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

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.

Current Mood: worried
Current Location: Birthplace

marycatelli posting in

books

Mirror Mirror by Sarah Mlynowski

The adventures conclude! Spoilers for the earlier ones ahead!

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tyger

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.

Current Mood: worried
Current Location: Birthplace

requiems

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.

tyger

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... >>;;;;

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: Birthplace

tyger

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.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

rocky41_7 posting in

books

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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tyger

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.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

tyger

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.)

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: Birthplace

requiems

It seems I can eat tomatoes. 🎉🎉🎉

( maybe I can eat a pizza. omg. )

tyger

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

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

tyger

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

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

$tyger: Isa, Lea, and Ven sketches from the Ultimania (Isa\Lea/Ven - battle of the pointy hair!)$

tyger

I really didn't think I'd get there today, but I got to max length! Only one line, but I am not even slightly unhappy about that, just. Wow. (I only did four lines, so like. It was WAY closer than I thought, I guess...)

I'm definitely getting a lot faster than I was even a week ago, though; first time through doing more than two lines when they were nearing/at max length was just... not achievable in an afternoon and evening. Today, I did two in the afternoon, two in the evening, and was done just after 10pm. (So of course I played some minecraft and lost track of time but that is a different issue.)

Other than that, nothing interesting really. I AM getting through thread nicely, though I'm still on partially-used stuff and that... may not change by the end of this direction. There's just. There's a lot of it. Main reason I might get into the whole skeins is simply because some of the colours are too dark for the fabric, so they're hard to see and thus make the pattern look weird. It is not a fading into the background piece of work, hahaha!

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

tyger

Okay so I was stupid tired last night and TOTALLY FORGOT about the electrical problem we had! One of the light switches in the bathroom stopped working, which is always a super annoying thing, but in this case it got stuck on.

( Ramble )

Other than that, nothing exciting today. Approaching max length on the blanket again! Probably won't get to it tomorrow, but maybe the day after? Will see how it goes, basically.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

requiems

My body is screaming... it's been ten days since I had onion and it's still not settled, and tonight after food it lost its collective marbles over what should be totally one hundred percent safe, and I have reached the point where I have to lay down because my limbs and brain are on fire, so...

Along with groceries, dad brought me the shelves from Ikea to finish off my Billy bookcases - the one for displaying figures in my room, and the one that's a sideboard, and the sideboard is full of Drona boxes to be filled with stuff. And also shower related products, because being in the bigger Billy was giving me bad sensory overload every time I opened it because the chemical smell was too strong, woops. The display Billy's are 90% done now, including the bigger ones - I have a few final things to put in and sort. I also got some strip noticeboards to potentially attach onto furniture in various places, and to hang keychains onto, but I may put this off for a while until I'm done in the spare room, in part due to my health being so bad at the moment (I spent sixteen hours in bed last night, and that was with four hours after groceries. yay)

I am back in All Star in Stadium for the season! Me and duo have been playing Moira and Lucio mainly. For like, two and a half weeks they shifted the format from best of 7 to best of 5, which, personally speaking, fixed a lot of problems I was having in the support role since you were no longer facing off against enemy tanks/dps with their full builds... but the reality was, for every role, you simply never could use your full build. A lot of games were 3:0 shut-outs. On dps I was having to rely more on supports in later rounds instead of being self sufficient because I could not sacrifice my two necessary items that make my build work and cash didn't scale accordingly with less rounds. Some characters benefitted from Bo5 greatly, and could generate so much cash so quickly there was nothing you could do to taper back their strength, and counters felt more crippling. Last season I was Legend on D.Va, and in Bo5 my build no longer worked and I couldn't even make it out of Rookie. After going 2:10 on her I was all set to quit tank in stadium foreseeably forever... and then they reverted the change, lmao. Upside, D.Va works, I'm almost back in pro. Downside, I can't really play Juno. I just have to be a Moira menace instead. Ashe always works though. Huehue four dynamite build huehue.

Still working through Pilgrim's Traverse. Keep having issues with reclears and people being greedy in floors 61-70 when there's so much shit that one shots. And when the party wipes you gotta go back down to floor 51 and do it over again... hopefully I'll make it through next time and then I can go into 71-80 for the first time (I'm scared).

In other news Overwatch lore seems to maybe possibly be progressing again by tying off the Null Sector PvE storyline in an handwave-offscreen-fashion whilst showing some of the important beats. Unfortunately it is, as always, in tie-in media. ( complicated frustrated feelings )

My body is still screaming, but it's time to try to sleep...

Current Mood: abdomen hurt

tyger

Pretty straightforward day today! Went for a walk with Mama, and then worked on the blanket!

And then some minecraft, and then I read for a little while and then ???? it 4am. Again. SIGH. I never learn...

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

tyger

Nothing super interesting today, really. I cleaned the bathroom! I did a bunch of lines on the blanket! That's about all though, hahaha.

Not entirely sure how it got so late, though... It was only 2 last I checked... :/

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

tyger

Finished the first direction! AND started the next direction, which includes removing the basting as I go!

Aaaaa it looks SO NICE with the diamonds, I'm so pleased!!! :D :D :D

Current thinking is whether or not I add the scale details will depend on the weather, more than anything - yesterday was warm enough I was thinking I might be wishing I had it instead of my doona, but there was a cool change, and today is uh. Well. Early winter temperatures again. So if it's still cold once I get to the end, I'll probably add the details, and if not I'll go straight to doing the border so I can use it.

Can always add the details later, anyway, so it's no big deal either way really! I think I will add them at some point, unless something super weird happens and I run out of thread. (Chances of that: extremely low.)

Other than that... Mama bought a rug today? Cats are extremely interested in this, mainly in the scratching department... Luckily Mama realised this would be the case and it's a cheap, acrylic rug, so while it'll be annoying if they destroy it at least it won't be expensive....

Anyway I should uh. Go the fuck to bed. Yes. >>;;;;

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: Birthplace

tyger

Woke up today WITHOUT my head feeling like blek! It was great!

I'm still easily tired, and recovering in that way, but the actual headcold part of this is all but over, which is so nice. I did washing! I was able to actually hang it all out AND bring it inside! AND I went for a (short) walk with Mama as well. :D :D :D

I also did three more lines on the blanket, and then I stopped because if I'd kept going I would've kept going until I finished this direction, and I would've ended up working on it until 2am or something. Given the time, I probably should have just done that anyway, rather than going 'hmm it's only 10:30, let's play Minecraft for a bit then'. Whoops. >>;; I tried?

Anyway, will definitely finish this direction tomorrow, which is great! :D May or may not start the next direction, it'll depend on how long it takes and how I feel. Still, exciting!!! :D

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

i will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Sushi worries not abated, but blanket is almost finished!

Mirror Mirror

My cat remains an idiot :(

Mogtomes again soon. The saucer calls to me.

Eeeey!!

A day full of things!

Recent Reading: Flight of the Fallen

Cannot wait until finished with blanket. Then can work on CHAIR.

More sleep = less concentration???

my smallest victory

Hey look it's closer to midnight than dawn for once!

Sleepy Saturday

MAX LENGTH AGAIN!!!

Switch Issues

You ate. Punishment.

It's Wednesday again...

Tuesday, I think? Oh, it was cup day, I forgot all about that...

Blanket blanket blanket

Definitely mostly better!

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