[Current Mood | frustrated ]

Good morning, world. A bright, new day has dawned, and with it, a new month. We had a frost warning last night, but it looks like my sunflowers and morning glories survived. They don’t have much longer, I expect.

My Wednesday was slow. I wasn’t firing on all cylinders, but got on the bean nonetheless. The afternoon was dragging on, every time I’d look at the clock it was at least 20 minutes earlier than I expected it to be. I forced myself to sit there and do my idle things for an hour, then I took a break. I took a longer break later, when the light was blinding me, and fed the house. I logged back in for another go at things, but never got much interaction from people. It wasn’t a great night.

I’m hoping tonight is better.

1. Bad income is still income. ↩︎

[Current Mood | okay ]

It’s morning. It’s gray. It’s ✨Wednesday✨.

We enjoyed another nice day off. Shawshank‘s mom texted us with updates on his dad and filled us in on her plans for the day. We wasted the morning, had lunch, and played some games all afternoon. After confirming his mom had left town, we drove over to Shady Acres and loaded up the truck for the next transfer. We dropped things off, then headed off to the secondhand shop. Shawshank found a nice dress shirt and a game, and I found a sweater and a pretty skirt, and a vampire cape. We gamed until dinner time.

Today starts yet another longer work week. It’s the last day of the pay period, and I’m hoping I can make some cash. I’m gearing up for spooky season.

[Current Mood | unbothered era ]

It’s a lovely Tuesday morning. The kitties are quietly snoozing, I have coffee. That’s about the gist of things.

We enjoyed our day off. Shawshank went over to Shady Acres to bring the latest boxes to the new place, making an extra trip because I forgot to ask him to bring one home for me. He made us a yummy brunch, handling most of the prep and cooking, then leaving the kitchen when it came time for me to make some french toast. I dealt with the bread, and we stuffed ourselves. His mom gave me a jar of some homemade spread that tastes like the insides of a cinnamon roll. I’ve only had it on English muffins until yesterday. Putting it on French toast made it taste like a flattened cinnamon roll. It was delicious.

Shawshank played Final Fantasy X for a while. I messed around on Reddit and Discord for a while, but eventually grabbed the Switch and played Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 all day.

We’ll do a little bit of the same today. We’ll go pick up some boxes, maybe go out to the thrift store.

[Current Mood | high ]

[Listening To | jazzy news muzak ]

It’s Monday, y’all. You up? Are you ready for the week? We have the next two days off, and Podrick let us sleep in.

With Shawshank at work all day, I spent yesterday doing what I could in the time I had. Once he left, I logged into TikTok and put on my makeup, chatting with the random folks who actually had something to say. I started setting up the bedroom, then took a break to eat some lunch. Pippin demanded a lot of my attention, kicking off her shenanigans by screaming from the kitchen while I curled my hair. If I walked near the bed, she ran along the edge of the mattress wanting me to pick her up. She had that look that told me her launch codes were ready to activate, so I put on a robe and picked her up. The last either of us wants is her jumping onto my bare shoulder and shredding me.

By the time I had sufficiently cuddled her, I was logging in around my regular time. I got several compliments on my makeup – some of these guys really, really dig the Lisa Frank color palettes. I’ll have to find a few more bright shadow palettes, I’m always afraid of running out and I need more options.

Shawshank came home at dinner time, and threw a frozen pizza in the oven. He watched me play Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 until it finished cooking. We spent the rest of the night doing fuck-all.

We have the next two days off. Shawshank has already shuffled some boxes from Shady Acres to the new place, and we have brunch plans.

[Current Mood | okay ]

[Listening To | news and crows ]

Good morning,y’all. It’s fucking Sunday, and the coffee is flowing. Both kitties came onto the bed and let me cuddle them, and that was the highlight of the bedtime activities.

We had a treat yesterday, and went to an estate sale in town. The last time this happened in town, most of the house had been picked through and they didn’t have much left. This time, even though this was the second day, they still had a lot of stuff to look through. I nearly had a(nother) set of vintage Pyrex, but I didn’t hear Shawshank tell me to pick it up and another woman took two of the four bowls. I left with a ceramic cat, a View-Master, and a stack of reels from the 60’s and 70’s.

The View-Master is great, and I had no idea they put out the variety of shit did. I’m pretty sure the two reels I had as a child were from Disney, but it makes complete sense when you remember it’s directly descended from the older stereoscope and card setup. The sound it makes when you advance the reel is a core memory to me. We passed on the spoon collection.

I took last night off and skipped the streaming. The only way I can get traffic on Fridays is to use my cellular data and log in early, but Saturdays have never been a good night for me to stream, no matter what. I was still productive, and dealt with editing and scheduling what was left of Friday night’s highlight clips. I ate something, then played video games for the rest of the night.

Shawshank has the full Sunday shift today. I’ll, do my #grwm on TikTok then set up the bedroom for a different type of stream.