I moved SO much furniture today! Here it is in list form:

( It gets long. Also I ramble. )

Anyway, depending on how I feel I may or may not go down the shops; I have enough food that I don't have to go, so I might leave it for Thursday. But I also might just want to be Not Here For A Little While, hahahaha! We'll see!

Once I finish the bookshelves, though, I'mma reward myself with putting my desktop back together and playing the new Terraria update for a while, yessss. >D

Well, today I tried to go down to the shops and see if the $2 shop had anything I needed for blinds.

I was thwarted by the fact they were closing up as I got there. :/ As I was over an hour before their usual closing time, I thought it'd be fine, but... Public holiday, I guess they just weren't getting enough customers to be bothered staying open. Which is fair! Just annoying for me personally. I'll go down again in a couple of days, I guess.

Other than that I did very little today! That was Pretty Exhausting, and also I just. Ehhhh. My parents are leaving tomorrow morning, I kinda just wanted to take a day to do not much and rest up for tomorrow. Which is going to be extremely warm again! So I'll try and get up and move some furniture first thing, and then nap through the afternoon, and then more stuff after it gets dark. Heatstroke is the enemy, and I must be vigilant! But also I want to get things done, so.

I did forget to say last night, Sushi has popped out a flyscreen already, SIGH. Spent all last night out, because of fucking course he did. These flyscreen designs sure are stupid as fuck!!! :|

Finished packing up my wardrobe (well, mostly, gotta take the coffee table out of it and stuff but that can wait Until Later), plus another box mainly of nick nacks off the bookshelves. I have. Many. It's kinda scary how many when they're all added together like that!

(There's still more, too, ones that I don't wanna add to a box because they're a little fragile, and some that are very much my parents', and there's probably some more behind some furniture.)

In our defense there's a 4-5cm gap between the books and the edge of the shelf; not enough to put a second layer of books, but plenty of room for photos/little statues/gacha prizes/etc. etc. etc.

I also measured up my windows! They are. Um.

Yeah I'm suddenly SUPER understanding of why the carpenter sent the sales guy back to re-measure them, they're... not square. The leftmost side is something like 2cm shorter than the rightmost side! PLUS the two outer windows are clearly SUPPOSED to be the same size, but one is about 1cm wider. (The middle is a different width again, but it's also clearly supposed to be, so that's something.)

I'm also extremely glad I don't like stripes, because wow that would be IMPOSSIBLE to get right when making blinds for them unless you deliberately made them too long, which is the exact thing that annoys me about the current curtains. Space blinds should be fine though! Spaaaaaace! :D

May or may not actually go to sleep, but I'mma go to bed now I think? Weird.

It was A Hot today, which was... well. Holy SHIT did we notice the difference the new windows made! SO much cooler inside! Thank you double glazing, for real! My father did put one of the aircons on for a bit, but it was only for a couple of hours, and not the both of them! The one that DIDN'T go on is the one in the room with the big windows, too! And it was fine, temperature wise! :D

Obviously I don't feel it as much as my parents do so I'm fine either way, but the difference in how much the front of the house warmed up was still extremely noticeable. :D This bodes GREAT for winter!!!

Other than that, got the parts of the bed deconstructed I needed help with - I probably would've been fine by myself but it was definitely less of a pain with Mama to hold up the other end of the boards. I was more worried about the frame shaking, though, and THAT was totally fine. :3 :3 :3

Also moved most of the stuff in my wardrobe; I'm not going to be able to move the wardrobe itself until Tuesday at the earliest, but everything needs to come out of it to DO that, so it needs doing anyway. I still have so much stuff to pack up! ;; Still! Less than I did this morning! Even if it's slow, at least I'm doing something every day, until I can do stuff en masse!

Much quieter today! My auntie and uncle did drop in in the morning, so not totally quiet, but much quieter. :3

My major thing of the day was doing a very involved job app; hopefully I at least get through the first round?? Maybe??? Fingers crossed, yes. >:

Other than that I did do a little bit of room prep, took the bed slats out! Just gotta do the side rails now, but those will involve tool use and I want to have someone hold the sides so nothing lands on my head, if possible.

I also hung my curtains back up! On a string! We got rid of the curtain rail when the skip was here for the window stuff, because it's not like I'll need it for blinds, but it's also going to be like 40 or something tomorrow, and no shade at all would be... not great. So I attached a long string to some picture rail hooks, and put the curtains back on that. It's working surprisingly well! :D Actually opening/closing them would be a nightmare at best, and likely cause the whole thing to come down, but for a temporary sun shade it's A++ good use of available materials, and I didn't even have to nail anything to the wall! :3

Windows are all done! (Well. They need to be painted. But that's a different job entirely.)

They look much nicer with the architraves in, which isn't a surprise! :3 The flyscreens aren't exactly the same, it turns out, they have a different snibbing mechanism. Soooo we'll see how that goes vs Sushi. (I am not exactly confident in its ability to keep him in. He is extremely determined.)

Speaking of the cats, they had their vet appointment today! ( Vet medical stuff! )

Other than that... went with Mama when she went to look at bathers, mainly just to get out of the house. The three of us REALLY don't fit in the back of the house together, particularly not at the moment, so it was good to not be there for... a couple of hours.

Yeah. It took forever. And Mama didn't end up getting anything, because the current look of stuff is uh. Cleavage everywhere! Which she's not comfortable with. And this is WITH the stuff with built in bras for big boobed people! :/ Would really be nice if there was something with support that also, you know, covered you up a lot more. Sometimes bathers are not for fashion, they're for not getting sunburned when you're wet! Mama has enough sun-related skin problems as it is!!! Siiiiigh.

Anyway, REALLY looking forward to being able to go the fuck back to sleep after kitty breakfasttime tomorrow morning. I didn't get to sleep until I don't even fucking know when last night, I just know that the last time I checked the time after going to the loo it was like 4:45, and I was up at 8, so yeah I did NOT get enough sleep. Had a bit of a nap, but really not more than like an hour, which is... still not enough. Nope.

Anyway. Yes. The sleeping, it should start now. Yessss.

All of the windows are in! :D The cats are extremely unimpressed, because it's only the windows, and so there are no windowsills for them to jump up on and peer outside with. But the rest of us are very happy, because it means no giant holes in the house overnight. :D

Everything else is gonna get finished up tomorrow, so no big deal there. The new windows are pmuch the same, except they're a little bit more fancy - they've got actual locks, not just the snibs. I... don't think we're ever going to need them, unless the metal is way, WAY weaker than the previous windows', because once you have the window snibbed it ain't going ANYWHERE. But hey, we have them! (I expect that they're designed for people like my aunties who get all freaked out by ~what if there's a burgler~, which is um. Mostly fearmongering, honestly, you're way more likely to have your car broken into than your house.)

We're of course going to have to re-install anti-cat measures, because according to the window sales guy the flyscreens they carry are only the same ones we had before, and, well. Sushi. He has proved he can get out of those. Siiiigh. I've caught him trying recently, too, so can't just hope he's forgotten about it!

Anyway, not much other than that! I finished knitting that sock up to the heel; can't do the heel 'cause I need the pattern, which I keep... on my raspi server. Which is Not Accessible Right Now. Alas! Still, got up to the heel, which is good! If I have time and brain to craft tomorrow, will see if I can drag out the one fibrearts equipment bag I need to do some crochet; didn't really wanna do that today but I'm pretty sure I know where it is so it should be okay.

Before that, though, gotta get the cats to the vet for their yearly vaccinations! That's. Going to be a thing. Given they'll be trapped in the back of the house while the window people are working, and Tortilla will be freaked the hell out because strangers!!! EXTREMELY LOUD strangers!!! But hey, at least it'll get us out of the house for a bit!

I am ready for window installation!!! :D

Getting the actual furniture moved today sucked because it was so humid and the second you thought about doing anything that required even a tiny bit of moving things, instant sweatball. Ugh. So gross.

( I get a little rambly about it. )

As things currently stand I don't have anywhere to set up my desktop right now, so I'm on the new travel computer, which is okay. Really missing my screens, but Must Be Patient, it'll be fiiiine.

...and on a completely different note, Sushi knocked the red pen I'm working on off my side table overnight, and I haven't been able to find it. :/ Got out a green one and have been using that, but it's frustrating I wasn't able to finish with the red first! It's probably under the couch somewhere but uh there is VERY little ability for me to find it given the current furniture rearrangement, so it's gonna have to wait. Boo!

Anyway! Time for bed. The window people are arriving at 7:30am (allegedly), so I will need to be awake and at least dressed by then. Which is very early for a me!

I measured the bed, and yeah, it can't get through the doorway as-is. Which is. Very annoying!!!

Anyway, moved some stuff! Also took down even more art, including a few pokemon playing cards that I think have been on my bed since like. 1999. There is uh. Some discolouration where the wood has aged differently! XD

Going to try and get the mattress down before I actually sleep, which involves getting the uh. Extremely large pile of stuffed toys and cushions down first. >>;; I can at least put some of them in my big bag for when I go housesit. (Well. Originally it was for camping! I have had this bag longer than those pokemon playing cards, hahaha. It's a good bag! Very sturdy! Plenty of room!) Not sure what I'll do with the rest, but they can't exactly stay up there... :/ Well, that's a problem for tomorrow, I think! Now is just for getting them down and moving the mattress. Yes.

And then passing the fuck out, because I am sure it's gonna flatten me like a pancake, siiiigh. Gotta turn the desktop off, too, 'cause once that mattress is gone my screens are gonna go tilty and... yeah. Bleh. Hopefully I can get this set up somewhere else tomorrow, but I might have to be on my new computer for a few days since that can be set up MUCH more easily in MUCH less space...

However, I did not. Whoops.

I was anticipating going and picking up my fabric today - the site says click and collect is supposed to take two hours! - but alas I did not get the 'your stuff is ready' email at all. I suspect it has something to do with how understaffed they were when we went in last week... :/ (I don't actually mind that it's not two hours! They just shouldn't say it is if it's not!) Anyway, maybe tomorrow? Guess we'll see!

Terraria was on today, too, which was verra fun! :3 I got the Zenith!!! Got a very lucky Meowmere drop very first time we did the Moon Lord today, which was the last one I needed! :D Still gonna have to kick the Moon Lord's butt a lot more - we only did like. Four times today? But also a bunch of Duke Fishrons! And the crimson is ALL GONE!!! Still gotta do the Hallow for the cheevie, but that is a big!!! Step!! :D

I also wrote a script tonight?? Just alphabetising some dropdowns on one of my stupid game sites, but it was annoying me so I just. Fixed it. :D I haven't had the brain to do that for a WHILE, so I'm pretty pleased! (Probably the lack of doing much other than Terraria today helped, but still...)

Tomorrow I'm DEFINITELY gonna have to move things. Furniture type things. Gotta figure out where I can PUT them, is gonna be the hard thing! SO much furniture needs to be moved so the window guys can get at things they need to, it's not just my stuff, you know? Anyway, we'll figure it out somehow! May have to pack the dining room table up, oh no eating separately or whatever, what a shaaaame. 9_9

I didn't do a LOT today - I slept in, for example, which was great but not interesting - but I DID finally order the fabric for my blinds! The backing fabric, in particular, is on a really good special that's finishing Tuesday, so there was no point in waiting until the windows are actually in - no matter what the final measurements are, getting even this much more than I'll probably need is gonna be cheaper. It's just that good a special.

(I did order quite a bit extra though. Just in case. What doesn't end up being used can be used on another blind, for the backing, and I can think of a LOT of cool things you could make with extra space fabric, depending on how much is left over!)

Other than that... did another stupid crossword. Red pen is definitely on its way out, though not finished yet. Did some puzzle! Lots of reading, too, which was nice, caught up with some stuff. :3

Anyway, now is time for sleepybais, yes. >:

Yeah, I didn't find any fabric nicer than the space fabric at the other fabric shop. I found plenty of nice fabric, just nothing better. And uh. It's all a LOT more expensive there, too, so... Yes. It will be space blinds! :3

Other than that, started packing up my shit again, since we have an actual deadline now! I mostly did art today, though I also filled up a big box with stuff. Thing I'm really not looking forward to is moving my bed, though. It's so fucking cumbersome. (I REALLY hope I don't have to take it apart to get it out the door, but I have sinking feeling that's how we got it in... :/ :/ :/ Still, for the windows I just have to MOVE it, I can worry about getting it into another room after that! When I have somewhere I can put it!

Anyway!!! Time for sleep! My auntie may or may not be coming over tomorrow morning, so I really should be awake for that...

So I went to sleep last night, earlier than usual, and... woke up just before 3am. I don't know HOW long it took me to get back to sleep again, but I had to read for like 45 minutes before I could even try, so... :| :| :|

Clearly there is no point me trying to go to bed early unless I'm so sick I can't actually stay awake! Gah!

Anyway!

Today we went to the nearby fabric shop, and I didn't find anything there (also they are QUITE expensive, sigh), but we also went to spotlight, and I actually??? Found something I like there??? It's a purple space print, which is uh. Well. Let's be honest, it's no surprise I like it! The only way it could be more me is if it had rainbow bits!

I didn't buy it yet, though; we're gonna go to the shop A recommended tomorrow, and I'll see what I find there. But it's a distinct possibility, yesss. I suspect that either way I'll end up choosing a fabric tomorrow, hahahaha.

ALSO! We FINALLY got dates for the new windows! Next week, Wed-Thurs. SOON THEY WILL BE IN. SOOOOOON.

I feel like crap, and have pmuch all day. Well. The parts of the day I've been conscious, which is not many. May have eaten something stupid, or maybe it's just bodies being bodies, idk.

I am, however, going to go back to sleep now. Yes. >: