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May. 23rd, 2020 09:47 am
muladhara: (grumpy)
I was awake at quarter to six this morning because of the rain! Also I didn't sleep especially well, so I'm not really surprised the rain disturbed me (it was the heaviest rain we've had in literal months).

I'm not amused though, because I walked into town for shopping yesterday, and then a quarter of the way back, and was very, very tired, so I hoped I'd sleep well. Now I am sore and tired, fun times!

Because the buses are only once an hour, I completely messed up everything timing-wise - I left the house a bit later than I meant to, which meant I got to town later. I then tried to rush the shopping, when I should've just chilled, and missed a bus home by TWO MINUTES, which meant I had to wait an hour till the next one. Which is why I tried walking home, but I got to the high school, and my feet and legs were agony, so I ended up staying there till the bus came. I did think about getting a taxi, as their services are running again, but I'm so anxious about being in confined spaces with people right now that I just decided against it.

Anyway! FINALLY managed to get bread flour! Now I can make myself some basic cake type things that require it! I barely eat or make actual bread now and given the shortage of flour of late, perhaps that's a good thing.

~

I checked the shipping estimates on the website I ordered my figures off, and they could take a month to get here - it depends on the size of the company they've been ordered from (Games Workshop ship the fastest because, well, they're Games Workshop, and are one of the biggest companies).

So I need to cool my jets about acrylic paints (I have a bunch of colours - I'm just missing a cool yellow and a white).

This is one of those things that makes me wish my weasel brain weren't so weasely.

Talking of weasel brains, I took so long with the youtube playlist of the FFVII Remake soundtrack I was listening to that it's been taken down, because of breach of copyright. I should've just ploughed through it to finish it, but I lost interest after hearing three slightly different versions of the same track, several times in a row. Also, weasel brain being what it is, I lost interest because that's how my weasel brain is! (I've always been like this, but I swear it feels more magnified in recent years? Or maybe it just feels like that because time is passing faster as I get older).

I mean now what I want to do, instead of finish listening to that soundtrack, is paint minis (which I don't have) and start another Buffy rewatch, because [personal profile] ruuger has been rewatching, and it reminded me that a) I love the show, even if Joss Whedon is lamppost (which he is) and b) I never finished it last time (because weasel brain!) and I've only seen most of the episodes once since they aired.

(I mean come on, brain, I've been wanting to wean myself off youtube, what better way to do it!)

~

Streams:

Mike versus Andy: Whose game collection is the worst ranked, according to Metacritic?

Luke versus Ellen: Whose Animal Crossing villagers are the most wanted? (I don't know how much of it they took out of the VOD (Luke said he would try) - but just be aware there were a bunch of technical issues including a very loud feedback loop at the start of the stream. Hopefully it's been removed because jfc it was horrible, and I wouldn't want to inflict that on anyone).
About...a week ago? I started catching up on the Dicebreaker mini painting streams. I didn't watch them initially because they were on while I was at work on Fridays, or because, when they moved to Thursdays, I had no interest in mini painting. Or, at least, I thought I didn't.

It's reminded me of two things:

1. Seeing a bunch of minis and paint in my friend's bedroom when I was about...ten or so? I didn't know what they were, and he wasn't around to ask at the time.

2. finding out a few years ago that there was a mini painting subreddit, and then being hugely disappointed that it was for miniature painting, not extremely small paintings on canvas or paper.

ANYWAY. It turns out that I actually find the process for mini painting really interesting! I also like that a couple of times they've said that you don't actually need to be playing a game to get minis to paint, you can just buy whichever ones look cool to you, and go for it, which is nice.

I half toyed with the idea, but I think it's just my weasel brain going, "OH THAT'S COOL LET'S DO THAT NOW!" Also I just don't have storage space for them. This is why I don't make amigurumi or plushes any more (among other things). I just don't have the space.

That said, it did start me picking up my watercolours again, so yay! (Along with a combo of a couple of other people whose videos I'd been watching around the same time).

Then yesterday, I watched the painting stream live. I didn't paint while the stream was on, I worked on a cross stitch, and it felt exactly like when I go to the meets with my comics peeps. Which is something I've been missing because of a) meeting on a Sunday, which is when I am doing paid work, and then b) having to stay at home because the coronavirus.

I knew I missed meeting up with my peeps, but I didn't know exactly how much until yesterday. (And the streams last roughly as long as one of our meets (2hrs), which also helps that feeling. The upside being I don't have to leg it for a bus afterwards and then worry that I've left something in the pub when I get home).

So that's mostly what I've been up to. Apart from baking:

- I made banana bread cupcakes (so fluffy and delicious!)
- chunky choc chip cookies (and they did come out chunkier this time, wheee!)
- apple and cinnamon cucpcakes, which I haven't tried yet, but they should be okay, as I followed the same recipe I used for cherry muffins, but I subbed the apple for the cherries, and whacked a bunch of cinnamon in. They smell amazing, anyway.

Now I'm going to go and check out my mum's paintbrushes to stop me buying more I don't need (but you know weasel brains, right?)

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