senashenta: (Christmas Ornaments)
Yesterday was Christmas with my little brother. The day started off shitty and painful, but that's how most days start for me. Mom was pissed because I hadn't unloaded the cat litter from the car the day before (because I COULDN'T because my ankle is still FUCKED and my BACK is ALWAYS fucked) so I basically had to do that in my pyjamas while she glared at me the whole time.

Anyway, once she and my brother left to do his shopping I brought up some empty cat litter boxes and the scoop and emptied half the cat litter from each new box into an empty one so that I could carry them all downstairs and cripple myself again. :|

THEN it was cookie time, and I baked approximately 8 dozen chocolate chip cookies on my brother's request (I think he wanted to take them to his family in Toronto for actual Christmas) and then I got to sit down for a few minutes while Lee made a cheesecake. I couldn't do any more cookies yesterday or today even if I wanted to because we ran out of vanilla, which sucks because I have approximately twenty dozen more cookies to make over the next day, now. Mom says we can go out for vanilla tomorrow.

Once the cheesecake was done and in the fridge we exchanged gifts, which was nice, I always like watching people open the gifts I've bought them. Lee laughed at the I.O.U. for Red One because literally it doesn't come out until the end of February haha. And I didn't realize when I was wrapping my brother's dragon coaster set THAT THE BOX LITERALLY SAID "DRAGON COASTER SET" on the fffffffreaking side!! So he unwrapped it and was like "I know what's in this box" and I was just GDI. He also loved that I went to the trouble of getting all of SPN onto USB drives for him. I hope he's happy with his SPN marathon. Mom was really tickled with both of her new Christmas trees, so that was good too.

As for me, I got two Michael's gift cards and a Walmart gift card, as well as some Christmas socks, and the BEST axolotl t-shirt that Mom actually bought back when we went to the aquarium in October. I love it. And for my birthday I got two nice shirts and a chapstick, which I am NOT going to turn down. And we'll see what Amy and Brit, and Brad and Kristianna, and Sarah got for me (if anything) in the future. Also Dad because apparently 3/4 of my presents got stuck in the postal strike. :P

After gifts I got to making dinner, Chicken Picatta Casserole, and then while it was in the oven I did actually get to sit and rest my back for a while. Though, when it was time to eat my stomach started acting up and I couldn't finish what I took. It kind of sucked. But tonight I'm going to eat it as leftovers and my stomach feels fine so I can properly enjoy it (I hope.)

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Yesterday a few things from Amazon came in as well. Some really cute little Christmas ornaments that I'm going to make into necklaces (Star Wars, Marvel and The Nightmare Before Christmas) as well as deodorant (that I forgot to buy when Mom and I were out shopping on Friday) and cotrisone cream because I have a rash on my foot that I need to take care of and just plain moisturizers aren't helping.

Today I got more Amazon parcels; The Nightmare Before Christmas on DVD, the first three seasons of Fear The Walking Dead on DVD BECAUSE LITERALLY I CAN'T FIND A DOWNLOAD OF THAT SHOW WHERE THE AUDIO WORKS and some glass pearls I ordered a while back. It was nice to see those come in.

I convinced Mom and Lee to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas with me when it came in today but I think they didn't enjoy it as much as I did. Mom got a kick out of some parts, but overall... yeah. I should just stop recommending movies for people to watch, they never seem to work out. My tastes are too oddball, I guess.

I'm most of the way through Season 8 of my TWD marathon and I think it's starting to get to my head. Last night I had this weird dream about being a kid and going to a primary school where they had us act out our worst nightmares, and one kid's was about an invisible monster that tore people limb-from-limb, absolutely bloody and gory, and then left them to be eaten by cats. Does this mean I'm afraid of my cats eating me some day, subconsciously? I don't even know where my brain goes when it comes to dreams anymore.

I desperately need to do a complete water change in the axolotl tank, and clean up everything that's in it and everything, but I'm procrastinating over it because of my back and how much doing that will make it fall apart completely. But the internal filters need a proper clean and the plants need rinsed off, and I have a new hide for the 'lotls to add to the aquarium, too, so I mean. Yeah. I dunno, maybe tomorrow. Then again, baking was supposed to be tomorrow, so...

Either way, the 'lotls are starting to act weird and slugging and they're off their food, and I think it's because of the filters, so I need to get on it.
senashenta: (Urge To Kill RISING)
I was really sick most of yesterday and I'm really hoping it doesn't translate into today, too. Real TMI stuff. So far I don't feel too bad, but I'm having minor stomach pain, which like... I have stomach pain (or, intestinal pain, really) almost every day, so it could just be that, or it could be more of yesterday and I REALLY don't want it to be more of yesterday. :|

Speaking of being sick, my lungs have been JACKED the last month or so, I think?? because of my allergies but I don't know for sure. All I know is that I can't breathe (again, we JUST fixed this with the Breztri), my lungs feel, like... sponge-y?? And I have an intermittent cough. I'm HOPING it's just a bad allergy season, but if my lungs are still like this when I next go see Dr. K, I'll bring it up with her. Seems like nothing but bad news with my lungs anymore. Sucks.

I finally broke down and ordered a potted pink princess philodendron, since one of my clippings died and the other is just... sitting there. Anyway, it arrived this morning and it's tiny (only 4") but a full-on PLANT and THAT I can work with! So later today I'll be repotting her into a better pot and setting her up somewhere sunny to get her a good start. Her name is Charlie. <3

On the subject of Charlie, By Any Other Name is now called Ghost In The Machine for real purposes and also for haha purposes. I have about two pages of it written so far. 15 pages of When Lightning Strikes. 11 pages of Pinfeathers. 5 pages of Halcyon Days (including the ending.) 5 pages of Teeth. And last night I started tinkering with Tying Knots again, my Omegaverse Destiel fic, which is officially the only one I'm writing with Top!Castiel and Bottom!Dean. I'm only about 3 pages into it.

Just keep writing, just keep writing...

I do intend to shut all these one-shots down and start working on Storm Season again, though. Next week is posting the last chapter of Horror High, and then I have Cheap Motel, Counting Scars, Cerulean Blue, Everything I Do and Falling Stars to post, and then I'm HOPING to get right into posting Storm Season so I need to get back to it and get it finished in the next 5 weeks. But definitely by the beginning of November because I'm hoping to actually complete the NaNo this year.

Having said that, I've just jinxed myself and I know it. :|

But I figure I can at least ATTEMPT TKA for the NaNo. I already have the whole storyline written out in point form notes, I just have to actually WRITE the damn thing. (Mom read my jot notes and said even that was an entertaining short story. She also read the jot notes for The Order of Delphi and was confused by them, but I don't blame her, TOOD is still a very in-progress work. The notes need major editing/updating/adding to.)

Still tinkering with the notes for Sins Of Angels and Scarlet Letters, which are WAY down on the list of things I need to write. And I SHOULD be working on Ghost Of Nameless Stars, but not having Poe to chat with regularly has somewhat stymied me with that one. Like I have a big question I need answered about Eden and I asked but they never answered, I guess they never saw it, and I can't even ask again because we are taking a break from emailing for a while. idk I might just make an executive decision and hope for the best??

Today I have to figure out a way to get the cat litter boxes (2 of them, each weighing 18kg each) down the basement stairs but with my back, hips and wrists it's impossible. Apparently Mom is refusing to do it anymore, though, so I have to figure something out. Maybe if she sees me taking juice jug scoops of the litter downstairs at a time she'll get the idea. I dunno.

I wish I could just switch my cats over to the flushable pine litter that Mom and Lee use for Jessie, but I tried that before and Juna REFUSES to use it, he just shits outside the litter box if I put anything in it other than clay. So until Juna is gone, I'm stuck with clay litter. It's a pain, especially when my physical health prevents me from moving the boxes of litter down the stairs and no one else will do it for me.

Like considering all we do for him, would it kill my brother to do it when he's here using the laundry facilities every week? But God forbid you should ask him. He just rants about how he always has to do everything (he literally does nothing) and how I'm being fucking lazy and that kind of shit. Like, pardon me for having scoliosis and hips that pop out of their sockets and wrists and hands that are riddled with arthritis/tendonitis. I do what I can but some things are just beyond me.

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