DEPARTMENT STORE BLACKOUT CAUSED BY A MOUSE

Holy SHIT I got it all done! It took me until 2am, but I got it all done! All that's left in the room is the stepladder, a dropcloth, my curtains, and a whoooole lotta dustbunnies. So so many dustbunnies.

Also I am extremely tired omfg. I was actually cutting it really close - the last couple of things I got down from the top of the bookshelves I was wobbly in the 'you need to stop this NOW or you're gonna drop something and/or hurt yourself' way. Luckily that was the last of it, so I didn't actually have anything bad happen, but I still haven't put some stuff where it's gonna stay for a while because... nope. No more stepladder tonight nope.

( This got really long. Content note: Cats are predators, some days this is more obvious than others. )

Um. I think I had something else to say but I've forgotten. I'm very very tired. At least I've got the house aired out now, I'm hoping if I have a blanket I'll be able to sleep better.

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

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!

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!