Eeeey!!
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tygerMy uncle is home from the hospital, finally! :D :D :D He was in there for AGES, but he's better enough to go home now! So great!
Other than that, Mama wanted a break from the chook pen thing, so even though it was a nice day we didn't do that. So I ended up doing FOUR lines on the blanket! :D :D :D The first of the panels is almost completely done! One more line, or possible like. One or two stitches on a second line. Almost! Done!!! Aaaa, I'm excited, it's getting so close!!!
Also did washing and like. Showered and stuff. So no minecraft, just a bit of reading. Probably a sensible thing, given what time it's ended up anyway... >>;;;;
A day full of things!
Thu, Nov. 13th, 2025 03:41tygerSo the roof guys came back today, and did the other job they needed to do! :D (Unfortunately the banging around caused it to be Super Obvious the bathroom needs... so much work. There was dirt falling down from the roof and shit. :/) My father also got his shed delivered, though he's not going to start putting it together for a bit. (Sibling's Christmas present to him is to help with labour, but Sibling's also busy for a bit. Also like. The ground needs work, it's not exactly level right now, so gotta do that first.) Still, yay, it arrived safely! :D
I went for a walk with Mama, just to the chemist that takes in blister packs for recycling, and we walked past the op shop on the way, and I saw a frame designed for embroidery! So I got that, because I thought I could put the embroidery Ni-chan made me in it. Alas, it's too big! So I will make some kinda cross stitch to put in it instead, I think. :3 Not for a bit though, still got the blanket to do.
Speaking of blanket, today was the last of the max length lines! \o/ Definitely on the homeward stretch! :D Still working just with the partially-used embroidery floss, too, doesn't look like I'll even tough the full ones, orz orz orz. We have. So much. SO MUCH. Sigh.
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Cannot wait until finished with blanket. Then can work on CHAIR.
Wed, Nov. 12th, 2025 02:02tygerThis chair isn't bad exactly, but it's a little too high and my back keeps hurting after a few hours in front of it because I keep stooping very very slightly to see things. :/ Honestly I should probably bring my chair in and use it even though it's still missing a cushion - the actual structural work is done, it's just replacing the cushion that's left which is my job, not my father's. Which is fine! I just. Blanket. Do not have brain for other projects, really, particularly not with Mama and the chook run extension thing butting in sometimes.
Speaking of, we did some more work on that today, and we made progress!! ...and then it started raining, so it was only a little progress, but hey, at least the 'take the door apart and put it back together on something flat' idea worked. (It's still liable to twist, but it's much better, and we've determined that it's pretty much a material fault and nothing we can really do about it. If it's still going weird once we've added the chicken wire etc I will consider Adding Shit to keep it vaguely straight.) Also I got to use the mallet on it, which was very therapeutic.
Other than that, couple of lines on the blanket (closing in on the end of the max length lines! Soooon!), some minecraft... nothing much else. Very sleepy day since Mama keeps waking me up, bleh.
[livre] L'été où Papa est devenu gay ~Endre Lund Eriksen
Tue, Nov. 11th, 2025 15:06maluretteTitre : Den sommeren Pappa ble homo
Auteur : Endre Lund Eriksen
Langue : traduction française du norvégien
Type : roman jeunesse
Genre : famille/société/coming of age
1ère parution : 2012/2014
Édition : Thierry Magnier
Format : relié, 280 pages
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Plutôt sympa et la fin était assez inattendue ; c'est pas mal, mais je ne pense pas le garder. Si quelqu'un dans mon entourage le veut...
YA novel in which a teenaged boy bordering but having not yet entered puberty, deals with his divorced dad's rebound with... a man!! and complicated feelings for both the teenaged daughter of said man, and his macho homophobic girl-obsessed best friend. Also, there are dogs. And disco public toilets.
Auteur : Endre Lund Eriksen
Langue : traduction française du norvégien
Type : roman jeunesse
Genre : famille/société/coming of age
1ère parution : 2012/2014
Édition : Thierry Magnier
Format : relié, 280 pages
( Read more... )
Plutôt sympa et la fin était assez inattendue ; c'est pas mal, mais je ne pense pas le garder. Si quelqu'un dans mon entourage le veut...
YA novel in which a teenaged boy bordering but having not yet entered puberty, deals with his divorced dad's rebound with... a man!! and complicated feelings for both the teenaged daughter of said man, and his macho homophobic girl-obsessed best friend. Also, there are dogs. And disco public toilets.
More sleep = less concentration???
Tue, Nov. 11th, 2025 02:45tygerI seriously had A Time of it with the blanket today. Got two rows done, but it took forever, I just couldn't fucking concentrate. Dunno why! I got lots of sleep last night! And yet!
Mama and I did do some work on the chook run, and also the chook run extension thing today, which was...
...look we ended up tying one of the poles in place with wire because the fastener provided just Would Not Catch, so. That's. Roughly how it's going. And then we put the door together, which is uh... a rectangle... and we somehow managed to twist it. The instructions are Not Complicated, and yet.
Gonna try taking it apart and putting it back together while laying it on the table tomorrow, and if that doesn't work we'll need to ask my father, which. Will be. Annoying. Still, can't be more annoying that That Goddamn Thing, and who knows he might even have a solution for that. (Doubt it though, it's a fucker.)
Hey look it's closer to midnight than dawn for once!
Mon, Nov. 10th, 2025 01:49tygerThis is not a thing I should be proud of and yet. Sleep schedules, man. Make living with other people hell. (Or, at least, with Mama. My father isn't a great housemate in many ways, but he's extremely accepting of sleep.)
Anyway! Mama and I worked on the chook run extension thing for a bit today! UGH, still so frustrating. But we've made progress!!! Probably more tomorrow, too, as long as the weather cooperates. Which is not guaranteed, at all, everything was soaked this morning it just happened to come good so we could work in the afternoon...
Other than that, couple of rows on the blanket - I don't think I'm quite at halfway, but I'm getting there for sure! Just gotta keep a steady pace and I should get there without too much trouble. If nothing goes wrong, of course, which does mean I'll need to keep it well away from Sushi... He's been made of beans recently, zooming around the house much more the usual and back to climbing up curtains etc. etc. etc. He picked a fight with the cardboard scratcher I have behind me this evening, which was pretty funny. Yeah, you show that cardboard who's boss! XD
Sleepy Saturday
Sun, Nov. 9th, 2025 04:35tygerNothing huge today. Napped a lot. Two more max length lines! Snuggly kitties~~~
Also some minecraft but mainly I'm up stupid late due to getting sucked into reading orz orz orz self whyyyyy
MAX LENGTH AGAIN!!!
Sat, Nov. 8th, 2025 04:52tygerI really didn't think I'd get there today, but I got to max length! Only one line, but I am not even slightly unhappy about that, just. Wow. (I only did four lines, so like. It was WAY closer than I thought, I guess...)
I'm definitely getting a lot faster than I was even a week ago, though; first time through doing more than two lines when they were nearing/at max length was just... not achievable in an afternoon and evening. Today, I did two in the afternoon, two in the evening, and was done just after 10pm. (So of course I played some minecraft and lost track of time but that is a different issue.)
Other than that, nothing interesting really. I AM getting through thread nicely, though I'm still on partially-used stuff and that... may not change by the end of this direction. There's just. There's a lot of it. Main reason I might get into the whole skeins is simply because some of the colours are too dark for the fabric, so they're hard to see and thus make the pattern look weird. It is not a fading into the background piece of work, hahaha!
Sob sob sob sob
Thu, Nov. 6th, 2025 19:58soc_puppetFinal Project Hell has begun at school 😭 Or, well technically I still have one class with the final project unassigned as yet? But still!
For Social Problems, I need to do a creative project on, well, a social problem, and write an accompanying paper. And there's some regular homework in addition to that.
For Ceramics, I need to interview a living ceramicist and do a creative project on them. The interview has to be done vocally (in person, over the phone, or via video call). Plus our final unit project, the slab houses.
Intro to Human Services hasn't been assigned yet, but guess what, it's another interview! This time with a Human Services professional. Looks like it has the same "interview has to be done vocally" restrictions as the Ceramics interview. Separate from that is a final paper, "Developing Your Personal Mission Statement as a Human Services Professional".
I need to go to the Learning Commons or something and get all of this bullshit untangled, because my ADHD brain has gone into Panic Mode.
For Social Problems, I need to do a creative project on, well, a social problem, and write an accompanying paper. And there's some regular homework in addition to that.
For Ceramics, I need to interview a living ceramicist and do a creative project on them. The interview has to be done vocally (in person, over the phone, or via video call). Plus our final unit project, the slab houses.
Intro to Human Services hasn't been assigned yet, but guess what, it's another interview! This time with a Human Services professional. Looks like it has the same "interview has to be done vocally" restrictions as the Ceramics interview. Separate from that is a final paper, "Developing Your Personal Mission Statement as a Human Services Professional".
I need to go to the Learning Commons or something and get all of this bullshit untangled, because my ADHD brain has gone into Panic Mode.
Battle of the Illuminations 2025
Thu, Nov. 6th, 2025 12:52branchandrootSo, it's November, which means it's time for the kick-off of this year's annual Battle of the Downtown Illuminations.
This used to be pretty straightforward, you know. A few blocks of Main St. had beautiful clouds of lights in the trees, and these would be turned on as soon as DST kicked in, that being the start of Michigan's "we need some light in here" season, which hits a measly 6 hours of daylight in midwinter. They stayed on all night, so they heartened morning commuters, too. They'd stay on through February and then be turned off in March, when things started to melt and we all had the olfactory cue that yes, the ice will retreat.
And then Ann Arbor, in their infinite and sometimes performatively crunchy wisdom, passed a city ordinance to reduce light pollution. Street lights should be pointed downwards, and exterior lighting should be turned off between midnight and 6am. Oh, and also holiday lights could only be on for 90 consecutive days.
For the most part, this did absolute bupkiss for light pollution, because the UofM campus is exempt, and the stadium alone casts light fog for a good mile or two. But it did immediately kick off the Battle of the Downtown Illuminations. Try to take away the most joy-giving light display in the city, will you? We'll just see about that.
First, Main St. storefronts put up much more elaborate window lights. Which was indoor lighting, not exterior displays!
Then they started stringing lights over the sidewalk, under cover of outdoor seating. Not holiday displays, this is _obviously_ functional lighting.
Then the tree lights started expanding. 90 days, sure, fine, in that case let's really get our lumens in! Up Liberty they went, and then up Washington. Across State and several more blocks down either end of Main.
This year, in a crowning moment of Midwest passive-aggression and rules lawyering, not only are there lighted garlands on the lamp posts as of November 1st, but (get this) HALF of the street tree lights are on. I strongly suspect that, when December arrives, it will be both halves, and then when February arrives, it will be the OTHER half. So none of the trees will be lit for more than 90 days!
Where there's a will, there's a way.
So I am taking up my regular weekly dinners downtown, to take in the winter lights and delight in the spiteful ingenuity of Main St.
This used to be pretty straightforward, you know. A few blocks of Main St. had beautiful clouds of lights in the trees, and these would be turned on as soon as DST kicked in, that being the start of Michigan's "we need some light in here" season, which hits a measly 6 hours of daylight in midwinter. They stayed on all night, so they heartened morning commuters, too. They'd stay on through February and then be turned off in March, when things started to melt and we all had the olfactory cue that yes, the ice will retreat.
And then Ann Arbor, in their infinite and sometimes performatively crunchy wisdom, passed a city ordinance to reduce light pollution. Street lights should be pointed downwards, and exterior lighting should be turned off between midnight and 6am. Oh, and also holiday lights could only be on for 90 consecutive days.
For the most part, this did absolute bupkiss for light pollution, because the UofM campus is exempt, and the stadium alone casts light fog for a good mile or two. But it did immediately kick off the Battle of the Downtown Illuminations. Try to take away the most joy-giving light display in the city, will you? We'll just see about that.
First, Main St. storefronts put up much more elaborate window lights. Which was indoor lighting, not exterior displays!
Then they started stringing lights over the sidewalk, under cover of outdoor seating. Not holiday displays, this is _obviously_ functional lighting.
Then the tree lights started expanding. 90 days, sure, fine, in that case let's really get our lumens in! Up Liberty they went, and then up Washington. Across State and several more blocks down either end of Main.
This year, in a crowning moment of Midwest passive-aggression and rules lawyering, not only are there lighted garlands on the lamp posts as of November 1st, but (get this) HALF of the street tree lights are on. I strongly suspect that, when December arrives, it will be both halves, and then when February arrives, it will be the OTHER half. So none of the trees will be lit for more than 90 days!
Where there's a will, there's a way.
So I am taking up my regular weekly dinners downtown, to take in the winter lights and delight in the spiteful ingenuity of Main St.