Here I am

[aprilvalentine]

Well, thanks to a friend, rosalita I've created this account. I'll be looking around for awhile and then I suppose posting more as time goes on and as I figure out how to bring in posts from LJ which I've heard is possible. Not sure what is going on around here yet, but it's either this or start twittering.

Today my puppy, Sasha, chewed up my glasses. They don't fit as well as they did, the frames are scratchy behind my ears and the lenses are messed up by little tooth marks too. I fell asleep on the couch and she got to them. I can see out of them in the middle of the lenses, at least. My son's wedding is in 3 weeks and things are getting tense. And I'm behind in getting my zine up and posted to its LJ location. Typical.

I've decided to work harder on not being depressed or stressed and to be more positive about my life. Now if I can just remember to do it....

Comments

[rosalita]

Jack chewed the earpiece off one of the arms of my glasses. I don't know what is wrong with that cat.

Re: LJ to DW posting

[starwatcher]

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(my stupid school server will let me read LJ -- if I jump through the hoops -- but not comment)

Crossposting is a feature that only works *from* DW *to* LJ, not the other way. They developed it to make DW more attractive to users of other platforms.

If you use a client, like Semagic, you *may* be able to tell it to post to both at once, but you'll have to ask someone who uses them; I don't.

Of course, trying to crosspost a long story wouldn't work, 'cause it wouldn't fit in LJ. What I did was -- [a] story post without crossposting. Then [b] separate announcement post with link to story, posted in DW and crossposted to LJ.
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Re: LJ to DW posting

[aprilvalentine]

Thanks for letting me know. A couple of people posted on LJ saying essentially the same thing. Guess I had it backwards. Oops.

I'm going to try posting my new story here and I guess I should get off my butt and do some other posting here as well. I sort of forgot about doing it here after setting up the account.

I didn't mean I wanted to cross post a long story, I meant that the story I posted had to go onto LJ in several parts but your post about your newly posted story let me know there was more room to post here so I could come here and post my story in one piece.

I'll try to go read your new story asap, btw!

Must be annoying to not be able to comment on LJ! Ouch.

Thanks again.

[starwatcher]

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Forgot to say -- this is months too late -- but my pup once chewed my glasses earpiece, too. If it's still scratchy behind the ears, here's how I solved it.

I got an emery board or file, and 'sanded' the plastic smooth. Then I cleaned it with alcohol to remove any body oils, and coated it with clear fingernail polish. Scratchiness gone!
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[aprilvalentine]

LOL... thanks for the tip. I actually thought of filing my ear pieces but the damage Sasha did is so severe... the glasses wouldn't sit right on my face and the lenses were so scratched and then they broke in the middle (a lifetime of wearing glasses and that's the first time that's ever happened!) I taped them and looked like the proverbial nerd, then managed to get them glued with super glue but they fell on the ground and broke again and I couldn't get them to stick together again after that. I eventually went to my eye doctor and picked out new glasses but haven't had the money to pay for them yet. Sigh. I located my really old pair of glasses and wear those around the house these days. Sigh.