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This week has been a bit of a wash; groceries have almost completely wiped me out, despite adequate rest around it. And also the sun going down by like 15:45 and it being pitch dark by 16:15. It just makes my body demanding more rest (when it's already rested for 10 hours, mind) stressful as it means no sun and I want to at least see daylight, even filtered through curtains, at least a couple hours a day... I say this, but darkness is the best light level for me, because I can completely control my surroundings as the ambient is consistent... it's a very sucky quandary. Food is also causing general issues, in that I think I have a tomato regularity limit (I had issues last time with certain herbs added and tortilla chips it had veto'd so nixed both of them. This time it was a bit unsettled digestively but relatively minor), and cous cous is not accepted. Why? Who knows.

Still, I need to vacuum over the weekend before dad tackles the other bedroom, and I will help, a bit. Mostly with changing bedsheets after I remove the plushies to put on a spread blanket in my living room on Sunday, as that's my limit. With removing and flattening boxes, carrying out furniture and old electronics, and then changing and moving the bed, probably just a few hours. I'm hoping it doesn't wear me out too much, I would like to do some writing, which is at the moment restricted to solely the adjacent grocery week and even that's a maybe.

I also managed to hurt my finger next to my thumb by firstly playing Hollow Knight (the jump button is bad. It requires a long press every time. I had to remap it as my thumb said no after one room. My finger can manage it for an hour maximum at a time) and also freezing weather so now it has blown up double its usual size. Yay fun ME things!!

Mogtomes has begun and so has a copious amount of Cliffhangers. This is good because I can do jumps easily enough but not actual content when my finger is hurting as much as it is. Stadium is going: changes this season include gains being nigh nonexistent once it places you where it thinks you should be, but as I'm All-Star everything, my main goal is simply comp points. And trying earnestly to learn a Brigitte build. I've noticed one particular build destroys tanks and you guessed it... it's a fire based build... as a D.Va lava connoisseur this speaks to me. And learning things about my Ashe build - the last power I pick doesn't describe the bonus ability damage as being yet another burn to add to her tally, and I didn't notice because my target is usually already burning when it activates, but now I know my third eye has opened honestly. Why have one burn every twelve seconds when you could potentially have ten on a target all at once??? Much to think about.

Day Off

Nov. 22nd, 2025 03:53 am
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Today I just... did not do any moving. Probably shoulda, but ehhh. I DID go to the shop and get meds, and played Terraria both with people and by myself, which is... something? Probably no multiplayer Terraria for a few days though, the host has houseguests. Including at least one of the other players, though maybe two? Not sure. Anyway, should be fun for them!

Other than that, uh. Not much. I napped a LOT today, not entirely on purpose. And now I'm up late because fiiiic, sigh. Self, just. Stoppit. But bed now yes! >:

Moving Shit: Commenced!!!

Nov. 21st, 2025 04:55 am
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Okay so technically I started yesterday, but it really FEELS like I started today, because I moved out the tea trolley I used as a work desk AND the bookshelf, so there's a biiiig gap where are whole lot of stuff now isn't.

It is, of course, the easiest of the furniture to move, but still! It's moved!!! And I can use the bookshelf for storage of stuff from my desk, which is also very important! :3

Other than that, A was in the area, so she dropped in for a couple of hours, so that was super fun! :D She was very impressed with the blanket, too, which given she's a MUCH bigger sewer than Mama or I are, is nice. :D And she said that the one time she did some quilting doing it by machine didn't actually take much less time than handsewing would've, which is uh. Slightly terrifying - h o w - but also nice to know I didn't waste a lot of time, really. (Thought I'd have the brain to post pictures today, but alas, moving shit ate it all.)

Played some Terraria, but the (extremely long) fic I was rereading got up to The Grand Finale and I got a little transfixed, thus... still awake. Yeah. >>;; But bed now!

For Leonard, Darko, and Burton Watson

Nov. 20th, 2025 08:04 am
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For Leonard, Darko, and Burton Watson

by Ursula K. Le Guin

A black and white cat
on May grass waves his tail, suns his belly
among wallflowers.
I am reading a Chinese poet
called The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases.
The cat is aware of the writing
of swallows
on the white sky.
We are both old and doing what pleases us
in the garden. Now I am writing
and the cat
is sleeping.
Whose poem is this?

Blanket is done!

Nov. 20th, 2025 03:14 am
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Finished off the blanket edging today, as planned! :D So it's done for now - I do still want to put the scale lines in, but uh now is not a good time. I mentioned the window thing, right? Yeah. Really gotta get shit moved ASAP.

Moving stuff progress. )

Other than that, I also mucked out the chook coop, and the cat boxes, and went for a walk with Mama. That is a LOT of things for one me!

Sushi is definitely feeling better, today. And, I'm not sure how the fuck he hid it for FIVE FUCKING DAYS, but today I noticed he has a raw spot on his tail - it's pretty big, like 2-3cm long and ~1cm wide in the middle! So no fucking WONDER he's been keeping his tail down and close! I am less concerned about him having pulled a muscle or something, honestly, though also. Ow. Poor baby...

Anyway he's whining at mealtimes again, and used my shoulder as a springboard to get up into my bed this evening, so he's a lot more like himself! (Even with the annoying things, alas...)

No multiplayer Terraria today, I was too busy, but I did play a bit in my solo world. Found shimmer! Shit is freaky, ngl, you just drop right through. Still, a cool thing!!! :D

Sleep nao plz

Nov. 19th, 2025 02:59 am
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I am very tired, and have been all day. I expect not going to bed until very late last night had something to do with it. I had an accidental midday nap, too, so... yeah.

But! Blanket is almost done! I just need to do a zig-zag around the edge where the border finishes, that's all! Would have done it tonight but my father had gone to bed and the sewing machine is in the room next to his bedroom, so... He could probably sleep through it, but I'd rather not disturb him. AND if it suddenly gets hot tomorrow I can still use the blanket, it's in a perfectly useable state now yay! :D

Other than that, played some Terraria with people again, which was fun! :D And a bit more on my own after I worked on the blanket.

Sushi is walking a lot better today, so I'm hoping that's because he's actually healing as much as the painkillers. Given he was still walking oddly yesterday, I have high hopes! His tail is still drooping, but the base of it is a lot more expressive, so hopefully that's just the swelling...

Also wow what is the cloudflare bullshit, bleh. As someone on one of the discord servers I'm on said, "Boy howdy, do I love having 90% of the internet run through about 3 different companies." :/

Sushi is okay!!!

Nov. 18th, 2025 04:11 am
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Vet day today!

We ended up having to go to the further away vet anyway; we went to our usual but the vet there was all '...we don't have an xray machine here and it might just be swelling but I'd really like to make sure he doesn't have any broken bones in his tail', so yeah. We went and did that.

It turns out it IS just swelling! Which is a relief and a half! They gave him a painkiller injection (which should last ~3 days, which is really! Impressive!!), and I've got some more anti-inflammatory painkillers for when that wears off. Plus poop medication, because while they thankfully didn't find any broken bones on the xray they did find he was full of poop. Probably because moving his tail was so painful! But medication just in case, too.

Anyway, despite All Of That, and also having to be sedated for the xray, more or less the first thing Sushi did when we got home (perked up a LOT from the painkiller) was start sniffing at the back door, trying to figure out if he could get it open and go Outside. SIGH. He has clearly not learned a single thing!

But hey, at least he'll be fine! Eventually! And he's feeling better, too, which is great.

Other than that, played a bunch of Terraria both with people and by myself, and then I got distracted and... yeah. But, you know, stuff and things and more stuff and more things and whatever. Yes. Bed time.

Terraria Day

Nov. 17th, 2025 03:29 am
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Sushi is about the same today as he was yesterday. Which is something. But it's also not great. :( Definitely vet tomorrow, yes.

I pretty much just played Terraria today. Which on the one hand is good because I had a very large time doing a social thing, but also. It was A Lot. And then I played more solo after everyone else went to bed, to try and catch my character up a bit. Probably not a great idea, actually, brain is very fried.

Still, good to do a social thing! Also it distracted me from being worried about Sushi. ALSO also I've been working on the blanket long enough I was probably due a day doing nothing, but uh I don't think it's been relaxing, what with all the background worry-stress... :/

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Sushi update; no real change from last night but not because nothing happened. )

Blanket updates!! :D )

I'm going head-first into finishing the blanket because we got news from the window people - nothing's decided for sure yet but they might be coming as early as the 1st of December, which means I have to move... pretty much all of my stuff out of here. Which is. A lot of stuff. We've gotta prepare somewhere to put it first, which is why I haven't started moving things yet, but getting this project entirely finished so that all of the parts can go AWAY is going to be extremely helpful. Including the sewing machine, because we can then put it away and use the cabinet as a flat surface for storage purposes, hahaha. (Also then I don't have to worry about the weather changing and being without a blanket. That will help too.)

I also played some Terraria this evening - fuck I forgot how hard this game is. Also gotta get used to the UI again etc etc. But even though I got squished by King Slime, I think I made some real progress - found some good accessories (cloud in a bottle, sandstorm in a bottle, and flippers!), plus a magic mirror... it's a decent enough start! :3 Hopefully multiplayer shenanigans tomorrow, but that'll depend on Sushi as much as anything, sigh.

Mirror Mirror

Nov. 14th, 2025 02:43 pm
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Mirror Mirror by Sarah Mlynowski

The adventures conclude! Spoilers for the earlier ones ahead!

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My cat remains an idiot :(

Nov. 15th, 2025 03:25 am
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Soooo Sushi got out again today (he's been trying A Lot the past few days. Even with everyone trying really hard, sometimes he wins :/), and not long after that I heard a catfight outside. Wasn't able to find him, but he was definitely involved, I recognise his voice when I hear it.

Anyway, when he does come back in he's very very quiet, and he was moving a bit off. Didn't think much of it - I mean, he clearly lost a fight but that is not a surprise - but he didn't eat even a bite of dinner, not even when I took it over to him, so now I'm worried. Extremely unlike him! Hopefully he's just sulking and resting up, and will be fine tomorrow... Anyway, there's no obvious wounds or anything as far as I've been able to tell, so I think it's okay to wait and see. But if I have to take him to the vet tomorrow, well, that's what'll have to happen, I guess. But hopefully he'll be okay! Just, you know, stupid.

Other than that I had a pretty good day, though! I did SIX lines on the blanket; it's really getting close to done and I am so! Excited! For it to be over!!! Finishing the pattern can definitely wait until after I have the edging etc done, I definitely need a break from it. Still do want to do it though.

Also I went down the shops and got so many snacks, it's great. I've been out for a couple of weeks or so, which has made me very sad. But now snacks! :V And also now sleep damnit, I need to do that too. Yes.

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Since XIV has been under the great DDOSing of 2025 (seriously it's been two weeks please make it stop) and people are understandably not queueing for Pilgrim's right now, I decided to start levelling gatherers on Mélodie and Faye. For this, I needed an outfit. My immediate desire was for the Fall Guys hoodie, which can now be two tone dyed. This has since devolved into me going to Blunderville with one alt per day. Four down, four to go...?

Faye, Mél, Kaesumi and S'triyx are done - Estelline and Yorva need to go next. The curved portrait border is still one of the best in the game, even if my desire for hoodies for them is significantly less... I'm not sure if Yulia previously went, or Cylva. Milla should probably go too, although I have not done much on her yet beyond finishing Limsa opening... at this point I'm waiting on 7.4 so I can glam her no restrictions. Still, in four days and four alts I have successfully made it to last round every time bar one, so my knowledge of Fall Guys has been retained. Shockingly I'm really good at platforming.

What else. I cleared half of the other bedroom over the weekend through Tuesday, which involved a lot of box flattening; my living room is a long line of cardboard and food I can't eat, which is putting me out a bit since I have to look at it regularly but will be rid of soon. Unfortunately I am unable to do the rest, as it involves getting around the other side of the bed and a lot of bending down and putting my head in weird angled positions to reach under it - I set my vertigo off really badly on Monday from doing the accessible side, lesson learned. I think I'll have to ask my dad to come over and clear the other side for me (I believe it's just more boxes?), hoovering and wiping the floor down under the bed since I can't do that either, and then maybe reorienting the bed after. This will be difficult, as despite the floor being wooden and thus making every bit of furniture easy enough to move with a bit of pressure, said bed will not move at all in the slightest, so we'll see how achievable that is (if at all) by himself. :')

I got another box of goodies from Neokyo which I have since separated and put in temporary places due to aforementioned boxes in my living room blocking their eventual homes. I have another box to ship soon (nendos), although an Ashe sticker I was missing showed up, so I have since acquired that to group with them. I have... decided I kind of want the GSC Lightning statue for realsies... 😭😭 to my surprise the Square Enix store itself is the cheapest route, but I shall think about it...

Been working a bit on words (with difficulty), mostly edits. I wanted to get more done this week but that was kaiboshed by having to spend fifteen hours in bed Tuesday night through Wednesday, which involved me going to bed at night and waking up when it's nighttime again and that really messes with you, to the point the last couple of nights I have not gone to bed until the sun is up so I can witness it at least. So I've been working on some late night edits instead, appropriate as the chapter in question takes place at like 5am. I feel like I'm repeating myself a lot more than I usually do, and not in a good reinforcement way, but I might just have to accept it, or else I'll never progress, and progress is incredibly slow as is. idk. Over summer my writing capability has kind of left me, and I know some of that is furniture priority as expected, but my health has been so bad lately... being so close to bedbound at times is scary, as is just having so few days where you can be meaningfully creative. I want to do thing! Nope. It is void, cotton candy fog time. Brain empty all gone. Enjoy staring staring at a wall for two hours for the hundredth time.

Eeeey!!

Nov. 14th, 2025 02:20 am
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My uncle is home from the hospital, finally! :D :D :D He was in there for AGES, but he's better enough to go home now! So great!

Other than that, Mama wanted a break from the chook pen thing, so even though it was a nice day we didn't do that. So I ended up doing FOUR lines on the blanket! :D :D :D The first of the panels is almost completely done! One more line, or possible like. One or two stitches on a second line. Almost! Done!!! Aaaa, I'm excited, it's getting so close!!!

Also did washing and like. Showered and stuff. So no minecraft, just a bit of reading. Probably a sensible thing, given what time it's ended up anyway... >>;;;;

A day full of things!

Nov. 13th, 2025 03:41 am
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So the roof guys came back today, and did the other job they needed to do! :D (Unfortunately the banging around caused it to be Super Obvious the bathroom needs... so much work. There was dirt falling down from the roof and shit. :/) My father also got his shed delivered, though he's not going to start putting it together for a bit. (Sibling's Christmas present to him is to help with labour, but Sibling's also busy for a bit. Also like. The ground needs work, it's not exactly level right now, so gotta do that first.) Still, yay, it arrived safely! :D

I went for a walk with Mama, just to the chemist that takes in blister packs for recycling, and we walked past the op shop on the way, and I saw a frame designed for embroidery! So I got that, because I thought I could put the embroidery Ni-chan made me in it. Alas, it's too big! So I will make some kinda cross stitch to put in it instead, I think. :3 Not for a bit though, still got the blanket to do.

Speaking of blanket, today was the last of the max length lines! \o/ Definitely on the homeward stretch! :D Still working just with the partially-used embroidery floss, too, doesn't look like I'll even tough the full ones, orz orz orz. We have. So much. SO MUCH. Sigh.

Recent Reading: Flight of the Fallen

Nov. 11th, 2025 03:32 pm
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It’s been a bit! Timing conspired to prevent me from reviewing my last audiobook (Katherine Addison’s The Grief of Stones), but I’m here with the conclusion of the Magebike Courier duology by Hana Lee, Flight of the Fallen.

On the whole, I think if you liked the first book, you’ll like the second. It’s more of the same, which is no complaint from me. Lee digs only slightly more into the worldbuilding of the Wastes, but as with the first book, it’s clear that’s not where Lee’s strengths or interests lie, and so she doesn’t overreach herself there, which I think is best.

The main trio—Jin, Yi-Nereen, and Kadrin—continue to be fun and engaging characters, although Jin’s self-pitying act that began at the end of book 1 grows a little tiresome, even if it is understandable. (Fortunately, she gets over it and her best traits--her courage, her determination to keep trying, her capacity to love--win resoundingly in the end.) Making a surprisingly delightful reappearance is Sou-zelle, who actually threatens to usurp our lovers as the most interesting protagonist for the first third of the book. Book 1 did a good job of making Sou-zelle a more dynamic character than merely Yi-Nereen’s jilted fiancé, and book 2 continues to give him more depth.
 
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This chair isn't bad exactly, but it's a little too high and my back keeps hurting after a few hours in front of it because I keep stooping very very slightly to see things. :/ Honestly I should probably bring my chair in and use it even though it's still missing a cushion - the actual structural work is done, it's just replacing the cushion that's left which is my job, not my father's. Which is fine! I just. Blanket. Do not have brain for other projects, really, particularly not with Mama and the chook run extension thing butting in sometimes.

Speaking of, we did some more work on that today, and we made progress!! ...and then it started raining, so it was only a little progress, but hey, at least the 'take the door apart and put it back together on something flat' idea worked. (It's still liable to twist, but it's much better, and we've determined that it's pretty much a material fault and nothing we can really do about it. If it's still going weird once we've added the chicken wire etc I will consider Adding Shit to keep it vaguely straight.) Also I got to use the mallet on it, which was very therapeutic.

Other than that, couple of lines on the blanket (closing in on the end of the max length lines! Soooon!), some minecraft... nothing much else. Very sleepy day since Mama keeps waking me up, bleh.

More sleep = less concentration???

Nov. 11th, 2025 02:45 am
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I seriously had A Time of it with the blanket today. Got two rows done, but it took forever, I just couldn't fucking concentrate. Dunno why! I got lots of sleep last night! And yet!

Mama and I did do some work on the chook run, and also the chook run extension thing today, which was...

...look we ended up tying one of the poles in place with wire because the fastener provided just Would Not Catch, so. That's. Roughly how it's going. And then we put the door together, which is uh... a rectangle... and we somehow managed to twist it. The instructions are Not Complicated, and yet.

Gonna try taking it apart and putting it back together while laying it on the table tomorrow, and if that doesn't work we'll need to ask my father, which. Will be. Annoying. Still, can't be more annoying that That Goddamn Thing, and who knows he might even have a solution for that. (Doubt it though, it's a fucker.)

my smallest victory

Nov. 10th, 2025 05:00 am
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It seems I can eat tomatoes. 🎉🎉🎉

maybe I can eat a pizza. omg. )
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This is not a thing I should be proud of and yet. Sleep schedules, man. Make living with other people hell. (Or, at least, with Mama. My father isn't a great housemate in many ways, but he's extremely accepting of sleep.)

Anyway! Mama and I worked on the chook run extension thing for a bit today! UGH, still so frustrating. But we've made progress!!! Probably more tomorrow, too, as long as the weather cooperates. Which is not guaranteed, at all, everything was soaked this morning it just happened to come good so we could work in the afternoon...

Other than that, couple of rows on the blanket - I don't think I'm quite at halfway, but I'm getting there for sure! Just gotta keep a steady pace and I should get there without too much trouble. If nothing goes wrong, of course, which does mean I'll need to keep it well away from Sushi... He's been made of beans recently, zooming around the house much more the usual and back to climbing up curtains etc. etc. etc. He picked a fight with the cardboard scratcher I have behind me this evening, which was pretty funny. Yeah, you show that cardboard who's boss! XD

Sleepy Saturday

Nov. 9th, 2025 04:35 am
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Nothing huge today. Napped a lot. Two more max length lines! Snuggly kitties~~~

Also some minecraft but mainly I'm up stupid late due to getting sucked into reading orz orz orz self whyyyyy