Some things, making a post:

# I had a migraine the other day with nausea so bad that it persisted not only into the following day, but it also lasted all day. Luckily(?), I was in work, so I didn't really have time to think about how gross I felt but blerghhhh, please can we not???

# Talking of which, I can't remember if I mentioned it, but I am on a waiting list to get an appointment at the doctor's to, in part, get help with the migraines. They were mostly bearable (in so far as such a thing can be), but the nausea is just. NOPE. NO THANK YOU.

# Yesterday, as I walked into work, I heard People Ruin Paintings on the radio playlist, which is one of the released singles from Critical Thinking and a) I almost sort of enjoyed it (and it was a nice surprise to hear a Manics song at work!) and b) it reminded me that I should listen to the album again, as I have not given it a fair chance yet because I wasn't initially impressed.

(Our store has a pre-built playlist that isn't like a "$Store Radio station" - it's just a giant, varied playlist that has occasional ads for offers or whatever. And, unlike my previous (paid) job, it is actual licensed music, rather than not).

# I ended up talking to two customers about reading, on two separate days!

The first one I hijacked a conversation he was having with a colleague, because I heard him say he has a lot trouble concentrating on reading, and I was like, "OMG SAME!!" Anyway, we chatted a bit, turns out he plays a lot of Vidya Gaems (also same). I told him maybe he's getting his narrative fix from that, as I think to some degree I am, and I said he shouldn't feel guilty about not reading books. I try not to, even though younger me is still mad that I can't concentrate on them like I used to.

And then the other one was an older customer, who's recently become a regular. He was asking about the playlist on the work radio, so I told him a bit about that, and then through some loops in conversation, we ended up talking about science-fiction books. He said he'd read 2001, and I had forgotten until he said it, but I have also read it (I remember nothing), and I talked a bit about Philip K Dick to him (he hasn't read a lot of him, and has seen more films based on his work instead. I am the opposite way around - I've seen Blade Runner and Total Recall and that's IT).

I also complimented a customer's phone case, as it had Hokusai's Wave on it, and that is my favourite Japanese print (I have it on a bunch of things, including multiple postcards, and the t-shirt I am currently wearing).

# I had to walk home from work, and then to work the following day because the bus timetable has changed - buses are now once hourly, and don't run when you need them to. Everything hurts, so I bought myself some pens to make up for it.

# Work is...not great at the moment, but I'm not going into it as to why (way too much explaining, and it's not remotely interesting; also unlocked post). Suffice to say I am very tired, and all I would like to do is sleep.

# that's all I've got for now. I'm going to have my dinner and maybe nap a bit afterwards.
In which this has been a week:

~ I rode my bike to work on New Year's Day, as there were no buses. I did not ride it all the way, and I could not ride it home (because gentle yet deceptive gradient, boo). So I had to walk with it almost all the way. Also it was raining.

~ I injured my right ring fingertip on some metalwork while cleaning on Friday evening, and it obviously hasn't healed properly yet because it's on a fingertip of my dominant hand, so I keep catching it on stuff and setting it off bleeding again. Fun times!

~ And then! It snowed on Saturday night. Which, again, meant no buses because although the main roads were clear, because of the diversions, nothing could get into town (or drivers, probably, depending on where they live).

I checked to see if I had messages from anyone else about whether they were going in. I did not. So foolishly, I set off walking. In three inches of snow. For three miles. While it was still snowing.

Anyway, tl;dr version: nobody else in my dept had come in, so it was open, but it was extremely bare bones because there was only me.

And then I had to walk home because there were still no buses, and I didn't know if taxis were running, and I couldn't be arsed to find out. Also it was raining. But I was going home, so I didn't mind so much.

It was so weird, though, because there were so few people/not a lot of traffic around, it felt like being in some strange, post-apocalyptic environment. Like, there were signs there'd been life here, but there wasn't much evidence of it. (Work was, well, work. Just with less people than usual - both coworkers and customers).

I'm glad I've got today and tomorrow off, though, because although I don't feel as shit as I was expecting to, I don't feel great, so at least I can just bimble around the house and not do too much.

#

In other news:

~ I rewatched all of Oxventure Wyrdwood, and now I want to rewatch it again, heh. It's given me a mighty craving for all things folk horror-y (I mean, it had already but now it's really intense). I am currently watching Golden Rodent play Balatro, however.

~ Me and Sarah hung out for a bit last week and got spooked by a goat just staring at us (I mean, of all the farm animals it could have been, and while I was telling her about Wyrdwood as well!)

~ I bought an air fryer instead of a new microwave. I figured I didn't use the micro that much, whereas I use my oven/stove more, and would like to cut down on my (frankly ludicrous) gas bill.

I have next to no idea what I can do with it (yet), but I am looking forward to maybe getting back into baking again, and also perhaps making slightly more complex dishes than I do currently.

~ I bought and started playing Persona 5 Tactica. I am about three hours in and have few thoughts beyond "art style is cool", "I like Erina (and her costume design)" and "Toshiro needs a good slap upside the head because he is, in part, a predictable Japanese male character".

#

I think that is everything for now. I can't be arsed doing a post summing up 2024. It was pretty shit for the most part. I'm glad to see the back of it. Hopefully 2025 might be better, but honestly who knows.
So. The other day at work, I was bemoaning the state of the local bus service. It has been horrendous for years, but at the end of last week, the road on one of the main routes collapsed, meaning the buses had to take a really out of the way detour to get to their destinations, meaning the schedule was even more screwed than usual.

Context is that I live in a valley system, which has one A road down the middle of it in all directions the valleys go. All other routes are over the hills/moorland, and add extra time to journeys because they are out of the way to access, and obviously not suitable for certain types of traffic.

Anyway, I happened to mention that I'd been wanting to buy a bike for literal years, and maybe this was my sign from the universe to do so. And the lass I was talking to said her sister had a bike she wanted to sell, did I want it?

Obviously, I said yes!

So they brought it to work for me last night for when I finished my shift, and the plan was for me to ride it home. Except...I haven't ridden a bike in sixteen years, so I was very wobbly, somewhat scared of the traffic on the road, and it really hurt my thighs. So I gave up approximately halfway home and wheeled it the rest of the way.

And now I have a bike sitting in my kitchen.

I just need to get used to it again before I start riding it to work and back (and also get appropriate equipment; I need a helmet, lights, and reflectors). And also find somewhere else in the house to store it.

But I have a bike! I am very !!!!! about it!
Over the last eight days, I have been in work for seven of them, with one day off, which was Easter Sunday. Thus I am very tired and last night when I left, I actually felt like crying because I just wanted to be at home by that point. I had to wait for a bus, however, so I walked partway, and that probably didn't help; also didn't know if the bus was actually going to show because the app the company uses is next to useless. Luckily, it did, and I was home by the time I thought I would be, but it would have been nice to have known that for sure, given the way I was feeling.

Oh yeah, and the clocks went forward last Sunday, so that won't have helped either!

It also didn't help that my mood, in general, over the past month has been fucking fantastic. Like, I genuinely do not remember the last time that I felt this baseline happy, rather than sad/tired and angry/annoyed. There's a couple of reasons for this, I think, neither of which I'm going into because one's personal, and the other one's daft (and also a bit personal).

But I know the crappy mood won't last, though, and I just need some rest. I have a few days off work, so hopefully I can just mooch around when I'm not doing Things That Need to be Done (eye test; smart electric meter getting put in). I need to just mooch around and remember that it's okay to do that.

(Oh, it is an incoming migraine. That explains a lot).

~

I've been playing Inscryption instead of Mass Effect 2! I don't have a lot to say, except for the below.

spoilers! )

~

That's all I've got for now. Time to go and curl up in bed until my head feels better.
# My local bus company has changed the bus times and they are ridiculous. I won't rant about it here because it's boring, but suffice to say, nobody I know is happy about it.

# My sister in law took me to Accrington last week for a day out. It isn't particularly the most exciting place in the world, but I had never been, and all we were going for was mooching around the charity shops. So it did us fine for that, and we were home in time for my nephew coming home from school.

I got belated birthday cards, and also some money from them, which I was not expecting. I have finally bought Susan Briscoe's Boro book with some it, and I am maybe going to spend some of the rest on some more felting supplies*.

(*I had a bit of a breakthrough with that, yay! More below).

# So yeah, felting. I was feeling a bit like I'd wasted my money on the kit I bought because I did a bit and then didn't use it any more. But it was partly because I didn't really know what I was doing. Then I watched a video by Sarah Homfrey, where she was talking about slow stitching spirals, and I was like, "I like circles, let's just make loads of felt circles until I feel like I have the hang of this some more!" And so that is what I've been doing!

Granted, I haven't been doing many, because I got distracted by slow stitching some spirals, and also a pattern on a bigger piece of cloth, but I did some and that's what counts!

# I also did some more sorting in the front bedroom, and found an absolute stash of variegated threads (47 skeins!) that I didn't know existed. I felt bad separating them from the embroidery they were with, but I am never going to do it, and at least they'll get used this way. (Also the needle in with them was extremely rusted, so it's safe to say they'd been sitting there for at least twenty years, heh).

And I found three eight inch hoops, one of which was on the aforementioned embroidery, so that was good/a nice surprise.

# I did a bunch of scanning that has been piling up since November last year (oops), so there will be some sketchblog updates soon! Some of it is embroideries I have done, and I am thinking about making prints from some of them. I don't know if anyone will be interested in that, but given it's over a year since I put anything in my shop, at least it's something to update there with?

# I think this is all I have to say for now, so I shall leave this entry here and go and do something else instead!

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Nov. 24th, 2021 10:50 am
muladhara: (harry mason)
List post, because:

A. I got the FRANKLY MASSIVE memory card for my new tablet, so that is all good to go now! I just have to make some WiPs to post on ko-fi! (I mean, I have a doodle on the go now, but I think I will abandon it, because I don't feel it's working).

I also have to think of some more perks for subscribing, because just having access to my WiPs (even though NOBODY ELSE will see them) won't cut it (allegedly).

B. I found out earlier today, thanks to [personal profile] honigfrosch, that The Black Cauldron, AKA that Disney film that nobody ever talks about, is based on a book by Lloyd Alexander and not only that, but I actually own a copy of it! My mum bought a book that is the first three Chronicles of Prydain, and The Black Cauldron is the second book in that! All this time it's been sitting in my living room, and I never knew! So I thought I might try to give it a read and see what it's like.

C. OH NO CULT PENS HAS BLACK FRIDAY DEALS. HELP.

I only went on there to drool over this limited edition(?) Platinum Preppy that I keep telling myself I don't need. I didn't need to be attacked like this!

(I didn't buy anything, but that didn't stop me wanting to).

D. I went back to work on Saturday, and am consequently all achy and somewhat tired (to nobody's surprise).

The buses are still ridiculous - I had to call my brother on Sunday evening to ask him to pick me up, as the bus I usually catch home didn't turn up, and I had no desire to wait for another hour in the freezing cold to see if the next one would arrive.

E. I don't have an E, but five things make a list, right? ;)
Two things regarding that crush I had way back when I was much younger and impressionable:

Thing the first -

Boss' Wife: Show me a nice bloke and then maybe I'll believe you.
Me: I'd show you a nice bloke if I knew where he lived.
BW: *laughing*
Me: No, seriously. I wasn't saying that to be funny. I really would, but I don't know where he lives now. And he seriously is a nice fella.
BW: So why didn't you snag him then?
Me: Because he was married at the time.
BW: So why didn't you lure him away from his wife?
Me: I was 12!

Thing the second -

The last couple of mornings I've been catching a stupidly early train. There was a guy I saw yesterday and this morning who, if he isn't said ex-crush, looks very like him. I didn't notice him until I'd already spent a couple of days thinking about the ex-crush, and yet he always gets off at the same station as me, and must have done on all the other days I was in at stupid o'clock.

I don't have to be in at stupid o'clock any more, but I am more than half tempted to keep catching that train till we break for Xmas. Because I am more curious than anything, I think (good job I'm not a cat, eh?) Trouble is, because I haven't seen him in nearly twenty years(!), I know I wouldn't recognise him unless he said, "Oh yeah, by the way, I'm [name]".

I mean, this is just weird coincidence, right? Yeah. That's totally what it is.

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Nov. 26th, 2010 10:30 pm
muladhara: (when in doubt)
I need an "I am very very cold icon". BRR. DO NOT WANT.

On which note, it was minus 4°C when my brother picked me up this morning, and I happened to comment that this was warm for winter in some countries. To which he replied that he didn't want it, and they could have it back.

Also, overheard on the train on the way home (somewhat paraphrased, although the best bit is verbatim) -

Small boy: Can I have banana and peanut butter sandwiches for tea?
His mother: Yes, you can.
SB: So we need to get bananas and peanut butters!

(I love it when kids pluralise things wrong; it's adorable).

~*~

Crazy job at work is crazy. And that's all I really have to say about that.

(Although it's not as crazy as the job before, but that was more of a rather large pain in the arse).

~*~

Back to playing P3 again. I think I needed a break from it. Also I got stuck on Ring of Fates, which kind of explains that (although I did almost beat it. Short game is short! And I kind of want to be a Lilty when I grow up I can't believe I just said that Now I need to buy Echoes of Time...*sigh* And I do love the FFIX style graphics. Hee).

(Aw man, talking of stuff I need to buy (Strange Journey notwithstanding), Amazon keeps reccing me a complete boxset of Escaflowne for cheap. DO WANT. Although it makes me cry that I promised I wouldn't buy anything else till after Xmas - so that I can buy decent presents. WAH).

~*~

Dear Andy Diggle,

Please stop giving me nightmares and making my hands itch all day.

That is all, thanks,

Me x

PS. Not quite sure I like what you did with Golden Boy yet. Will need rereading, mainly because I wasn't concentrating very hard last night. Although I suppose it proves the pair of them are devious bastards, eh?
I went for my blood test. I'd like to say it went well, except I totally forgot that my veins are shy and thus there was a lot of rooting about in order to find it. Also it wouldn't bleed once she'd got the needle in. What's that all about?

Results when I go back to get my prescription renewed (or sacked entirely; but so far so good).

~*~

I started taking the bus to work in a morning again. Primary reason being it's getting too cold to spend twenty minutes waiting for my train. And I am a grade A wuss, as has been noted before. Also I am so fucking sick of the trains being late all the time. The journey on the bus may be a drag, but it takes exactly the same amount of time, and I always get into work on time. And I get to walk across town which, while mildly annoying, is probably really good for me vis-a-bis exercise.

I overheard a woman on the way home say, "The thing is, I don't even understand what's going on here!" and I thought, "Me either, love. Me. Either."

Talking of work (which I kind of was), we have some awful stuff in at the moment. Mostly because pretty much everything the job contains makes you want to throw up (also the job itself makes you want to headdesk repeatedly).

~*~

I am now attempting to finish Persona 3. Embarrassingly, I haven't played it for nearly eighteen months. WTF? I am shamed.

I am also a lot closer to the end of the game than I thought. On an alternate save file, I am now literally on the last day and off to waste Nyx (bet it won't happen till Sunday, provided I actually play loads tomorrow).

I love this game. Hell, I love all the Megaten games I have (working on actually picking up Nocturne/Lucifer's Call/SMT III some time soon \o/ And then maybe actually saving some money so that I can afford some Xmas presents*).

I don't have anything to say about it, because everyone is mostly "Oh crap, end of game plot." Heh.

~*~

*I don't actually have to buy for that many people, but it's nice to buy nice stuff for them.

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