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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!

Soooo I got almost nothing done today, because... my hand hurts when I try and do much with it. I think it was the grating, in the end - my arm and shoulder are sore in that muscles-complaining-you-exercised-them way, but the pain in my hand is sharp, particularly when holding on to things.

So yeah, think it was the amount of grating, since you have to hold the zucchini pretty firmly for it, and uh. The zucchini I grated were a bit too fat for my little hands to hold on easily. :/

Luckily I haven't found any more massive ones, all the other zucchini I have left after I finish grating the one I only did partially are much more standard zucchini size, and I have been checking more diligently for hiding bastard zucchini. But, well, always possible they hide better than I look, so it's just a fingers crossed sorta thing. Still, at least I know I shouldn't do too much grating with them! Maybe I'll split them in half if I get any more, that would probably help.

Anyway, only did about one wall of cornices, so I've still got another wall left to go until the second undercoat is done. :/ Sibling let me know today that the floors'll probably have to wait a few months to get done, so I've got a lot less of a time pressure, which is helpful. Still want things finished though, goddamnit! But I'll take it easy until my hand hurts less, for sure.

I don't think I've been awake twelve hours total yet today, but I'm still fucking exhausted. Bed now! Hopefully will have more energy tomorrow, yes. >:

Undercoat is done!

Well.

The first coat of the undercoat is done, it needs another coat, particularly on the cornices. It's not gonna change the colour subtly, it's too patchy and it'd just be. Bad. :/ The walls themselves seem a bit better, but hard to say for sure until they've actually dried!

We ended up actually having TWO tins of undercoat out back! The first one had a giant lump stuck to the bottom I couldn't get to dissolve back in to make it actually paint again, and the second one was brown. Probably due to rust, the lid was uh. Yeaaaah. :| This is what happens when things are left out in the weather!!! Sigh.

So yeah, had to go to bunnings fucking again, ugh. It was raining as well, which was super fun. At least my parking's getting a little better?? Also I stopped at the kebab shop on the way back, so that was a nice little reward for myself.

Other than that... multiplayer Terraria, which was super fun as usual! Also put together the dry ingredients for more zucchini bread, but it was game time after that so I haven't finished it yet. Tomorrow! I was trying to learn from my mistakes and not stay up stupid late but uh.

Well.

Let's just say I heard the garbage truck go past and that alerted me to how stupidly late I'm up. Whoops... Anyway, time for a nap before Sushi yells at me for his breakfast!

I totally would have got all the undercoat done today! Except... I ran out of fucking paint. That um. That made it a little impossible. SIGH.

We might have some more out back, but it's been raining on and off all day so I really really didn't think it was a good idea to go outside in the dark looking for it. There's too much shit to trip over out there at the best of times! So I'll look at that in the morning, and if it's okay for indoor use AND is still actually good, then I'll try and get the undercoating done before Terraria multiplayer is on. If it's not, however... yeah, gonna have to go to the fucking hardware store again. :| I really thought I was done with buying paint!

Bleh.

Other than that, not a whole lot today. My groceries came, yay! But I still need to like. Actually cook stuff. Which I got a little distracted from trying to finish the goddamn undercoating - it wasn't until like 2am I ran out of paint, so. Yeah. Will try and do some actual cooking tomorrow, too! Food is important! >:

I swear to fuck why am I like this ugh.

Had an unsurprisingly slow start to the day, which meant I didn't finish the sanding until like. 3am. Whoops. BUT I did get it done. I think. Obviously will need to double check, but... yes. At least a round and a bit done. (There was some sanding-filling-resanding in some places, so it's not just a round.) And the stuff I did last night after finding the light didn't need much done, so that's good! (The light is uh. Losing brightness pretty quickly, so hopefully we've got some batteries around here somewhere...)

Current plan for tomorrow is to put on washing in the morning - all my working clothes are gross at this point - and tape things up. Which will involve me looking very closely at all the edge bits, which are the hardest ones, so if there is stuff I missed (likelihood: pretty good), I'll see it and be able to sand/fill/whatever it needs.

There's a lot of really small things I'm thinking will probably be covered up by the undercoat - I'm guessing that if it's only about the same amount of variation the not-damaged paint has it's probably okay? - so if it's just that kind of thing I'mma undercoat and then do another check, and sand again if I need to. But we'll see how it goes!

As expected, didn't get as much done today as I'd've liked.

But I DID have a good time play Terraria with people, and that's also important, yesss. :3

I also got most of the filling done - only bit I didn't get to was on top of the bookshelves. So that's something!!! I think (hope) I'm getting better at the filling process, too. It's at least going faster, but I think it's also a smoother result?

Anyway, tomorrow I'll poke up top of the bookshelves first, but mostly will be a sanding day, I think. Hopefully the last of the sanding!!!! >: >: >: But I guess we'll see how it goes, as usual...

I did manage to go and get dust masks first thing, so that was good!

I did not get all the stripping done. I got maybe about half? I was hoping it'd go a lot faster than it has been, but I also got way more done than I was doing the skirting boards last year (not having to go out into the cold helps with that! Weather is SO much nicer!), so I can't complain too much.

Hopefully I'll get all the stripping done tomorrow! Ideally also the filling, buuuut I have to go down the shops because... I got a text! From the optometrist! Apparently my glasses are ready??? I didn't reply with 'bullshit', but I sure as fuck said it because uh. They are NEVER ready that fast? Not ever?? It hasn't even been two weeks!

Still, I'll go down and check! I need more food again anyway. Shockingly enough, all this painting-related work uses up a lot more energy than my standard stuff, so I've been going through my food quicker than usual, I keep getting really hungry. XD;;; Not really a BAD thing, just means my planning doesn't work out the same as usual, hahaha.

But first, a nap! How'd it get so late... oh. Right. I was taking a break from stripping, thinking I'd go back and do another session and it was after midnight already, that's what happened. And needed to shower etc. etc. And then distractions. Yes. That makes sense. Time!!!

So I didn't end up doing any work when I got up to feed the cats, I was too pancake, but it was okay! Because! It rained all day, more or less. Not much, but enough that the actual air was a lot drier! (Would've been extra annoying if I was working outside, of course, but as I haven't been... Lucky day for me!)

I also did manage to get the rest of the sanding done, as planned! \o/ It more or less went as expected, hahaha, which is always nice.

Tomorrow will be... hmm. It'll depend on the weather actually. I need to get more dust masks - I thought I had enough, but it turned out that the ones in the second packet had elastic that has degraded badly so they're uh. Better than nothing buuuuuut not good - so if it's not raining I might do that first? Those I know they have at the closest hardware store, so might as well do that first thing when I'm still clean from my shower.

Otherwise, will be filling and stripping, tomorrow! Theoretically I could also get some sanding done, but I doubt I'll have time. There's quite a bit of stripping to do, though I think the filling will mainly be annoying due to having to move the ladder around so much, rather than time consuming. I think I'm getting better at it! Hopefully...