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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 5-1

6/25/2021

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    You know those weeks where your brain is operating at levels way below optimal? I'm having one of those. It's due to my anxiety monster, with off-side help from hormones, and it's super annoying. Especially when my dumbass moments happen in public – which is quite impressive considering I spend 90% or more of my time at home.
    I'm special like that, I guess.
    No writing or editing this week. Instead, I went for a much needed physiotherapy appointment and attempted to be nice to my body since then. Not easy, but pain levels are back down and my hands are mostly working normally again.
    One more day of school on Monday, and then the kids are free for the summer. Yay! I'm looking forward to it. I hope you get to have a good weekend!
Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
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        The hallway crowd was disbursed the next time Leo looked toward the door, but tension in the room still prickled at his skin. Below decks was as quiet as when people were watching, and the lead shift crew members Leo worked with were each as focused on their panels as they had been a few cycles ago while still learning.

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 4-5

6/18/2021

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    Summer seems to have officially arrived. Finally! We've been able to turn off the furnace for most of the past week, even with it being cooler and rainy since Wednesday, because our house is awful for air circulation and refuses to release any captured heat. (Unless it's winter, then the house is chronically cold and completely unable to fully warm up. It's really annoying for a house built only 14 years ago.)
    The weeds are growing strong in the gardens... and the lawn lol. I don't complain about clover in the grass at all
– I like clover a lot better as it's lower maintenance, and the blooms are awesome for bees – but the grass in the garden is frustrating. Probably the beds will have to be completely dug out to get rid of the invasive grass roots in the next year or two. This year I'll just keep pulling and digging.
    One more week of school until the break and I can't wait. Mornings are just not my thing, and the longer I'm able to dictate my own working hours, the less mornings are my thing lol. I'm also looking forward to having the kids help around the house and yard, too. They're interested in learning more of the "adult" chores, really are mostly good about tidying up, and I have two roses which didn't survive last winter that need at least a second set of hands to dig out. If they want to learn more stuff, I'll take the help and teach.
    As for writing, I got a short story fully drafted, and another through first-pass edits. I'm really, really happy with the progress on both. I hope you get to have a good weekend!
Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
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        Leo watched Trevor inhale a shaky breath and hold the clunky, antique microphone in front of her mouth. “You already trust me, Charlotte, and as your sister I’m telling you to trust Captain and her requests and orders to Dockland’s crew,” she said. “Captain’s word is as honest as mine.”
        “Trevor?” the voice asked, incredulous.

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 4-4

6/11/2021

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    I knew I'd forgotten something today... bathrooms cleaned, next trays prepped for the freeze dryer, Just Dance torture/exercise session done... whoops! My Blog. Lol. It's still Friday afternoon, however, so I'm technically delayed and not yet completely late. :D
    The rush last week for our two side jobs wrapped up successfully. My husband and I do vinyl applications to shirts and jerseys (like logos and numbering, etc) as our first from-home job, and then started up selling freeze dried foods (after purchasing our own dryer and taking food safe courses) in early May as the second. Sometimes things get a little more hectic than usual around here now.
Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
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   As of today there are only two weeks left in the school year. That means only a few months until my oldest hits the age of double digits and my youngest turns the official age of Big Kids. Having my kids be 10 and 7 sounds so... old. I'm not really prepared for this yet. Good thing I still have a few months to wrap my brain around it!
    As for writing... I had a few hours where my creativity and my "free" time lined up! Drafted up a new beginning for a short story and loved every moment of creating words. It's going to be sooooo nice when there's a routine again that gives me these hours of writing time a week. I feel like, especially this school year, the unpredictability of school closures and classroom quarantines interrupted so sporadically that it was really difficult to shift modes as needed between in-person and online learning. Fingers crossed that next year will be more predictable. I hope you have a good weekend!

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        Captain jogged into the control room as her second message finished transmitting. She nodded approval to her Officer regarding the speedy use of the first generation InterStel in spite of the lack of efficiency in the system, and then joined the rest of the below decks crew members in anxiously waiting for the next reply.

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 4-3

6/4/2021

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    No blurb today as this week exploded busy for our side hustles and time is a hot commodity in our house. Yay! But also... oof!
    I got my first Pfizer COVID shot this morning. I'll be fully inoculated before September if all goes well with supply chains. Total YAY!
    In case you're new here, click the image beside / below (depending on what device you're reading this on) to start Daion Echoes through Transglass from the beginning.
    I hope you get to have a good weekend!

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        Dockland established a high orbit above the hastily made assembly yard. The final ships returning to the planet surface disappeared from visual monitoring once they’d slowed enough to lose the flaming tails marking their passage back to the landside construction site.

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    AManda FLIEDER

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