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time for work, boys
A list post, perhaps:
# Okay so the tl;dr version of the last few weeks is that work has been exhausting for no reason anyone can think of. Even my line manager, who has been there eleven years, said she didn't know why it was so busy lately. It isn't meant to be at the moment.
# My friend Jackie and one of our mutual friends helped me take a bunch of stuff to the local tip at the weekend. It isn't even all the stuff that needs to go, but it was a fair bit, and now I can do a sigh of relief that it's gone. And then figure out what I need to send next.
# One of the things that went was my microwave, so now I don't have one again. It had started burning food in the middle, and some of the paint had come off in the inside, so IDK, it felt a bit unsafe to use? I didn't even really use it that much anyway, so I might not miss except on evenings when I am home from work late, I guess.
I thought about getting a new one, but I'm going to wait till after pay day if I do. Although at least two of the people I work with rhapsodised about their air fryers to me the other day, so I don't know if I might get one of those instead (or maybe as well as? I don't have a lot of counter space, so I feel like it should be an either/or, really).
# One of the things I have been meaning to link to for ages is Luke Westaway's playthrough of Dark Souls (But Randomised!) (link goes to the first video)
I am watching it because I love Luke anyway (he made me very sad by leaving Oxtra, but let's not talk about that and, instead, mention that I am happy he is doing stuff on his own channel). But also I am watching it with a morbid fascination, because I still cannot believe he looked at Dark Souls and went, "Wait, how can I make this harder for myself???"
# Talking of people I like streaming video games, Johnny Chiodini decided to replay Strange Horticulture, which is a neat game set in fantasy land Cumbria, wherein you sell plants to people, while mysterious goings on are happening!
They said they might finish it on stream this time, and I hope they do, but if not at least I know there are other playthroughs out there to watch this time around.
They also streamed a game called Crow Country, which someone in the chat described as Playmobil Silent Hill, and now I can't not mentally refer to it as that. Anyway, it's a game in the vein of early Resident Evil games, but with the model aesthetic of OG FFVII and I'm liking it so far. I wasn't sure I would when I first heard people talking about it, but I'm glad I gave it a chance.
# I have made both the cushion cover and the blind I was intending to do, so I am super happy about that. I also got two books out of the library, one of which has a pattern for a plush cat, and the other one has a pattern for a plush whale, and you bet I am going to freaking make those. I've wanted to make one of those denim whales from an old pair of jeans for YEARS but kept putting it off because I either didn't have the material or the confidence. But now I am going to! After I make the small one from the book.
(Because I am an adult and ofc what I need is more plush animals sitting around the house. Of course it is).
# Think that's it for now! Off to do some washing and sorting, though maybe not in that order.
# Okay so the tl;dr version of the last few weeks is that work has been exhausting for no reason anyone can think of. Even my line manager, who has been there eleven years, said she didn't know why it was so busy lately. It isn't meant to be at the moment.
# My friend Jackie and one of our mutual friends helped me take a bunch of stuff to the local tip at the weekend. It isn't even all the stuff that needs to go, but it was a fair bit, and now I can do a sigh of relief that it's gone. And then figure out what I need to send next.
# One of the things that went was my microwave, so now I don't have one again. It had started burning food in the middle, and some of the paint had come off in the inside, so IDK, it felt a bit unsafe to use? I didn't even really use it that much anyway, so I might not miss except on evenings when I am home from work late, I guess.
I thought about getting a new one, but I'm going to wait till after pay day if I do. Although at least two of the people I work with rhapsodised about their air fryers to me the other day, so I don't know if I might get one of those instead (or maybe as well as? I don't have a lot of counter space, so I feel like it should be an either/or, really).
# One of the things I have been meaning to link to for ages is Luke Westaway's playthrough of Dark Souls (But Randomised!) (link goes to the first video)
I am watching it because I love Luke anyway (he made me very sad by leaving Oxtra, but let's not talk about that and, instead, mention that I am happy he is doing stuff on his own channel). But also I am watching it with a morbid fascination, because I still cannot believe he looked at Dark Souls and went, "Wait, how can I make this harder for myself???"
# Talking of people I like streaming video games, Johnny Chiodini decided to replay Strange Horticulture, which is a neat game set in fantasy land Cumbria, wherein you sell plants to people, while mysterious goings on are happening!
They said they might finish it on stream this time, and I hope they do, but if not at least I know there are other playthroughs out there to watch this time around.
They also streamed a game called Crow Country, which someone in the chat described as Playmobil Silent Hill, and now I can't not mentally refer to it as that. Anyway, it's a game in the vein of early Resident Evil games, but with the model aesthetic of OG FFVII and I'm liking it so far. I wasn't sure I would when I first heard people talking about it, but I'm glad I gave it a chance.
# I have made both the cushion cover and the blind I was intending to do, so I am super happy about that. I also got two books out of the library, one of which has a pattern for a plush cat, and the other one has a pattern for a plush whale, and you bet I am going to freaking make those. I've wanted to make one of those denim whales from an old pair of jeans for YEARS but kept putting it off because I either didn't have the material or the confidence. But now I am going to! After I make the small one from the book.
(Because I am an adult and ofc what I need is more plush animals sitting around the house. Of course it is).
# Think that's it for now! Off to do some washing and sorting, though maybe not in that order.