Sena's DW :: Watermelon Life

Infection-wise, today was about the same as yesterday, though the swelling has gone down quite a bit since my ER visit, so that's good news at least. I'm still limping around and have trouble bending down, and I can't lift heavy stuff, but that will all come in time, or so I assume. I'm still bleeding a little from my incision site, but they had to leave it open so it could continue to drain, so I guess it is what it is.

Today Mom took me out to Michael's to buy a couple of scrapbooks. Up until now I've been using the same albums for photos and scrapbooking and it's getting really messy and cluttered. A lot of the problem is that I like to keep mini copies of the covers I make for all my fanfictions and original works, so the two scrapbooks I got today are going to be for those (one for fanfic covers and the other for original works covers) and then my photo albums can actually be PHOTO ALBUMS again.

Since we were there we went to Petsmart as well and bought a new 40 gallon tank for the axolotls. It was on sale so it only cost me about $140 or so, which is good. It's a breeder tank so it's a little longer and shorter than a regular aquarium, but it'll still be perfect for the 'lotls. The problem iiiiiis...

The girl I was supposed to be buying a dresser from on Monday messaged me to say that she and her hubby had decided to keep it after all. So, I don't have a dresser, which means I can't do the tank swap. =/

I guess it's not the WORST thing, though, because I have the leak in the current tank under control for now, and I'm still trying to treat it. I've dealt with the bacterial infection, I think, and tomorrow I have to somehow manage to do a 50% water change, and then a couple days after that I have to start treating for the FUNGAL infection. My 'lotls aren't happy right now, let's just put it that way. Poor 'lil guys.

Other than that...

Today I worked on Lifeline the SMALLEST POSSIBLE AMOUNT, and wrote a few pages of Comfort Food, and also very loosely conceptualized one more post-Horror High one-shot, currently (tentatively) titled Let's Make This Moment, because without it there would have been NINE post-Horror High one-shots and that made the OCD part of my brain unhappy because it wasn't a multiple of two or five. :D;;

I'm still figuring out the details for Let's Make This Moment, but at least having ten of these fics won't make my brain twitchy. Then I can hopefully let go of the post-Horror High one-shots and get back to work on the post-STORM SEASON one-shots like I'm supposed to be doing. :P

Anyway, the long and short of today is that I went out and ran errands and really probably shouldn't have because I'm still sick and now I'm in even more pain, but I got some important stuff done so I guess it was worth it. We'll see how I feel when I wake up tomorrow, though. Haha.

Okay. Yesterday I unpotted Dean and Castiel, shook off as much of the dirt from their roots as possible (Castiel was SUPER root-bound, it was difficult with him) and then washed the rest of the dirt off in a big bowl of water before, finally, using running water to get as much of the last of it as I could! Then I took them upstairs to put them in the aquarium planters!

...except they were both too big. Dean just by a little, but Castiel by a LOT. So I had to split them and put like 2/3 of each plant in the aquarium planters, and then take the other 1/3 of each plant back downstairs to repot them in dirt again. *facepalm* So, I named mini-Castiel "Jack" for obvious SPN reasons, but I don't have a name for mini-Dean yet. I'll think on it.

My pothos clipping from Sam (Bella) also got properly potted finally, since she's got decent root structures now. Hoping she takes to the soil well. Unfortunately I was working with POPCORN DRY POTTING SOIL and when I added water to it to reconstitute it, I added too much, so Bella, Jack and mini-Dean are all basically potted in MUD right now until some of the water either evaporates or gets sucked up by the plants. I'm hoping they don't just die because of my fuck up. =/

I didn't get Sam unpotted and into the aquarium yesterday because he's going in the right side of the tank and I still have work to do on the right side of the tank later today, so he would have been in the way. I'll probably deal with him tomorrow. He's going to WAY too big for my little aquarium planters, though, so I'll definitely have to split him. Then I'll just have to find somewhere else to keep yet ANOTHER vine. There are so many vines in this house, I mean seriously. XD

Yesterday most of my big Amazon order came in, and today the last part (the air pump) is going to come in, and then I can add the second filter and the air stones to the axolotl aquarium. I wasn't able to afford any aquatic plants this month, but that turned out to be fine because when I went to Petsmart for crickets for Itsy they only had like two little scraggly ones left anyway. I think next month I'm going to have to get Mom to take me to the aquarium store in Barrie. I'll have more money in October because I have three government payments coming in that month, so I should be able to afford it, and also to afford to ship Poe's TINY LITTLE PARCEL that is going to cost me 118 FREAKING DOLLARS.

Shipping stuff just isn't affordable anymore, GDI. I remember shipping large, heavy parcels to the UK for like $40 back in the day. It's ridiculous.

I'm currently alternating between working on writing Storm Season (53 pages and counting) and two post-Storm Season one-shots, The Smitten and Teeth. The Smitten (title change probably pending) takes place six months after the end of Storm Season and is kind of a reunion fic, the same as Cheap Motel is for Horror High, and Teeth is a fic featuring Garth, and Cas seeing him for the first time since making his reappearance on Earth. Teeth is already fun to write. I love Garth so much. <3

For Teeth I'm making up all kinds of lore shit on tooth fairies, which is hilarious, because though it's SPN canon that the tooth fairy is real (Garth ganked it, or at least one of them), they didn't go into detail on anything so it's left open to interpretation. Anyway, basically they use teeth as currency (human teeth, animal teeth, monster teeth) and normally just take the ones that come out naturally or are pulled by dentists, but sometimes one goes off the rails and starts attacking people and ripping the teeth out of their heads. It's an agonizing, bloody business. So that's what Sam and Dean are up against, and they go to Garth for advice since he's come up against one before. Cas somewhat reluctantly comes along and has a long-overdue reunion with his friend.

I'm also planning to write a post-Storm Season one-shot with Charlie (By Any Other Name), and I'll probably write one with Jody as well, since the three of them were the closest to Cas during the events of Horror High, but I'm not sure what Jody's will be about or what the title will be yet. I'm leaning toward "Hair Trigger" or something like that. There's also Like Feathers Softly, which is absolutely 100% just Destiel fluff and smut and Sam getting kicked to another motel room for a couple of days, literally no plot at all besides that. :D;;

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I'm getting progressively more worried about Poe as the days go by. They haven't emailed me in like four or five days now and I'm worried something is really wrong, since they're in such a dark place right now. That they've done something to hurt themself or even that their Mum has taken their computer way or something like that. I email every couple of days just so they know I'm still here, but if this goes down like last time...

That's why I tried so hard to keep a bit of distance between us this time, to set boundaries for myself and keep them, but I'm afraid I crossed those boundaries and let them too far in again and I'm about to have the rug pulled out from under me again, so to speak.

But really it's the not knowing that's the hardest part. The wondering if they're okay, or if they're just sick in bed, or if they're having the migraine to end all migraines, or if they're dead on the bathroom floor. Or, like I said, if their Mum just took their computer away, as if taking their pets away earlier wasn't cruel enough.

I just... don't know what to do. There's nothing I really CAN do, except sit and wait and worry.

EDIT: Poe hasn't shut their Etsy shop down, and I feel like they would do that if they were planning on doing something drastic. So there's that, at least?