i will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Slept in today, which was glorious, particularly after how stupid late I was up yesterday. (Still up later than I planned, but hey, it's an improvement!)

Mucked out the chook coop, did some weeding, and ironed down the seams I made yesterday. Most of the day, however, I was finishing off that fic I was reading last night. It was a long one! (And it's unfinished, which is always disappointing.) But now I am free of it and I am going to pass the fuck out.

...of course, now is when Sushi decides to jump up into my lap and snuggle, which he hasn't done for a while, because. Of course it's now. Of course.

Yeah I'm up late because my brain got eaten reading something cool, as usual, blah blah blah.

Today I sewed together the panels for the blanket, finally! \o/! Also did the testing I needed to do, and both those things work well! :D (The first thing of tailor's chalk I found was actually Mama's, but according to her it's still like. 40 years old. XD;;;) Tomorrow I'll at least iron down the seams; hopefully I'll also at least fold stuff up in preparation for basting (if not actually start the basting!), but it'll depend on how much time I have. I want to get the chook coop mucked out too, and give how late it is right now... >>;;;;;;

Also! On a completely unrelated note! I got another phone screen for a job! :D Fingers fucking crossed I'll get an interview, yesssss. :D

Anyway, bed now! Sleeeeeep, yes. Sleep good.

Dentist today! On the plus side, apart from having developed an unfortunate jaw-clenching tendency (must figure out how to stop that!), my teeth are perfectly fine as far as hygiene etc goes!

On the downside, two problem areas have come due, so I've still gotta get a couple of fillings. :/ One of them is itty-bitty, to the tune of 'a toothbrush can't get in there', and the other one is 'whoever did this filling didn't go over the edges so there was a tiny gap all around and now it needs cleaning out and re-sealing'. SIGH.

On the one hand, all my brushing and flossing is doing good! I am pleased! On the other, uuuuugh the inevitable decay of all things sucks and I hate it.

Other than that, did cut out the pieces for covering the blanket today! Ran out of brain for actually sewing them together, though. Bleh. Tomorrow! Also testing stuff needs to be tomorrow, too. Yes. >:

I finally got the blanket and the pieces I'mma use to cover it ironed as well as they're gonna get today! It took FOREVER ugh. I also laid stuff out and have a cut line pressed in to one of the pieces, but I was feeling too tired to trust myself to cut it properly, so that'll be a job for tomorrow! I'll cut the other two pieces using this one as a template, too, so that'll be easy enough to do, too.

Still gotta do materials testing, but I'm waiting until the pieces are cut so I know where I can best cut off a scrap to test on, heh. Also hoping to sew the panels together tomorrow, but I have a dentist appointment so it might depend on how that goes.

Other than that nothing too interesting. My uncle is apparently doing okay, though we're not super clear exactly what's going on. But as long as things are going well that's the important thing to know!

And now is time for naps, yes. >: Dentist isn't until the afternoon, but I still want to be awake at a vaguely early hour so I can make sure to get my shit together and maybe even work on my blanket a bit beforehand!

Soooo my new year's wish of "no one I know getting Serious Medical Bullshit this year" has... not come true. :( :( :(

( Medical bullshit! Not a lot of info yet but, you know, content warning for such. )

Other than that... didn't get any ironing done, because I was helping Mama fill up the green bin outside, and came back in with a headache. :/ Been drinking lots of water and not doing anything strenuous, but it didn't fix it - Mama's thinking it might be a minor pollen/allergy-related thing, which given it's the middle of spring doesn't sound unlikely at all. XD;; Anyway, probably should have had a nap instead of quiet time, but I probably woulda lost the light either way so I guess it doesn't matter. Tomorrow!

I DID work on my sock knitting for the first time in a bit, and I think I'm getting close to where I'll start the band. The pattern doesn't give a length, so I'mma check against a similar sock in the morning - it's currently drying in the room next to my parents', so I'm not gonna risk waking Mama up over it. Still, hopefully I can start on the band soon! Then I just need to make another sock! (And I will probably never make a magic loop toe-up sock ever again because w o w is the magic loop tedious as hell. Might try it on DPNs now that I have a better idea of how it works though...)

No matter how we look at the problem, I'm gonna have to quilt my summerweight blanket to fix it. Ugh. It's gonna take SO LONG, I was hoping I could get by with something slightly less work but nope. Quilting it is. :(

( Project babble. )

Anyway, other than that, went to the shops with Mama - I needed to get one of those stupid dye tags taken off the undies I bought like a month ago, because it never even occurred to me they'd put one on UNDERWEAR - which was. A lot. So many people, ugh. Also one of the stupid makeup stores was spewing out some kind of gross chemical that gave both of us headaches and sore eyes. (I'm guessing nailpolish remover, but not sure. Only walked past as quickly as possible, and yet. It was that kind of stinky though, rather than like, perfume stinky. We'd just had to go through that as well from another shop, so I'm pretty sure of it. :/)

Also did chooks! We do like chooks having a clean coop, yes! >: They got to spend some time out of their run, too, so they did some grass mowing for us XD;;;; And seemed to be very happy, in their clucky way.

Anyway now is time for naps, yes. Naps good!