So we FINALLY heard back from the window people. Our windows are currently scheduled for the 19th... OF JANUARY. :|

So we've got PLENTY of time to get things organised, but wow it would have been nice to not have to rush as much as I did! It is in fact a lot more annoying to go through things now that they're moved rather than as part of the moving process! SIGH.

Still, today I got rid of a bunch more old paperwork, so that's something! The sensitive information has been torn up and put in the chook coop, which is gonna destroy it WAY quicker than waiting for room in the compost bin. Pretty pleased I thought of that!

Tomorrow, I think, I'll pick up my knitting, and-or the jigglypuff. Weather's warm enough that I don't want to pick up the blanket again right now, I'mma need it soon. Probably. Though maybe I should start it, so that I can summon the nice weather... We'll see how it goes, anyway. Definitely need to take a break from sorting things, and coincidentally I'm done with the hanging files (at least for now), so yeah, making stuff!

So, Mama and I worked on the chook shed thing this morning, until Mama Needed a break (she got lightheaded, I suspect because she'd also mown the lawn this morning and only had some toast), and it's... getting there? We attached the last pole and put the door hinges on! Maybe we'll finish some time this year!

I also went through more of my stuff and got rid of some more things! Lots of HS-era stuff. Also sorted some more stuff into art binders, so I'm able to get rid of two hanging files in my one hanging file drawer, which is nice! Not that they were big ones, but still. Progress! (The biggest one at the moment is manuals/warranties, which is uh. Well. I HAVE gone through it and done a cursory search, and I DID throw some stuff out, but... Probably need to do a more involved one at some point. A lot of it's manuals for stuff I still use though, so it's not a high priority.)

Anyway, probably back to the hanging files tomorrow, I just kinda ran out of brain. So many decisions!!! Did some colouring in after that, and then Terraria this evening, where I'm just building minecarts across the map and that kind of extremely simple work, which is good when out of cheese error. Yes.

Today was actually nice and warm and summery! I mean it's only the third of December it's not like that's late, it's just been so cold for this time of year that it's really! Really! Really nice. :3 I've been in short sleeves and three-quarter pants all day and haven't even needed my blanket!

Today I attempted to sort through my old stamp collection so I can get rid of it, since I haven't looked at it for at least twenty five years, but Mama did some research and it looks like some of them might actually be worth something - not a lot, but enough that selling them wouldn't be a waste of time. Soooo gonna have to go through them again and actually do research this time nooooo it's gonna take FOREVER. Still, at least I did part of it, and most of the international ones (maybe all of them but I'm not gonna bet I didn't miss any) are separate, and... bleh. I'm gonna end up hyperfixating if I work on it too much I know myself it was already a struggle to not go through things and try and fill out the stamp album. SIGH.

I did get rid of some other stuff, too, so at least my tidying up project got somewhere today. A very slow process, but it's something.

Yup, another multiplayer Terraria game today, was very fun! I died SO MANY TIMES, but in my defence exactly zero of them were from lava, and I was. You know. Submerged. I just think it's super unfair for enemies to drop down on you when you're already in lava. :/

Other than that... Sibling was over, helping my father with some stuff. Went for a walk with Mama. Did this month's jobsearch paperwork. We still haven't heard anything about the windows...

Anyway, somehow it got late, so now I'mma go nap yesss.

Went through a bunch of old high school stuff today. I got rid of some of it! That's something! Find it difficult to get rid of actual creative writing stuff, even if I also can't fucking read it because cringe factor. Let's just say there were a LOT of exclamation points in some of the stuff I skimmed and leave it at that... >>;;;

Still, I was able to shove stuff into one folder instead of the two it was inexplicably in - maybe it'd be too thick for everything that was in there? But it's fine now, so. :3

Many, MANY more things need to be gone through, of course; I'm going to try and continue to do them while we don't have word about the goddamn windows. This waiting in suspense thing is really annoying! But also it's December, somehow, so I need to start thinking about Christmas stuff, and if I'm going to make any presents. Probably not? Maybe something for A, but I can't think of what. I also can't think of what for like. Anyone but Mama, who told me she'd like a calendar. (I have checked the cool shop's online page and none of the calendars currently there are suitable for Mama. Alas.)

Anyway, that's all stuff to worry about tomorrow, right now is for going to bed. If. You know. I can make myself disturb the cat on my lap... (Tortilla is VERY cuddly tonight!)

Today I didn't move anything, really, but I DID go through a lot of flat-storage stuff! Moved a lot of prints around so they're better organised/protected, got rid of some things (mostly old calendars), and while I don't have anything really FIXED for some of the problem stuff at least it's neater. It's a start!

That did eat a LOT of brain, though, so I'm glad I didn't have any furniture moving I had to get done today. We still haven't heard from the window people, so still in limbo about that. :/ Tomorrow will involve moving things no matter what, though, just not my stuff - I'll need to help Mama out with putting things on the nature strip for hard rubbish collection. Zero chance of my father doing it, as he has a colonoscopy in the morning. (I'm glad to be on the moving things side of this equation, ngl...)

Other than that, played some multiplayer Terraria again! :D Which was very fun. And I also played a bunch on my solo world; lots of hell landscaping. Should really do more fishing down there, I still need an endless lava bucket... It would be easier to just use a lava sponge to get rid of lava pools in the lower caverns, rather than drain it down into hell, after all, even if it is a useful mapping activity as well... Will have to think about it.

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Fairly quiet day today, too - didn't do any moving of stuff. DID go for a walk with Mama, and also fixed my domain problem, so all my homeserver things are working again, phew!

That's about all, though. Which was nice. Though Sushi DID do a dumb again... but is late so just have the chatlog, yes.

[01:37] Tyger: Want to hear today's Sushi Idiocy story?
[01:38] Azremodehar: oh no what did him do
[01:38] Tyger: He decided to walk along the curtain rail
[01:38] Tyger: Which went okay. Until he got to the end and realised the bookshelf he'd usually step onto is... not there right now.
[01:39] Tyger: So he had to go backwards
[01:39] Azremodehar: oh no
[01:39] Tyger: He managed like three quarters of the way until he lost his balance! And he didn't fall the whole way, he clung on with his front paws. So I was able to boost him up and he made if off just fine. [01:40] Tyger: But seriously, cat, REALLY??
[01:40] Azremodehar: him ver adventursome
[01:40] Tyger: His cone was scraping across the wall the entire time I do not know why that wasn't enough to make him realise Maybe Not Right Now
[01:40] Azremodehar: :facepalmtachi:

Yeah I uh. I slept a LOT of today. I really needed it, not gonna lie.

Sushi is doing much better! He's figured out how to eat AND sleep in his cone, phew!!! And hasn't got out of it again, double phew!

I mainly just read stuff and played some games, when I was awake. Chill day, yes. Required. (Tomorrow I'm going to have to figure out what the fuck is up with my webserver stuff, because it's still not back up, which is going to be. Annoying. Because shit always is. Siiiiigh.)

I did forget that I moved another chest of drawers yesterday! So that's a thing. We haven't heard from the window people though, so it won't be starting on Monday. Hopefully they'll give us SOME notice? And double hopefully it'll be soon? It's very inconvenient to live like this.

Yeah, Sushi did have to get part of his tail amputated. :(

( Got a bit long. )

Other than that I did pmuch nothing today. Brain all gone. Barely even napped, despite having a terrible night's sleep due to worried. Bleh. Brain, getting all worked up like this doesn't! Actually! Stop me worrying! As well as, you know, not helping the situation at all to be overtired. SIGH.

Anyway, now is for sleeping again, so hopefully I'll sleep better today...

So APPARENTLY I let my domain registration lapse, whoops. Luckily, there's a grace period so I could still reregister it. Unluckily, it did mean it was more expensive. (Also I need to wait 24-48 hours for the DNS to re-propagate, uuuugh.) Very annoying, but not an unreasonable punishment for not having my shit together. :/

This is, honestly, a major problem with email in general for me, because I just did not check and see the reminders. Jobhunting makes it worse, because you get so goddamn many acknowledgement emails that mean absolutely nothing that having unread mail isn't even a vague concern. Which is bad. Need to find a way to manage it better, but haven't had the brain to do it thus far. If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it.

Moved my drawers yesterday, and some more of the display cabinet stuff. Plus some random shit to fill up the box it was in. Only one more dragon to go, and the rest is stuffed eevees, so that's not too bad!

Sushi's xray is at Before Goddamn Breakfast Time tomorrow morning, so I'm uh. Super nervous about that and also I should have been in bed at least attempting to sleep a while ago. Gotta get up early enough that a few months ago it still woulda been dark out, uuuugh. Also fuuuuck, Sushiiii ;; He's still fine in himself but I am. A fret. Yes.

Nothing huge today, which honestly was kind of nice.

Did some washing! Moved at least two thirds of the stuff in the display cabinet - need to find some more boxes for the last of it; most of the ones we have aren't quite tall enough to fit the bigger dragons. Still, most of them are done now, so that's something! The shells are also going to be annoying, but I already tipped over the bigger dish by accident when trying to get something else out, so I can just put them in a small box or something, will have to rearrange them all anyway.

Tomorrow will probably be my desk drawers, which are... very full. I REALLY need to rearrange the top two, and go through the bottom one looking for shit I can throw out. (Also file more things. It's my filing cabinet drawer, but it's unfortunately in a difficult position to get at most of the time, since the bin lives in front of it, as well as often the heater. I don't really have a lot of stuff I need to file, though, so it's really fine for my use case. I just get lazy, so I've got a small stack of medical receipts and tax stuff to file.)

Sushi is more or less fine in himself, though the wound is uh. Not looking any better. But his biggest complaint is that he is not allowed outside at all, not even into the run, and how! dare!!! Sigh. Anyway as it turns out it's good I couldn't make the appointment for tomorrow, because my father has one of his cancer check-up scans and that might've gotten awkward scheduling-wise. And, you know, Sushi isn't suffering, so...

So, Sushi's probably going to have to get half his tail amputated.

( Details )

I am upset about this! Also kicking myself, because maybe I should've called the vet as soon as I noticed the wound or something?? But I'll try and wait to hear what the root cause is before going down that spiral.

Part of my problem is also that I haven't fucking eaten properly today, like a moron. I mean, I'd be upset anyway of course, but the level of volatility in my upset is not usual for me, so yeah I'm pretty sure it's the food thing. (I accidentally about 14 hours without a meal. Which included all of the furniture moving I did, and also it was very humid.) Ate a bowl full of green beans when I realised at like. 1am. But that's still A Little Fucking Long, and I doubt it was enough. Didn't want to eat too much at that time of night either, though... (Or cook. Cooking also not a good idea after midnight.)

However, for good things about today... I survived driving to and from the vet! It wasn't as bad as I feared; turns out a lot of the parts of driving I've kept some muscle memory for. I mean. I'm still not a good driver, and I was definitely worse than I have been, but it wasn't too horrible.

I also got myself a bahn mi while I was out to reward myself for Doing A Scary Thing, and it was pretty good! Not the best bahn mi around, but the best I could get near the vet's!

And in moving news, I moved both of my under-desk chests of drawers. ( Ramble )

And now I go to bed. Hopefully tomorrow will be better! I should make egg-pea-mushroom-tuna noodles for lunch, that's a good solid meal...

So vet again for Sushi tomorrow! This is fine. I am fine with that. I am not fine with the fact that my parents are away, and thus I need. To drive. The car. To get him there. :( :( :( I think I've successfully avoided driving at all since like. 2016? 2015 maybe? Maybe not an entire decade but A LONG ASS TIME, and even that last time was literally just driving the car back from the airport, which is. Not a lot of driving, comparatively.

So yeah, that's gonna. Be a thing. :| Also it's at 11am which is not THAT early really but I should uh. Really be in bed so I have a chance of being Alert for non-adrenaline reasons. Yes. >>;;

Other than that, have now moved most of the big stuff on my desk, other than the electronics. (There are. Um. Four computers on here. So there's still quite a bit of stuff. And a couple of piles of little things, which will take a while to sort through... which is why I haven't done it yet.) Also moved my little shelf, and started emptying out the desk cupboard! Mostly the stationary, but also some other random stuff. Still more in there, but it's a start!

Anyway now I am stopping procrastinating, going to bed, and hoping I don't have another nightmare, bleh. My brain was a BASTARD last night...

Moved the storage drawers I have at the back of my desk today! ( Moving rambles )

Other than that, played some solo Terraria. ( Terraria rambles )

Anyway somehow it's now 4:30 so I'm just gonna. Uh. Go the fuck to bed, you moron. Yes. That.

Today I just... did not do any moving. Probably shoulda, but ehhh. I DID go to the shop and get meds, and played Terraria both with people and by myself, which is... something? Probably no multiplayer Terraria for a few days though, the host has houseguests. Including at least one of the other players, though maybe two? Not sure. Anyway, should be fun for them!

Other than that, uh. Not much. I napped a LOT today, not entirely on purpose. And now I'm up late because fiiiic, sigh. Self, just. Stoppit. But bed now yes! >: