Life and Times of Teh Asuka

Yup, I DID actually drive to bunnings and got the sanding pads I couldn't get elsewhere AND paint for the roof AND a sample pot of the modified colour for the walls! :D

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Anyway when I'm waiting for stuff to dry tomorrow I'll make a big test sheet of paper and see how the wall colour comes out en masse. Looking forward to it!!! :D *tailwag*

Other than that... not a whole lot. Should probably go food shopping tomorrow? Don't wanna, though. :/

Got the roof sanded today, yay!

Did NOT get the patching done; my noodle arms only just managed to get all the scraping/sanding done. :/ Had to do it in two parts, too, but luckily the second part went quicker, so even though I had less stamina I was able to get it all finished.

Plan for tomorrow is to patch first thing, and then see about going to bunnings. It occurred to me that they might not have The Paint Guys working the entire time they're open, so I'mma call and check that, first. Bleh, phones, but alas it is the best way to find this kind of thing out.

Anyway I expect that I'll have some extra time waiting for things to dry and stuff, so I'm planning on doing the scraping etc for the walls started, too. But we'll see how things go! I may do the bunnings run and then need to not do anything else for the rest of the day because that shit is draining. Also it's uh. 5am already so I'm not gonna get a huge amount of sleep before Sushi YELL for BREAKFAST hahahaha >>;;;

But! I DID play some Terraria this evening! Part of why I'm up so late, but it was nice to just derp around in a journey mode world and poke at things! I even did a special seed! (Celebration one, so it's not SUPER different from vanilla, but still different! :3)

Today it's SUDDENLY COLD, which is. Why. I mean, probably good - there's been rain, after all - but ugh. Why so changeable, weather. Why.

Other than that... I didn't go and get a paint scraper today, because the hardware shop is closed on Sundays. I'm glad I checked before I went! It's not far, but that'd just be super annoying, heh. I'll try and go before game time tomorrow, instead! >:

I have finished washing the roof! I concentrated on that today, and then I put tape down on the cornices, since I'll need that when it comes to painting time. Putting the tape down made me feel a lot better about my progress, so I think the main problem I'm having with the cleaning is there's no real visual sign of progression. Which is uh. Not that surprising, but also nothing much I can do about it either. Boo.

Anyway, definitely need the paint scraper for the roof - it's flaking pmuch the entire way around the edge. Only one thing I need to fill in for sure, though, the rest are things that may or may not need filling, but I'll need to sand first to tell. Sigh.

Not sure how much I'll get done tomorrow, since Terraria is gonna be on, but if I go and get the paint scraper right after breakfast I can at least start on that. Probably do that and also start the sanding, though! :D (Sushi is gonna be SO MAD at being locked out while I'm sanding, siiiigh. Important, though! He'd hate being put in a mask WAY more!)

Also! I finally ordered all the parts I'mma need for the blinds, so that, at least, is a load off my mind. :3 Not that I'm all that close to needing them, siiiigh.

Soooo today didn't go so great. I was... extremely tired even though I slept in extra, and didn't even start doing any work until it got dark. Heat bothering me more than usual (it didn't SEEM like it was super humid? But might be more humid inside than the official humidity, that'd explain a lot). Like. Ten minutes of working and then sweatball kind of thing, which is uh. NOT a long time. :/

Anyway, I'm guessing I've just been pushing myself too hard when I'm not used to this kind of physical work. Which is ANNOYING, because I want to get things DONE, but, well. Bodies. They have limitations! (Also I have a pimple in my ear, which is... ridiculously disproportionally painful, just. What? Why. Is it stress?? IDEK.)

So I didn't get the entire second clean done. I DID do a bunch, which is something! Skirting boards and the lower parts of the walls are done - or, well, as done as they can get without giving some stuff a sand to figure out if it's A Problem or just that my father didn't bother sanding back stuff properly when he painted the room 35-odd years ago. But they're cleanish. (They aren't exactly spotless, but holy shit there are SO MANY cracks and things, it's just going to be easier to sand everything than try and figure out what does and doesn't need it.)

Got some of the roof/upper walls done, but only a little bit. Those are harder, unfortunately, but I'll bring the ladder in tomorrow - I've been using the stepstool, which is fine, but it's just that little bit too short to get at the roof easily. So hopefully that'll help. Haven't done much of the bookshelves, but they're thankfully done in something high gloss so it's a) easy to see where it's actually borked, and b) easy to clean.

Also had the very smart idea to have a separate bucket for wringing out the cleaning cloths! It gets SUPER dirty SUPER fast, but it's also easy to change out. So the soapy water lasts a lot longer! \o/

Anyway. Sleep now! I definitely need it. :/