terareflection

I really got no idea this time, ugh, whyyy.

Anyway. Doctor went... well, it was a doctor's appointment. She wants me to stop eating snacks. ;; Or at least 'not anything prepackaged' and 'not everyday', which seems. Um. Harsh. BUT I WILL GIVE IT AN ATTEMPT. I'm not saying I'll succeed, but I'll try. (Also more exercise, which is. Bleh. But a thing I can do.)

After I came home and napped from that, I did start moving furniture! Not sure if the current configuration is gonna work, yet, but I did move my couch in there so at least I get to sleep in my own goddamn room. That'll be nice. ...still gotta move the phone charger and lamp and stuff though. Whoops. Will do that after this!

Haven't moved my desk yet, which is gonna be the Difficult Thing - it's big enough that if it doesn't end up working where I'm currently thinking of it, I'll have to rearrange everything. So hopefully that'll go okay...

Also finally got the beehive kiln finished in Vintage Story! It's done its first firing! :D :D :D Colourful thiiiiings~! :D

Anyway. Bed now yes. Sleeeeep.

So I did manage to get a couple of coats of paint on the bookshelves today! :D Took a LOT longer than expected - first I had to do even more cleaning because of course I did, cleaning is just. An inevitable and constant part of the process.

And then I did the first coat, and I decided to start off doing the fiddly detail bits, not just the main bits, and. Well. I don't think it was a bad decision, but it took forever. Like, it took something along the lines of two and a half hours just for one coat, which is. Ridiculous. Given the amount of space we're talking about.

Still, it seems to have worked pretty well! Second coat I just did the major bits, and that went as quickly as expected, so that's something. Hopefully the fiddly stuff won't need another coat, but even though it looked okay in the electric lights it might look patchy in the sunlight, so I'll have to see how it is tomorrow. >:

Also did a bunch of stuff in Vintage Story - finally got the beehive kiln started!!! Also did a bunch of other pottery stuff, which is nice. I do like making pottery in this game! My collection of weird powders for making nice pottery is slowly growing, hahahaha. I haven't even started the glazes part of the mod yet and there's already so many, bleh. Also I actually found a cinnabar deposit, so I can make red dye! That'll be nice, yessss. Still need lapis for a lot of the nice pottery stuff, but I'm also out of bauxite for making bricks so hopefully I can find some at the same time... (Probably not though, given how little bauxite I've found so far. But I can try!)

Other than getting up long enough for kittybreakfast, I uh. Slept until like 4pm today. Which is fine, but it does mean I've only been up twelve hours, whoops.

Anyway.

( Home improvement rambles. )

Not much other than that, really. Cleaned the bathroom. Vintage Story, of course - I built a shadehouse! Otherwise just more of the same, heh. Though while looking for my idiot pets in a hole in the ground (I swear to fuck they can phase through while I'm not looking, I fucking covered over the holes!) I found... fucking iron. Doesn't look like there's much of it but STILL. IRON. RIGHT FUCKING UNDER MY BASE. Uuuuugh whyyyyy /o\ /o\ /o\

Still, at least I can get some more iron once I get all my idiot pets out. (It's slow going, because there's enough monsters down there I can only nab one or two at a time before I have to run so I don't die. Luckily the monsters don't attack the pets!)

Anyway, to bed with me! Might not need to use any power tools tomorrow, but I should probably go and get food, so I'll need to be awake during the daytime...

So, I woke up really hungry, which was not great given I had to go get my blood test. :/ But I went! And I got it! Aaaaand it hit me like a sack of bricks.

Seriously I was out of it enough one of the staff members (maybe a nurse but IDK) asked me if I was okay on the lift down. Which uh. Yeah.

Anyway, I had a snack at the shitty cafe and came home and passed the fuck out for a while, which did help, but I've been Off all day. Which isn't really surprising, it doesn't usually hit me that bad but when it does... Honestly, I think I probably didn't eat enough yesterday? Definitely should've had at least one more meal, I guess. Oh well, I will endeavor to do better in the future! >:

Despite all that, I did actually get some stuff done! Bookshelves are totally prepped, yay! Will do the undercoat of the built in bits next, then put in the new pieces; I figure that way will give it the best chance of getting a coherent paint job. Hopefully! I'll probably have to do some wood filling around the edges, anyway, so there's no real point doing a full paint before that's done.

Also a bit of Vintage Story! Steel furnace is actually running, which is good! May not have enough charcoal to get it to finish the load - you have to do it in stages - but I've got another stack burning so hopefully not too much delay! Also moved some more stuff across to the new area, before brains went splat and no more thinky thinks. Slow process is slow, but hey, at least it's going!

And now to go pass the fuck out again, yes. >: Have the dentist tomorrow, rather than Friday, which is my own memory's fault, but at least they texted me a reminder so I'm not blindsided by it tomorrow! Also more plumber shenanigans planned for the morning, siiigh. At least one mystery got solved today - it's my father's shitty DIY coming apart that's making the leak! Shock!!! Also got the tank working again - they forgot to turn it back on - but the water pressure problem when on mains is still a thing, so yeah...

So it turns out that if you forget to eat properly, the headache/nausea you get from that masks the withdrawal symptoms from forgetting to take your goddamn meds. Guess how I know. SIGH.

One day I will learn h ow to be a functioning biological creature, but today is apparently not that day.

Also the plumber came over today to have a look at the dishwasher... and it magically just started working when he was here. Which is just. C'mon, dishwasher, you're not a computer you're not supposed to get up to these shenanigans! :|

Anyway other than those two things, pretty good day!

( Rambly, cut for length )

ANYWAY. Now it is time for bed and hopefully tomorrow I will be a little more with it! >:

I did a lot of things today!

• Fixed the bike! Turns out the chain had come off the forward gear; it was covered by a plate - guard? - so I couldn't see it until I got really close, but it was an easy fix once I found it!
• Went to the shops
• Started working on fixing the bookshelves - my cousin has had some shit happen and also his babby is nearly due so I'mma try and do it myself! >: >: >: Looks like it's pretty straightforward, since there's a bunch of offcuts I can use that're the right shape, just gotta cut them to size and attach them :3
  • To that end started pulling out what I can of the old grotty carpet with some pliers! Alas was not able to do the job - my wrist started aching so I stopped because of that, and it turns out I'd also just started developing a blister, so it's good that I stopped when I did! Will try and do some more tomorrow though >:
• Also moved the first bits of stuff back into my room. Nothing complicated, but it's something. Is my bedframe, so still need to put it together, but I was getting pretty hungry by that point hahaha
• Test run of washing machine: seems to have worked!
  • Unfortunately, the dishwasher's now giving a water intake error. SIGH. =_=
• Made bikkies! Kinda disappointing, honestly, I should've used the other recipe. That involves refrigerating the dough, though, and I didn't wanna. Also it turned out to be like 1:30am when I was doing this so it's probably a good thing I didn't...

Also played some Vintage Story; mostly just the stuff to progress the tech tree I started work on yesterday! Getting further, slowly but surely! :3 Will probably need to go find some fire clay to finish all the bricks the steel furnace needs though...

Honestly I've been doing really well to get this far without finding any fire clay at all! I've mostly just been finding it in ruins, plus the 'get a random different clay piece every block of clay you did up' perk from xskills. Also there's a way to very very very slowly duplicate clay with grog from a different mod, but I've only just been able to pulverize the big shards into smaller shards which get ground to grog, so that's been pretty limited until now too.

I won't be surprised if I'm a pancake tomorrow, btw, but I'm glad to have got some stuff done! :3 Hopefully at least SOME stuff will get continued on tomorrow...

Floor guys were back today - aw, shit, I didn't mention what happened yesterday, 'cause of all the suckiness. They came yesterday morning and took a look, and sanded back the weird bits and re-stained! And then today they came back and did another top coat! So that should all be fixed now, fingers crossed! Just gotta let it dry, and also probably air out because stiiiinky. Still, can probably start moving furniture back in over the weekend, finally! \o/

Other than that, it was absolutely gorgeous weather this afternoon so I went out the back and... well... I mean I was kinda thinking of doing the bike but I instead mucked out the chooks. Which needed doing! And is probably more urgent than the bike?? Probably. There was a worm in their water bucket, which was weird. I guess it must have got thrown up in there somehow? One of the girls extremely fucked up trying to eat it, maybe?? I dunno. Anyway hopefully it'll be happier in the compost bin!

Also some Vintage Story, of course. Nothing too interesting though, just attempting to improve tech and failing because I still can't find any fucking iron deposits which is weird as hell and also very annoying. :/ I will find a different direction to try tomorrow, I guess!!! On the plus side I did at least clear out this one locust nest, that's something...