Ok so I wake up this morning with like an inbox of 18 posts for dreamwidth, and I'm astonished. I haven't had that experience in a long time. So I posted about uc_xmen 's prompts request at fandom_on_dw  and fandomcalendar  and it seemed to have worked! Yay! Now hopefully more people will join in once the prompting is over as well. So if you have any X-Men unconventional pairings you've wanted to see for awhile, add prompts!

In other news, I joined seasons_of_fandom under the Winter Court because why not? I used to love the land communities at LJ so I figured I'd try it. Plus if it gets me active again with fandom, maybe it'll distract from RL shit? Plus I miss it. 

Also I'm signing up for 100ships (table) and 100fandoms (table) - because again, why not? Also I need something to inspire me to write again. I miss writing. It might take me 100 years, but I figured I could combine them with claims that I've had for awhile. I do still need to move my fanfiction to my community though from LJ, plus add stuff that's been on AO3 only.

Created tvfanfiction again here since there was only a bookfanfiction and moviefanfiction. I'm going to probably go through my other communities at LJ and add them here as well. Also imported posts from tv_fanfiction and alicehatter  from LJ. So I think I officially know how to do that which is good.

OOh and I created darcyland !! (Not a land community) - just darcylewis was being used and I completely forgot that I used chloe_otp as the formula for all the ships, but technically the Darcy Lewis fandom is called Darcyland.

Anyway I'm sure there are more to come!

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I've set up Maths tutoring with a PhD in engineering and physics and found an MD that I am going to try for the biology subjects. I may try to find a chemistry PhD for the chemistry courses but I figure that's enough for before my arm is even out of the cast. I don't even know I'll get into the programme yet but if not I'll sign up for one online - I just want this one specifically because it's awarded by QUB and I'd like to get into QUB.

I was a bit worried about starting tutoring before school starts even though I need the review - but I'm finding textbooks based off the Lecturers in The Great Courses Plus and McGraw Hill. Plus, courses offered for free by Yale. I suspect I can use those to get revised/educated on a lot of these topics before the courses start and set me up for success.

Hopefully. The reality is, as many financial experts say, you can't save your way out of poverty. I paid off my card. But after I put in my share of the mortgage and money we're saving toward fencing and GFCH, paid Lauren to walk Jake next month, insurance, etc. I barely have anything left over. If I'm honest with myself, I need to be making at least 1.5x what I'm making now, especially if I want to hire tutors. If I'd had a cushion, I'd not have built card debt to begin with.

If Patrick were working evenings and could walk/let Jake out mid-day I could cut Lauren (who I am pretty confident wants to be cut anyway) and that would give me a £240 bigger cushion monthly.

The doctor was right to recommend against working in the cast. It took me two days to write this post lol.

So I've been exploring some Dreamdwith communities, discovered xmenkinkmeme & soulmates_meme plus rediscovered my old Summer of Blues and Love Drabble-A-Thon which inspired me to do a Summer Drabble-A-thon at  capescrusaderstcg along with what I'm about to promote:

uc_xmen fic meme >> Prompts are needed!! So even if you might not write anything, please comment with any type of X-Men Unconventional pairings & prompts. It will be greatly appreciated. Prompts will be collected from now until July 6th, and the prompts will be all collected and the Fic Meme/Drabble-A-Thon thing will begin. And please tell your friends about it if you can!

I'm starting to suspect my wrist is going to need surgery. Apparently wrist fractures are known to be unstable even in casts and most of them don't stay in alignment (up to 70%!).

Problem: I don't even have the supination necessary to cook, clean, or open fucking round door handles. And I'm supposed to be getting moved to a splint on the 30th? lol. I've emailed them to try and give a heads up.

I've set up a direct debit with my SIPP and ISA again, with a goal of getting them up to £250 each per month over time (for now a minimum of £100 each, since that's the minimum investment amount). But, I also have my work pension which is not the best but decent. I'm not the best off (according to Fidelity I should have near 3x my income in savings by now.)

But the average for women is £11-12K and I am at least closer to the average men have in savings??? I guess? Lol. I'll put 100% of any secondary income in savings once my wrist is recovered. And since I'm on the property ladder, I'm building equity, that basically means 50% more assets than I originally thought I'd get to by retirement age. And if I significantly increase my income by becoming a nurse (near double) I can just keep living mostly as I do now and save near 50% of my income.

And... this is the most I can type in the cast, so off for a nap I go.