terareflection

Vet day today!

We ended up having to go to the further away vet anyway; we went to our usual but the vet there was all '...we don't have an xray machine here and it might just be swelling but I'd really like to make sure he doesn't have any broken bones in his tail', so yeah. We went and did that.

It turns out it IS just swelling! Which is a relief and a half! They gave him a painkiller injection (which should last ~3 days, which is really! Impressive!!), and I've got some more anti-inflammatory painkillers for when that wears off. Plus poop medication, because while they thankfully didn't find any broken bones on the xray they did find he was full of poop. Probably because moving his tail was so painful! But medication just in case, too.

Anyway, despite All Of That, and also having to be sedated for the xray, more or less the first thing Sushi did when we got home (perked up a LOT from the painkiller) was start sniffing at the back door, trying to figure out if he could get it open and go Outside. SIGH. He has clearly not learned a single thing!

But hey, at least he'll be fine! Eventually! And he's feeling better, too, which is great.

Other than that, played a bunch of Terraria both with people and by myself, and then I got distracted and... yeah. But, you know, stuff and things and more stuff and more things and whatever. Yes. Bed time.

( Sushi update; no real change from last night but not because nothing happened. )

( Blanket updates!! :D )

I'm going head-first into finishing the blanket because we got news from the window people - nothing's decided for sure yet but they might be coming as early as the 1st of December, which means I have to move... pretty much all of my stuff out of here. Which is. A lot of stuff. We've gotta prepare somewhere to put it first, which is why I haven't started moving things yet, but getting this project entirely finished so that all of the parts can go AWAY is going to be extremely helpful. Including the sewing machine, because we can then put it away and use the cabinet as a flat surface for storage purposes, hahaha. (Also then I don't have to worry about the weather changing and being without a blanket. That will help too.)

I also played some Terraria this evening - fuck I forgot how hard this game is. Also gotta get used to the UI again etc etc. But even though I got squished by King Slime, I think I made some real progress - found some good accessories (cloud in a bottle, sandstorm in a bottle, and flippers!), plus a magic mirror... it's a decent enough start! :3 Hopefully multiplayer shenanigans tomorrow, but that'll depend on Sushi as much as anything, sigh.

My uncle is home from the hospital, finally! :D :D :D He was in there for AGES, but he's better enough to go home now! So great!

Other than that, Mama wanted a break from the chook pen thing, so even though it was a nice day we didn't do that. So I ended up doing FOUR lines on the blanket! :D :D :D The first of the panels is almost completely done! One more line, or possible like. One or two stitches on a second line. Almost! Done!!! Aaaa, I'm excited, it's getting so close!!!

Also did washing and like. Showered and stuff. So no minecraft, just a bit of reading. Probably a sensible thing, given what time it's ended up anyway... >>;;;;

This chair isn't bad exactly, but it's a little too high and my back keeps hurting after a few hours in front of it because I keep stooping very very slightly to see things. :/ Honestly I should probably bring my chair in and use it even though it's still missing a cushion - the actual structural work is done, it's just replacing the cushion that's left which is my job, not my father's. Which is fine! I just. Blanket. Do not have brain for other projects, really, particularly not with Mama and the chook run extension thing butting in sometimes.

Speaking of, we did some more work on that today, and we made progress!! ...and then it started raining, so it was only a little progress, but hey, at least the 'take the door apart and put it back together on something flat' idea worked. (It's still liable to twist, but it's much better, and we've determined that it's pretty much a material fault and nothing we can really do about it. If it's still going weird once we've added the chicken wire etc I will consider Adding Shit to keep it vaguely straight.) Also I got to use the mallet on it, which was very therapeutic.

Other than that, couple of lines on the blanket (closing in on the end of the max length lines! Soooon!), some minecraft... nothing much else. Very sleepy day since Mama keeps waking me up, bleh.

This is not a thing I should be proud of and yet. Sleep schedules, man. Make living with other people hell. (Or, at least, with Mama. My father isn't a great housemate in many ways, but he's extremely accepting of sleep.)

Anyway! Mama and I worked on the chook run extension thing for a bit today! UGH, still so frustrating. But we've made progress!!! Probably more tomorrow, too, as long as the weather cooperates. Which is not guaranteed, at all, everything was soaked this morning it just happened to come good so we could work in the afternoon...

Other than that, couple of rows on the blanket - I don't think I'm quite at halfway, but I'm getting there for sure! Just gotta keep a steady pace and I should get there without too much trouble. If nothing goes wrong, of course, which does mean I'll need to keep it well away from Sushi... He's been made of beans recently, zooming around the house much more the usual and back to climbing up curtains etc. etc. etc. He picked a fight with the cardboard scratcher I have behind me this evening, which was pretty funny. Yeah, you show that cardboard who's boss! XD

I really didn't think I'd get there today, but I got to max length! Only one line, but I am not even slightly unhappy about that, just. Wow. (I only did four lines, so like. It was WAY closer than I thought, I guess...)

I'm definitely getting a lot faster than I was even a week ago, though; first time through doing more than two lines when they were nearing/at max length was just... not achievable in an afternoon and evening. Today, I did two in the afternoon, two in the evening, and was done just after 10pm. (So of course I played some minecraft and lost track of time but that is a different issue.)

Other than that, nothing interesting really. I AM getting through thread nicely, though I'm still on partially-used stuff and that... may not change by the end of this direction. There's just. There's a lot of it. Main reason I might get into the whole skeins is simply because some of the colours are too dark for the fabric, so they're hard to see and thus make the pattern look weird. It is not a fading into the background piece of work, hahaha!

Pretty straightforward day today! Went for a walk with Mama, and then worked on the blanket!

And then some minecraft, and then I read for a little while and then ???? it 4am. Again. SIGH. I never learn...