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[kittydesade]

I am so annoyed with myself for losing the Rochester family tree that, as far as I know, only exists in full in the form of a couple pictures I took and then deleted off my phone, that it's actually causing me to stop writing this one story I was going to put up on Patreon. I did a different one instead but aargh.

I'm going to go home, I'm going to check my computer backups of my photos because it might be on there, and then I'm going to write it down in a digital document that can't get trod on or misfiled or fall out of my pocket. And if it's not there, I'm going to recreate the fucking thing because I can do that, self. Yes, you can. You can change the names, re-create the thing, it's perfectly fine, you've never published anything with the very far back family tree, it's fine, self. Stop hating on yourself. Oy.

(I did manage to figure out that I'd already written some of another story with the proper names and relationships in, so that helped, but I'm still missing huge chunks of the family tree. Grr.)

But! I wrote today! Got some writing done, am likely to get some more writing done tonight, and am going to work up a list of chores that need doing when I get home so the boy and I can work on them over the next few days. We're doing fairly decently with keeping up some things, other things it's just too damn cold to do. (Mostly dishes, stupid pipes.) We may be able to host another thing next month. Which would be nice. I enjoy hosting when it's not panic panic clean panic I don't have the right materials to make food shit scream panic PMS a lot.

Mikey had his checkup today, his urine is good, his blood work has yet to come back, he's lost a little under half a pound which is ever so slightly concerning but he is an older cat and still has quite an appetite, so it may just be an off week for him. And we need to take him to the vet that did the surgery for a year follow up type thing, I don't think it's required so much as we want to be very sure, so. That's good news there!

Now. I just have to get home, do some patio work before I un-bundle myself, and hide under more blankets with writings. And maybe look on the desktop through photo backups for the stupid notes. Blergh.

ETA: HAHAHAHAH I FOUND THEM I FUCKING FOUND MY NOTES. I found the photograph of the notes, the most important notes anyway, I thought I'd done a second tree with more distant branches of the family but the important, central family is there anyway. Now to import it all into Scriv.

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[longmagpieroads]

Family echo is good for family trees and it's free to use.

[kittydesade]

I'm just using Scrivener for now. But I wrote out the family tree on my whiteboard and then the only digital copy I'd made of it was a photograph I took to show Anna I'd plotted it out, and then apparently I never fully wrote it down. >.

[longmagpieroads]

yeah my whiteboards weren't big enough which is why I migrated them over to FE.

Super glad you found what you needed though!!

[kittydesade]

I just do it a chunk at a time, two-three generations along one or two lines, write that down (or I SHOULD BE) and erase and start over, that way I don't get too distracted drawing charts and everything. Because I know me, and I totally would.

SUCH A RELIEF. Now I can finish this freaking story and have a better idea of everyone involved in THAT generation.

[bubblesbrnaid]

Yay finding notes!

I broke down several years ago and had to buy actual family tree software to keep track of a couple of my families. It's kinda scary when the characters get away from you like that. :)

[kittydesade]

I'm very basic, I just use the nearest flowchart maker to hand and then tie all that together with several paragraphs worth of text about each family member until I have thousands of words worth of background I might never use.

So, yes. They do get away from me. XD