( Home improvement project aftermath related grump. Damnit Sibling. )

But! I also made curry this evening! Pretty pleased with it, yesss. The chicken ribs are good, too! They have the whole rib bones in them, unlike with pork ribs where they're chopped up the other way, so they're pretty easy to eat. Might have had them before, in like, korean fried chicken or whatever? Not sure though, the rib bones are pretty distinctive and I don't THINK I have.

Other than that... nothing much! Will need to step up on the whole getting my shit together/tidied up things though I just realised there's only a couple of days before my parents are home now! At least I've kept up with the kitchen, despite my hatred of dishes...

I went shopping again! I did. Uh. More shopping than I expected to, even though I didn't get many things? Like. I bought stuff from five different shops that is so many. (For me. I know some people enjoy shopping, but I find it exhausting.) Most of it was food, but I also got a new hairbrush (badly needed, my current one is losing tines and is kinda bald in patches now), plus like. Toothbrushes and stuff.

Didn't actually make curry tonight ( I am sleepy so I rambled about food stuff for. A bit. )

Uhhh what else. Did some washing! And some tidying up of the stuff from the floor job, plus moving shit back into here. I really need to get back onto pokemon, there should be another set of shinies out, plus a raid. I'll at least put it on the charger tonight before I pass out, that's a start...

Speaking of I should definitely get ready for bed now ugh it's 4am brains why are you like this.

So I went down to the shops today, and I got rice! It's sushi rice, specifically! So tasty! I tend to buy Japanese rice, but my parents tend to buy basmati - which is also good! I like it a lot! But it means it's what we usually eat so when I'm the one getting rice I get something else for a change. And I DO really like Japanese-style rice varieties, so yeah. Happy me! :D

Did mean that I couldn't actually get a lot of other food, though. XD;; 5kg bag takes up most of my backpack! Add the milk (and they only had 3 liters, AGAIN, wtf), and yeah. Not a lot. Soooo I'll have to go back down again tomorrow and get meat and veg to go in curry! I remembered I had a packet of Golden Curry mix so I'mma make that! :D

Other than that, nothing major today. Reading, minecraft, you know. Standard me things.

There're a few details that need doing (buffing out some paint marks, moving the furniture back in, that kind of thing), but the floor is pmuch done! Finally! \o/ This pleases kitty. Both kitties, actually. And also me. Three kitties. Yessss.

Also holy shit did you know my bed-couch is SUPER COMFORTABLE? Because it is. Technically the one in the spare room is actually a bed - it's the fold-away kind, and mine's just a standard two seater but!!!! It is SO MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE OMG I'm love it.

I have however hit a snag on sitting at my desk - APPARENTLY, sometime while I've been stuck in the spare room, my legs decided they didn't need to worry about my usual sitting positions, and now that I'm back where I normally sit they're aching. :/ :/ :/ To be fair I do sit in a lot of weird positions, and they're specifically complaining about being braced against the edge of the desk, which has a bunch of my weight behind it at least half the time... BUT STILL. C'MON LEGS. You didn't USED to complain about this, and it hasn't been THAT long!!!

Anyway back to my super! comfortable! and snuggly! couch yesssss, is nap tiem nao.

White chook lives!!!! Found her when I went to let the chooks into the run this morning! She was hiding behind the chook shed, which she definitely wasn't yesterday, and she went in extremely easily, so I think she really wanted to go in hahaha.

Anyway they are NOT getting out of the run any more nope. Fucking miracle they're all still fine tbh!

Other than that, I! Am back!! In my room!!!!! Aaaaaaaa so happy~~

Getting the desktop moved was a major pain in the ass and took like an hour and a half because after trying very hard to not need to I had to take the screens off the arms and put them back on when the stand was in place. Bleh. I mean, worth it to have the desk space but still, annoying.

Anyway now I can sit at my computer without my legs complaining too much, and also have things at the right height and also. Desk space. I missed it.

I also have an inkling my brain's gonna cooperate better with some things in here, but that remains to be seen. Hopefully, though!

But first, naps!

Soooo this afternoon I heard the chooks freaking out again, and I ran out AND THERE WAS A FOX. ( CW: Predication, potential (still unconfirmed) animal death. )

Anyway, maybe the white chook was hiding somewhere I couldn't find her, maybe she's gone, hard to say right now. :/ But since it was, you know, the middle of the afternoon I could actually look around properly this time, so I don't have high hopes. Find out in the morning, I guess.

I think today was actually the first time I've seen a fox in person, unless I maybe saw one at a zoo or something? I don't think I have though. I'd be happier about it if it wasn't for the fact they shouldn't be on this fucking continent at all in the first place, ugh. Fucking invasives. Haet.

Spent about an hour on the phone this morning, which was. Extremely unfun. But! I got the thing from Friday fixed up and sorted out, yay! Now just gotta wait for a thing to show up on one of the websites - phone lady said it'd take about an hour, but it wasn't there after I had a nap so... :/ Will see if it's there tomorrow, and if not I guess I'll get to call back uuuuuugh. Still, progress!

Not a whole lot other than that - I slept most of the day away, which I'm not mad about, given how fucking tired I was. Sibling didn't come over, so still waiting on that. Hopefully tomorrow! My parents are back next week, so if I'm still stuck in here that would be Extremely Bad and also someone would end up dead. Not sure who! But it's not a tenable situation, n o p e.

Anyway, time to go back to napping, yes. >: I should have maybe gone a bit earlier but I was almost done rereading a fic and... yeah. >>;;

Soooo I got about four hours of sleep last night, before kitty breakfasttime. And then I did, as planned, stay awake and shower and went shopping! (Eventually.) I had a bit of a nap this evening before kitty dinnertime, but couldn't've been more than an hour and a half.

I am so tired. And yet! Here I am! Awake at fucking 3am again! Why, self. Just. Go to bed???

The problem is probably habits, and also that I am so used to being tired it's no longer a trigger to actually go to sleep. Which is very stupid, and yet! Brains!!! I have probably had this realisation before but I am too tired to remember having it, sigh.

Anyway, I'm gonna nap again now! And hopefully sleep quickly and also go the fuck back to bed after breakfast tomorrow...

Rather than throw out all that pancake mix, I did a research, and it turns out there's stuff you can add to make things less overwhelmingly bicarb soda-y! Mainly acidic stuff, which in my case means lemon juice (since I have that on hand). Also cocoa, which isn't something that I'd've thought was acidic? Must be just very slightly. And I was thinking of adding cocoa to a pancake ANYWAY, so of course I did that.

First pancake results are: still terrible soda aftertaste, but MUCH more manageable. I could actually eat it! :D So, clearly, next time I just needa add more lemon! Alternatively, add more flour and a little bit of sugar to the actual mix. Might try both, next time! Even with the acid neutralising the flavour, the pancake came out a bit spongy, which is... not the right texture for a pancake. That is a cake-cake texture!

Still, I'm happy I was able to make it palatable! :3 Less waste yessss. (Chooks very happily gobbled up the inedible one, too. And hey, they deserved a treat after their big scare, so it's basically not at all wasted! Ish.)

Need to shower tomorrow and go and get milk again orz orz orz. I am probably drinking too much milk but also. Milk is delicious. Might go to the little supermarket, which is by the asian grocery, and get dumplings and stuff this time. Haven't had dumplings for a few weeks, and they sound really good...

Sooo I was SUPPOSED to have my stupid appointment today but did I??? No. Because they didn't call me. >/ Same thing happened to Sibling, so that's something but ARGH. (I did in fact call them to let them know, but the auto-responder said they had too many calls and hung up on me. Which is just. FFS. Will try again Monday.)

I also tried making pancake mix! Alas, while it did the whole turn into pancake thing just fine, it tasted overwhelmingly of baking soda and so was pmuch inedible. :/ :/ :/ Soooo that's a whole lot of flour (and stuff) that's going in the compost tomorrow! But at least it's stuff we had laying around already?? Clearing out the cupboard if nothing else...

Chooks are fine, and the cats are cute, though so nothing's too bad! :D Gonna nap now, yessss.

When I went out this morning, the red chook was there! :D :D :D She's fine, despite all the feathers everywhere!

I didn't see the black chook all day, which was worrying, but when I went to put them to bed...

No idea where she was hiding, but she's safe and that's the important thing. :D

Other than that, Sibling did come over and did a couple of things. Pointed out a few bits where I need to keep touching things up on the skirting boards, but they're definitely close to done (yay!). Won't be back until next week, so got quite a while to go out there and give various bits extra coats (there are a few bits where I had to sand back, and while MOST of the board is fine...). So I'm feeling somewhat better about that.

( Content Warning: Possible Animal Death (nothing confirmed as yet) )

Other than that... slept stupid late, which was annoying, but I DID manage to get down to the optometrist before they closed. Alas, they can't do anything about the coating, the lenses just need to be replaced. :/ Soooo that's even higher up on my to-do list. Just gotta wait for, you know, money. Ugh. Might even be worth taking cash out of my savings for it, buuuut I'd rather not.

Also did another coat of paint on all the skirting boards! Will see how they look tomorrow, I'm hoping that the small ones are really done this time, but they had a few mysteriously appearing rough bits I had to sand back today, so that might. Also happen. Again. :|

Dunno if Sibling is gonna be over tomorrow, but if so will get a second opinion on stuff. Answer may well be 'jfc how are you SO BAD at this???', but at least then I'll know.

And now to bed! >: Or. Soon. There is a cat on my lap and I don't really want to annoy her...

So the coating is flaking off the back of one of my lenses in a MAJOR way, it's extremely annoying. Given what I can see peering through the bits where it's gone it's also been exacerbating the flare from my astigmatism, which is... not great, and also explains a lot. I'm gonna go down to the optometrist and see if they can remove it tomorrow, I think! And ask them what that particular coating is for; I think it was for glare reduction? Which um. Maybe that one is not for me...

Other than that... finally did the stupid application for unemployment support. Which I definitely SHOULD have done as soon as I got made redundant, but I did not. Bleh.

Didn't do any painting today, mostly because it was cold and raining. But also just brain shit. Sibling DID come over and do another coat on the floor, though! Should just be one more to go, but I guess we'll see how it is.

Also managed to actually make myself have a shower, so I can go to the shops tomorrow without fear of stinking people out, heh.

Anyway, going to bed now! Maybe I'll be able to sleep easily tonight! Sure as fuck couldn't last night, uuuugh...

Paid my taxes today. UGH, it was indeed ~3K ;; So much money to be surprised with!!! :( Still, done now!

Sibling did come over, and did the first coat of the floor, yay! The floor sealant takes long enough to dry it's gonna be a day for each coat, basically. Which is fine! Just means more driving time for Sibling, which is less fun :/

Had to sand back some of the skirting boards again - just a little bit, but Sibling pointed out it was kinda rough in a couple of places, so... yeah. Annoying! But I did a third coat on all the small ones, and a second coat on like... one and a half of the big ones. Will see what Sibling says about them tomorrow! >:

Not much other than that. Found a shiny dodonzo in pokemon! It was in a mass outbreak I was doing for exp, but not even the later parts with the best shiny chance, just. Turned up, pretty early! XD It's a yellow one, too, which is always fun. :3 :3 :3 Love shinies with serious differences to the original colouration! :D

Anyway now is time for sleeps, yes. >: