A Whole Lot Of Stuff

I haven't written anything in two days because Monday was Aquarium Day and then yesterday was Recovering From Aquarium Day Day, and I should be working on writing right now but I just... blegh. My brain feels heavy in my head and like it's full of cotton batting or something. I think it's just my ADHD kicking in really bad, because I've felt this way before, but it still sucks. I have stuff to DO, gdi.

I'm 18 pages and 8,068 words into Ghost In The Machine and I think it's going to be a longer one-shot because I haven't even gotten to any of the Investigating or Hunting parts yet, it's all just background and character interactions (and smut because what HH et al fic would be complete without that?) So It might be more like 40 or 45ish pages instead of the 35 or 35ish that the others have been so far. *shrug* I guess we'll see.

If I can't focus on writing today, I might try to do some painting. I have several painting projects on the go right now that I should be working on. I'm almost done my next batch of Wiggly Foxes, not that it matters because no one's buying them anyway. And I have a plastic goat skull that I'm repainting in the pansexual pride flag colors to hang on my wall. And a pan pride cabbage dog... though that one might have to be a nonbinary cabbage dog, since the one I originally made for Poe was in that parcel that is possibly lost now.

Anyway, after I'm done with the four Wiggly Foxes that I'm working on now I need to finish my Rainbow Dash one and my Starry Void one, and I'm also going to pull out three more to start, too, since I have five pegs to hang them on so I might as well. Not 100% sure what I'm going to do with the new ones, but I'm taking a kind of fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants approach to the Wiggly Foxes; no two are the same and I'm just making them up as I go. I might see if I have any that I can paint up like pokemon, though.

I need to take more photos for my Wiggly Fox ads because apparently listings with less than 2 pics don't show up in search results anymore, SO. I think I'm going to take them out to Mom's car and take pics of them hanging from the rear view mirror, because I think they would be happy as mirror danglers. Happier there than as actual keychains, anyway. Their little legs are kind of delicate for use as actual keychains. :P So I have to dig out the five I already have listed and take them out to take photos in the car, then add them to the listing. Then I can just do that right off the bat with the new ones as I finish them.

I wish I had that lantern hook that I held onto for so long, it would have been PERFECT for taking Wiggly Fox pics...

Last night I printed out like six pages of photos (4 photos per page) of the pics I took at the aquarium, just the really good ones that I particularly love. I got three pages in and ran out of blue in which, not a HUGE surprise since I was printing WATER pics, but still. Boo. Luckily I had a spare color cartridge in my Misc Bin, so I popped that in and was good to go, except now I have to order more color ink again. I'm going through ink hand over fist lately, it seems...

This morning when my alarm went off and I got up, Kaida was out and so I dropped her breakfast into the tank straight away and actually got to see her SNAP! at the little pellets as they floated down, it was really neat. I'm looking forward to when she's even bigger and I can see her more than I can now; she's still so small that she hides away in the nooks and crannies most of the time and it's like WHERE'S KAIDA?? WHERE'S KAIDA?? but with no THERE SHE IS!! in the end.

Today I have to vacuum her tank out (I do it ever second day), it's getting a little grungy, but mostly it's leftover food that's got to be scooped up because I am definitely over-feeding her. Still figuring out exactly the right number of pellets to give her each day, and it's constantly changing because she's growing so fast, but I'll get it down. At least the bloodworms at easy. I do need to get to the Dollarama to buy a pair of cheap scissors so I can start giving her proper wormy bits too, though, now that my huge tweezers have arrived in the mail... I've been into the Dollarama SO MANY TIMES since they arrived and I keep forgetting scissors like. *FACEPALM* But I don't want to use my good scissors for cutting up worms, so. Yeah.

If I can convince Mom to drive me to Elmvale in the beginning of November again to pick up one of Kaida's siblings, I think I'm going to name them "Haku", after the river spirit dragon from Spirited Away. My plush axolotl from the aquarium is called "Draco" haha. But this is all a pretty BIG "if" because Mom's already told me once she's not driving me back there, so it'll definitely take some smooth talking.

Yesterday I took Cas out of the aquarium. He just wasn't doing well there, he was very slowly dying off, his leaves were all rotting, so I pulled him, and bought some potting soil and a pot for him and yesterday afternoon I potted him in soil again. Hopefully he'll make it. Also I renamed him "Gabriel" so I can name whatever new plant I get for the tank "Castiel" to go with Dean (who is still THRIVING in the aquarium jfc Dean be a little happier why don't you.) I'm thinking about ordering a monstera off of etsy and giving that a shot. I've never tried a monstera before.

So, Poe emailed me to be like "I haven't been checking my emails. What address did you ship to? I live in _____ now." And I was like *KEYSMASH*, right, but I emailed them back and asked if their FAMILY still lived there and could forward the parcel to them and if I could please get their new address for shipping their werewolf when it finally arrives, and it's now been three days and... so fucking reply. They infuriate me sometimes with their inability to communicate like... just fucking email me back please I need to know what's going on with this parcel, if they can get it from their family or if it's totally lost and I just wasted $125 and all the stuff that was in it?? Like just. Please get back to me.

Next month I have to start buying stuff for people for Christmas and I have no idea what everyone is getting, really. I have Dad finished, but he's always the easy one. I know what I'm getting for Trunks (dragon coaster and a bag of treats), and what I'm getting for Mom (Dune movies and a new tablecloth), and I THINK what I'm getting for Lee (chocolates and a gift certificate to the music store.) I think Lois is just getting a Walmart gift card this year. And Cobin will get cookies and cash, same as every year. Oh, and I already have books for Grandma, But everyone else... idk. Maybe I'll do weird socks again, I just have to order them like ASAP in the beginning of November which means I have to go on AliExpress and pick them out NOW. =/

I hate shopping for Christmas on such a shoestring budget. It takes the fun out of it. At least I can mail Poe's card/coins/book in January for Birthmas. Assuming I have their new address by then. Like. I understand that their Dad isn't doing really well right now, but that's no reason to stop answering emails/messages entirely. Except that's what Poe does when bad things happen, they just... block out the whole world. Which I can understand, to an extent, but you can't just pretend that nothing else exists FOREVER, you have to check your fucking email at some point... 's frustrating, that's all. =/

Anyway. Still hoping to sell Ishana and nab another $100 from that, but at this point it's been long enough since I posted the ad that I'm starting to doubt it'll happen. At least I managed to sell Flora and Fauna (or whatever their names are now; I'm sure their new owner has changed them) and I would LOVE to sell Sofi but she's cobbled together from different doll parts and has all the discoloration on her from when she was wearing that horrible sweater, so. I can't really do much with her, despite wanting to.

Oh, and my peridot and amethyst chip beads came in yesterday, so now I'm just waiting on citrine, moonstone, tiger eye, fluorite and smoky quarts! Getting there!