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azurelunatic) wrote2020-11-23 09:15 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2020-11-23 09:15 pm
Thanksgiving Week
Yesterday:
02:20 PM Sunday, November 22, 2020
* wake up, 11-something
* twitter
* Duolingo
* emerged into Very Cleaning, as I had upon Friday night, ish, assembled a List of Things.
Belovedest was minded to clean off the dining room table (where all the snacks and other such things try to collect), and clean the kitchen. The dining room table came first. We did find the melatonin that I'd sworn we'd gotten but then couldn't find last night when filling my pill boxes. (I also need another bottle of the blood pressure meds before the six-week boxes will be completed.)
Progress on We Live In A Society (Gabby's story round 1, the portals story, Max's story round 3): last night I had to dig up Grey Law which is book 0 of Cracked Phoenix and mostly Raven's story but also Max's, Brotherhood of the Salamander which is Max's college story, and Circle of Fire which is the original Book 1 of Cracked Phoenix and Connie's story. I'm going to have to add Edmund Fischer as a cameo there, as a friend of Mike's who also works for Bozo (unfortunately).
There are three timelines/AUs for We Live in a Society: Alpha Timeline (Gabby, The Society); Beta Timeline (pretty much Earth as we know it, Silly Valley); Gamma Timeline (Cracked Phoenix universe, where magic and dragons definitely exist).
The blue in my hair is fading, and the roots are longer than I would like. I should probably, at some point over this long week, give myself a trim and re-do the bleach and the blue. However, this is the longest I've had the blue last, so I should keep the hair-washing schedule if I can.
Thea has switched to the large plastic jar containers for kitty treats, because the pouches are vulnerable to Yellface, who has teeth and can chew things open (fuckin' squirrel cat), and the still large but slightly smaller tubs have a pop-top that can be opened by either precise or rude leverage. Thea is now engaged in a series of experiments to figure out how to open them, mostly involved in sniffing, hugging, and shoving off the table. Good science-kitty. Just now she succeeded at shoving it off the table, but was disappointed in that the jar did not pop open. Her betray-face!!!
Belovedest has finished with Lego Batman(?) and has proceeded to some sort of Assassin's Something, with a lot of sepiatone graphics and running around. We're both still playing Gems of War.
The last time Ev was here, we picked up a number of small appliances from someone's storage unit clean-out. Ev gave the outsides a good wipe-down, but the insides still need a clean before we feel good about using them. The bread maker is now sitting in the correct position, but the inner bits still need a wash. The icemaker is set up on the dining room table (for now) and is having a first load of water put through it, before we drain it, rinse it again, and put in fresh water. Alex has first dibs, for ice-in-room; if they're satisfied with fridge ice, it'll go down to the bar. I'm afraid it's a bit noisy...
Thea, like any cat, is gross. This includes leaving gross objects in any place she can get, and when she's feeling unwell she can and will hide. Including under the bed. Which is hard to get to. Alex's bed is queen size and there's a crack between the head of the bedframe and the wall so the lamp can fit in a sensible place. There's a board under the long side of the bed, the other long side is up against the wall, the foot is blocked by a bookshelf. Unfortunately, the crack is well wide enough for Engineer Kitty to get through ... at least, going down. She sometimes has to be coaxed back up.
Yesterday I made the Cat Exclusion Board we'd got the materials for last Saturday. It's a 1x12x6' pine board; Alex did the measuring for the finished piece. I used THE SAWZALL! It should fit under the mattress, shouldn't go much beyond the edge of the frame, and has a notch to allow the lamp post to pass through without being wide enough to admit the pink li'l noezzz of a marauding kitteh. Belovedest found the sanding block and I de-splintered the edges. The housemates are feeling almost ready to put it in place.
THE ICEMAKER IS WORKING. Hooray!!!
07:05 PM Sunday, November 22, 2020
Having re-read the Circle of Fire draft, I'm glad I wrote it but I need to re-write it, because it doesn't measure up to my current expectations. I suspect I'm now on a hilarious writing treadmill.
10:22 PM Sunday, November 22, 2020
It's another bean soup night.
Today:
Got somewhere under 5 hours of sleep. Played gems until it was apparent that I wasn't getting back to sleep any time soon.
Discovered a poker mat on the Craigslist. Enlisted Belovedest for a drive to grab the thing from in front of the person's garage, negotiated via text and email. We'll take a closer look at it tomorrow.
We polished off last night's bean soup this morning, and I was vaguely thinking about another potful, but it takes a while to cut up the vegetables, and it might even be borscht season.
On the last Costco trip, Belovedest got me some slip-on slippers, and those have been great for my little toesies. One of the extremely known side effects of the new blood pressure medicine is cold feet, and my feet are already inclined to being chilly. I also get The Sensory Woe if things are on my feet Wrong, and being able to get the slippers off my feet in an instant helps a lot.
09:10 PM Monday, November 23, 2020
We're doing soup again. This one has tomato, olive oil, Italian seasoning; we were out of bacon fat, and Belovedest wanted to change up the taste. We'll see how it goes. The instant pot can't be on the same power strip as the electric kettle, we discovered. (We previously discovered that the electric kettle and the Keurig can't be on the same power strip.)
My early-in-the-month word pushes are doing well for me, as I only have 861 words today to stay ahead of par. I've stayed above par so far, even though there were two days in the 1400s, the rest have been above 1667 and closer to 1900. So the NaNo stats tell me.
I'm in the Pearl League in Duolingo. Gender still gives me the aaaaaa, but verb forms are going to be worse.
02:20 PM Sunday, November 22, 2020
* wake up, 11-something
* Duolingo
* emerged into Very Cleaning, as I had upon Friday night, ish, assembled a List of Things.
Belovedest was minded to clean off the dining room table (where all the snacks and other such things try to collect), and clean the kitchen. The dining room table came first. We did find the melatonin that I'd sworn we'd gotten but then couldn't find last night when filling my pill boxes. (I also need another bottle of the blood pressure meds before the six-week boxes will be completed.)
Progress on We Live In A Society (Gabby's story round 1, the portals story, Max's story round 3): last night I had to dig up Grey Law which is book 0 of Cracked Phoenix and mostly Raven's story but also Max's, Brotherhood of the Salamander which is Max's college story, and Circle of Fire which is the original Book 1 of Cracked Phoenix and Connie's story. I'm going to have to add Edmund Fischer as a cameo there, as a friend of Mike's who also works for Bozo (unfortunately).
There are three timelines/AUs for We Live in a Society: Alpha Timeline (Gabby, The Society); Beta Timeline (pretty much Earth as we know it, Silly Valley); Gamma Timeline (Cracked Phoenix universe, where magic and dragons definitely exist).
The blue in my hair is fading, and the roots are longer than I would like. I should probably, at some point over this long week, give myself a trim and re-do the bleach and the blue. However, this is the longest I've had the blue last, so I should keep the hair-washing schedule if I can.
Thea has switched to the large plastic jar containers for kitty treats, because the pouches are vulnerable to Yellface, who has teeth and can chew things open (fuckin' squirrel cat), and the still large but slightly smaller tubs have a pop-top that can be opened by either precise or rude leverage. Thea is now engaged in a series of experiments to figure out how to open them, mostly involved in sniffing, hugging, and shoving off the table. Good science-kitty. Just now she succeeded at shoving it off the table, but was disappointed in that the jar did not pop open. Her betray-face!!!
Belovedest has finished with Lego Batman(?) and has proceeded to some sort of Assassin's Something, with a lot of sepiatone graphics and running around. We're both still playing Gems of War.
The last time Ev was here, we picked up a number of small appliances from someone's storage unit clean-out. Ev gave the outsides a good wipe-down, but the insides still need a clean before we feel good about using them. The bread maker is now sitting in the correct position, but the inner bits still need a wash. The icemaker is set up on the dining room table (for now) and is having a first load of water put through it, before we drain it, rinse it again, and put in fresh water. Alex has first dibs, for ice-in-room; if they're satisfied with fridge ice, it'll go down to the bar. I'm afraid it's a bit noisy...
Thea, like any cat, is gross. This includes leaving gross objects in any place she can get, and when she's feeling unwell she can and will hide. Including under the bed. Which is hard to get to. Alex's bed is queen size and there's a crack between the head of the bedframe and the wall so the lamp can fit in a sensible place. There's a board under the long side of the bed, the other long side is up against the wall, the foot is blocked by a bookshelf. Unfortunately, the crack is well wide enough for Engineer Kitty to get through ... at least, going down. She sometimes has to be coaxed back up.
Yesterday I made the Cat Exclusion Board we'd got the materials for last Saturday. It's a 1x12x6' pine board; Alex did the measuring for the finished piece. I used THE SAWZALL! It should fit under the mattress, shouldn't go much beyond the edge of the frame, and has a notch to allow the lamp post to pass through without being wide enough to admit the pink li'l noezzz of a marauding kitteh. Belovedest found the sanding block and I de-splintered the edges. The housemates are feeling almost ready to put it in place.
THE ICEMAKER IS WORKING. Hooray!!!
07:05 PM Sunday, November 22, 2020
Having re-read the Circle of Fire draft, I'm glad I wrote it but I need to re-write it, because it doesn't measure up to my current expectations. I suspect I'm now on a hilarious writing treadmill.
10:22 PM Sunday, November 22, 2020
It's another bean soup night.
Today:
Got somewhere under 5 hours of sleep. Played gems until it was apparent that I wasn't getting back to sleep any time soon.
Discovered a poker mat on the Craigslist. Enlisted Belovedest for a drive to grab the thing from in front of the person's garage, negotiated via text and email. We'll take a closer look at it tomorrow.
We polished off last night's bean soup this morning, and I was vaguely thinking about another potful, but it takes a while to cut up the vegetables, and it might even be borscht season.
On the last Costco trip, Belovedest got me some slip-on slippers, and those have been great for my little toesies. One of the extremely known side effects of the new blood pressure medicine is cold feet, and my feet are already inclined to being chilly. I also get The Sensory Woe if things are on my feet Wrong, and being able to get the slippers off my feet in an instant helps a lot.
09:10 PM Monday, November 23, 2020
We're doing soup again. This one has tomato, olive oil, Italian seasoning; we were out of bacon fat, and Belovedest wanted to change up the taste. We'll see how it goes. The instant pot can't be on the same power strip as the electric kettle, we discovered. (We previously discovered that the electric kettle and the Keurig can't be on the same power strip.)
My early-in-the-month word pushes are doing well for me, as I only have 861 words today to stay ahead of par. I've stayed above par so far, even though there were two days in the 1400s, the rest have been above 1667 and closer to 1900. So the NaNo stats tell me.
I'm in the Pearl League in Duolingo. Gender still gives me the aaaaaa, but verb forms are going to be worse.
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if we rearrange the kitchen some, specifically the counter above the dishwasher, the electric kettle can go back to being alone on an outlet
science cat, mystified by screw-tops
15 min left on bread machine
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*glares at English also*
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