Life and Times of Teh Asuka

Soooo I got almost nothing done today, because... my hand hurts when I try and do much with it. I think it was the grating, in the end - my arm and shoulder are sore in that muscles-complaining-you-exercised-them way, but the pain in my hand is sharp, particularly when holding on to things.

So yeah, think it was the amount of grating, since you have to hold the zucchini pretty firmly for it, and uh. The zucchini I grated were a bit too fat for my little hands to hold on easily. :/

Luckily I haven't found any more massive ones, all the other zucchini I have left after I finish grating the one I only did partially are much more standard zucchini size, and I have been checking more diligently for hiding bastard zucchini. But, well, always possible they hide better than I look, so it's just a fingers crossed sorta thing. Still, at least I know I shouldn't do too much grating with them! Maybe I'll split them in half if I get any more, that would probably help.

Anyway, only did about one wall of cornices, so I've still got another wall left to go until the second undercoat is done. :/ Sibling let me know today that the floors'll probably have to wait a few months to get done, so I've got a lot less of a time pressure, which is helpful. Still want things finished though, goddamnit! But I'll take it easy until my hand hurts less, for sure.

I don't think I've been awake twelve hours total yet today, but I'm still fucking exhausted. Bed now! Hopefully will have more energy tomorrow, yes. >:

The good:

• Did a sand/fill over the undercoat before doing a second coat. Wasn't much filling to be done, thankfully, but a lot of little pointy bits. Fucking roller bullshit, ugh.
• Made another batch of zucchini bread!
• Will almost definitely get actual colour on these goddamn walls tomorrow.

The bad:

• Not done with the second undercoat. Almost there but not quite.
• I am so fucking tired, all the time, and yet I keep staying up. Annoying. But probably related.
• My right shoulder-arm-hand is goddamn aching, enough that I had to stop painting. I suspect that the painting and grating four and a half cups of zucchini was too much for it in a single day. Hopefully it'll feel better after some rest...

The ugly:

• There was a lunar eclipse but I couldn't see it because clouds :(

Undercoat is done!

Well.

The first coat of the undercoat is done, it needs another coat, particularly on the cornices. It's not gonna change the colour subtly, it's too patchy and it'd just be. Bad. :/ The walls themselves seem a bit better, but hard to say for sure until they've actually dried!

We ended up actually having TWO tins of undercoat out back! The first one had a giant lump stuck to the bottom I couldn't get to dissolve back in to make it actually paint again, and the second one was brown. Probably due to rust, the lid was uh. Yeaaaah. :| This is what happens when things are left out in the weather!!! Sigh.

So yeah, had to go to bunnings fucking again, ugh. It was raining as well, which was super fun. At least my parking's getting a little better?? Also I stopped at the kebab shop on the way back, so that was a nice little reward for myself.

Other than that... multiplayer Terraria, which was super fun as usual! Also put together the dry ingredients for more zucchini bread, but it was game time after that so I haven't finished it yet. Tomorrow! I was trying to learn from my mistakes and not stay up stupid late but uh.

Well.

Let's just say I heard the garbage truck go past and that alerted me to how stupidly late I'm up. Whoops... Anyway, time for a nap before Sushi yells at me for his breakfast!

Did not get all the sanding done today, nope. :(

I did get the filling on top of the shelves done, and some sanding, but... yeah.

( Rambles )

All that to say, I'm hoping that tomorrow I'll get through the rest of the prep and at least get the undercoat on. Hopefully. (Plz.)

OH RIGHT and also today I mucked out the chook coop, which took a LOT more energy than it usually does, ugh, fucking humidity strikes again :| :| :| 'Oh this will be a quick job, won't effect how much work I can get done on the walls at all,' I thought. 'No big deal,' I thought. HA. Sweat everywhere, had to chase the chooks around, bleh bleh bleh.

Anyway, now is time for naps. Later than I was aiming for, as fucking usual, BUT still way earlier than the past two nights, so that's an improvement! :3