dog world

Friday evening was spent entirely in bed, minus the half hour or so I took to make mac & cheese. After, I cracked a can of soda but couldn't enjoy it long as I'd left it on my bedside table, didn't look when I reached over to take a drink, and nearly put a horrid box elder bug IN MY MOUTH!!!!! UGH!! So tired of these fuckers!! My tub is currently a graveyard for these bastards.

Saturday morning I printed patterns. Maybe it would have made more sense to send a couple of them for printing, it ended up being over 100 pages total. Alas. Picked up M for the movie, which we enjoyed (Regretting You, because Mason Thames is our current favourite actor and he is LITERALLY baby (he is 18), we have not read the book and will probably never read or watch another Colleen Hoover adaptation unless someone really awesome is in it), and went back home.

I'd been excited on Friday to reach the end of repeat 8 of my cowl knitting before realizing that it had set up the first block and then said "repeat 8 more times" and DANG IT I had another 42 rows to go. So after Friday evening knitting and a couple rows at the theatre (I dropped the edge stitches on either side of a single row and called it an afternoon when I couldn't really see what I was doing), I finished up the last block, and I WON yarn chicken. I was thrilled, I didn't want to wind up the new skein just to do a couple of rows!

Yesterday I started doing the rainbow colours, and I am currently halfway through the 10 colours. I trimmed pattern pages with the slicer, which took a little time to set up so I didn't slice the pattern willy-nilly like the first time. I am considering bringing the pile of paper to work to make use of larger spaces without kitten help. That's a sometime-this-week-maybe problem. I'd do it at M's place on Tuesday, but she is getting a couch delivered from IKEA so we will likely be putting it together.

It feels really good to be getting a knitting project done in the next few days. I did a lot of it with cats in my lap, so it IS possible. I'll start adding it back into my evening activity choices.

While knitting earlier in the day yesterday, the cats decided it was a perfect time to chew on either thread or the thread stand. As I looked at my covered machine, I realized that I hadn't sewn anything in like, a month. I did the bulk of my plaid dress on September 30th. I definitely switched out the thread for a mismatched combo of black and grey, though I don't remember why. October was so hard this year. And now it's November and we're heading into The Darkness, and I want to be kind to myself and do a lil hibernating or at least slowing down. Hustle culture is not it.

Well I did two loads of laundry and probably could/should have done at least one more of the three remaining, but I didn't. I finally have ALL of my intimates washed, including the two socks whose mates were "missing". Dinner waited until the last load was out of the dryer, where I made nachos, and spent the rest of the evening puttering around with my phone. I even folded and put my laundry AWAY on the same day it was washed, so proud of me.

Today I woke up SO late, I slapped on the first all black outfit I could find and brought a Mothman cape (similar) to wear as a costume (as tomorrow people are not in office, and I want many people to see this) and have been running around yelling LAAAAAMP all morning.

Dance tonight, I am very excited. If I don't get caught up with people after, I will go to Walmart and get my grocery list on my way home so that all I have to do tomorrow is snuggle in. OOOH I need to grab the thing(s?) I have for my teacher!

Spent all week literally dragging ass through work (we are in the longest stretch of our "down a person", and I didn't really feel all that bad, mostly tired) and collapsing into bed when I got home. I had enough energy on Wednesday to make a pot of soup, and Thursday and Friday were "half a (family sized) bag of chips for dinner" days. Saturday I woke up with a migraine that ran the full gamut of symptoms, including a period where I thought I was chilled, so I pulled the blanket up and my body did the equivalent of a car putting up all of its warning lights at once. Hot cold ill hungry ???????? Thankfully it passed. I slept on and off through the morning with drugs doing nothing to touch the pain, and around 2:30 pm I was able to prop myself up and put on a tv show and stay awake for the rest of the day, so that was nice.

Sunday was a Crafternoon with Practical Magic, and I decided not to go as I was still kind of blegh from migraine + cold combo. I sat on the couch and knitted a fair bit. Made and ate TWO meals. Even got a shower in! No naps, but I also ended up being awake until 3 am.

Friday also came with the WTF??? of finding my bathroom flooded?? It was fine at 5pm, I had a nap and went to pee at 7:30 and walked into a literal puddle. I put down towels to soak it up and the way the water had spread, it leached into the carpet as well. No more water issues over the weekend, and the room smelled musty after. I think it was clean, but I know it's coming from above me, and 75 year old wall interiors will probably smell terrible. I might need to look into moving sooner rather than later bc I doubt they're going to do any of the extensive work (walls, plumbing, asbestos abatement) that would need to be done to fix it for a building that is planned to be torn down. Maybe in the same complex, IDK. My lease is up at the end of February and I really don't want to be worrying about that while we're on a trip.

I have lofty plans again to SEW ALL THE THINGS!!!! but not this week. M is moving today and I have made myself available for her needs, tomorrow is dancing with the stars, and Thursday my old dance teacher is hosting a beginner workshop. I am SO out of dance shape, beginners is right where I need to be lol. But then... crafting all the things. I am out of my funk and ready to go.