Lex told me I was his favourite three slimes in a trenchcoat, which is true love right there

[spindizzy]

There needs to be a subgenre of "ohhhhhhhh~ the veneer of humanity that separates us from feral beasts is paper thin~" but it's ADHD people (me) discovering that their meds are the only thing stopping them (me) going full "I have one (1) topic of conversation right now and I'm going to make it EVERYONE'S problem." By which I mean guess who forgot to reorder their ADHD meds in a timely manner and is now getting caught out by national shortages! [flaming elmo gif intensifies]

(My current one (1) topic of conversation is Baldur's Gate 3 and believe me the only reason you're saved from me yelling about Karlach and Astarion right now is the yelling is in a different document.)

ANYWAY, better living through chemistry to one side: HI EVERYONE! I continue to exist!

• It was my birthday last Monday and I spent all of it playing BG3 and eating cake. Excellent day, 10/10, would recommend. LexGarrett got me cute Pokémon plushies, so I now have a munna to protect me while I nap on the sofa. \o/


• I'm back at work now, and more importantly the kids are also back. The building continues to fall apart around us, one of the lecturers told students they needed a book that we don't have enough copies of, and I had a beautiful customer interaction that started "Why can't I read this book" with no context or clarification. Ahhhhhh, libraries. I get to see my favourite lecturer though, and that's really nice! We chat for like ten minutes before she goes off to teach each week, and it's always the highlight of my morning.


• All of my craft projects have stuttered to a halt because a) hyperfocusing on Baldur's Gate 3, and b) I made a mess in the living room and now I can't do anything until I clean up the mess in the living room but I can't clean up the mess in the living room because the mess is too overwhelming and and and and — yeah. Brain is in a bad boot cycle, gonna try to use my mum visiting this weekend as a way to brute force escaping it.


• My diary arrived for next year! It's a Midori Hibino, so an A6 gridded day on two pages diary. The grid is miniscule. I'm not kidding, it's 2.5mm, that is RIDICULOUSLY small, and I looooooove it. My handwriting has always been "It's not neat, it's just small," so the squares make it look nice. Currently copying over some of the 75 charts and lists and tables I've drawn up, which is probably going to keep me occupied until new year. I can see filling it in might be a problem though, because the book is genuinely an inch thick. Gonna need to figure out how I'm actually getting the front pages to be a usable writing surface considering that they don't actually reach the table if the book is properly open. ... The solution is not just practicing writing left handed until I can do it small enough, brain, stop trying to make that happen.


• (I CAN write left handed, it's just messy as all hell. Random fact: I used to be able to knit both left and right handed! My mum taught me and she's left handed, and at some point I realised that I never needed to purl if I just switched active hands. That is a skill I might try to bring back.)


• Me: Maybe I don't need to keep using the public library, I'm not making it through all of the books I borrowed.
  Also me: That thought may have looked more convincing if I hadn't immediately discovered that my library expanded their manga collection. DANGIT.


• I need to book my covid booster! I keep picking up my phone to do it and then getting distracted by nothing at all. I'm still the only staff member regularly masking at work, sooooooo trying to stave off being a plague-beast.


• Nottingham Central Library re-opens next month! It has been EIGHTY FOUR YEARS of rebuilding it where a carpark used to be, and soooooooooon there will be a library in town again!


• Got a steam deck because they were on sale and I'm good at self-control slash it was mine and Lex's birthdays, and it's been really useful! I've missed handheld gaming, somehow. Suddenly I've been playing a bunch of games that work better with a controller, without being tempted to just rebuy them on the switch. Funny how that works!


• Got a haircut and now I'm back to looking like a super curly version of my icon. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!


• Crave chicken, going to cram pizza into my maw, I love you all very much. <3