A conglomeration of fragments

Soooo Sushi decided to wake me up at 8am, which sucked. So I decided to take a nap after kittybreakfast and go to the shops after that.

I did not in fact sleep through the afternoon. I woke up about 1pm! And then I immediately went back to sleep. *FACEPALM*

Didn't wake up again until after 4:30, which meant I couldn't go to the shop for the paintbrush; it closes at 4 on Sundays. :/ Sooooo I'll have to do that tomorrow. Today. Later!!! After I sleep! I really have gone full nocturnal, which I don't mind in theory but it's being kind of annoying when it comes to dealing with the outside world. Bleh.

To make up for the fact that I didn't do any work on my room, I did some cleaning! Not. Like. A lot. But I cleaned the bathroom enough that I can actually use the shower! And I did that! ...there's gonna be a learning curve, and also I need to tighten the shower adjustment hingy things because it kept falling down, but it works! And I am cleaaaaaaan :D

I also made brownies, finally, and I think I have the technique I've been trying for down, mwahahaha. It wasn't exactly hard, given this is my second attempt, but still, it's nice! :D Also now I have delicious brownies!

Also Vintage Story, of course. I actually did a plot thing?? I mean it's just making a pickaxe and trading it to a trader for a map, but still! Plot thing! Not that I'mma go DO the plot thing for A While, I'm gonna need WAY better gear for it... Still, am pleased. Also slow progress on... everything else, but hey, slow progress is still progress, and I THINK I'm getting my shit sorted out a bit? Maybe?? We'll see how it goes, I guess...

Soooo today I have not had a single nap, because I am a dumbass. Or, more to the point, I played some Vintage Story with people in the afternoon, and then went back in after food because there was a new mod Azaria got just for me, and then the next thing I know it was midnight. Which was a little late for a nap. And then of course I continued to get distracted for, apparently, FIVE ENTIRE HOURS, omfg why.

I have, however made a LOT of bismuth lanterns in Vintage Story. :3 :3 :3 Also I learned how to use the beehive kiln, and did a bunch of clay stuff, and made some pretties and prepped to make more... it was fun! But also. 5-fucking-a-m. :/

Anyway before all that, I did actually get through all the things I wanted to on my to-do list! I KNOW, SO UNUSUAL! But I've moved all my father's books back out of here, and I made brownies!!! And also did some other more boring things, of course.

But most importantly brownies! I am trying to recreate these nice ones A picked up a bunch when she was going near this one bakery regularly... Failed, but that just means I will, tragically, have to make more brownies once these have all gone... So very sad about that! Not. (The brownies are still fucking delicious! The ones I'm trying to replicate have a chocolate base. Just putting chocolate buttons in the bottom of the pan: does not work. You just have brownies with chocolate in them. Which is a different but still extremely nommable thing!)

IIiiiii feel like craaaaap~~~

Cheekbones aching. Swallowing causing the roof of my mouth and my inner ears to itch. General malaise. Coughing all the time! Gross.

Also my nose has started running but that's probably due to the amount of milk I drank today. No regrets, but I did do this one to myself.

But I actually did a LOT for a sick day! Here is my do-to list, except now it's a ta-dah list I guess.

• Get out of bed and get ready
• Eat Breakfast (this one swapped places with the one directly below)
• Go to the supermarket and get ingredients
• Cook a meal!!
• ???
• ~~Profit~~ Vintage Story

Today ??? was 'eat a snack and lay down for a while', which was a very good choice if I do say so myself.

I cooked Mandarin Chicken! It's orange chicken except using mandarins instead. Turned out pretty great! (I didn't do the sauce-thickening step because I am not particularly attached to the sauce being thick and sticky.) Slow cooker meals that don't suck +1!

Doing the prep took me AGES, 50% because I felt crappy, 40% because not my kitchen where ARE things, 10% because Cat Imvestigations (I had to shut her up in the front room while I chopped the chicken. Literally the only way to keep her off the bench, sigh.) But once the prep was done all I had to do was ignore it for a few hours, and then there was food! That I made! :D

Anyway now to go and pass out for a while because I really should have been to bed ages ago but feeling like crap means everything goes slowly and I know that shouldn't mean bedtimes but somehow it always does...

Soooo this evening my neighbour came over to let me know that we have a water leak in the front yard. (Again.) I actually saw it was super boggy yesterday, I just thought it was the rain! I mean, it's boggy out back, too, so...

Anyway, it's not the tap itself this time, but it's something around there. So I had to turn the water off at the mains, which is... less than convenient. And I'll need to call the plumber in the morning. Boooooo. (Luckily we have water in the tank again, so at least the toilets still flush!)

So, that meant I didn't get any stripping work done this evening - I do NOT want to mess with paint stripper without a ready source of water on hand in case of spills etc. But I DID do a bunch of sanding with the electric sander this afternoon, and I got a LOT done there. (I just had to stop due to noodle arms needing a break, and then it was too dark, alas.)

As it turns out the sandpaper I had on was almost at the end of its life; once it became obviously dead and I switched it out stuff went a LOT faster. So hopefully tomorrow I can get all the rest of the stuff the electric sander can reach done! And then strip the rest if possible, because even with the electric sander it takes A While to get enough paint off, so with the hand sander my arms are gonna be SO sore...

My cocoa and other baking supplies finally came today, too! Ended up taking like a week from when I ordered it, but that's okay, it's here now! So I made some more zucchini bread! I'll take a loaf over to the neighbours tomorrow in thanks, I think. :3 From the piece I had I don't think the chocolate buttons are as good as the choc chips, so next time I might smash them into bits before adding them, that might help. Experiments!!!

I really should try and flip my sleep schedule, btw. It's cold again, why am I staying awake through the coldest hours and sleeping through the warmer ones, this is stupid...

Main painting thing today was peeling off the tape from the roof and filling in any missed bits with a very small brush. It was. Uh. Well it needed doing but WOW it ate concentration liek woah so yeah it took forever.

Also my poor roof needs the edges done again, fuck that fucking crumbling filler uuuuugh. (Also there's a bit where I got undercoat on the roof and in cleaning it off wore a hole in the paint which is. Not. Not good. :|) Hopefully it can all be done with the paint I have but it was pretty close to done and I'm uh. Not sure it doesn't need at least one more coat given... all that. Sigh.

I also did multiplayer Terraria this afternoon, which was fun and not interrupted by an asshole cat breaking things! \o/ And I baked zucchini bread again. Hopefully A will come over tomorrow and take some with her, I have. So many zucchinis a-fucking-gain. (I'm also out of choc chips again. I just. Why. Why so much.)

Aaand I stayed up way too late as fucking usual but I'mma go to bed now. Yes. >:

Made more zucchini bread today, and I'm running out of ingredients AGAIN and aaaaaaargh. EXTREMELY tempted to just do a bulk order for the stuff I can get from the one shop near A's place. Can't do much about yoghurt, and I don't want to have to buy eggs, but everything else is kind of. Why. Why must I keep buying them all the freaking time. Bleh!!!

I harvested another four zucchini today, two of which aren't as huge as some I've had but are at least twice as big as I've been trying to pick them - how the fuck do they hide like this, I have no idea - so I probably have at least one more batch of bread from that by itself. I still have another batch's worth of shredded in the fridge!!! Mama is just. Not allowed to plant zucchini when she's not going to be here to actually eat it again. No. It is way too much for one person, damnit!

Other than that, did a lot less painting than I wanted, because holy shit it was humid as FUCK today, and the two sessions I did before nightfall resulted in me having to go pass out for a couple of hours. Dear humidity: plz die. (Just checked, and it's currently over 80%. No fucking wonder I wilted.)

I also cleaned the kitchen a LOT, which is a thing I've been putting off for. A while. >>;; Still have some dishes to do, but at least the sink has been scrubbed now...

Naptime now, yes!

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. >:

I did a LOT of filling today, and I think it's all done! Or, at least, it's all done until after I sand some things back, there are definitely bits that'll need extra filler and places that may or may not depending on how the sanding goes. Still! It was a lot of stuff to get done, and I'm pleased I managed it all! :3

I also baked! Three loaves of the choco zucchini bread, nomnomnom. (Two are going to be frozen, if I want more after I'm done with one loaf I can make more!) I definitely shouldn't've waited to make them until like 2:30, but, well. Sometimes we make very stupid decisions, that's just. How it is. Yes.

Tomorrow I get to try and figure out how the fuck the black chook got out of the run - she was perched on top of it napping when I went to put them to bed. I suspect the problem is she is very bored, which is. Not something I can really do much about. What with the foxes. :/

Also, sanding. Tomorrow is the return of Doing A Sanding, bleh. Important, but ugh the having to be so very careful and wear a mask and so much vacuuming ugh, hate it.

It rained almost all day today! It was a LOT. Does explain why my ankle was so achy yesterday, though... And it was achy again today so fingers crossed that means it'll clear up tomorrow.

Scout is EXTREMELY sad that she couldn't go out today either, but. Water. Water from the skyyyy. What can you do!

Poked the computer a bit more, and it turns out that at least some of the problem is Steam is eating like. 4GB of RAM. By itself. Plus whatever the OS and other programs are using! There SHOULD still be enough RAM for Terraria, but I can understand why it's not doing so well. (And like. I CAN run it, it's just uh. Not great.)

Not real sure what can be done about this one, honestly - might just have to give up on Terraria until I'm home. Which is annoying!

Other than that, made butter chicken for dinner! I ate uh. Way too much. But nom nom nom butter chicken~ :9 And now I have food for a few days, too, yay!

Sleepytiem nao, yes. Hopefully I'll get to cuddle with Scout! She's definitely warmed up to me a lot, it's great.

I went shopping again! I did. Uh. More shopping than I expected to, even though I didn't get many things? Like. I bought stuff from five different shops that is so many. (For me. I know some people enjoy shopping, but I find it exhausting.) Most of it was food, but I also got a new hairbrush (badly needed, my current one is losing tines and is kinda bald in patches now), plus like. Toothbrushes and stuff.

Didn't actually make curry tonight ( I am sleepy so I rambled about food stuff for. A bit. )

Uhhh what else. Did some washing! And some tidying up of the stuff from the floor job, plus moving shit back into here. I really need to get back onto pokemon, there should be another set of shinies out, plus a raid. I'll at least put it on the charger tonight before I pass out, that's a start...

Speaking of I should definitely get ready for bed now ugh it's 4am brains why are you like this.