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Tuesday! Pig n' a Poke!
Apr. 29th, 2025 08:24 amTomorrow is Shopping Day #1 (bank, Costco, Walmart, dollar store, Staples) and then Thursday is Shopping Day #2 (Shoppers, Zehrs, Trombly's, Canadan Tire) and I'm SO looking forward to it because I basically haven't left the house except to go see doctors in a MONTH and I'm going STIR-CRAZY in here. On the other hand, I know how FUCKING exhausting it's going to be since I'm still recuperating, which is why it's divided into two days (normally Mom and I would just do all the stops on the same day.) I'm going to be DEAD by the time we get home, and still have stuff to put away after that. =/ Oh well. At least I'll get some fresh air in-between stores.
Right about the time I got sick was when I was gearing up to swap the axolotl tank out (AGAIN) and then I was so sick I couldn't do it. I'm STILL so sick I can't do it, honestly, especially with the broken ribs, hauling all the buckets of water and scrubbing everything and moving the tanks is just SO beyond me right now. But I have to do it, soon, the 'lotls have been living in a leaking tank for like two months now and it's starting to get musty in here despite my best efforts.
So, I guess the first thing I need to do is paint the boards we got to support the new tank (har har, I'm just waiting for them to collapse and this THIRD tank to crack, too, at which point I will be looking at Mom and Lee and telling them they owe me a new dresser AND a new tank because they wouldn't let me get a better stand to begin with. Anyway.) and the painting I think I AM up to, probably in stages but I can do it. I picked up bright grass green water resistant paint just before I got sick for this job, so it'll POP in my room lol.
Then after the painting is done I need to wait a while longer for my ribs to heal some more, and Mom says she'll help me as best she can and we'll get it done. I'm skeptical, but willing to try. I can't keep patching the leak with towels constantly, after all. (At least it's a slow leak.)
...I've pretty much decided that I'm going to rehome Emmett and Rosie. They are the cause of most of the bird mess and allergy problems in my bedroom and honestly I wasn't supposed to have four budgies to begin with. I got Winter and Shield, and then a while later I got Riley to add to the cage, but Riley turned out to be a GIRL and Winter and Shield were fighting over her, so I had to put her in her own cage. Then she was despondent and lonely, so I had to get Emmett to keep her company... and then fucking RILEY died, and EMMETT got all depressed, so I had to get Rosie to keep HER company. Basically, I fucked up by deciding to get a third bird for my original cage and now I have two cages and four birds and it's too much. Hopefully I can find a good home for them when I set about actually doing the rehoming in the (near?) future.
I'm also rehoming two of my plants right now, I have them up on kijiji. One is Bela, who was a clipping off of my Pothos, Sam, before I put him in the axolotl tank. I was afraid he was going to die and wanted a backup just in case but he's doing fine and I don't really need two of them. The other is Grabriel, who is a baby Swiss Cheese Monstera. I ordered a rooted clipping off Etsy and the seller sent me an additional non-rooted clipping as well and I managed to get it to take, so now I have the original one (Castiel; he's going in the aquarium with Dean eventually) and the smaller one (Gabriel), and again, I only need one, so I might as well find a new home for him. I asked Mom if she wanted him but she said no. Apparently we only need one person obsessively collecting plants in this house lol.
Speaking of plants, my baby spider plant, Jack, was doing SUPER well in my windowsill... until FREAKING PLUTO came along and ATE half of him! AUGH. This cat has NEVER shown interest in (real) plants before (he loves to chew on fake ones, though) but apparently at ELEVEN YEARS OF AGE he decided EHH WHY NOT?? So Jack is currently convalescing on the shelves in the window in the dining room and will probably take a year to grow back. He was just getting to look like a proper spider plant, too. Oh well, he'll make it into the aquarium SOME day, I guess. :<
I saw Itsy out and about yesterday for the first time since Icepocalypse2k25. When we lost power his heating pad obviously wasn't working and it got so cold he went into serious hibernation. But he was out last night, so that was good to see. All this month I was worried that he might have died, but nope! And now that he's not hibernating anymore, I can buy him more crickets and get him fed up. It's been a while since he's had a good meal, between one thing and another.
Um. Okay, movies then. (SPOILERS BELOW.)
Death Of A Unicorn: Was fantastic, but Paul Rudd's character drove me crazy. He was so obsessed with staying and getting the money when it was SO. OBVIOUS. they needed to fucking LEAVE IMMEDIATELY. He had a redeeming moment, though, so that was good. The animation for the unicorns was GREAT and I am now OBSESSED with the concept of the duality of unicorns. Don't piss those things off, that's for sure. A few of the characters were annoying, and I felt super sorry for the girl who was just trying to be the VOICE OF REASON in the ABSOLUTE MADNESS but yeah. Just generally a good time and right up my alley!
Heart Eyes: Nothing really... special or unique, here, it's all been done before, I think, in bits-and-pieces in different movies, but it was put together in a fun, entertaining way and that's the important thing. The twist at the end was kind of transparent (to me at least, I saw it coming a mile off), but the kills and gore were solid. The entire sequence with the two main characters in the front seats of the van while the hippy couple fucked in the back was completely unnecessary, though, and kind of made me turn my nose up. I think my favorite part was actually the "doomed lovers" jewelry campaign the jewelry company put out, it was super artistic and creative (if poorly timed) lol.
The Woman In The Yard: I don't... have much of an opinion on this one, right now. I watched it once and kind of went "huh." And that was it. It's very much a psychological thriller, and I think I need to watch it again just to get the full effect. Actual opinion TBA.
The Monkey: OKAY THIS MOVIE WAS STUPID AS FUCK BUT I LOVED IT ANYWAY. It was SO sarcastically written and SO tongue-in-cheek and the deaths were SO over-the-top it just made for a really fun horror comedy. I think I've watched it every day for the last WEEK. XD
Movies aside, I also now have all of Crossing Jordan, Falling Skies and Dead Like Me to watch. I've watched Crossing Jordan years ago and loved it then so fully except to still love it now, and Dead Like Me sounds promising... but then again, so did Falling Skies and I watched a couple episodes if IT yesterday and it's just not catching me. I'm going to watch a couple more and then decide if I want to keep it or just delete the whole thing. *shrug*
Oh, and yesterday I dug out Season 6 of SPN to watch Episode 4 ("Weekend At Bobby's") because I needed a couple of quotes from it for one of the post-SS fics. I'm going to have to watch it again, but the main monologue that I needed is about 25 minutes in so I can just skip to there. It's for the fic that WAS called Baobhan Sith but has now been re-titled to Going International. I had to kind of conceptualize this one to make sense of AU-canon stuff from other fics later on, so. It's a little last-minute and I have to write/edit it really quickly (in like a week) but I should be able to get it done, assuming I can focus on it properly.
Whiiiiich means closing down Say Something, which I've been tinkering with the last couple of days, and just buckling down on Going International. Myep. That's the plan.
Right about the time I got sick was when I was gearing up to swap the axolotl tank out (AGAIN) and then I was so sick I couldn't do it. I'm STILL so sick I can't do it, honestly, especially with the broken ribs, hauling all the buckets of water and scrubbing everything and moving the tanks is just SO beyond me right now. But I have to do it, soon, the 'lotls have been living in a leaking tank for like two months now and it's starting to get musty in here despite my best efforts.
So, I guess the first thing I need to do is paint the boards we got to support the new tank (har har, I'm just waiting for them to collapse and this THIRD tank to crack, too, at which point I will be looking at Mom and Lee and telling them they owe me a new dresser AND a new tank because they wouldn't let me get a better stand to begin with. Anyway.) and the painting I think I AM up to, probably in stages but I can do it. I picked up bright grass green water resistant paint just before I got sick for this job, so it'll POP in my room lol.
Then after the painting is done I need to wait a while longer for my ribs to heal some more, and Mom says she'll help me as best she can and we'll get it done. I'm skeptical, but willing to try. I can't keep patching the leak with towels constantly, after all. (At least it's a slow leak.)
...I've pretty much decided that I'm going to rehome Emmett and Rosie. They are the cause of most of the bird mess and allergy problems in my bedroom and honestly I wasn't supposed to have four budgies to begin with. I got Winter and Shield, and then a while later I got Riley to add to the cage, but Riley turned out to be a GIRL and Winter and Shield were fighting over her, so I had to put her in her own cage. Then she was despondent and lonely, so I had to get Emmett to keep her company... and then fucking RILEY died, and EMMETT got all depressed, so I had to get Rosie to keep HER company. Basically, I fucked up by deciding to get a third bird for my original cage and now I have two cages and four birds and it's too much. Hopefully I can find a good home for them when I set about actually doing the rehoming in the (near?) future.
I'm also rehoming two of my plants right now, I have them up on kijiji. One is Bela, who was a clipping off of my Pothos, Sam, before I put him in the axolotl tank. I was afraid he was going to die and wanted a backup just in case but he's doing fine and I don't really need two of them. The other is Grabriel, who is a baby Swiss Cheese Monstera. I ordered a rooted clipping off Etsy and the seller sent me an additional non-rooted clipping as well and I managed to get it to take, so now I have the original one (Castiel; he's going in the aquarium with Dean eventually) and the smaller one (Gabriel), and again, I only need one, so I might as well find a new home for him. I asked Mom if she wanted him but she said no. Apparently we only need one person obsessively collecting plants in this house lol.
Speaking of plants, my baby spider plant, Jack, was doing SUPER well in my windowsill... until FREAKING PLUTO came along and ATE half of him! AUGH. This cat has NEVER shown interest in (real) plants before (he loves to chew on fake ones, though) but apparently at ELEVEN YEARS OF AGE he decided EHH WHY NOT?? So Jack is currently convalescing on the shelves in the window in the dining room and will probably take a year to grow back. He was just getting to look like a proper spider plant, too. Oh well, he'll make it into the aquarium SOME day, I guess. :<
I saw Itsy out and about yesterday for the first time since Icepocalypse2k25. When we lost power his heating pad obviously wasn't working and it got so cold he went into serious hibernation. But he was out last night, so that was good to see. All this month I was worried that he might have died, but nope! And now that he's not hibernating anymore, I can buy him more crickets and get him fed up. It's been a while since he's had a good meal, between one thing and another.
Um. Okay, movies then. (SPOILERS BELOW.)
Death Of A Unicorn: Was fantastic, but Paul Rudd's character drove me crazy. He was so obsessed with staying and getting the money when it was SO. OBVIOUS. they needed to fucking LEAVE IMMEDIATELY. He had a redeeming moment, though, so that was good. The animation for the unicorns was GREAT and I am now OBSESSED with the concept of the duality of unicorns. Don't piss those things off, that's for sure. A few of the characters were annoying, and I felt super sorry for the girl who was just trying to be the VOICE OF REASON in the ABSOLUTE MADNESS but yeah. Just generally a good time and right up my alley!
Heart Eyes: Nothing really... special or unique, here, it's all been done before, I think, in bits-and-pieces in different movies, but it was put together in a fun, entertaining way and that's the important thing. The twist at the end was kind of transparent (to me at least, I saw it coming a mile off), but the kills and gore were solid. The entire sequence with the two main characters in the front seats of the van while the hippy couple fucked in the back was completely unnecessary, though, and kind of made me turn my nose up. I think my favorite part was actually the "doomed lovers" jewelry campaign the jewelry company put out, it was super artistic and creative (if poorly timed) lol.
The Woman In The Yard: I don't... have much of an opinion on this one, right now. I watched it once and kind of went "huh." And that was it. It's very much a psychological thriller, and I think I need to watch it again just to get the full effect. Actual opinion TBA.
The Monkey: OKAY THIS MOVIE WAS STUPID AS FUCK BUT I LOVED IT ANYWAY. It was SO sarcastically written and SO tongue-in-cheek and the deaths were SO over-the-top it just made for a really fun horror comedy. I think I've watched it every day for the last WEEK. XD
Movies aside, I also now have all of Crossing Jordan, Falling Skies and Dead Like Me to watch. I've watched Crossing Jordan years ago and loved it then so fully except to still love it now, and Dead Like Me sounds promising... but then again, so did Falling Skies and I watched a couple episodes if IT yesterday and it's just not catching me. I'm going to watch a couple more and then decide if I want to keep it or just delete the whole thing. *shrug*
Oh, and yesterday I dug out Season 6 of SPN to watch Episode 4 ("Weekend At Bobby's") because I needed a couple of quotes from it for one of the post-SS fics. I'm going to have to watch it again, but the main monologue that I needed is about 25 minutes in so I can just skip to there. It's for the fic that WAS called Baobhan Sith but has now been re-titled to Going International. I had to kind of conceptualize this one to make sense of AU-canon stuff from other fics later on, so. It's a little last-minute and I have to write/edit it really quickly (in like a week) but I should be able to get it done, assuming I can focus on it properly.
Whiiiiich means closing down Say Something, which I've been tinkering with the last couple of days, and just buckling down on Going International. Myep. That's the plan.
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