It's 11AM and the fam needs the car, so I'm deliberately taking a walk to the local shops to get the one thing I've just run out of.
I'm shopping tomorrow, but I need this before tomorrow. So up to the shops I go.
Writing happens when I get back.
Monday, Time Windows
I want to co-ordinate a day off. This may mean going shopping after my shrink session today.
Because if I knew what the fam is doing on Tuesday, I could go shopping then, but I don't. And if I want fun cool lazytimes on Wednesday, I need to prepare.
Also plotting to begin refilling the freezer with good things. Vegetables. Treats. Maybe some meats.
I'll see what I can do for sausages since my lovelies appreciate the barbecue and the brazier at
Read more »Sunday, Stream Stuff and Other Things
The Promptcast is going to be reading sixteen stories this week. Including some of my own good work.
I certainly hope the hosts can survive the marathon.
Meanwhilst, I attempt the daily fiction whilst monitoring the stream, and clinging to what sanity I can manage.
Huzzah. 'Tis time to allegedly focus.
Read more »Saturday, And a Cat!
We found and transported the errant feline! There are now four more people and a cat sharing my domicile. Yay.
We now have more fucking bread than we know what to do with. Adorable made sure we'd have plenty to tide us over the three-day baking process. So we have loaves all over the place.
I've put all of the purchased baked goods out in the open for easy predation consumption. My hope is that sandwiches help erode the supply there.
We
Read more »Friday, Maybe This Time - and a Cat
Waif was scared off by noisy door yesterday. And there's evidence that she found, killed, and consumed a rat. Maybe she can teach my fiends a few things...
The big, awkward, hard-to-shift furniture is up here, in pieces, and everywhere related to "in the way". We will be consolidating our assorted nonsense when it's all up here.
That includes two households worth of cutlery, crockery, cookware, gadgetry, and accoutrements to sift through. Yay.
And I have comics to catalogue [later to sell]
Read more »Thursday... And a Cat (We Hope)
Heavy furniture delivered and placed, extra people settling in. There's just a couple of small issues:
- The cat - Waif - did not like the truck and bolted while it was there.
- 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
Read more »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
Read more »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
Read more »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.
Read more »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
Read more »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
Read more »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
Read more »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.
Read more »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
Read more »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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