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Thursday... And a Cat (We Hope)

Heavy furniture delivered and placed, extra people settling in. There's just a couple of small issues:

  1. The cat - Waif - did not like the truck and bolted while it was there.
  2. Our chest freezer decided to die a couple of days ago.

There is a hope that Waif will come running for her people when the truck is no longer there. Then it's a question on keeping the little menace indoors until we get the greater catio patio accomplished.

The good news is that we already had a freezer from Adorable's. The bad news is that almost everything in the old one had to go. The wheelie bin is half full of expired perishables. I kept the ice packs and my jars of Pic's peanut paste. Everything else was OFF-off.

Sigh.

I will restock when I can. Also known as next pay cycle.

It's still a sock in the guts.

I'm juggling bread and today's tale. In betwixt problem-solving for the new housemates. Promises to be some degree of fun.

Story happening ASAP.

Wednesday, Bread and Truck Day

I got clearance to make bread. My lovelies are getting a truck to move the tricky bits, and this house is going to be CROWDED-crowded.

C-R-O-W-D-E-D.

But it is very good to get back to bread again.

The downside at the moment is the lack of bench space for the bread-making accessories. I foresee this being A Thing for continuing bread adventures.

We will figure things out. Eventually.

My hobby for the day is progressively putting moved food substances away. All the

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Tuesday, Confounded PLNs

Here's my PLN:

  • Wait until the fam has shenanigans with the truck/pod and difficult furniture
  • Steal the car to go shopping and get supplies
  • The next day, I start bread

I even fed my starter because I 'knew' that it would be a while before I got the car.

Delivered my PLN to the Cule who then informed me that they've gone out of their way to give me car access today -_-

So the instant I'm done with my

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Monday, Shenaniganery

The moving is intensifying. There has been mention of a truck happening at some point in the week. I may have to wait to shop until next week.

I am endeavouring to focus on today's tale, but I have friends chatting with me on Discord and my lovelies relaying shit into the house.

It's not looking good for story progress. I am DISTRACTED-distracted.

But there will be a daily tale.

Eventually.

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Sunday, Cancellations and Shenanigans

Promptcast is cancelled until August. Circumstances beyond anyone's control. So theoretically, I have more time to myself. Or I would if the shenanigans didn't include four people and a cat. My aim today, at least in meatspace, is to arrange a section of the countertop for bread. I will have to move some things around, but moving things around is de rigeur these days.

Once I have space, I will seek clearance to start the bread process.

I'm pretty sure my bread

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Saturday, Shifting Stuff

There shall be several trips with smaller stuff (and one person) over the passage of a few days. I still have no idea what's happening with moving the awkward stuff. No updates there.

I have fed the birds, the cats, and myself (yay). And helped out a friend with their writing.

The Promptcast is doing Booked For Friday, so I'm moderating over there. THEN I get on with the daily tale. If I'm not delayed by Other Stuff(tm).

I'm probably going

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Friday, Moving by Pieces

Four people, one cat, and a very small car do not a fast house-moving experience make. The Big Move is commencing in a series of short hops. Today, boxes of stuff. Tomorrow, a person.

There's talk of renting a pod to transport the difficult stuff, but I have no idea if or when that is going to be a thing.

My lovelies are spending a lot of their time unfucking the place they're vacating now, as that's a smidgeon more urgent than

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Thursday, In a Pickle

Somewhere in the vague vicinity of Caboolture, someone used a backhoe without checking for cables first. And that's why I'm writing using phone data.

Yes, I owe you a twofer, but I think I can be excused for not doing that until my proper compy is up and on the interwebs.

I have a new security blanket laptop, and working out the kinks shall be ninety percent of my aggravation today. Tomorrow? Who knows.

Onwards to whatever I can wrangle.

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Tuesday, SHENANIGANS

My lovelies should be on their way. I'm all dressed up and ready to go on an epic quest for stuff and things. Which includes some asthma meds because breathing is good.

It's going to be an expensive week, and not just because of the meds. We need to stock up on this, that, the other, and mandatory mealworms for the Magpie Mafia.

They have Butcher Bird goons, now. Word has got out that we are soft touches. Now whenever I step

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Monday, Bills and Anticipation

I have fed, in order: the cats, my starter, the birds, and myself. I have just now paid the bills. Yay.

Tomorrow is when my lovelies return to organise, move, and rearrange shit. It may also be a prelude to Moving Day.

But it's also definitely Shopping Day because the fam needs supplies. Yay.

In local matters, the Magpie Mafia have learned that my whistle means food. At least three of them come calling. On the other hand, word has got out

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Sunday, Stream Stuff and Nonsense

I have a couple of hours before the Promptcast begins their stream. I did actually get a story in there but if there's a case of spillover, I'll be drawn on Monday. Huzzah.

Honestly, I'm lucky I got anything done for them at all.

Attempting to keep an eye on my email so I don't offend MeMum by missing her email because Mod Duties. I can hope and pray that I catch something before I get distracted.

...and the distractions are so

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Saturday, A Slight Delay

Didn't mod the Promptcast's Creatives Interviews, but used it for mostly white noise whilst I saw an idea come to fruition that I had whilst I was in the midst of making coffee and breakfast. It's one of those inspiration particle incidents again. So I busted my hump to get that down and out to the crew before I did anything else.

Including my blog entry.

So I shall be rather delayed with today's tale.

The good news is that I'm feeling

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Thursday, Moving Day RSN

Good news - I was able to get some scotch fillet steak to help adjust my iron levels.

Bad news - Miss Chaos found the steak I was planning to have for breakfast and helped herself.

So my day was off to a fantastic start with having to thaw a frozen steak. Whilst also feeding the cats, helping my lovelies sort out stuff from the spare room days after I wanted the help.

On the other hand, the spare room is clean

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Wednesday, No Mor Skip and a Leyland's Tour

The skip is about to leave and not have a replacement. Good thing we've already evicted ~98% of the garbage in my house.

(smol break while I did stuff and things)

I have successfully:

  • emptied out the bookshelf
  • gone to the physio
  • done a delivery run to Lifeline
  • picked up some meat and other supplies
  • dropped off borrowed school books [15ish years too late]
  • picked up some storage solutions
  • rounded out the supplies needed
  • got home and repackaged all of the supplies
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Tuesday, Slower Progress

I filtered out most of the dishwashing from the "right wing" of the kitchen countertop. I've yet to filter out the useful stuff before literally sweeping up the rubbish and cleaning that space.

I may also be working on the "I dunno" pile in the spare room.

I have looked over the prompts for the Promptcast and not one of the winning prompts is tickling my muse's interest/

The prompts:

  1. Concept: A character receives a mysterious textbook with knowledge beyond the curriculum.
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