terareflection

As fucking usual when I try and call, I was on hold for a fucking hour. Anyway, as it turns out, I'm not being asked to do anything yet because I've still got two more weeks ~waiting period~ before my claim actually DOES anything. Which is annoying. But not as annoying as the fact that it doesn't TELL ME THAT ANYWHERE ON THE WEBSITE, which is just. W h y. Yez want people to look stuff up online rather than call! Why you not put relevant information on the site so people don't need to call. Why. This isn't actually a complicated thing I wanted to know, this time!!!

Bleh.

Anyway, other than that today was pretty excellent. Weather was GORGEOUS - I didn't need a jumper or anything until well after dark - and I got some of the hand sewing done AND made a foot for the jigglypuff. Which I am indeed still working on. Slowly.

But now it's time for sleep yes. Sleeeeep.

Unsurprisingly, didn't do a huge amount today!

Went for a walk with Mama, which was nice, and ran into Auntie M which was fun! We didn't recognise her at first, we haven't previously encountered Auntie M In Footie Clothes. She was wearing a cap! So weird! I mean, her going to the football isn't news, just. Woah!

Did a bit of the handsewing for finishing off the switch case, too. It only ended up being like 20cm but I worked on it for idk at least an hour. Ugh, so time consuming, so many tiny tiny stitches. This thing is gonna be solid as hell! |D

And then this evening my heater fucking started smoking!!! :/ WHY. I've only had it what, a year or so? And yet. SMOKE. Ugh. (And now I'm EXTRA cold because I opened the window so the smoke smell could dissipate. Uuuuugh.) So, gonna have to get a new heater soonish! :/ It's warmer than it was, but it's still not warm, and who even knows if we're gonna get a cold snap at some point! So annoying!!!

Met up with A for lunch! :D We ended up going to two galleries - A had some stuff to drop off for a friend at the first one (more stuffed animals hahahahhaha), and then we were close to the second so we poked our noses in there, too. Some super cool stuff!!! :D

Other than that... I got snacks! I kinda ate all the ones I had, so... yes. Snacks important. That's pretty much all I did today, though, kinda just passed the fuck out when I got home, as usual, and just a bit of minecraft this evening.

Oh, wait, no, I got another call from a recruiter! This one I think I did pretty okay with, so fingers crossed I'll at least get an interview! >: >: >: (Gonna have to brush up on React stuff, though, heh. Which I should probably do anyway, React is... very popular. Sigh.)

Not that a huge amount happened, really. Finally blocked the switch case! Did some cleaning & tidying up. That's about all.

Today I went for a walk with Mama, and then I took my keyboard apart and cleaned the hell out of it. It. Um. It took a LOT longer than I expected - like, three hours or something - but I got SO much gunk out, omfg. It's not perfect, but it's so much better. :D

Haven't done any mending or knitting/crochet, which I really want to do, but it'll come! Soon! I hope. Tomorrow I've got to do the gross animal upkeep cleaning, which is fine, if annoying. Maybe after that.

I'm trying to not turn the desktop on until after tea, in an attempt to railroad my brain into getting some shit done rather than just read all day. Too early to tell how it'll go over time, but at least it's not been a dismal failure from the outset! :3

The weather was AWESOME today, I ended up spending idk an hour, hour and a half weeding in the front yard. (The onion grass is blooming, it is the ideal time to attack it! >E >E >E) Extremely nice to be out in the sun, yessss.

I also darned two holes in a shawl, only for Mama to notice one we'd both missed several times as I was folding it to put away orz orz orz. It's mohair, so it's kinda a pain to darn, since the wool catches to much, and since it's a super loose knit it's SUPER obvious it's fixed, but! Also it is big and drapey so you can't really see the repaired bits when you wear it. (According to Mama, but they're not that big so I believe her!)

Anyway I'll finish that off tomorrow, and then put it at the BACK of the drawer, since it got its holes via Sushi clawing at it when even a tiny tiny bit was visible, sigh. Sushi really likes mohair, apparently??? I can't blame him it is super fluffy, but at the same time, Sushi do you have to show your love by destroying things??? (Of course he does, he is the biteiest of boys. Such a tiny jerk...)

Unsurprisingly, today I was very tired!

The fact that it was cold enough my ankle started bitching didn't help, either. :/

Anyway, A was good! :D Tiny exhibit was fun! Also I now have a massive roumb dragonite it's the best. (Mama is SUPER MAD, sigh.)

Um. Something something I keep drifting off trying to finish this post so uh I think I'll just. Go bed now. Yes.

So today I finally got my shit together and did the stud finding thing, and I was at the point where I was trying to get the shelf up onto the top of the bookshelves just to check if the places I'd marked would work (ie, not in the middle of the shelf). Aaaaand... it was too heavy for me to manage something that long on my own, so I had to get Mama to help, and... well. ( Physics is hard. )

So that's super annoying and I'm not sure what to do about it.

Other than that... nothing too interesting. Did get those shinies in pokemon, which is good! Haven't fought the new boss yet, but hopefully will be pretty straightforward... And one of the new set of mass outbreaks I've already got the shinies for, so I only need to catch four shinies total this time! :D Also ONE OF THEM IS VULPIX, which is SO EXCITING eeeeee :D :D :D :D :D