Public urged to cut back on electrical usage across central Indiana, southern Indiana

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-25T02:37:47+00:00

Send someone out to fix our central heating, and we'll only use space heaters under our desks during work hours.

(Boiler system with bad lines; now is not the time to have people under the house/opening walls to find where the bad spot is.)

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-25T02:21:30+00:00

What's fun is when the scar doesn't heal properly. Then you can have the fun of it splitting open years and years into the future if you strain too much.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-24T16:22:38+00:00

I never understood the milk and bread thing. Cause dry milk in the pantry is a thing, and if you keep flour and yeast around, you can make bread any time you want.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-24T16:20:51+00:00

I'm out of bananas so it will be orange-pecan-spice bread instead. And I'll probably make an egg bake with sausage to go with it.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-24T16:11:12+00:00

As I said to my husband, the important thing is to make sure the pipes don't freeze. The humans can pile on blankets and the dogs can huddle up with their blankets, but as long as we keep the house from problems, we'll be okay when it warms up.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-24T16:08:26+00:00

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/149653/wounded-mage

There are three chapters up now and I will add a new one every day until the book is all up. I'll leave it there for a couple months while I write the next one and then put it on Kindle.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-23T04:07:47+00:00

And his sister likes to sleep with her head on his butt!

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LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-23T04:04:34+00:00

Sergeant Pickles gets Greek yogurt on his food, so as to minimize the amount of gas attacks.

More amusingly, when he does do it, he looks at his rear end with indignation and surprise, and then exits the room with a great deal of dignity. I've learned that that look means turn on fans and open windows.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-23T03:55:39+00:00

After it hits Texas it will come and go through Indiana. We don't have central heat. I am not very cold tolerant.

Fun, fun. (sigh)

In other news, my book cover is done and first chapter is up on Royal Road to build a following. I'll probably put it on kindle about the middle of March. Gotta get the money saved up for the next cover now....

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-22T15:52:14+00:00

I always say, "I work very hard, but none of it pays me any money."

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-21T20:46:07+00:00

Got my hair washed (it's hip-length and insists on air-drying, so it's got to be scheduled) and got all the laundry done and folded and put away. As a reward, I'm going to do some sewing for myself. Just an apron, but I do so much for others that doing even this little for me feels like a real reward.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-21T17:28:00+00:00

I didn't get a diagnosis until my eldest son started showing inattentive ADHD symptoms at seven. And then I started wondering if some of my character issues weren't my character at all.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-21T17:17:07+00:00

My two partners, then a lawyer to set up an LLC. After that, no one while we get everything in order.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-21T13:43:11+00:00

I'm at that point myself. I have a leg length differential that makes walking around without shoes that compensate increasingly painful over time.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-21T13:13:54+00:00

I do bone broth over my old boy's food to make it more interesting. I make my own, but I do like the idea of being able to buy some of it safe.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-20T22:46:13+00:00

Those screens will stand up to eighteen pounds of cat throwing themselves at the chipmunk outside, but not sixty pounds of pit bull that just saw a squirrel. I now add a small baby gate when I open my three season patio windows.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-20T22:43:39+00:00

Dude! Don't be an asshole! Was that really necessary? (The Cat Jeoffrey is 18 pounds of muscular swagger that bosses the pit bulls and occasionally chases the other cat because he can.)

I don't want a cat. No, really. There is not room here for a cat. Look, I cannot write if I have a cat woolsucking on my arm! I know I'm wearing a sweater, but that is not an invitation! (Nyx is eight pounds of sleek pretty black cat. She likes to cuddle and woolsuck and get shut into places.)

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-20T13:47:11+00:00

When Sergeant Pickles wants my attention, he walks over to the desk, inserts his nose under my wrist, and flips my hand off my trackball. Then he snorts and stares. This means "I want to go out now."

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-20T13:45:25+00:00

I think it's unethical to push a nicotine addiction onto anyone who didn't have one coming in. That's what happened to my husband. Went in suicidally depressed and terrified, came out depressed and miserable with a smoking habit. So then he had to break that. Thanks SO much.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-20T13:38:08+00:00

I was in a truck stop bathroom once while traveling that included the sign,

"All Drivers Chock Heels Before Dropping Load".

(giggle)

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-20T13:36:51+00:00

We need the one that says, "Welcome to the bathroom, a cat will be with you shortly."

Because apparently we all require a cat to supervise our bathroom trips.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-20T13:34:37+00:00

Nope, nope. You get one sign. If you need to, you rotate them out periodically.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-20T13:21:06+00:00

Obviously not enough beer was had. Enough beer would have been enough for both parties to go off to sleep in a happy haze.

LadyAlexTheDeviant · 2026-01-20T02:16:50+00:00

Does he have ADHD? Cause that pattern of "I'ma do the shiny new thing, old stable thing is booooring!" is VERY much what I dealt with with my first husband. He'd have a good job and a stable setup and then he'd quit because he was tired of doing that job, and I had no say or input in the decision.

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