Gaming Fandom Big Bang

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.

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...)

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