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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 6-1

7/30/2021

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Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
The final 2 Chapters (last 10 parts) start today! Need to get caught up? Click the image to read the whole story so far :)
    It's been a busy week! Good busy. This type of week is starting to become a recurring occurrence. I think I may be beginning to enjoy it.
    We've got some large-for-us food orders happening, plus a few shirt orders, and we're taking our food business to a local trade market in August that we've been attempting to build stock for. (I say attempting because we want to bring fruits, veggies, and candies, but our kids keep eating all the fruits.) These side hustle businesses we started are combining into almost a full-time job for me, and I really want to be able to get used to it!
    Writing took a back seat this week so I could get caught up on house cleaning around orders. Plus my in-laws have a family farm they run as massive gardens in the summer and the kids and I went out on Wednesday to grab some locally grown veggies and hang out with Grandma. Plus, there are friendly cats living with my husband's aunt who need petting and I have two kids with willing hands lol.
    This weekend is three days here in Alberta. With my husband off work for an extra day, we should have a shot at getting marginally ahead at our stocking-up plans. Wish us luck! I hope you have an excellent weekend :)
Parkland Summer Night Market info poster - click for the facebook event
We're bringing our freeze dried food to this trade market! Come by the Flieder's Foods table if you're in the area and decide to stop in. Click the image to check out the Facebook event!

6-1

        Hours had passed since Dockland’s first reading that Shiner had crossed the twenty-five hour radius. On the bridge, Captain’s expression was grim as she ordered Lissa to send the acknowledgement reply which dan Broque had purposely misdirected to suspected Isolated Radical sympathizers.

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 5-5

7/23/2021

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Photo of a small minecraft creeper toy between a deep fryer, a bulk bag of cake sprinkles, and a container of pecans on a grey kitchen counter
Kitchen Creeper!
    Oh boy! Has it ever been a while since I updated my website's SEO! That was an afternoon cringe and a half. I'm glad I'm now a lot better than I was at optimizing for search engines, but getting hit with three-years-ago-me knowledge levels was... (sorry, no sentence end, I'm cringing again lol). Note to self: review and update SEO at a minimum annually.
    As for the random toy photo to the left, I did a Twitter post about it earlier today but I think this topic belongs in my Blog, too. Kitchen Creepers need to be a thing! Having an adorably creepy toy move around the room is a lot of fun when whoever in the house didn't move it last puts it somewhere new for everyone else to find.
    Our Kitchen Creeper has been lurking under cabinets and on the pantry floor for months now, but this week moved up onto the counter. I have no idea who first brought it up to high-visibility elevations (that knowledge is kept by whoever did it, no disclosure of who moved it last because that ruins the "creep" factor), but I'm very happy to realize so many more locations for creeping into.
    No cupboard is safe. The fridge is an open possibility!
    Kitchen Creepers are a delight for the whole family and having it creep around our kitchen is one of my favorite things. Yes, I am this easily amused. No, I don't feel at all bad about being this easily amused. I believe writing, and life, is more fun this way.
    As for a writing update... zero. Lots of time was spent thinking about my stories, and a few hang-up points and plot hole fixes are embedded in my brain, but no keyboard time. With my feet being so grouchy (and ouchy) last week the yard and house needed some attention this week. Buying new in-house shoes last weekend (yay!) eased the foot problems enough to get at a couple of heavier chores. Which got done, but at the expense of now dealing with hand/wrist pain and a flare from the pinched nerve in my neck.
    I want the body from whichever past life I had that makes me falsely believe this body in this life is so much more capable.
    Today has been for plot fix note-making, freeze-dried food packaging, and hanging out with my kids. (With a short break for blogging and website-ing.) It's been a pretty good Friday so far, and there's still enough time left to make it a movie night. I hope you get to have a great weekend!
Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
Part 5-5 finishes up this Chapter! Chapter 6 starts next week :) Click the above image to read from the beginning!

5-5

        “We need a still holo and a still vid. This is a big moment! Here, right here. Come on, Daddy L, you too.” Trevor’s mom paused in organizing where the members of her expanding family should stand to take off her smart and hold it out to Captain. ​

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 5-4

7/16/2021

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    It's been a busy week again. Well, at least for the first half of it. Yesterday and today are quieter. Not by choice.
    A couple years ago the metatarsal arches in my feet collapsed (those are the arches across the balls of the feet, where the toes connect). It's a really painful injury, but does heal back up with rest and gentle increases in activity to strengthen the area. The arch doesn't come back but the pain goes away and stays away with properly supportive shoes. If I'm not careful with my footwear or I overuse my feet, however, it basically bruises the bones of my toe knuckles on the bottom. And, well.... I haven't been very good at being careful with my shoes due to budget tightening. I have very cranky toe knuckles at the moment, and one swollen li'l right foot.
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    This weekend I should be able to rest a bit, thankfully, and also have time to talk to my husband about if our current budget can be squeezed for better indoor shoes than I've been wearing. Today I guess I'll wash off my outside shoes and gift myself a few hours of orthotics while getting through my standing-up tasks.
    Story drafting continues at a frustratingly slow but ongoingly steady pace. I think I've now figured out the base to max range of hours I can type every week without causing excess hand and wrist pain. Between writing, editing, home business administration, and some Roblox time with the kids, the two to four hours of writing and editing each week are working out. 
    Catherine Aird said "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
    Take care of your bodies, friends, as best you can; you only get just the one. Today I'm really feeling like a warning for the importance of stretching, resting, and proper eating and sleeping while still possessing a body that functions properly. (Side note: "proper" eating to me is mostly healthy, often fun, and makes you happy. Starvation diets and flashy fads not welcome.) I hope you get to have a good weekend!
Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
Need to get caught up? Click the above image and start reading from the beginning :)

5-4

        Trevor and Leo theorized why the change in bridge personnel had occurred so suddenly as they changed out of swimming clothes before going for lunch. Unknown to either of them, the ideas they came up with hedging the closest to the truth were the ones they believed to be the most ridiculous… until Captain requested a private vid with Trevor. 

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 5-3

7/9/2021

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    Well, today got away from me completely. It's already 8pm and I haven't figured out dinner yet... for myself. The kids ate :)
    After a few cool days it got hot again outside. Thankfully just to our normal summer heat temperatures and not anything like the week before last's heat wave. The cool days were enough for getting some baking done, having a few good sleeps, and getting the kid's pool set up on the back deck. (One of those inflatable top ones with heavy plastic sides
– perfect for summer wading and splashing!)
    I've been chipping away at some writing and happy with the progress so far. This series of short stories surprised me and is going much further than expected! Definitely a fun thing when one-off ideas bounce so well to become serials. Hope you get to have a good weekend!
Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
Curious to know how it all started? Click the image above and read from the beginning :)

5-3

Content Warning: This section has violence and injuries mentioned, with some blood details. ​
         As Captain predicted, Shiner passed the destination proximity radius without sending the regulation required Notification of Arrival message twenty-five hours in advance. Captain still ordered the standard Receipt of Message reply to be sent. The lead bridge crew InterStel Officer, Chester dan Broque, hesitated on sending the reply, winning him a small grin from Captain.
        “Let’s make Shiner uncomfortable, dan Broque,” she said.

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 5-2

7/2/2021

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    This week has been very, very hot. We're in the north west of North America, which has been affected by an extreme-for-us heat wave. Thankfully we live on the east side of the Rocky Mountains so we don't have to battle humidity at the same time. Clouds showed up in our sky last night and today is about 10C cooler than previous days, but it's still over 30C before noon... it's hot. As a bonus, my husband strung up a temporary clothesline in the back yard on Tuesday to avoid running the dryer. We have outdoor fresh clean sheets!
    The kids finished up the school year on Monday and for the rest of the week we didn't have to spend extra time outside while the heat peaked at over 40C every day (measured in our back yard by our thermometers, not the "official" readings). Their school doesn't have consistent AC, some newer parts of it do but the older parts don't, and classrooms have been stifling to say the least. Three cheers for the teachers! They made it to the end!
    I've been getting some writing done, as well as some re-writes. As expected, my mental health is way better with stories flowing again (even if it is at a trickle lol). Our side businesses are staying steady, too, which makes for manageably busy days. This week has been excellent, if for no other reason than creative happiness. I hope you have a great weekend!
Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
Click the above image to read the whole story :)

5-2

        “What are you grinning about?” Trevor asked, sleep making her voice wispy.
        “I’m just happy,” he said, hugging her a little closer.
        “And yet you went to sleep scared of the dark.”
        “No, I went to sleep scared of all those things like sleeping, walking, eating, and defecating around an enormous amount of ammunitions.”

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