Happy Beltane

[cornerofmadness]

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(Buffy crew jump to the end of this if you don't mind and don't want to wade thru my tears about my day)

I didn't do much but laundry, passed off some food to a coworker and then sat down to the bead hoard. I am so ...stunned and a little angry with myself for all the ridiculous amount of beads I have. I could bead forever and not get through all this. Some of it is crap and I will be trying to get rid of it. Looking at local friends. Some I need to do stuff with. The rest....who knows. Break my legs if you hear me saying I'm going to the bead store.

As I was talking to ELD tonight (poor ELD, my brain wasn't braining. Half the conversation was me forgetting WTF I was saying while saying it) I found one bag that Soul had found. For the newer people on my list, Soul was Kanda's half brother who was fine for about 3 years and then when I had my shoulder surgery something happened with the cat sitter. Maybe it was because she was only here once a day, anyhow he went feral and started pissing on EVERYTHING. I had to eventually rehome him. Well this bag was very obviously pissed on.

Naturally it's nice beads. I'm going to soak them in vinegar and soap and see if I can get the smell off of them. If I can't I'm going to lose a lot of beads. Sigh. I still have one huge bag to get through. Sigh.


And I could use some help. I will be doing two stories for wipbigbang (come join me!!) One like I said is a Buffy story. Well after I was so sure I could do this easily, I realized I had added in a chapter that won't make things easy. I think I said this last night. Anyhow, after some thought, I don't want to just toss the chapter but I also don't want Lindsey to have been summoned back to Wolfram and Hart because it's the end of the world again. a) overdone b) that would take this from a few more chapter to end it to you're going to need another 20k to end this.

SOOOO while they might think it's dire, maybe he's back for another reason (I've already used the client will only work with Lindsey in another story) So Buffyverse friends, why might WR&H want Lindsey back to do? Thanks for any thoughts you care to share.

And hey I did win Camp Nano so that makes me happy.

Comments

[ysilme]

Happy Beltane to you, too! And congrats to winning Camp Nano! *\O/*
I'm afraid I can't help with the writing, I'm totally unfamiliar with the fandom (all I know about Buffy is what I learned from reading two Tolkien crossovers which both focused heavily on the Tolkien side of things). But perhaps I've got some advice on the bead situation; we've been able to gather ample experience from living with an indoor-spraying, neutered male with behavioural problems for a few years...
Don't get any cleaner to them in any way, be it soap, detergent or whatever, and particularly not anything containing any lemony scent or oil - it'll make it impossible to ever get rid of the stench. I don't know if vinegar works but would wait with that until later. Instead, get yourself one of these ammonia removers you have for nursing home purposes or such - I'm sorry, I don't know how they're called, but "urine remover" for cloth or as spray is the thing to look out for.
Soak the beads in the washing liquid of this (perhaps thinned somewhat, IDK) and rinse carefully, and then see what happens.
It's possible that some beads might be damaged, but if you don't get it off with this you don't get it off anyway. Normally the stuff needs some scrubbing or mechanical action; perhaps you can do this with a brush or something, or rub them in the liquid between your rubber-gloved hands or so. I don't know if you can put beads into the washing machine, but if you can, knot them well into nylon legs or something that definitely won't open (or you'll likely ruin your machine), and wash them with the stuff as well.
There's also an awesome combination of etheric oils that either also kills the ammonia (I forgot) or gets over the smell, but I don't know if you can find it in the U.S. It's Dutch and called "Pis't Vaek" in Dutch (or Danish?), which means "piss be gone" or so. Here is an image of the product logo. Unfortunately I don't know about the detailed ingredients or have more info, just that it's biodegradable and works _really_ well. The shop says it works with pheromones and through killing bacteriae. I get it through the site of a small cat product shop but they don't ship internationally. Perhaps you can find it with the original name on a similar site.
I hope something helps for your beads!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks so much! You know what I still have the anti-pee stuff in the closest. I can soak them in watered down that stuff and give that a shot. That's a great idea.

If it doesn't work, I won't lose that much but still...

[nondenomifan]

Here's a wicked idea, considering how he met his end:
What if WR&H (i.e., The Senior Partners) decide the only way to get things back in proper balance is to turn Caritas into an under-cover meeting place for evil, and they give Lindsey the ability to mess up Lorne's ability to read people while they sing if Lindsey sings first?

[cornerofmadness]

Thank you very much. That won't fit this story but I like it lots and might keep it for something else if you don't mind

[nondenomifan]

Not at all! Go right ahead. Just, please, let me know if and when you write it!

[cornerofmadness]

Will do! Thanks