*blink* What day is it?!
Nov. 14th, 2023 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaSparkleball Saga: Miraculously, all but purple and possibly orange have been visible for an entire week. Red is very nearly non-sparkly (the sparkles come from tinsel strings) but was the favourite toy for a few days.
NaNoWriMo (writing): slow. The kittens are Too Halpful, but I am THIS CLOSE to 10k, which is vastly more than the last two years combined.
NaNoWriMo (general): There is some world-class DRAMA happening on the forums, to the point that they were "paused" over this past weekend, meaning no new topics and no replies to existing ones except for the regionals while the board of directors reviews. The forums were not user-friendly when they switched to Ruby on Rails about a decade ago, and then with the redesign in the covid era the new forums were EVEN WORSE and to my neuro-divergent mind, unusable. But the allegations being made go back into even the phBB days, so it's Very Serious Indeed. I have lost a liiiiittle bit of writing time reading the threads that pop up because... damn.
Friday I did my blood test at last, and I am OFFICIALLY not celiac. But as my doc said, a negative test doesn't mean that I'm not reacting, celiac and wheat sensitivities are two different things. I can now officially start removing wheat from my diet (which means, of course, that the first thing I want to do is eat MORE of it).
Girl math: M bought a thing she said she was not going to do, and labelled it as an irresponsible decision. (I say it's VERY responsible, it's a thing she's gonna love and use for a long time, so return on joy factor = worth it) And obviously that means that I get to make an irresponsible decision too, right?? She agreed haha. But I had my eye on a set of yarns that has now sold out, so missed that one, alas! Perhaps I can get another set I was also looking at.
NOT THAT I NEED MORE YARN. I really really don't! It's also very difficult to knit with the kittens around! I made a bunch of tiny socks on the weekend (A: i like making them from the sock leftovers from the year; B: they are fast, I timed one out to 50 minutes so instant gratification of both starting AND finishing a project) and Calcifer in particular pounced at the dangling yarn tail, working yarn, and/or needles, all of which happened to be a belly-level.
I thought I might get that petticoat started at last, but no dice. Again, the kittens were halpful.
Therapy this week, so I spent a couple days cleaning my pen, which had dried out, because I STILL Haven't started my journaling. In fact, I came here today specifically to read up on where I had left off, shortly pre-covid shut-downs. And in true "I don't wanna" fashion, I am procrastinating on that by reading, writing this entry, and browsing Knit Picks. Yep.
NaNoWriMo (writing): slow. The kittens are Too Halpful, but I am THIS CLOSE to 10k, which is vastly more than the last two years combined.
NaNoWriMo (general): There is some world-class DRAMA happening on the forums, to the point that they were "paused" over this past weekend, meaning no new topics and no replies to existing ones except for the regionals while the board of directors reviews. The forums were not user-friendly when they switched to Ruby on Rails about a decade ago, and then with the redesign in the covid era the new forums were EVEN WORSE and to my neuro-divergent mind, unusable. But the allegations being made go back into even the phBB days, so it's Very Serious Indeed. I have lost a liiiiittle bit of writing time reading the threads that pop up because... damn.
Friday I did my blood test at last, and I am OFFICIALLY not celiac. But as my doc said, a negative test doesn't mean that I'm not reacting, celiac and wheat sensitivities are two different things. I can now officially start removing wheat from my diet (which means, of course, that the first thing I want to do is eat MORE of it).
Girl math: M bought a thing she said she was not going to do, and labelled it as an irresponsible decision. (I say it's VERY responsible, it's a thing she's gonna love and use for a long time, so return on joy factor = worth it) And obviously that means that I get to make an irresponsible decision too, right?? She agreed haha. But I had my eye on a set of yarns that has now sold out, so missed that one, alas! Perhaps I can get another set I was also looking at.
NOT THAT I NEED MORE YARN. I really really don't! It's also very difficult to knit with the kittens around! I made a bunch of tiny socks on the weekend (A: i like making them from the sock leftovers from the year; B: they are fast, I timed one out to 50 minutes so instant gratification of both starting AND finishing a project) and Calcifer in particular pounced at the dangling yarn tail, working yarn, and/or needles, all of which happened to be a belly-level.
I thought I might get that petticoat started at last, but no dice. Again, the kittens were halpful.
Therapy this week, so I spent a couple days cleaning my pen, which had dried out, because I STILL Haven't started my journaling. In fact, I came here today specifically to read up on where I had left off, shortly pre-covid shut-downs. And in true "I don't wanna" fashion, I am procrastinating on that by reading, writing this entry, and browsing Knit Picks. Yep.
