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The Chamber of Secrets / Re: The Cat Room 2
« Last post by JudithC on Today at 08:12:20 PM »This has been another lack of activity day, mostly because of depression issues leading to unreasonable fatigue and lack of energy, not to mention absence of interest in doing anything besides slumping down on the couch and closing my eyes.
This morning James’s overtime ordeal began. He’s planning to do both the two early hours and the two late hours for at least three days, which means three 12-hour days. I wish he’d do one or the other, preferably the early hours, for the whole week instead, but it’s not my choice, and I can still hope he’ll do the early hours on Thursday and Friday, which would give my need for routine what it requires to keep me on an even keel. Even after all this time, I don’t think he understands how that works, or if he does, he doesn’t care. I must say that knowing I wouldn't have to deal with snoring or alarms did wonders for my sleep last night, and I even completely slept through James getting up and out.
This morning my silly phone kept making a notification sound with no way I could detect to identify what it was notifying me about for the first several times. Then I finally caught it fast enough and discovered that it was having issues with my wifi connection. I had to go in and make sure it was connecting to our home server, which I really should have thought to do right after we got home from the phone store but didn't. Now it's all set and hopefully will stay that way.
I've found another direction to go with developing character Flora's footgear. I found a cute and reasonably priced pair of combat style boots decorated with skulls and roses that goes well enough with her skirt and isn’t eye-poppingly bright or crazy busy. I'm thinking about donating the pair of plain black ankle boots I haven't worn in, like, ever when the new ones arrive so they have a place to live on the entirely full shoe rack.
The net petticoat arrived today, and it's shorter and less puffy than I'd have liked. I am planning to lengthen it, but that is going to be more of a project than it would have been before I opened up the hide-a-bed. I'll need to get into the hope chest, and now instead of just having the TV and a bowl on it, it has the TV, bowl, laptop, keyboard, and mousepad with mouse and TV remote on it. And the button I need to push in to unlock the lid is partially blocked by the foot of the hide-a-bed. When exactly I'll tackle moving all that depends in part on how soon I get annoyed with having the skirt and petticoat draped over the back of my desk chair in the living room.
Oh, and in an entry from the Stupidity File, I accidentally got rid of the email I'd been using to track the package with the Flora top and the little coin stands. Fortunately I was able to go straight to my orders on Temu and specifically ask to get updates so now the package just has to do something that generates an update. I know from past experience that if it fails to meet their delivery deadline, they’ll let me know that I have a $5 credit coming. I still have most of a year to get the whole outfit assembled, so it’s not like a slightly late delivery makes any difference in the grand scheme of thing.
I had to rearrange one of the kitchen cabinets. James got a bunch of soups of substance for the times when we can’t be bothered to make anything else, but he just shoved them in any old way, making it impossible for me to reach half of them or to tell what we have. I moved a couple of boxes of stuff we rarely if ever need to get to up to the top shelf, took the soups off the salty crunchy snack shelf, and organized the soups so we can see what’s there, and not all the many cans of chowder are in the front, blocking the other kinds from sight. I doubt James will notice, but I will when I decide I want soup for lunch.
This morning James’s overtime ordeal began. He’s planning to do both the two early hours and the two late hours for at least three days, which means three 12-hour days. I wish he’d do one or the other, preferably the early hours, for the whole week instead, but it’s not my choice, and I can still hope he’ll do the early hours on Thursday and Friday, which would give my need for routine what it requires to keep me on an even keel. Even after all this time, I don’t think he understands how that works, or if he does, he doesn’t care. I must say that knowing I wouldn't have to deal with snoring or alarms did wonders for my sleep last night, and I even completely slept through James getting up and out.
This morning my silly phone kept making a notification sound with no way I could detect to identify what it was notifying me about for the first several times. Then I finally caught it fast enough and discovered that it was having issues with my wifi connection. I had to go in and make sure it was connecting to our home server, which I really should have thought to do right after we got home from the phone store but didn't. Now it's all set and hopefully will stay that way.
I've found another direction to go with developing character Flora's footgear. I found a cute and reasonably priced pair of combat style boots decorated with skulls and roses that goes well enough with her skirt and isn’t eye-poppingly bright or crazy busy. I'm thinking about donating the pair of plain black ankle boots I haven't worn in, like, ever when the new ones arrive so they have a place to live on the entirely full shoe rack.
The net petticoat arrived today, and it's shorter and less puffy than I'd have liked. I am planning to lengthen it, but that is going to be more of a project than it would have been before I opened up the hide-a-bed. I'll need to get into the hope chest, and now instead of just having the TV and a bowl on it, it has the TV, bowl, laptop, keyboard, and mousepad with mouse and TV remote on it. And the button I need to push in to unlock the lid is partially blocked by the foot of the hide-a-bed. When exactly I'll tackle moving all that depends in part on how soon I get annoyed with having the skirt and petticoat draped over the back of my desk chair in the living room.
Oh, and in an entry from the Stupidity File, I accidentally got rid of the email I'd been using to track the package with the Flora top and the little coin stands. Fortunately I was able to go straight to my orders on Temu and specifically ask to get updates so now the package just has to do something that generates an update. I know from past experience that if it fails to meet their delivery deadline, they’ll let me know that I have a $5 credit coming. I still have most of a year to get the whole outfit assembled, so it’s not like a slightly late delivery makes any difference in the grand scheme of thing.
I had to rearrange one of the kitchen cabinets. James got a bunch of soups of substance for the times when we can’t be bothered to make anything else, but he just shoved them in any old way, making it impossible for me to reach half of them or to tell what we have. I moved a couple of boxes of stuff we rarely if ever need to get to up to the top shelf, took the soups off the salty crunchy snack shelf, and organized the soups so we can see what’s there, and not all the many cans of chowder are in the front, blocking the other kinds from sight. I doubt James will notice, but I will when I decide I want soup for lunch.