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It is only day 2 of not being directly in my boss' presence and it's amazing how relaxed I feel. Who could have guessed being away from toxicity actually works??

Decided to make a skillet lasagna last night, so I went to the store for basically everything. I spent way more than I expected, but to be fair, I did buy a lot of cheese. And it was worth it because it was sooooo cheesey and delicious. Also knocked out some dishes while the sauce cooked and then -- GASP -- actually did some cross stitch after! Couple more threads of green filled in.

Wrist is super sore today, likely because the desk i am at right now is not ergonomically set up, even with my keyboard and mouse here. Going to make adjustments through the day to find the sweet spot.

Woke up at 430 am and thought fuck it, I'll just stay up. Hahaha no, 6 am rolls around and I am fighting for my life. So I decided to just rest my eyes, and predictably, did not fall asleep but also did not want to get up.

I think I will prep some patterns/fabric for cutting and bring them with me to make use of a conference table or two without my little helpers. Considered it today while I was laying awake, but nah. Too much to plan for with the limited time that I had. That gives me time to plan what to bring lol.

dustbunny105

Still not quite where I'd like to be with getting stuff done before I go but, hey, I've got tomorrow and about half of Wednesday.

I texted my oldest niece-- my brother's first kid-- to see if she'd be interested in any of the books I'm getting rid of. Haven't heard back yet. I may be going over there tomorrow to drop off the Christmas gifts that've been taking up my space, though. If I do, I'll probably just bag up what I have and cart them over. Whatever she doesn't want can go to the Free Little Library downtown. That's not far from the station where I'll be catching my bus and it's also near a playground besides, so I might ask my sister about taking the kids out on Wednesday before I go. She was probably gonna give me a ride to the station anyway and I know they don't have any particular plans.

In the meantime, I've made a rough schedule for what I want to accomplish tomorrow. Gonna try the fifteen minute method. Of course, I'll possibly need to account for going over to my brother's place but I wasn't intending to stay long anyway. And it could be nice to have a sort of natural break.

Packing... I just realized I've not done any packing, lol. I need to double-check the baggage restrictions on the bus website, actually. I usually only take a backpack and maybe a purse or shoulder bag when I go to LA but that's just because I don't want to check a bag. If my suitcase isn't too big for the bus, I might just go ahead and take that. Not that I'm planning to buy much, come to think of it, but it'd sure be easier to keep any posters I get safe.

tyger

So I uh. Didn't end up going to the shops first thing. Or do any painting. I just passed the fuck back out, which was not the plan, buuuuut...

Well. I've been sleeping like crap. So it was very needed sleep.

Anyway, I woke up in time for Terraria (just), and went to the shops after that! So I have some more food - though I did forget to get ice cream, which is extra annoying because today would've been a really good day for some, ugh I was a massive sweatball when I got home.

And then I did finish off the first coat! :3 It's blotchy, because fucking of course - there's a noticeable difference in the quality of the coverage between the brushwork at the edges and the roller in the middle, yet another way rollers fucking suck. (Though I will admit that if you don't push yourself they are quicker. I am now convinced of that.)

Going in there now just makes me smile. It's so nice!!! It's not finished but it's SO much better than fucking beige already! Definitely worth all the work. Though I will still bitch about it, hahaha.

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: Birthplace

totchipanda

Health: Improving. Saturday I woke up NOT feeling like I was swallowing glass, so there's that, but I had a heckin' migraine that drugs were not touching. It started with waking up at 1:45 am feeling very nauseous and generally gut-sick, but I managed to get back to sleep without being sick. Woke up again around 8 or something, still nauseous, managed some drugs, watched some videos, and fell back asleep for another 3 hours. Headache then was still present but less painful, and then M pointed out (since we'd had tentative plans, and I messaged saying absolutely not) that the weather had changed drastically. Like hovering 0C to 12C, and incoming wind warnings (the wind was indeed heckin' windy). But I did feel good enough to meet my dad and sibling for dinner, where I absolutely destroyed the fried pork dumpling pan. Yum yum yum.

Yesterday still not feeling great, but well enough to make a (very large) cup of coffee and cross stitch. In the afternoon, M watched Heated Rivalry finally and I watched along with her. We banged out the entire 5.5 hours in one sitting. I put SEVERAL threads into it, mostly flowers and leaves, I am so proud of myself. When my hands got tired, I glued together some boxes for my flower shop booknook kit that I bought uh... October? All the while, Calcifer slept on me, so I'm sure she's saving up her crimes for later.

Then I took a stupid shower for my stupid mental health and it stupidly worked.

Today, my sinus is still congested and I can feel it all along the left side of my face, into my teeth and down my neck. It's really uncomfortable. I think I ought to do my erranding that I didn't do on the weekend (bc sick) or at least go to the store and pick up something to make for supper. Did I bring a shopping bag with me? No, no I did not. Heck.

estirose

Grab a paintbrush and follow me (508 words) by Estirose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 剑兰女探社 | Excellent Women
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Yang Moli/Yao Zhidi (Excellent Women)
Characters: Yang Moli (Excellent Women)
Summary:

Yang Moli after the events of episode 32.

(Slight deviations from canon)

Episode 32 is the most current episode; it looks like the drama will have a season 2 (which is already filmed). Also, part of the last scene irritated me so I made minor alterations to it, otherwise Moli would be in emotionally worse condition than she is in canon.

I really don't expect either of these fics to get many hits; they might be a F/F couple but they're an obscure F/F couple on an equally obscure Chinese Web Drama. I'll definitely be asking for this fandom for Yuletide just so I might not be the only writer for it.

dustbunny105

Man, Idk what was wrong with me this weekend. I almost said "today" right there because at least I went to the farmer's market yesterday but I really have been almost useless for most of the weekend. Just wasting hour after hour telling myself that I'm going to Do Things any moment now.

autobotscoutriella

I finally painted the wooden wiggle shark that's been sitting on my coffee table for ~4 months :D

tyger

I have FINALLY started painting actual colour on my walls! Finally! :D

Only got the cornices and the cutting in done today - well, I was GONNA do a roller as well, but when I came out for a break before that it was uh 1:20 and I thought maaaybe that would be a bad idea - but it's SO NICE to have some actual COLOUR in there. I expect I'll get some of the same 'don't know if paint is blotchy or my eyes are playing tricks on me' problems that I got with the white, but definitely nowhere near as many. White is a bitch for that kind of thing, at least for me.

Anyway, definitely don't have the full effect yet, but it's looking good so far! Contrasts nicely with the roof, too, mwahahaha.

I actually got up and did a session when I fed the cats this morning, which I'm pretty proud of! I was tired but I've been sleeping like crap for some reason, so I said fuckit and did some work rather than attempting to nap. It really worked in that I passed the fuck out for several hours afterwards. (Though some of that wasn't because I did work but because I uh didn't eat properly. Like, I had a slice of zucchini bread, but that is not enough for manual labour, sorta thing.)

Might do the same thing tomorrow, but I'm more likely to go down to the shops - I'm almost out of milk and snacks. Should probably get some more food-type things too, though I've got enough pasta sauce for at least a few more days so it's not so urgent. And Terraria in the afternoon! :3 So we'll see how much painting I get done, but if nothing else the first coat will be finished, for sure! >:

Current Mood: happy
Current Location: Birthplace

umadoshi

Last week was once again mostly swallowed by work and I'm very tired, plus I have to final-read a rewrite this afternoon.

Between Friday night and yesterday, I managed to read a couple manga volumes and

scruloose and I saw the new ep. of The Pitt.

That's all I've got right now.

Current Mood: exhausted

dustbunny105

First curriculum post of the last month of the quarter-- woo!

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nonelvis

Not dead; just increasingly have less to say in the type of long form Dreamwidth supports. I'm keeping this account and will post here occasionally, but you'll find me more often under this name on Tumblr and Bluesky.

tyger

Today I went to my cousin's engagement party!

It was very boring for a me!

But I did it and it's done now and I left as early as I could get away with, and managed to miss all the extra-boring speech parts, so that's basically as good as it could have gone!

...well okay it would have been better if my auntie had picked me up and dropped me home as planned, but she texted me this morning, and she has covid. :/ So you know. TOTALLY GET why she stayed home, that is an excuse everyone accepts. Yes.

Anyway, the rest of my day was basically just attempting to get my ass into gear and prep for that (it went. badly. but I got there in the end and if the present was wrapped extremely shittily well, whatever, it's memorable I guess), and then once I was home just. Jiii-face pancaking. Yes. Bleh.

Tomorrow, there will be painting! In colour!!!! Yesssss. :3

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Birthplace

dustbunny105

Vacation time~

I don't have any particular plans before I leave for the con but I do have things I'm hoping to get done before I go. I'll have roughly four and half days, since I'll be leaving Wednesday evening. Then I'll be getting back the following Wednesday night, so that's another four days to spend at my leisure before going back to work. Yay!

Can't say I'm especially looking forward to the bus trip but I'm trying to not dread it either. Might be bad, might be good. Might be neither! Whatever else it is, it's a new experience.

Tell you what's really annoying me, though, is that I forgot my book at work. I was not especially enjoying the book, tbh, but I was still intending to finish it this weekend. I'll probably see if my sister is willing to take me by to grab it on Monday, as I'd rather not wait the full two weeks' worth of my PTO.

autobotscoutriella

Made blackberry and apple cake and mint tea tonight, for an end-of-week treat. I forgot how nice it is sometimes to feel like a little Redwall mouse after a long tiring day.

(I'd post pictures, but the lighting in my kitchen is terrible, so you'll just have to trust me when I say I burned the cake a little bit but it was still delicious.)

tyger

That's all I got done painting-wise, but fuckit. Done with undercoat!!! This included another round of sand and fill, for the lower walls. Can't be fucked for the upper walls, might sand them when doing more cornice shit but ugh, moving the ladder around constantly is just. So annoying.

( Rambles )

In cooking news, which is what I was focusing on today, I did in fact use the food processor on all the zucchini I had picked and I got... somewhat more than NINE FUCKING CUPS worth. What. That's absolutely ridiculous! That's six more loaves of bread, is what it is! HALF A DOZEN LOAVES.

Anyway, I chucked the bit over into the pasta sauce I was making, as well as shredding the carrots in the bottom of the fridge that were still good, so now I have delicious bolognaise! :V :V :V So, pasta for a while, yesss. :3

Tomorrow, I'm not sure how much painting I'll get done - it's my cousin's engagement party, and I'm kind of obligated to go and take the present, since everyone else can't go. Also, you know, family event, should go, etc. etc.

Anyway that starts at kittydinnertime, so I'll need to be clean and dressed up fancy (...and wrap the present, I keep forgetting to do that) before then. So uh. No painting until AFTER I get home, I get too much paint on me. (Even after washing all the stuff I still have paint on my hands from today orz orz orz. That's WITH the scrapey soap!!!)

My auntie's picking me up and dropping me off, and hopefully she won't want to stay too late - she lives pretty far away and has dogs, so - but depending on How Much Social I may be pretty pancaked by the time I get back. Soooo we'll see, I guess!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Birthplace

autobotscoutriella

It's too early to get excited about spring...but it's warm enough I didn't need more than a raincoat this morning, and there was fog on the river, and it's going to be nice enough this afternoon that I can open up the apartment windows and air things out a little. Maybe I'll actually cook something nice tonight and sit out on the porch with dinner.

(I've seen enough from the kittens that I do NOT trust them on the porch [balcony, fenced off] without me right there to grab them. I think they can come sit out there with me if they want, though.)

dustbunny105

I have like three things to do because I procrastinated, shouldn't take more than about thirty minutes total. Then? I'm going to bed!! I killed my "slowly getting sleep schedule in order" streak but I'm getting back on track tonight, babies B)

estirose

So the demo for the 2nd Fatal Frame 2 remake (basically, there was the original, then the Wii remake, and now this one) came out and it works just fine on the Steam Deck.

The community has discovered that a great deal of the outside areas are available (but obviously all the buildings are locked). I haven't poked around because I'm more interested in the gameplay. Said gameplay is pretty much chapter 1 of the game - wandering around the first house and encountering a ghost twice.

Needless to say, now that I know it works on the Steam Deck, I've purchased the deluxe version of the remake for download and playing next week.

There's a new handholding mechanic that I love very much - I've always felt bad that Mayu, the sister, is always left limping behind you, and it makes so much sense to hold hands with her. (The healing mechanic does not hurt.)

Other things:
* There are minor changes to things - Sae is missing her dialogue outside the Osaka house, the newspaper article about Masumi is found in the Osaka house instead of the trail to the village, Miyako's ghost heads in a different direction than in earlier games, the flashlight is found in a different location, etc.
* Save points have item shops, like Fatal Frame 4. (Another concept that was a thing in Fatal Frame 4 also makes a return, but not in the demo - however, you can see it if you go into photo mode.)
* You now have willpower, which depletes when a ghost attacks you, and health. If your willpower goes to 0, then ghosts start draining your health.
* Miyako, who is essentially the tutorial ghost for this game and normally a fairly easy ghost, whipped my behind. I didn't die, but I came really really close. (I replayed both of her battles in this chapter.) She charges at you a lot, and if you're not used to it - especially early on in the fight - she will take a chunk out of you. Part of the issue is that you need to aim the camera in her face, and sometimes her face is a bit hard to find. Yay upgraded graphics?

totchipanda

I am ill. IDK with what or where I got it, it is currently low grade body tiredness and aches, a bit of nasal congestion, and swallowing feels like I'm swallowing knives. It's decently controlled with just regular tylenol, thank goodness. I just want to crawl into bed and take a nap.

Fabric arrived yesterday but, well, ill. Also I did not do anything creative yesterday evening, as I was FA-REEZING for most of it.

Stickers shipped today, so I might see those by the end of next week.

Provided I can sit up and see, I can still put some stitches into various projects.

tyger

Yup, took today pretty easily. ...well I did do SOME painting, just enough to finish the second undercoat (at least mostly, will need to look at it in the daylight), but that was enough to prove that nope, shouldn't do more than this! Fingers are feeling somewhat better, though they're still way more stiff than usual, but my wrist is more obviously sore, so you know. :/ Still needs healing.

I did wrap a bandage around my wrist while I painted, and it did help. Mostly in the 'stop moving this thing so much' way - if I've got it on I can feel it and stop before it hurts, kinda thing. Still, better to just rest it some more I think. Hopefully it'll be feeling more normal tomorrow!

Other than that I did have a call with the stupid job people today; I have to do a stupid "short course", which I've done before, it's just How To Jobhunt 101. At least you can do it online now, so I don't have to go anywhere and can do stuff while it's on. Knitting, if nothing else. It's not for a couple of weeks, though, and is only two days a week, even if it is for five fucking weeks, ugh. So, not really looking forward to it, but it'll be a change so I guess that's something.

But for now, is sleepytiem! I think tomorrow my priority's going to have to be cooking, rather than painting, which is annoying - mainly because wrist still ouchy and I was going to grate some more stuff to throw into the pasta sauce I'm planning on making, hahahaha. Should probably use the food processor, like alatefeline said...

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

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First coat done!

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Wrote a 2nd fic for the CDrama Excellent Women.

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Orange!!!!

Quick and perfunctory weekly proof of life

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Familial Social Obligation: Carried Out

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Finally done with undercoat!!

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Fatal Frame 2 Remake demo impressions

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Rest Day

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