Just A Bunch Of Blah Blah Blah
Sep. 4th, 2024 10:22 amI got a great idea for Pinfeathers last night and started writing a bit of it, now I've got about four?? pages written, but I'm jumping around between fics right now so they're all getting written in bits-and-pieces. Basically what I need to do is close down most of my Word documents and just focus on writing Storm Season until it's done. (Right now I only have 11 Word documents open, which is a minor miracle, it's usually more like 30.)
So just... close down everything but Storm Season and my Journal and maybe one other? Yeah that's probably what I should do. Sometimes even WITH the ADHD meds my brain grabs at too many things at once and I have a hard time reining it in. I have to kind of force the issue, you know? I think this is one of those times. :|
Yesterday my boxes for shipping wiggly foxes came in and they SHIPPED MY BUNDLE OF CARDBOARD BOXES INSIDE ANOTHER CARDBOARD BOX, SURROUNDED BY PACKING MATERIAL because of how breakable cardboard boxes are, naturally. It made me laugh. I only ordered 25 boxes because I don't even know if the wiggly foxes are going to SELL and I didn't want to be stuck with like a thousand 8x3x3 boxes if they don't. I can always order more if I need to. *shrug*
The other day I took Dean and Castiel out back and knocked out as much of the dirt from their roots as I could, then rinsed them in a big bowl of water, then under running water until they were ready to put in the aquarium. It turned out both of them were too big for my aquarium planters, though, so I have two small pots with mini!Castiel (his name is Jack) and mini!Dean (currently unnamed) in them, which Mom will probably adopt. At the same time as I did that I finally potted Bella in actual dirt, so that's done as well.
I still have one pink princess philodendron clipping that hasn't died (yet) but isn't doing anything, and I'm to the point that I really doubt it ever will. So I'm just going to buy a fully rooted pink princess PLANT, which is what I should have done to begin with. It cost me $30 for the two clippings, and it'll cost me $30 for a full-on plant. I don't know what I was thinking, really.
Next month I have like three government payments coming in (two of them are large), so I have to ship Poe's parcel and hopefully go to Barrie and find some aquarium plants. A month ago the Petsmart here in town got some really nice ones in, but I had no money, and by the time I had money they were sold out. Our Petsmart isn't really reliable for keeping things in stock, so I'll check there at the end of the month but I'm not holding my breath.
Also I need to figure out where to buy duckweed. .__.;;
I am possibly going to order another aquarium fan for the other side of the tank, since the one I have is only two fans and probably won't do all that much good. But it's cooler here most of the year and then during the summer I have the A/C unit so hopefully that'll keep the axolotl tank at a decent temperature for the critter when I eventually get it.
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I need more wax. I think I have like three?? bags of it in Jessie's room but the mug candles use a LOT of it per candle and I want to make some Thanksgiving ones to sell on FB Marketplace, and some Christmas ones when it gets closer to time. Bags of wax are like $35/each, but one mug candle goes for $30 so it'll add up pretty fast assuming they sell.
I'm selling them on FB Marketplace because they're HEAVY and shipping them would cost A TON, so it's not a great option for Etsy, even though I think they'd go over really well on Etsy, actually.
I really need to start looking into Vendors and Crafters Markets, really. Poe found me a really good FB link for a group for Ontario markets and vendors, I need to check it out more. The problem is that I would have to rely on Mom to drive me to the markets and help me set up/take down and I don't know if she'll go for that. I feel like she already does so much for me, I feel bad asking her to do even more.
EDIT: Just ordered my pink princess philodendron! <3
So just... close down everything but Storm Season and my Journal and maybe one other? Yeah that's probably what I should do. Sometimes even WITH the ADHD meds my brain grabs at too many things at once and I have a hard time reining it in. I have to kind of force the issue, you know? I think this is one of those times. :|
Yesterday my boxes for shipping wiggly foxes came in and they SHIPPED MY BUNDLE OF CARDBOARD BOXES INSIDE ANOTHER CARDBOARD BOX, SURROUNDED BY PACKING MATERIAL because of how breakable cardboard boxes are, naturally. It made me laugh. I only ordered 25 boxes because I don't even know if the wiggly foxes are going to SELL and I didn't want to be stuck with like a thousand 8x3x3 boxes if they don't. I can always order more if I need to. *shrug*
The other day I took Dean and Castiel out back and knocked out as much of the dirt from their roots as I could, then rinsed them in a big bowl of water, then under running water until they were ready to put in the aquarium. It turned out both of them were too big for my aquarium planters, though, so I have two small pots with mini!Castiel (his name is Jack) and mini!Dean (currently unnamed) in them, which Mom will probably adopt. At the same time as I did that I finally potted Bella in actual dirt, so that's done as well.
I still have one pink princess philodendron clipping that hasn't died (yet) but isn't doing anything, and I'm to the point that I really doubt it ever will. So I'm just going to buy a fully rooted pink princess PLANT, which is what I should have done to begin with. It cost me $30 for the two clippings, and it'll cost me $30 for a full-on plant. I don't know what I was thinking, really.
Next month I have like three government payments coming in (two of them are large), so I have to ship Poe's parcel and hopefully go to Barrie and find some aquarium plants. A month ago the Petsmart here in town got some really nice ones in, but I had no money, and by the time I had money they were sold out. Our Petsmart isn't really reliable for keeping things in stock, so I'll check there at the end of the month but I'm not holding my breath.
Also I need to figure out where to buy duckweed. .__.;;
I am possibly going to order another aquarium fan for the other side of the tank, since the one I have is only two fans and probably won't do all that much good. But it's cooler here most of the year and then during the summer I have the A/C unit so hopefully that'll keep the axolotl tank at a decent temperature for the critter when I eventually get it.
.....
I need more wax. I think I have like three?? bags of it in Jessie's room but the mug candles use a LOT of it per candle and I want to make some Thanksgiving ones to sell on FB Marketplace, and some Christmas ones when it gets closer to time. Bags of wax are like $35/each, but one mug candle goes for $30 so it'll add up pretty fast assuming they sell.
I'm selling them on FB Marketplace because they're HEAVY and shipping them would cost A TON, so it's not a great option for Etsy, even though I think they'd go over really well on Etsy, actually.
I really need to start looking into Vendors and Crafters Markets, really. Poe found me a really good FB link for a group for Ontario markets and vendors, I need to check it out more. The problem is that I would have to rely on Mom to drive me to the markets and help me set up/take down and I don't know if she'll go for that. I feel like she already does so much for me, I feel bad asking her to do even more.
EDIT: Just ordered my pink princess philodendron! <3