Sardines (metaphorical)
Dec. 29th, 2020 10:38 pmToday I saw a Craigslisting for the specific bookshelf that I envisioned for under Screen B, a 2x4 Kallax. ( Read more... )
Also today: the yearly filing of Belovedest's too-complex-for-calendars schedule in the household calendar. My erstwhile Overlady warned me, early in our friendship, that repeating elements running longer than a year were fragile and it was best to set up a new appointment yearly. So that's how I do Belovedest's work schedule.
"First Sunday of the month" is an instruction that calendars can interpret. "First Sunday of the month, and the day before" gets... tricky. Humans get it, generally. It's either the last Saturday of the month (when the next month starts on Sunday), or the first Saturday of the new month (when the new month starts any other day than Sunday). And then when Belovedest is working a weekend, the Friday before the weekend and the Monday after the weekend are days off. But Sunday is a short workday, and Belovedest is hourly, so to make up for the short hours, they oversee an extra hour in the ball pit on the following Tuesday and Wednesday. So it takes a little while to do the schedule, and I have to ask about it each time.
Games:
Gems of War is going along well; ( Read more... )
Fiber arts:
Crocheting: got some of the lace garment worked on over Christmas while doing video chats.
Quilting:
I owe Ev a quilt. Two. One's the salvage and rescue operation on her original baby quilt, and one is a new baby quilt from me as her foster parent.
( Read more... )
Photography: nothing happening until the new year and then it depends on shipping time. (Postal service is still fucked due to those motherfuckers.)
Health: bloodwork due, scheduled for Thursday morning; checkup coming next week (thus the bloodwork). Done with this series of dental shenanigans.
Media:
Books:
Slogging through some Lord John stuff. It's absolutely my brain not wanting to cooperate and focus on one thing for more than about thirty seconds.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
armaina had posted a graphic about stages of Even Coping, and I'm not doing too great.
Music: I'm back on my bullshit, but am not currently listening to "Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity" on repeat every second of the day. (Thanks tocarrie's kid Al, I have discovered Will Wood and the Tapeworms, and YUP. I have returned the favor by telling Outliers Georg.)
Podcasts: yes? Except between one thing and another my poor little ipod is backed up and nearly out of space and I'm about a year behind. Occasionally I listen to the Full Speed Ahead list and run it out of things, and the 47 Hour News Cycle, but even listening at 1.5x will not get me caught up. Fortunately it's mostly a way to keep my brain from eating itself while I do manual tasks? Including gemsing, if I manage to get my ducks in the correct order to have the thing charged and the headphones at the same time I'm doing clickygems. That seems like Too Much some days.
Relationships: Belovedest is still my matesprit, Steph my morail, Nora auspistice, and we don't speak of Shawn (humans don't ♠ very well). Been lots of chatter about Things With Steph, because their work got Interesting twice over, this year. Steph still has vague plans to relocate to WA state in the next half-decade, exact date TBD and Depending On Things. Metamours (via Steph) are on the mend from The Corvids; they had that over Thanksgivingish on account of Penny's work, probably.
kaberett often has such tidy categories, but the thing about that sort of thing is, if you haven't been writing except for little bits and pieces here and there, there's sometimes a lot of catchup to do to even draw a picture of the current place. I'm reminded of the old-style video that if you grab it before it's fully ready, you just get a blank black background and then a dot here and there as some pixels have changed from the original state to something new. Actually painting in the full background takes a lot, even if you're not trying to catch up on the full history from when you last left off.
Also today: the yearly filing of Belovedest's too-complex-for-calendars schedule in the household calendar. My erstwhile Overlady warned me, early in our friendship, that repeating elements running longer than a year were fragile and it was best to set up a new appointment yearly. So that's how I do Belovedest's work schedule.
"First Sunday of the month" is an instruction that calendars can interpret. "First Sunday of the month, and the day before" gets... tricky. Humans get it, generally. It's either the last Saturday of the month (when the next month starts on Sunday), or the first Saturday of the new month (when the new month starts any other day than Sunday). And then when Belovedest is working a weekend, the Friday before the weekend and the Monday after the weekend are days off. But Sunday is a short workday, and Belovedest is hourly, so to make up for the short hours, they oversee an extra hour in the ball pit on the following Tuesday and Wednesday. So it takes a little while to do the schedule, and I have to ask about it each time.
Games:
Gems of War is going along well; ( Read more... )
Fiber arts:
Crocheting: got some of the lace garment worked on over Christmas while doing video chats.
Quilting:
I owe Ev a quilt. Two. One's the salvage and rescue operation on her original baby quilt, and one is a new baby quilt from me as her foster parent.
( Read more... )
Photography: nothing happening until the new year and then it depends on shipping time. (Postal service is still fucked due to those motherfuckers.)
Health: bloodwork due, scheduled for Thursday morning; checkup coming next week (thus the bloodwork). Done with this series of dental shenanigans.
Media:
Books:
Slogging through some Lord John stuff. It's absolutely my brain not wanting to cooperate and focus on one thing for more than about thirty seconds.
armaina had posted a graphic about stages of Even Coping, and I'm not doing too great. Music: I'm back on my bullshit, but am not currently listening to "Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity" on repeat every second of the day. (Thanks to
carrie's kid Al, I have discovered Will Wood and the Tapeworms, and YUP. I have returned the favor by telling Outliers Georg.) Podcasts: yes? Except between one thing and another my poor little ipod is backed up and nearly out of space and I'm about a year behind. Occasionally I listen to the Full Speed Ahead list and run it out of things, and the 47 Hour News Cycle, but even listening at 1.5x will not get me caught up. Fortunately it's mostly a way to keep my brain from eating itself while I do manual tasks? Including gemsing, if I manage to get my ducks in the correct order to have the thing charged and the headphones at the same time I'm doing clickygems. That seems like Too Much some days.
Relationships: Belovedest is still my matesprit, Steph my morail, Nora auspistice, and we don't speak of Shawn (humans don't ♠ very well). Been lots of chatter about Things With Steph, because their work got Interesting twice over, this year. Steph still has vague plans to relocate to WA state in the next half-decade, exact date TBD and Depending On Things. Metamours (via Steph) are on the mend from The Corvids; they had that over Thanksgivingish on account of Penny's work, probably.
kaberett often has such tidy categories, but the thing about that sort of thing is, if you haven't been writing except for little bits and pieces here and there, there's sometimes a lot of catchup to do to even draw a picture of the current place. I'm reminded of the old-style video that if you grab it before it's fully ready, you just get a blank black background and then a dot here and there as some pixels have changed from the original state to something new. Actually painting in the full background takes a lot, even if you're not trying to catch up on the full history from when you last left off.
