machinery and the outside is full of them. I'm rereading a Sarah Fisher dog-training book to try to figure out how to shift her out of meltdown mode.
(But she is so sweet, and so funny, and a lovely presence in the house.)
*Just finished reading C.S. Harris's latest Sebastian St Cyr mystery, Who Speaks for the Damned. Really wonderful, one of the best in the series: find out more here.
*Enjoying the genre pleasures and visual splendor (hee) of Christian Kane's new TV show Almost Paradise. (I will follow Kane just about anywhere.) A teaser here.
Two three-sentence fics on the subject of Difficult:
"Why do you have to make everything so difficult, Lindsey?" Fred snaps, as she binds up yet another wound he's collected during a sortie against some new downtown Dallas demons.
He waits until she looks up at him, and Lord, the twinkle in his eyes about lays her out.
"You're right, darlin', I just shouldn't go out do-gooding any more," he says, and on a groan, she stops his mouth and his stupid teasing with her kiss.
Harriet only vaguely remembers how difficult her life was before her marriage -- the anxieties of work and bread-winning, the lingering scars of her time with Phillip Boyes and the aftermath.
Her difficulties now are intellectual -- how will she finish this story? -- and in a sense, managerial, in her emotional dealings with her lord, her children, and (oh heavens) her staff.
But when at the end of a long day her Peter stoops to kiss her, even those difficulties are subsumed in golden joy.
Happy days to all!
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Date: 2020-04-08 08:55 pm (UTC)Yes, we do!
Lindsey and Fred?? He's ageing attractively, though, isn't he?
I love your Peter/Harriet fics.
Thanks for the book recs.
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Date: 2020-04-09 12:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2020-04-09 03:03 am (UTC)Yay Harriet/Peter!
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Date: 2020-04-09 12:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2020-04-09 01:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2020-04-09 02:24 pm (UTC)Corgis do seem to be dogs of personality!
Many hugs and happy days to you and Miss Not Adventure :)
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