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mek wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:30 pm

I have had, a vegetales song stuck in my head all day

I've never watched vegetales. This seems unfair.

Bad news, my brain figured out that "you'll be sent to horny jail" scans to one of the lines in the chorus

Why am I awake

Woke up at about four AM with Intestinal Symptoms and have been awake since then. Staying awake until at least 9 so I can feed the cat without having to wake up to do it.

I did make cookies last night, for Lee's birthday. I wanted to make shortbread cookies because I think I remember that he likes those, but couldn't find any vanilla extract (and don't know if we have any to find (I did not look super duper hard, though)). Instead I made Bacon Blasphemy cookies without the bacon, because I think they're amazing, we happen to have the ingredients laying around, and I wanted to see how they'd turn out without the bacon. Because I wasn't sure how they'd taste, I didn't sugar the tops, but I will next time. I also want to try them without the chocolate chips.

Anyway, I think they're good. They're kind of shortbready, so that's a nice happenstance. I hope Lee likes them (I have been trying to find baked goods that he actually likes since moving in with him).

Today I need to shower and [redacted], and I swear there was something else I needed to get done today but I'll be damned if I can remember what it was right now. I do need to examine furniture for rearrangement purposes, but that's not urgent until the weekend. I need to do laundry tomorrow and change out my bedding. I might want to see if I can get over to dad's house this weekend.

Hopefully I remember what I'm forgetting when I wake up again, but probably not a huge deal if I don't.

I've been struggling a lot with the concept of 'going to dad's house', since the thing where he got rid of my stuff without warning. I need to go over there and get the rest of my things before he does that again but I don't want to see him, and I don't want to see the things gone, and I don't want to have to figure out what's gone and what's left, and.

Flinch reaction.

I don't want to think about what could have been in those boxes, because there's nothing to be done about it anyway, but it hurts to think about what could have been in those boxes.

The cookies are delicious! And they are short bread-y, which I do love. They’re a little salty and not too sweet and chocolate chips and! I sort of maybe ate one at like 5 am because I didn’t want to wait to try them. Very good.

Vanilla, fyi, is in one of the bottom drawers of the spice tower. I think third from the bottom? It’s on the left hand side of the drawer with the other flavor extracts.

I am really sorry your dad continues to be a jerk regarding your stuff. I can take you over this weekend, if you’d like, easily. Just let me know.

mek wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 3:12 pm

Today I need to shower and [redacted], and I swear there was something else I needed to get done today but I'll be damned if I can remember what it was right now. I do need to examine furniture for rearrangement purposes, but that's not urgent until the weekend. I need to do laundry tomorrow and change out my bedding. I might want to see if I can get over to dad's house this weekend.

Hopefully I remember what I'm forgetting when I wake up again, but probably not a huge deal if I don't.

I have remembered! I need to cut up Oz's pills

It's Lee's birthday which means I can talk about what I made him without giving it away-

I made him slime rancher slimes

I couldn't afford to get him his real presents in August, so I made him some sculpey figures so I could give him something on his actual birthday, and in a happy coincidence he got me a set of silicone sculpting tools, so I got to use those while I made them, and they turned out much better than if I'd just used my hands

But he seems to like them, so that's also nice

 
Physical therapy today, and an assessment of how progress has gone, which means there's only a few more sessions left before I'm done with it. I could in theory press for another round, but I don't think it would do me a whole lot, and I think the therapist would recommend I not. While I still have some discomfort, I have basically full functionality back, and whatever further exercise I do to try to improve things further, I don't really need supervision or guidance to do them. So unless I suddenly regress a lot, things are close to over for this. I'm sad to not see him again, as a person, because he's pretty cool and it's been nice talking to him every week. But I'll be happy to get my fridays back and maybe have the energy to go out and do stuff besides PT.

Lee and I were going to video games this evening, but dinner ended up a bit late, so we didn't really have time. But we're going to tomorrow, with him playing some Slime Rancher and me working on projects. I also want to get us playing Ace Attorney again -- we weren't able to for a bit and I have been waiting for us to know that we will consistently have time to play it, because after a certain point, if we stop playing, I won't remember what we're doing or how to progress, which will be frustrating. But right now I'm familiar enough with the case we're on that even though it's been a few weeks, I can pick it back up and know what we need to do

Instead of video games, we watched youtubes and then I did a tarot reading for him, for his coming year. Kind of predictable results, but the deck was easy to read tonight, which was nice. I still need to figure out shuffling solutions for it

I was going to wash bedding stuff tonight but I don't have the energy to do all the things that would be required for me to be able to do that, so I'm putting it off. I did hang one of the shoe cubby things in the closet, which is a step toward getting my room back under control. I still need to cut up Oz's pills, which I'll do while I watch some more of Quinton Review's five hour Sam & Cat video, and I should shower but I don't know if I'll do that tonight or tomorrow before Lee and I hang out. I want to do it while the AC isn't running but I also don't want to stand any more tonight. We'll see what my energy is like after eating some more dinner

I love them!

So on the one hand, Cary bought me Stray, which was extremely nice of them and I'm excited to get to play it

On the other hand, my computer has stopped turning on. So I will not be playing it, or any other PC game, until that's fixed or replaced

Erik's going to take a look at it tomorrow, best case scenario is it spontaneously starts working again, less good scenario is the power supply needs to be replaced (slightly better but similar case scenario, the power cable needs to be replaced), worst case scenario is I need a new computer. It's just straight up not responding to the power button being pressed, and my attempts to poke at it have yielded nothing. So hopefully Erik has good news of some kind.