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Thursday equivalent! This week I have:

• verified Baby Dog's pet insurance is correct and made her an appointment next week to get some shots updated, when I do that I'll see about scheduling the free dental cleaning she gets with her new insurance
• talked to a lawyerperson about setting up a trust

• did like .... step .5 in making a dentist appointment; I've told myself I'm allowed to put off taking the full step so long as I do it on Friday morning, which is my Saturday equivalent but gives me the opportunity to sit comfortably at my desk and feel less generally stressed about it

so I feel pretty good about that!

Right now I'm sitting for a minute to rest (did my chores first thing this morning, woo!) and then I'll take Baby Dog on a nice long walk. Also I have to call the courthouse this afternoon to find out if I have jury duty tomorrow, ew. To be honest, though, I wouldn't haaaaaate it if I did, since it would actually have me starting my weekend earlier than I normally would and I'm in the privileged position of both physically and financially being able to sit and listen to lawyers on a workday.

(I am passionate that trial by a jury is an important legal right and I hate, hate, hate that unless you are lucky enough to work somewhere that will pay you your normal wages for sitting on a jury instead of being at work, the compensation you get from the actual court means most people will lose money they can't afford to lose -- my friend Masque had jury duty recently and the county didn't even pay for juror parking, which meant they ended up actively PAYING to sit on a jury)

Okay lemme -- oh snap! I just realized one of my tasks was to get my external hard drive out and unfuckle my art files, let me at least get the hard drive on my desk so I remember to do that today or tomorrow.

Duty has been juried!

I did end up having to go in but I got about the best case scenario, which is I sat in the juror waiting room until around 12:30 at which point they released my entire panel because they ended up not needing us. Neat! Bothersome, but ultimately worth the trade-off because I still have today dismissed w/ pay from work AND today's my Friday equivalent, so my weekend has begun!

howEVER I am painfully overstimulated from the mixture of morning commute + courtroom + stopping at a slammed busy grocery store on the way home to grab stuff for dinner + fuckdamn construction completely shutting down a vital intersection so I! am! going to sit and disassociate while doing bungame chores for a bit until my brain is done feeling like it's made of glass

after that I'd like to finish an art I've been working on and maybe do some other stuff but for now,

gay rabbit time

also I brought a Vampire Hunter D light novel to read in the waiting room and the shtick in this one is D's twin, who is also named D (he actually just, does not have a name and refers to himself and D as the same person because he has some stuff going on), but this results in a bit of a "teehee-in-translation" moment which is one of the characters, at the prospect of fighting both D and his brother at the same time, says "I can't handle two D's at once!"

Weekend has been nice and restful so far! I'm on my last day of it and need to do laundry and get groceries, but otherwise it should be chill. I did completely forget to make a dentist appointment -- genuinely forgot, not "woops lmao" forgot -- so I've re-added that to my to-do list for next week, but I got the other grown-up tasks done.

okay I'm super meandering brain today, so! to-do list time baybeeeee

1) clean kitchen
2) generally tidy a bit
3) buy secret santa present
4) D&D prep w/ Sophie
5) laundry
6) groceries
7) check my planner for next week
8) finish installing ESO

I'm about to knock out the big ticket items right now so I can take a break to level my dragoon in bungame a little bit. Away I gooooo

I say this with full respect for resin crafters, who are doing and can do a thing I have no idea how to do and would not be willing to do myself,

there's some ugly dice on etsy good lord

erikavonkaiser wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 3:51 pm

1) clean kitchen -- I'm calling this done even though I have technically re-dirtied the kitchen to cook soup, but it's just an extra pot I'll have to wash
2) generally tidy a bit
3) buy secret santa present
4) D&D prep w/ Sophie
5) laundry -- can't mark this one off quite yet but I do have it in the dryer so we're almost there
6) groceries
7) check my planner for next week
8) finish installing ESO -- false lead with this one, I thought I was clever and would just install it on Xbox but there's no crossplay so I'll just temporarily uninstall BG3 later and let it install overnight so I can play with mek next weekend

Also it wasn't on the list but I do have aforementioned soup cooking, heck yeah! I got stuff to make soup w/ the intention to use up some chicken in the fridge but when I opened the chicken container it smelled a bit suspicious (it was cooked but tbh had been in the fridge for well over a week, I won't lie). I went ahead and threw it away, RIP. I added some extra veggies and bouillon to the soup so it'll still be tasty, though!

Okay I think I've earned a video game break, I'mma play some bungame while soup finishes souping. After that my next break will be to grab laundry and then probably exercise, and after that I'll see about doing some creative work before this evening. I think the Toes and I are gonna play Grounded on Xbox tonight, which will be a fun way to cap off the week.

art WIP hours

having a uterus is so dumb