Watermelon Heart
Sep. 25th, 2024 07:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senashentaI'm craving watermelon like CRAZY right now and there is literally nothing I can do about it until at least Friday, probably more like Monday. UNACCEPTABLE.
I'm up super early today because today is the day that Mom and I are helping get Grandma moved into the new care home here in Orillia, so I needed to be up early to take my pills so (hopefully) be over the HORRENDOUS NAUSEA they cause before 9:45 when it's time to leave. I'm... not looking forward to this. Any interaction with Grandma nowadays, especially when she's stressed, is just... it's terrible. And I'm a horrible person for thinking that. But my mental illness doesn't like HER mental illness and it's just like. I can't. But I also can't avoid her forever, so...
I reformatted part of my journal on my HD in Word today, since I figured out how to get text to wrap around images. That will make things look much nicer in the future and also save space, but it meant I had to re-print like 25 pages. It seems all I'm doing lately is re-printing stuff. I'm using up so much ink and paper. =/
I repurposed my My Zombie binder, which has been sitting empty, into a Storm Season et al binder. Originally the plan had been to have Horror High, Storm Season and all the one shots (at the time just Cheap Motel and Counting Scars) housed in the same binder but now Horror High and all it's one-shots take up an entire three-inch binder of their own and Storm Season has even more one-shots than HH, so like. Yeah.
Tomorrow is Thursday so that means posting the next Horror High one-shot, Counting Scars. Cheap Motel got a mediocre response, but I've come to expect that from this series so it wasn't disappointing or anything. And posting Cheap Motel got me a bunch more clicks and stuff on Horror High, so maybe the same will hold true for Counting Scars? We'll have to see.
After Counting Scars I have three more one-shots to post over the next three weeks, and I'm HOPING to get Storm Season finished and edited in that time, but I think SS will end up butting right up against the NaNo for this year so I'm going to take a month's break and then start posting it in the beginning of December. That gives me more time to work on the Storm Season one-shots, too.
.....
I started notes on yet ANOTHER new original writing project last night. It's called Serial Souls, and it's a supernatural/horror/crime... ish? Deal. It has a lot of characters in it so I'm still figuring that out. I usually try to keep my Main Casts to a handful of people but in Serial Souls I'm basically populating a small town, so it's like. Yeah. A lot of people. Living and dead and in-between. :D
Anyway.
I'm HOPING I can get Mom to help me hang my new macrame plant hanger in my room today when we get back from helping move Grandma, but I guess that'll depend on how it goes. I really want to get Bella and Charlie hanging properly and off Mom's shelves in the living room. I still have three other plantlings on the shelves (my spider-baby, Jack, the clipping I took off Bucky, and the clipping off of Dean, both of whom need names still; I'm thinking I might name the Bucky clipping "Alpine") but I really don't have anywhere else to put them. Except for Jack, when he's bigger he's going in the aquarium. But he's still too tiny right now.
Speaking of spider plants, Peter is so happy right now he is growing FOUR vines of spider-babies and I'm like. Peter. That's too many babies, Peter. We do not need that many babies. (But at least he's happy, I guess?)
Also Dean and Cas are doing well in the aquarium so far, except they continue to drop dirt into the bottom of the aquarium and it's SOIL so it's TINY and I'm not 100% sure how to CLEAN IT UP. Eventually they'll get rid of the last of it, but I'm just going to leave it until they do and then try using my aquarium vacuum... suction... thingy. If I can figure out how to use it.
I also still need to unpot Sam and get him into the aquarium but I'm procrastinating over it because it's SO much work and also because he looks rather nice the way he is?? Maybe I should just put Bella in the aquarium after all? But then again I rather like the idea of having Sam, Dean, Cas and Jack all in the aquarium as a lil family, so like... I dunno. I'll probably unpot Sam after all. But he's so big probably only half of him will FIT and then what will I do with the other half of him? The other half of Sam?? HMM?? No clue.
It's still going to be a while before this tank is ready for an axolotl. :|
Last night I put all my candle making stuff away again. I had gotten it all out intending to make some Halloween mug candles but then it just sat around my room being in the way while I was like MEH over making candles in general, so away it went. I tried to tidy up my room a little yesterday. Was moderately successful. Anyway, I can get the candle stuff back out again easily enough if I change my mind, and I still have some time to make Halloween candles for FB Marketplace. *shrug*
Right, just. Ramblings while I try to focus on stuff that isn't CRUSHING DESPAIR. MOVING ON!!
I'm up super early today because today is the day that Mom and I are helping get Grandma moved into the new care home here in Orillia, so I needed to be up early to take my pills so (hopefully) be over the HORRENDOUS NAUSEA they cause before 9:45 when it's time to leave. I'm... not looking forward to this. Any interaction with Grandma nowadays, especially when she's stressed, is just... it's terrible. And I'm a horrible person for thinking that. But my mental illness doesn't like HER mental illness and it's just like. I can't. But I also can't avoid her forever, so...
I reformatted part of my journal on my HD in Word today, since I figured out how to get text to wrap around images. That will make things look much nicer in the future and also save space, but it meant I had to re-print like 25 pages. It seems all I'm doing lately is re-printing stuff. I'm using up so much ink and paper. =/
I repurposed my My Zombie binder, which has been sitting empty, into a Storm Season et al binder. Originally the plan had been to have Horror High, Storm Season and all the one shots (at the time just Cheap Motel and Counting Scars) housed in the same binder but now Horror High and all it's one-shots take up an entire three-inch binder of their own and Storm Season has even more one-shots than HH, so like. Yeah.
Tomorrow is Thursday so that means posting the next Horror High one-shot, Counting Scars. Cheap Motel got a mediocre response, but I've come to expect that from this series so it wasn't disappointing or anything. And posting Cheap Motel got me a bunch more clicks and stuff on Horror High, so maybe the same will hold true for Counting Scars? We'll have to see.
After Counting Scars I have three more one-shots to post over the next three weeks, and I'm HOPING to get Storm Season finished and edited in that time, but I think SS will end up butting right up against the NaNo for this year so I'm going to take a month's break and then start posting it in the beginning of December. That gives me more time to work on the Storm Season one-shots, too.
.....
I started notes on yet ANOTHER new original writing project last night. It's called Serial Souls, and it's a supernatural/horror/crime... ish? Deal. It has a lot of characters in it so I'm still figuring that out. I usually try to keep my Main Casts to a handful of people but in Serial Souls I'm basically populating a small town, so it's like. Yeah. A lot of people. Living and dead and in-between. :D
Anyway.
I'm HOPING I can get Mom to help me hang my new macrame plant hanger in my room today when we get back from helping move Grandma, but I guess that'll depend on how it goes. I really want to get Bella and Charlie hanging properly and off Mom's shelves in the living room. I still have three other plantlings on the shelves (my spider-baby, Jack, the clipping I took off Bucky, and the clipping off of Dean, both of whom need names still; I'm thinking I might name the Bucky clipping "Alpine") but I really don't have anywhere else to put them. Except for Jack, when he's bigger he's going in the aquarium. But he's still too tiny right now.
Speaking of spider plants, Peter is so happy right now he is growing FOUR vines of spider-babies and I'm like. Peter. That's too many babies, Peter. We do not need that many babies. (But at least he's happy, I guess?)
Also Dean and Cas are doing well in the aquarium so far, except they continue to drop dirt into the bottom of the aquarium and it's SOIL so it's TINY and I'm not 100% sure how to CLEAN IT UP. Eventually they'll get rid of the last of it, but I'm just going to leave it until they do and then try using my aquarium vacuum... suction... thingy. If I can figure out how to use it.
I also still need to unpot Sam and get him into the aquarium but I'm procrastinating over it because it's SO much work and also because he looks rather nice the way he is?? Maybe I should just put Bella in the aquarium after all? But then again I rather like the idea of having Sam, Dean, Cas and Jack all in the aquarium as a lil family, so like... I dunno. I'll probably unpot Sam after all. But he's so big probably only half of him will FIT and then what will I do with the other half of him? The other half of Sam?? HMM?? No clue.
It's still going to be a while before this tank is ready for an axolotl. :|
Last night I put all my candle making stuff away again. I had gotten it all out intending to make some Halloween mug candles but then it just sat around my room being in the way while I was like MEH over making candles in general, so away it went. I tried to tidy up my room a little yesterday. Was moderately successful. Anyway, I can get the candle stuff back out again easily enough if I change my mind, and I still have some time to make Halloween candles for FB Marketplace. *shrug*
Right, just. Ramblings while I try to focus on stuff that isn't CRUSHING DESPAIR. MOVING ON!!
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