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Egads, how is it already Friday?


Mom and Molly made it back safely and have settled right back in. Molly is currently snuggled in the blankets at the foot of my bed, because she gets Lonely when her favorite person (my mom) is asleep/otherwise unavailable.


Room cleaning saga got some very good work done; I managed to clear off most of a tall table construct on the side of my room and added a new bookshelf there, both of which are pretty great. The bookshelf has allowed me to relocate a lot of DVDs and some books that I had piling up in various places; things still aren't completely organized (another bookshelf wouldn't hurt, truth be told), but they're much better than they were.

On top of that, the table space that I cleared is a great location for my laptop! Which was actually a pretty major motivation in getting that space cleared off; the built-in trackpad buttons are starting to go a little haywire, so attaching an old mouse and using that instead helps a lot. I haven't been able to make myself move my laptop over there more permanently yet (baby steps!), but I have actually been using it, rather than not using it at all, the previous state when that table was elbow-deep in Stuff. Today I picked up a tall office chair to use with it secondhand, which is an improvement over the spare kitchen stool I had been using previously. It's not my ideal office chair (I want one with breathable mesh instead of pleather cushions), but for a measly $8, I'm happy enough to make do.

I've still got stuff to clear out from under the table, and I could definitely stand to do some digging in both my crafting corner and in my closet, but my room is still looking a lot better!

I am trying desperately to reset my non-work-night sleep schedule to somewhere I go to bed earlier, because I have an early morning on Monday to drive down to Texas.

So far results have been... mixed.

Did some more cleaning (in the proper order) today, and the "table" against the north side of my room was the main focus. I cleared the whole thing off, wiped it down, got rid of a bunch of trash, shoved a bunch more papers that I need to sort into a cardboard box, and generally rearranged things. The table is now much clearer and better organized, and though there's still a touch of chaos, there's enough room that I can make space on it to put stuff while I sort out the desk on the west wall between that table and my bed.

What's wigging me out a bit is that the wall the table is against now looks too blank. It took me a little bit to figure out, but I finally realized it's because I moved a painting I used to have hanging above one end of the table to be above the opposite end of the table. I've stacked some DVDs and so forth on the table under where the painting used to be, but they aren't stacked near high enough to cover the area where the painting used to be. I'm hoping to get a bookshelf to put on the table and kill two birds with one stone, but finding the right one may take a while.

In the mean time, I may put something else where the painting used to hang. Finding a good balance between "All this visual noise is stressing me out" and "All this blank space is stressing me out" is going to be interesting!

Rotated my mattress

Changed the sheets

Scanned the documents I need to turn in to be a Precinct Election Official

Crocheted one (1) baby bootie; three remaining

Updated moodthemeinayear

Up next: Bedtime routine

Okay, self, repeat after me:

We should not stay up and ink a few more drawings for our commission. We can do that tomorrow afternoon. Or some other time of day after we wake up! We finished the majority of the drawings for the commission, and we have plenty of time to finish the last two. Even if we didn't, our friend will understand. Worst case scenario, we can probably dig up some old art and use that. Right now, you need to sleep, and/or do things that don't make your hands hurt.

Got it?

Okay.

You can do this.

I am awarding ten imaginary bonus points to myself for: A) Realizing that staying up all night (or even just a couple of hours) sewing was not exactly a winning idea, and B) Actually going to bed instead. Good decision making, self! As a reward, you can sew up to a few hours tomorrow, during regular waking times.

Brain: Hey, you know what we should do instead of taking a shower right now?
Me: What.
Brain: Type up some crochet patterns! There's several we've been meaning to get to, and that's including the first of our FTH patterns that is nearly done.
Me: ...Listen. I need to shower. It is very important that I shower, and today that also includes washing my hair. I will take a moment to go grab our pattern book from the crafting nook and put it next to the laptop so we can type up a pattern or two, but we can only start transcribing after the shower. Understood?
Brain: ...Fine.

Me: *finishes showering* Okay, time to type up patterns now!
Brain: Nah, don't feel like it anymore.
Me: ...Flames. Flames, on the sides of my face—


Edit: Ha-ha, the hippo pattern is now typed up! Victory for me! 😈

Part 3 has started over at moodthemeinayear! I'm a bit discombobulated at the moment, due to shaking my schedule up significantly today (three guesses why, and none of them are "work"), but I did manage to get the weekly mood announcement post up. We've got a rough few weeks over there as we get through nine variations on "Angry", which honestly makes me glad I've been skipping around so much 😅

(Rassa-frassa ADHD emotional regulation bullshit. You know that thing where writers and artists will sometimes smush their faces into the emotion of the characters they're depicting at a given time? Yeah, that happens with my actual mood sometimes, though moreso when I'm absorbing media than creating it.)

I did take the time to draw out another four moods tonight! None of them are on schedule, since I didn't have them written down and wasn't able to get to my phone (I had a snoozing dog blocking access to the phone in my pocket), but they're still sketched out and are for some actual moods, so I'm taking the win. I'll be making a physical list of the Part 3 moods to work off of shortly, so hopefully I won't have that problem again 😛 I also digitized and colored another four. I've got one left to go of the moods I have photos of, and then I need to photograph more sketches to work off of. All in all, I'd say I was pretty productive with this mood theme tonight!

Oh, I've also finally decided what show I want to watch while working on crochet patterns: I'm planning a re-watch of Assassination Classroom. I still haven't gotten the universal remote to work (well, not on the right TV), but since all the discs will be from the same production, the volume should stay pretty consistent. I'm tentatively optimistic about beating the executive dysfunction to get to work on that! I really do need to start in earnest soon 😅