First month in new house: complete!

HELLO FRIENDS, it feels like it's been a million years! But today I sat down and suddenly went "... If I don't write words I'm gonna flip an entire table" so I think I'm doing okay? It was my birthday at the start of October (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) and I had a really nice, quiet weekend! My mum paid for a new fridge as mine and Lex's joint birthday present, Pseudotwin got me Unstable Unicorns, Lex bought me fuzzy house socks and a Sailor Moon colouring book, and we went to Hobbycraft so I could buy MORE FABRIC! Excellent birthday. Although jilliferium made it even better! I compared her to a Tonberry, so she spent a LITERAL WEEK messaging me at random times just saying "Step."

And then that Saturday she rings me. "What are you doing today?" "Shit all?" "GREAT."

FIVE HOURS LATER, SHE IS ON MY DOORSTEP TO YELL "DOINK!"

We got to be Horrible Geese together and she was our first overnight houseguest and just! WHAT A GOOD BIRTHDAY!

As for everything else:

House: The house is down to about 60% box by volume instead of 80%! \o/ No seriously, I feel incredibly smug about this. Hung lampshades all on my own, built bookcases with LexGarrett, captainraz, and hardlyaverage, cleaned the heck out of the kitchen... We're making progress! Next goals are to get rid of all of the aslgfasjbdsg cardboard, because it turns out that moving house just spawns cardboard boxes somehow? But between that and sorting out books for shelving/selling/donating, we're going to have so much space.

• Me: I did THINGS!
  LexGarrett: I'm impressed that you sound both proud and like you're making a threat.
  Me: I am and I was. :)


• Yes I am ABSOLUTELY mapping out my bookcases, who do think you're dealing with here.
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• Pinterest level: got plain black stickers for kitchen jars because I couldn't find pre-made stickers that I liked! Is that pinterest-y enough?


• We have a not-roomba, her name is Dorothy and she is my beautiful daughter who eats dirt. I left her unsupervised in the kitchen for less than a minute, and somehow she unearthed a plastic butterknife that I didn't even know we had.


• Cycled back around to using Tody again, and once again I'm like "... How do I forget how useful this is?!" Especially because I've got LexGarrett using it as well so we can both tick things off.


• I have met three of the neighbour dogs and one neighbour cat! I don't know the names of any of the humans connected to these animals, but I'm pretty sure I've prioritised this right.

Work: So it turns out that having more than five hours of sleep a night and being able to just walk to work is good for you???? Sounds super fake. But honestly that's good, because term has started and it's been rammed. Everyone's been nice! But this is the first time since February or March 2020 that we've been running at full capacity and I forgot what it's like! We've gone from having a maximum of about 300 people in the building total to having about 800 people coming in and out over the lunch hours. ... It's a bit of a shift, is what I'm saying. Especially because we're actually getting the newbies in and they have actual honest-to-god questions about how everything works! It's so bizarre. But also my line manager turned round to me and went "Didn't we have some reasonable adjustments for you written down somewhere?" and oh yeah, that was a whole entire thing that we negotiated pre-pandemic that I just. Forgot about. THANKS BRAIN.

Me: Apparently I have hobbies and can get excited about media?????? WHAT MADNESS IS THIS. But yeah, I'm slowly getting back into my crafting, and looking at things and going "Oh, actually, I do want to put that in my eyes right now" and I'm kind of at a loss. Wanting to do things and actually enjoying them? Couldn't be me.

• Tentatively getting back into sewing! Have figured out how to circle skirt at long last – I tried using this calculator before but couldn't grok how to actually fold my fabric for maximum skirt? But I got a king-size bedsheet and sacrificed it to the sewing gods and now I MAYBE understand what I'm doing! Maybe! ... Obviously the next step is moving onto the sewing patterns I paid money for that are infinitely more complicated than this. It's the only thing to do.


• I am crocheting earrings! I'm a little sad that the stuff I ordered to make halloween-y earrings didn't arrive before Halloween, but that's fine! Spooky earrings can be an all-year thing if I'm not a coward!


• Got a bread machine, am now filling the house with bread. So far my favourite is the raisin bread recipe, because if you toast a slice it basically turns into a toasted teacake, but more science to follow. Especially with this cinnamon bread recipe that apparently thinks 1/5 of a cup of cinnamon is a reasonable amount to go in anything.


• I need to actually start making people's xmas presents. I've got as far as Jilliferium being VERY CLEAR that I'm not to make any more ginormous shark plushies for her house, they have Too Many, and that's it. Hmmmm.


• Oh and I've started taking all of my ADHD meds in the morning and it... Seems to be doing something? I don't know if that something is good, but it's definitely something!

So yeah, that's what I've been up to for all of October! I don't know what my plans for November are because I'm still getting back into the habit of using my goddamn diary but I will report back!