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Aug. 28th, 2023 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeI know I've been gone for a year or so. Gone completely for a year or so, and only sporadically here before that. There will be no recap of everything that's happened because frankly, a lot of it was pandemic trauma swamped and a lot of it was drowned in either grief or stress or a whole bunch of other things. I marked that it's been a year because I thought, when was the last time I posted? I remember a bunch of condolences when Chelsea died. Oh, I guess it must have been last late July/early August. Well, that's a hell of a way to mark time. Anyway, the point being, I guess over time you will learn about things that have happened. And lately I've been finding myself more in need of setting down a time to ramble into a journal, so hi Dreamwidth! I'm back. I will certainly not be catching up on anything on Dreamwidth and I do not expect anyone to try and catch up with me all at once. Let's do it slowly, over time.
I meant to not go on about how tired I am, but my sleep schedule has been just barely adequate so yes, I am tired. I should probably work a short nap in here somewhere but so far this morning I have done some short gardening while it was cool out, five languages in Duolingo, fed and medicated cats, fed and medicated myself (including with something healthy like an apple and some milk and not just cookie dough made for eating), emptied the new bag of bird food into the bin and then took the bag of trash out, and did it all at a slow pace that would not feel overwhelming. Except for the being tired. I also did take some time to just listen to the birds. That was nice.
I also need to do something writing wise this morning. Continue on the Gatsby Serial Killer bit and figure out how the Genius Locus goes homicidal, which no doubt means a handful of navel gazing about how people turn into murderers, let alone serial killers. Definitely a part of this is going to be feeling the pain of the city at the hands of the gilded age oligarchs and getting mad at the rich people. Actually that might be a whole separate chapter between one and two, considering F Scott FItzgerald was an idiot who idolized the rich (or was part of them? I don't know enough about him and I don't suppose it matters for these purposes) and definitely did not criticize them enough for a good rationalization for murder. So, we'll have that as an insert between either Chapters 1 and 2, or Chapters 2 and 3. And then the murders begin, as the meme says.
I need to build up the religions somewhat more in Bones of the Labyrinth, although given that the dominant religion for the next many chapters is the Faith of the Sacrificed God and I already have that pretty well built out for the moment I can probably just resume writing there. But I should still build up the Faith, no, wait, build up the Faith and the training and so on. And a lot of the vocabulary. Which means naming things once again, insert rant about naming things here, ugh bleh.
What else did I want to do today. If I get the writing done today I don't seem to have much in the way of day job work, which will be nice because what I do have is deeply annoying. Long story, lots of pictures, I will not be buying from Michael Kors in the near future not because their US stores are more problematic than any other in their field but because the very name makes me irritated. But the upshot is I don't have much to do that isn't Michael Kors related, which means I get to think about what else I wanted to do today. I have a bunch of stuff on my mini painting to do list, there's that. Start base colors on the Spartans and Optios, do a couple layers of gray on the hippo god person, maybe deal with the mummies. I have a list around here somewhere.
If it stays not very hot I guess I cando some more vine cutting and weeding. In ten minute increments because otherwise no. It's still too humid and warm for me to really want to do more than that in order to preserve my ability to do many other things today. I guess clean the litterboxes and put away some of the refillable litter pails is on the list, and tweak the Chewy subscription. Clean the fountain motor in the hopes of getting it working again, as it seems to be either slowly dying or very clogged. Usually I clean it once a month when I change the filters, but I don't remember if I did this last time or not. Study Hindi, study Italian out of books rather than Duolingo. And I guess after I write this up and maybe I will go clear one debug off my slate before I do something else, I definitely need to do that. And then ... the hell else was I going to do. I do not remember. My sleep schedule is buggery and waking up to the husband's alarm only to roll over and go back to sleep and wake up an hour later is not the greatest. We'll leave it at that for now.
Some things that have been happening: our car is slowly dying of a coolant leak and something weird is happening to the electrics. Our washing machine (oh! I needed to do aload of laundry, put that in) had an electrical failure this time not connected to the circuit going (we got that fixed quite efficiently, that was a relief) and then a few days later it magically resurrected itself, causing me to make several blasphemous jokes (is it blasphemy if you don't subscribe to that religion?), and anyway the upshot to all of that is the husband wants to replace it, too. Meanwhile I am trying to hang onto enough savings to replace the roof probably next year, the way roofing companies tend to be booked out. Gah. These are sums of money I never really thought I would find myself dealing in, although here I am now with a house and savings and an investment, but either way I don't like it. Don't like it at all. It gives me a deep and profound uncomfortableness. Oh, and from January to March we had no kitchen sinks because there was a giantass crack in the drain, so we had no kitchen sink (we also used a bucket a bit, but it was exhausting) and for a portion of that time, no kitchen cabinets either, just a countertop being held up by some wooden braces. The whole process kept running into greater complications, because this is an oldass house and prone to that. So. That's been happening.
But in better and hilarious news we adopted two more cats by accident, bringing our total up to eight which is quite enough thank you. Their names are Spike and Faye. They're slowly getting accustomed to the house and the other cats. We tried adopting them to people who are not us, but failed on account of everyone else seems to be topped up with cats. Also they're 9 years old and come as a set. Good thing for us we have a big house, two incomes, and no other ongoing major expenses.
I meant to not go on about how tired I am, but my sleep schedule has been just barely adequate so yes, I am tired. I should probably work a short nap in here somewhere but so far this morning I have done some short gardening while it was cool out, five languages in Duolingo, fed and medicated cats, fed and medicated myself (including with something healthy like an apple and some milk and not just cookie dough made for eating), emptied the new bag of bird food into the bin and then took the bag of trash out, and did it all at a slow pace that would not feel overwhelming. Except for the being tired. I also did take some time to just listen to the birds. That was nice.
I also need to do something writing wise this morning. Continue on the Gatsby Serial Killer bit and figure out how the Genius Locus goes homicidal, which no doubt means a handful of navel gazing about how people turn into murderers, let alone serial killers. Definitely a part of this is going to be feeling the pain of the city at the hands of the gilded age oligarchs and getting mad at the rich people. Actually that might be a whole separate chapter between one and two, considering F Scott FItzgerald was an idiot who idolized the rich (or was part of them? I don't know enough about him and I don't suppose it matters for these purposes) and definitely did not criticize them enough for a good rationalization for murder. So, we'll have that as an insert between either Chapters 1 and 2, or Chapters 2 and 3. And then the murders begin, as the meme says.
I need to build up the religions somewhat more in Bones of the Labyrinth, although given that the dominant religion for the next many chapters is the Faith of the Sacrificed God and I already have that pretty well built out for the moment I can probably just resume writing there. But I should still build up the Faith, no, wait, build up the Faith and the training and so on. And a lot of the vocabulary. Which means naming things once again, insert rant about naming things here, ugh bleh.
What else did I want to do today. If I get the writing done today I don't seem to have much in the way of day job work, which will be nice because what I do have is deeply annoying. Long story, lots of pictures, I will not be buying from Michael Kors in the near future not because their US stores are more problematic than any other in their field but because the very name makes me irritated. But the upshot is I don't have much to do that isn't Michael Kors related, which means I get to think about what else I wanted to do today. I have a bunch of stuff on my mini painting to do list, there's that. Start base colors on the Spartans and Optios, do a couple layers of gray on the hippo god person, maybe deal with the mummies. I have a list around here somewhere.
If it stays not very hot I guess I can
Some things that have been happening: our car is slowly dying of a coolant leak and something weird is happening to the electrics. Our washing machine (oh! I needed to do a
But in better and hilarious news we adopted two more cats by accident, bringing our total up to eight which is quite enough thank you. Their names are Spike and Faye. They're slowly getting accustomed to the house and the other cats. We tried adopting them to people who are not us, but failed on account of everyone else seems to be topped up with cats. Also they're 9 years old and come as a set. Good thing for us we have a big house, two incomes, and no other ongoing major expenses.
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Date: 2023-08-29 04:45 am (UTC)Also new cats, hooray! Are they also black cats, or did you decide to branch out?
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Date: 2023-08-30 10:39 pm (UTC)They are tabbies! We've come around full circle, our first cats were tabbies, and then we ended up with several voids, and now we're back to tabbies.
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Date: 2023-09-03 11:48 pm (UTC)