Didn't manage to get the brain together to actually cook it today, but I have all the ingredients I needed for pasta sauce now! :D Tomorrow will be a cooking day, yes. Would also like to boil some eggs, and someone on Azy's discord has an interesting recipe for microwave pancakes I'mma try. Not sure if they'll be good, but worth trying out! Both of those things can easily be done while waiting for various stages of the pasta sauce to be done, so yeah. Cooking day!

Maybe I'll also make mashed potatoes, simply because I have some potatoes and mashed potato is delicious. Will depend on how much brain I have, I expect!

If the weather's nice I should do washing again, too, so I guess tomorrow will be more or less a domestic tasks day. That's not bad! Dunno if Sibling is coming over, though, so that might change things. But it might not!

Also FINALLY did the binding off for the switch case - I had been avoiding it for weird brain reasons, stupid brain - and also did a repair on an adorable umbreon plushie A found for me! One of the seams on its ear had burst, so while the angle was kinda annoying (and now the ear points back a little, which I don't actually think is a bad thing), it wasn't a huge job. And now I have a tinycute umbreon! :D :D :D May need to find room for another display case or something, though, not sure where I'mma put all these toys...

Did most of the sanding today! Just got a couple of bits on the longest board that I can't do with the electric sander - it's too long to move it out of the clamps without it hitting something on one end or the other, so I'll have to take it out entirely and hand-sand those bits that're covered. But that plus the one I need Sibling to help get the nail out of from yesterday is all that's left! :D (Tried the nail again, too. No dice. Bleh.)

Almost out of food again, so I'mma have to shower tomorrow morning and go do that, bleeeeeh. Like. I realise that it's by design that I only get as much as I can carry so I have to force my ass out of the house at least long enough to get food, but also why do I have to go outsiiiiiide, ugh. Curse you, long-term thinking looking-after-self brain!!!!

I think I will get the things for pasta sauce. Pasta sounds good about now. :V

But nothing is open for at LEAST two hours (I think) and also I do need to shower and stuff first sooooo nap now! It's too cold for showering anyway! Also I need to sleep, etc. etc.

No Sibling today either, so not sure what's up with that. Assume Other Work Stuff is busy, which is fine, whatever. Kinda annoying to not get a heads up, but also I don't care THAT much hahaha.

I DID however, do some sanding today! Not a huge amount, but enough to know that a) yes it WAS important to clear off the bench, and b) yep I CAN get the long ones done this way, which is nice. First of the long ones needs a second go-over - gotta move stuff around so the bits in the clamps are free so they can get sanded! But the first pass is done, yay! And mostly done with the small ones - just left with one with a nail in the corner I can't get out, so gonna see if Sibling can. Suspect some of the problem is I don't have enough grip strength - the sticky out bit CAN be grabbed with the pliers, I just can't seem to get it to move. Sibling's always been way better at that kind of thing, so I'm hopeful!

Other than that, not a huge amount. Hid in bed most of the day I wasn't actively doing something, because it was FUCKING COLD this morning. Ankle was twinging as soon as I got up, sorta thing. But hiding in bed meant it didn't start aching! \o/ Sushi also came and curled up under the blankets on my stomach like three times, too, which was ADORABLE.

So this morning I cleared off the workbench, finally. AND GOT CACTUS SPINES STUCK IN MY HAND. WHY. There was no cactus on the workbench, so the spines were just. There. Lurking. Invisibly. :| :| :| :| :|

But I also cleaned the chook coop AND did washing before that, so I had a pretty busy morning! ...which of course meant I slept all afternoon but. You know. Progress! Stuff got done!

...I was gonna say something but my brain has gone blank. Hmm. Well if it's important I'll remember later, I guess! For now, time for a nap!

Managed to sleep most of the daylight hours away yet again, and there's something up with my ear so I had a nap this evening TOO, but at least it's not hurting any more.

Anyway even though I was too late to go clean the chook coop as planned - they were already in bed, heh - I DID do that last bit of paint stripping, so that's something. Hopefully tomorrow will be all the rest of the sanding, but we'll see how long it takes to clear off the bench, I guess.

Back to bed for me! Hopefully I'll be over whatever it is tomorrow!

Soooo it turns out I'm not actually done with the stripping, there's a piece we repaired and set aside for the glue to fully dry that I then forgot about orz orz orz. Soooo gotta do that. Was hoping to clear off the workbench today but Sibling asked me to mop the floor this afternoon and then I just kind of pancaked until it was dark out, whoops.

We DID go and pick out a stain colour before that, though, so at least that's done! (Sibling is researching if it can be found in a larger size somewhere, though, because we apparently need ~4L and the largest tin they had was 1L. And it was. Expensive. So even a minor bulk discount would be very appreciated.)

Anyway I got distracted reading fic which is mostly why I'm up so late (also there is a cat in my lap), but I'm gonna be stronk and also very gently move said cat and go! The fuck! To bed!!! Yes.

As usual, not a whole lot today.

Sibling did come over, and the inside skirting boards should be finished, yay! Will see what they look like in the morning, but the second coat looked pretty good, so the third should be enough. :3

I think I'mma try and do all the sanding for the other boards tomorrow. I've been putting it off because I'll need to clear off the workbench for the longer ones, and I really. Really. Do not want to. It's a fucking mess and a half, because... my father. Bleh. Temptation to put it all in a box and leave it for him to figure out is extremely high, except he'll just... never look in the box, and buy new stuff because he can't find things he already has. As usual. Siiiiigh.

Anyway I DID manage to go to the supermarket and get milk and cereal (and snacks), so I'm pretty happy about that. :3 Of course, didn't get my ass into gear until it was practically dark, but I DID have a shower beforehand, so that's better than I have been.

Other than that pmuch just minecraft and reading! But now AO3 is down sooooo that's a kick in the ass to go to bed already, hahaha, so I'mma do that. Yes. >>;

Not a whole lot today, either, bleh. Lots of napping! Also it was raining so I didn't go out haha.

I DID clean the hallways like I meant to, so that's something. Hopefully it's good enough, but I'll check it again in the morning, I probably missed stuff, that seems to be how cleaning goes, just in general.

Also! I made a cheese and tomato toastie for lunch and it was DELICIOUS, will definitely make more until I'm out of bread! :9 :9 :9

Soooo I slept all fucking day again. Of course I did, I did things yesterday. Ugh, annoying.

But I DID make the chicken schnitzel, and it was only a little burned*, so that was good! Good going me, actually cooking! It may have been the only meal I had today, but goddamnit I made it! >:

Also got the last two shinies I needed for the current mass outbreak event wheee~~ :D

Bed now though. Tomorrow... gotta eat more. And also clean the hallway. Yes. If I have time/brain shopping again too, I want cereal. And on a related note, almost out of milk...

• I am extremely bad at paying the correct amount of attention to schnitzels, specifically. Why, I got no idea, but I can fry most things no problem so it's weird as hell.

Went out with A today! Lots of fun, actually, we went to the art gallery for a bit, and then got delicious noodles at the noodle place that re! opened!!! :D :D :D Which we're all very pleased about - A hasn't asked, but the guess is they probably couldn't find anyone else to rent the place, so hopefully the noodle place people got a great deal on the rent! >D

And we also derped around for a while, played gacha machines etc. etc. It was a LOT for a me, since I haven't really left the house for more than an hour or so for... uh... some weeks now, not sure. A while, anyway! So I kinda crashed when I got home, until Sushi pointedly informed me that It Was Dinner Time Now Thank You Very Much. And he wasn't actually wrong, so yeah, got up and fed him. And me! I took a schnitzel out of the freezer last night in the optimistic hope I'd have uh WAY more energy left that I actually did, so instead of that I just made the mashed potatoes portion and had that for dinner. I'll have the schnitzel and mashed potatoes and green beans tomorrow, instead. :9

What else... not a lot really. I did forget to say I caught five shinies in pokemon yesterday! And one more today, so I only have two more to go for this round of outbreaks. :3 :3 :3

But now to go back to napping, yesssss.

Practically, though, what a fucking shitshow. Probably because I knew Sibling wasn't coming over, I just fucking. Slept. All afternoon. So while I managed to EVENTUALLY get out the door before it got dark, well... I definitely didn't get home before it did. :/

And from the few glimpses I got of it it was a nice sunny day! Wasted! Because couldn't stay awake! Ugh.

Anyway tomorrow am planning on meeting A for lunch or whatever, but of course I'm still fucking out of it so I keep not hearing my fucking phone ping so it's only half planned because it takes. Two people. For a conversation to happen. /o\

Brain, why are you like this? Something something bad sleep habits something something not eating properly something something, probably. Ugh. UGH.

Anyway, back to bed! At least the fuzzy alarm clocks will work for getting me up on time, I just have to. Not go back to sleep. Which I can do! Probably!

So, Sibling was later than expected due to some other-work shenanigans - I didn't ask, the grump was visible - but! First coat of paint on the inside skirting boards is done, yay! Will need at least one more coat, unsurprisingly, but of course waiting for that is... literally waiting for paint to dry... so that's all that got done today. Not warm enough to be worth hanging around! Sibling might come over tomorrow if the other-work stuff continues to be a PITA, but probably not until next week. My homework (as it were) is to give the hall a scrub from top to bottom, which is going to be... fun... but it needs doing, so! We do what we must.

Other than that... heard back from a job and they're asking me to do a "one sided online interview", by which they mean take a recording of myself answering questions. It seems uh. Sketchy as hell, honestly! And yet somehow not surprising. Gonna email the person back and see if I can do it via text, because video UGH, but we'll see how that goes. Not super attached to the job, though the location is closer to home than most. But we'll see what kind of response I get to the question, that should also be indicative of a culture fit.

Sooo we're up to the point where the skirting boards that couldn't be removed need to be stripped. I THOUGHT Sibling was going to do them while I like, cleaned the walls and shit, but alas we ended up splitting them. UGH.

But! They're done so HOPEFULLY there will be no more stripping. No more!!!

Other than that I also cleaned the chook coop this morning - before breakfast even I am proud - and showered, since we need to go to the shops tomorrow to pick out the floor stain. (Probably. Sibling said this week, but stuff's been going slower than expected as usual, so maybe we won't need to. Still, likelihood is high. ...also I really needed a shower. But you know.)

I had plenty of leftover rice after I finished the curry for lunch, so I made the last of the dumplings I had in the freezer to have for tea, which was nice. Should be able to get another meal out of the leftover rice, too, probably rice-tuna-peas-cheese, but maybe if I'm feeling up to it I'll do fried rice. (I have to clean the wok still though sooooo probably I will be too hungry for all those steps. I know myself.)

Still, should probably go shopping tomorrow. Definitely Thursday otherwise. Gotta get meds, too, keep forgetting about that. Important! ALSO FLOSS. I've been doing so well at flossing, but uh I ran out of floss sooo it's been a few days orz orz

Usually I like doing my taxes! BUT NOT THIS YEAR. Since my redundancy payment was a) lump sum, and b) RIGHT before the end of financial year, it chucked me up into a higher taxible income bracket, which means my PAYG tax withholding doesn't fucking cover everything soooo I owe the tax office. I owe the tax office like three grand. :| :| :| This is, I think, extremely unfair. I don't mind paying taxes, just. Really?? So annoying.

Anyway in less aggravating news, my room has been unsealed!!! (This is what allowed me to do my taxes, since I could get at the paperwork XD) I can't move back in yet, but! I can go in! And get things! LIKE SHOES. And stuff. Yes. :D

Probably gonna have to go shopping again tomorrow, bleh, almost out of curry already and I should proooobably get stuff to make something with more vegetables than I have in the house. Also protein, I guess? Not sure what I want to make, honestly. Maybe pasta? I'll need to buy pasta, too, for the first time in uh... my own living memory, we're out of pasta. So strange.