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...)

Today I ironed my blanket. Twice. And I'll probably have to do it at least one more time, siiiigh. Two of the sides are really crumpled, so getting them flat again is A Task. :/

Also did one of the pieces of silk for the top, but I'm gonna have to do that again, too. I did it this evening, and it LOOKED like it was flat when I was ironing it, but when I went to fold it up and put it away there were still lots of creases :/ Just can't see well enough at night, alas!

So, lots more ironing in my future, bleeeeh.

Nothing super interesting other than that. I did watch a bunch more tutorial videos, so I'm hoping that I won't need to buy anything to get the goddamn basting done. Yes. That would be good. We'll see how it goes, though, gotta get the ironing done and the panels put together first, heh.

Have no fucking idea how it got so late, what the hell time. Why are you like this.

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!

My ANKLE HURTS and it SUCKS and NO ONE IS AWAKE TO WHINE TO and uuuuuugh.

Stupid weather. Stupid bones. Stupid human bodies not healing things perfectly. Grump grump grump. >E

Other than that... we went to the sewing shop (in the afternoon, yay!), and uh. They do have better machines but to use them you have to become a ~member~ and that is uh. Way too expensive for the amount of use I'd get out of the membership. I just don't sew enough! So handsewing it is, which is fine, it'll just take a while.

I ALSO got a call about a job I applied for, and I think it went well?? Should hear tomorrow or Monday if they want to give me a proper interview. Fingers crossed!!!

The tree people came today, as planned, and now the dead tree is gone, yay! :D Turns out it WAS rotting from the inside, which is what I was worried about, so extremely glad Mama and I insisted it had to go.

I also got to the bottom of my small mending pile today! :O Now there's only big mending projects to go!!! (At least until I next do washing, I will NOT be surprised if I find more stuff with holes in it. Sigh.) I want to try and get my summer blanket repaired before it's, you know, summer again and I need to use it, so Mama and I are gonna go down to the sewing shop and see if they have any advice. Personally I'm pretty sure I can just sew stuff on top, but given the size of the blanket and the size of our sewing machine I'd have to do a lot of it by hand, so Mama's worries aren't stupid either. Hopefully the sewing shop has a BIG machine you can use - that would be the easiest option. But if not I'm sure they'll at least have a better idea of how feasible repairing it is...

Anyway Mama wants to go in the MORNING, of course, so I am. You know. Up too late as usual siiiigh. Oh well, we'll see how it goes...

Prep work this morning ended up being more or less a nothingburger, which was... nice? I think?? But also my sleep schedule has gone completely to hell again. (This is not at all helped by getting sucked in to reading orz orz orz)

Also went for a walk with Mama, which was nice! And repaired a bunch of sock holes, heh. Mending pile is getting whittled down again, yay!

I did washing today! Fuck the weather was glorious for it, until it was almost dark and started spitting. At which point I had to go rescue it hahahaha. Still! Washing done, that's my major thing for today orz orz orz. My life, it is so exciting.

Also finally finished off the switch case, yay! And did some mending. And, of course, lots of reading and some minecraft. Yes.

We're getting a dead tree removed on Wednesday, which will entail us having to take down bits of the chook run, and unsurprisingly Mama asked me to help with that. Explicitly in the morning, so of COURSE I'm up this late... ugh, brains, why are you like this. Why. (Do not get the morning obsession. Ugh. Afternoons are fine!!! Nothing wrong with afternoons, bleh.)

Lunch actually didn't take as long as I thought it would! It was still. You know. Over two hours. But considering we got the five-course tasting menu, that's really not too bad.

Also it was extremely fucking delicious, and absolutely worth being Out for that long. (ALSO also hideously expensive, but as my parents had been there before and were paying I am attempting to ignore that. Yes.)

But yeah even though it wasn't as long as I was anticipating it still drained my batteries hahahaha. Rest of the day was pmuch just reading and some minecraft.

And I'll give them this: you don't feel like you're eating that much with the tasting menu (even though it's also not a stingy serving!), but I didn't feel hungry at all until like 11pm, so you know. Definitely more food than a single meal's worth!

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY Mama had a good time yesssss :D

Very good floppy day today, yes!

Mostly I just read - finally finished a long fic I've been reading! - but also some minecraft. :3 And cleaned the bathroom but whatever, boring.

Mama's birthday tomorrow! We're going out for lunch, so I expect that'll be most of the day. It's a FANCY restaurant, after all. Close to home, at least, though! :D

Mostly better today! Still not got a lot of energy, but I was able to do a bunch more than yesterday so that's good! :3

Not that I did anything too exciting, just reading and gardening and minecraft, but you know. Much better than being passed out all fucking day again!

Probably? better than yesterday, but still fairly out of it. Lots of napping required! I did manage to clean the chook coop though, even though I needed to lay down afterwards. Chooks do not deserve to live in squalor! But that was definitely all the energy I had for the day, bleh. Other than naps, just been reading, really.

I'mma go back to sleep now yes.

Have felt like shit all day, what bits of it I've been concision for. But of course I'm still up way too fucking late, considering, because brains are extremely stupid and I got sucked into fic. At least I managed to pull myself away in the end? It's not done, so yeah. That took some willpower, of which I have not much.

Anyway, passing the fuck back out now, yes.

Ugh, today I had to write a cover letter and it sucked. I usually don't bother because I am deeply uncomfortable with the entire process of attempting to sell yourself, but this particular job came via Sibling and required a bit more effort. Ugh. Just. Ugh. SO tiring.

Helped out in the garden by breaking trimmed branches into small pieces so more would fit in the bin, afterwards. That was nice. Didn't need any brain, which was good as I was all out.

What else. Um. Lots of reading this evening, and some minecraft. That's about all. Now I nap!

I found out today someone I've seen around in fannish circles - not knew, or ever spoke to, but seen around semi-regularly for idk at least 15 years - died earlier this year. :( And so, I am sad. It's not really grief, I didn't really know them, but still. They were part of the community and now they're gone and it sucks. :(

There are many reasons why getting older is hard, and this is very much one of them. Particularly for someone like me, who's mostly had older friends, but just in general, too. The longer you're around the more people you know die, that's just... how it works. Alas. :(

Anyway I don't really have a point or anything. I'm just sad.