Hello, new week. It’s Monday, and it’s sunny out there. I heard the crows, we had a chickadee on the feeder, and we tossed snacks in the yard.

The weekend is gone. We had a nice Sunday, going over to Shady Acres for dinner. Shawshank built a bed for his mom. I played Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 for most of the evening. I’m always messing with something different, or testing something that I might like. A skyliner cable system running the perimeter with stations? Ok. Paddle boats? Fuck your boats. A train with six stations? Doable, but is a bit much. Trams with four stations? Better. My current obsession is custom ride stations and park decor. I made a laser show, and a dancing fountain. All my bathrooms are hiding in little houses.

I didn’t do my hair, and I didn’t do my nails.

We’re back to work for the next day or two. Maybe I’ll make someone cry.

[Current Mood | okay ]

[Listening To | weekend news fluff ]

Hello, world. It’s sunny as fuck out there this morning. The “core four” crows have already dropped in for a snack, the cats have had their own breakfast, and we’re sitting around with coffee. Pod snuggled a bunch.

Saturday was nice, a very typical Saturday. Shawshank went to work in the morning, and I watched “The Earthling” for the first time in 40+ years. When fired up a TikTok stream to do my makeup. A couple of my old regulars stopped in and chatted for a while. Pippin jumped in for some attention and adoration from her little fans as well. I watched some YouTube stuff, then played Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 until Shawshank left work. He was feeling ok enough to go out, so we drove into Slightly BiggerTown for supplies, then came back home. We ate a big lunch late in the afternoon, and skipped the pizza we’d bought for dinner.

Shawshank relaxed and built a new park, while I watched more YouTube videos on how to make cooler parks.

Since it’s Sunday, we’re having brunch. I’ll make some french toast this week, we’re not going to have a repeat of last week’s egg sandwich incident. Later, we’re going to Shady Acres for dinner.

[Current Mood | nostalgic ]

The coffee can’t work fast enough. Shawshank left for an early shift at work, locking the bedroom door so I didn’t need to deal with Podrick doing Podrick shit in the window. Instead, Podrick did Podrick shit outside the door, insisting he could thwart the lock system and get in. There’s nothing to do in the bedroom, I’d get five minutes of snuggles and he’d be gone, attacking the window shade or Pippin.

Our Friday was typical. Shawshank went to work in the afternoon, and I set up the bedroom. I made about $23 in the first hour and then sat around for a while. Typical. I spent the rest of the evening getting better at using Davinci. I’ve been spoiled with simple, easy editing on TikTok. Davinci makes me feel like I’m teaching my grandparents to program a VCR.

Once Shawshank comes home from work, we’re driving out to Slightly BiggerTown for some supplies. As soon as I’m finished watching “The Earthling” – a movie that’s been nothing but a fever dream to me since the early 80’s – I’ll put some clothes on and assume a human form.

[Current Mood | grumpy ]

[Listening To | news programs ]

We’re up and out of bed on this sunny Friday morning. We’re up, and the cats are curled up. Podrick did his thing this morning, generally being huge and noisy. He snuggled me a few times– he actually came up to snuggle more than he went for the window.

Yesterday was a couch day. Shawshank noticed we had a 7 day tease of AppleTV in our Prime, so we watched the first season of “Silo“. That’s all that we can see for free. We obviously didn’t learn our lesson from the last time this happened, when we noticed the free trial and got into “Severance“. I’m trying to think of it like it’s a Netflix series: really good, but cancelled after one season, because I sure as hell won’t see any more of it.

I also bleached my hair, finally achieving a good amount of lift. I’m not sure what color(s) I’ll do, mainly because I’m not sure what’s in the closet. Honestly, I usually don’t know what I’ll do until I’ve got the gloves on. I have a lot of blue, because I snagged a bunch of blue Splatt kits when I found them on clearance for $2. That’ll be a decision for future me. I won’t do anything today, since it’s a work night, but probably tomorrow.

My stream dudes can deal with blonde tonight, although I do think I should try to do my nails. Manicure or not, I’ll get on in the afternoon and hope to make some good money. Or just money in general.

[Current Mood | okay ]

Good morning, world. It’s time to get up and greet the day. The cats have taken up their stations by each door, watching birds. I don’t know exactly what the forecast has in store, but it’s starting off nice enough. Once the sun came up, Podrick came up to bed for cuddles for regular, hourly sessions. I’d love a return to his baby days, when I could curl up and hold him against my chest for the night.

We enjoyed the day off. Shawshank had some business to handle with his mom, so he did that, then picked me up. We went over to Shady Acres to borrow the vacuum. I was given free reign to pick through the stash of embroidery supplies for colors, and I think I’ve got almost everything I need. I definitely took enough for the ground, but sky colors are still iffy. Neither of our yarn stashes had midtones that are blue enough, they all lean a bit green. I have one more cloud to finish in the sky, and I’ll see if there’s any at the sewing shop in Slightly BiggerTown when we go out this weekend. In the meantime, I can work on the non-sky shit.

We have another day off, and it’s going to be a nice, quiet day with not much more than coffee and contemplation and laundry. I want to bleach my hair and fix my nails. The little secondhand shop is open, so we’ll see if anyone’s donated good treasures this week.