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When I went out this morning, the red chook was there! :D :D :D She's fine, despite all the feathers everywhere!

I didn't see the black chook all day, which was worrying, but when I went to put them to bed...

Three chooks in a coop!

No idea where she was hiding, but she's safe and that's the important thing. :D

Other than that, Sibling did come over and did a couple of things. Pointed out a few bits where I need to keep touching things up on the skirting boards, but they're definitely close to done (yay!). Won't be back until next week, so got quite a while to go out there and give various bits extra coats (there are a few bits where I had to sand back, and while MOST of the board is fine...). So I'm feeling somewhat better about that.

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( Content Warning: Possible Animal Death (nothing confirmed as yet) )

Other than that... slept stupid late, which was annoying, but I DID manage to get down to the optometrist before they closed. Alas, they can't do anything about the coating, the lenses just need to be replaced. :/ Soooo that's even higher up on my to-do list. Just gotta wait for, you know, money. Ugh. Might even be worth taking cash out of my savings for it, buuuut I'd rather not.

Also did another coat of paint on all the skirting boards! Will see how they look tomorrow, I'm hoping that the small ones are really done this time, but they had a few mysteriously appearing rough bits I had to sand back today, so that might. Also happen. Again. :|

Dunno if Sibling is gonna be over tomorrow, but if so will get a second opinion on stuff. Answer may well be 'jfc how are you SO BAD at this???', but at least then I'll know.

And now to bed! >: Or. Soon. There is a cat on my lap and I don't really want to annoy her...

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Current Location: Spare Room

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What's better than one all star? Two all star!

Last time I shared this, tank was elite 4 and dps was elite 3. I really gotta stop lmao. It took about 38 games on D.Va to get into pro, and then 16 more to get through pro; the final number was 54, and Juno/Mercy was 55, 30 wins in each role. D.Va has more hours because most of her games were longer... I love my lava build but it's often five maps or more. If I was to do this with Ashe (I am not going to), she's at 21/44, and would take significantly longer. Hence why I'm not planning to, lol.

I did see someone on the fabled legendary tier, and the jump in games played to get to legendary is like, 230 games, 130 wins. So I am definitely not doing that even remotely. Thank you random Kiri for your science service to know how obscenely low the gains are in all star so I don't have to. Honestly, what's keeping me and my duo playing this mode is that losses aren't as punishing as standard comp; even in pro three loses can equate the percentage of one win. It is much, much easier to see number go up, and that time investment means you get better naturally and you're like oh, well I might as well go all the way now. I am looking forward to having an unranked mode next season though; I'd like to try out some other characters and figure out some builds, but it's really not possible with the current set-up. This will split my time some for sure, but I don't know if I'll go this hard on point gains again. We'll see.

Also this points out to me I almost got 1k comp points in less than two weeks jfc Rems please. Add this to being level 10 in the PvP season in XIV on two characters after eight days and I really, really gotta be stopped. I need those arm warmers.

Wuyang's trial is this weekend and next week is drives before season end. I think I'll put together my stadium build thoughts as drives wind down, if not sooner. Time to lock in.

Current Mood: tired

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So the coating is flaking off the back of one of my lenses in a MAJOR way, it's extremely annoying. Given what I can see peering through the bits where it's gone it's also been exacerbating the flare from my astigmatism, which is... not great, and also explains a lot. I'm gonna go down to the optometrist and see if they can remove it tomorrow, I think! And ask them what that particular coating is for; I think it was for glare reduction? Which um. Maybe that one is not for me...

Other than that... finally did the stupid application for unemployment support. Which I definitely SHOULD have done as soon as I got made redundant, but I did not. Bleh.

Didn't do any painting today, mostly because it was cold and raining. But also just brain shit. Sibling DID come over and do another coat on the floor, though! Should just be one more to go, but I guess we'll see how it is.

Also managed to actually make myself have a shower, so I can go to the shops tomorrow without fear of stinking people out, heh.

Anyway, going to bed now! Maybe I'll be able to sleep easily tonight! Sure as fuck couldn't last night, uuuugh...

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Current Location: Spare Room

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Paid my taxes today. UGH, it was indeed ~3K ;; So much money to be surprised with!!! :( Still, done now!

Sibling did come over, and did the first coat of the floor, yay! The floor sealant takes long enough to dry it's gonna be a day for each coat, basically. Which is fine! Just means more driving time for Sibling, which is less fun :/

Had to sand back some of the skirting boards again - just a little bit, but Sibling pointed out it was kinda rough in a couple of places, so... yeah. Annoying! But I did a third coat on all the small ones, and a second coat on like... one and a half of the big ones. Will see what Sibling says about them tomorrow! >:

Not much other than that. Found a shiny dodonzo in pokemon! It was in a mass outbreak I was doing for exp, but not even the later parts with the best shiny chance, just. Turned up, pretty early! XD It's a yellow one, too, which is always fun. :3 :3 :3 Love shinies with serious differences to the original colouration! :D

Anyway now is time for sleeps, yes. >:

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Finished clearing and cleaning my bookshelves out yesterday, changed my bedsheets today. Took about six days total to empty them out. I would spend like, half an hour stints of doing cleaning in clusters, such as grouping a bunch of books together on an emptied shelf, coming back later to clean them and then move them, repeat with figures I did the same with, etc. Bookshelf and desk contents are all now safely stashed in my new kallax or boxes; truly the biggest inspiration whilst doing this is the fact I never have to dust my bookshelves again after this, and that taking six days to do it wasn't a death knell of everything being dusty again by the time I was finished.

I will have to dust and clean the shelves again before doors go on - that won't be this week but next - but as I've said before... an empty surface is much easier to manage and is a price I'll happily take. Originally I was going to have dad build new bookcases next time but I decided doors should be the priority, then new bookshelves if he has time/I can tolerate it. Having cleared them out in just the one week means I can spend next week post groceries languishing, and then hopefully have the energy to shuffle everything back to where it should be once the doors go on. And then I can go about stashing a second round of things into the new kallax as I clean the old kallax... it's a process...??

If PEM is okay, this should give me time to do 7.3 next week, hopefully. This week has been mainly pvp and me finally getting into crystalline conflict (genuinely idk why it took me this long). Also stadium. I'm now pro in all roles... might reach all star in tank soonish... truly what has become of me...

I also opened up undercovefic again after not being able to look at fic at all for maybe three weeks due to y'know, furniture stuff. (I was posting Estelline chapters intermittently but that was a lie, they were long finished.) If it holds up after this lengthy break and I'm still happy with it, I'd like to start posting it soon.

Current Mood: tired

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Nothing huge today, really. DID make satay, which was delicious :V :V :V Also did a second coat on the smaller skirting boards! They look a LOT better with the second coat, yessss. Other than that... eh, it's Sunday. I mostly just read fic and I refuse to feel bad about it! :3

Tomorrow will probably be a Sibling day, plus I'm gonna try and get the skirting boards finished. Will depend on the weather and the number of coats needed, of course, but I think I can probably do it, at least for the small ones. Bigger ones might need extra work.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: Spare Room

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Yup, got a first coat on all of the skirting boards! :D Wasn't actually intending to do all of them, I started uh... much later than I intended... but I poured out more paint than I actually needed for what I intended to do hahahaha. Even though I was trying to only pour out just a tiny bit! From now on I think I'll just go directly from the can...

First coat looks pretty good, though it's definitely a bit blotchy where the wood is darker in some areas. As expected! I'll probably do another coat tomorrow, and see how it goes. :3

Didn't end up cooking satay tonight, I um. Well I didn't eat anything between breakfast at ~9am and uhhhh 7:30ish?? So yeah waiting around for stuff to cook rather than just shoving stuff in the microwave wasn't happening. Tomorrow! Will do it for lunch, and I will definitely get out of bed in time to make lunch, ffs. Yes. I will. Look, I'm going to bed MUCH earlier than I have been! >:

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Yeaaaah, turns out that Sibling really was pushing it a bit much yesterday, so today turned into a pancake day. Sad! But also I'm not real surprised, given everything. So sealing will probably be done next week instead, which is fine. Health is much more important! (Even though I would like to get back to my room, hahaha.)

Today I did some stuff, but not a huge amount either. ( Blah blah blah mostly food related )

I also set up the deck for painting! (Mostly, gotta cover over one more bit, which I will do tomorrow.) So I'm planning on getting a start on that tomorrow, if not a whole first coat. (Probably not though there's too many pieces and only so much space.)

Current Mood: tired
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Floor is stained! :D I haven't had a good look at it yet, of course, because it was WET, but from the glimpse I got it looks really good! :D :D :D (Did not get back in my room due to said wet, hahaha)

Sibling should be back tomorrow to start on the top coats - assuming the sick doesn't make a resurgence, it was DEFINITELY still there - but! The nail got pulled today as well, so I'll be finishing off the sanding tomorrow, and maybe start on painting. (Will have to tidy the deck further to put down dropcloths, etc., which might take a while. Will have to see!)

Would've started on that today, but I got hit by the Anvil of Tired, whoops. >>;;; Probably because even after I went to bed last night it took me a while to actually sleep, siiiigh. So! Going somewhat earlier tonight, even if not by as much as I was aiming for, so that'll hopefully help some.

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Nothing big, today. Cleaned the chook coop, and the cat boxes (which were clean for about 0.2 seconds before Sushi decided he needed to dirty one, sigh). Actually cooked pasta for dinner, which was great! :V Actually did the dishes!

Started working on the shelf in my room, too. Got things down, cleaned up there... and fucked up using the stud finder, so I've gotta erase all the pencil marks I made and start again. Which, fine, whatever. Annoying, but whatever, it happens! I will try again properly... tomorrow? Maybe? Will depend if I can get in there after Sibling's been by. Should be floor stain day, soooo might need to Not Go In There for a while, you know?

Speaking of Sibling, turns out it hasn't been Other Work interfering, but Got A Sick. :( :( :( A terrible thing! And also explains why I didn't get a heads up, hahahaha, time has been spent resting not communicating with people! XD;;; But, should be good for tomorrow (according to a message this afternoon, so probably accurate)!

Have been beset by cats all day, which has been nice :) If sometimes uncomfortable. How a four kilo cat curled up on your legs can make the muscles ache from the weight so easily I will never understand...

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My body has added another food to its "no we can't eat that" list and I knew it was likely from the prior occasion buuuuut this one confirmed it, which is how I'm awake at 7am and have only just climbed into bed now I'm not semi-living in the bathroom. Said food is sorbet. How sugar flavoured ice is causing an issue I don't know: nothing on the ingredients list is a trigger. The more fun recent one was the brand of tinned pineapple being different than usual and my body deciding it can eat it as is... but not reheated as leftovers, whilst the usual is fine don't care whatever. There is no other ingredient in this but pineapple. I don't understand that one at all lmao.

Whilst waiting it out (and trying to move around a little between bathroom visits) I started tackling emptying my bookcases in anticipation of putting doors on them - they need to be dusted and wiped down first, and for basic safety, should also be cleared - and did six of eighteen slots. True I did half of two earlier today but had an epiphany that I could stack books in portions of my new kallax whilst also putting figures carefully into drawers and/or boxes. My desk is mostly clear; it now has three large boxes on it that can be moved onto my bed whilst the new bookcases are assembled, though I still need to empty remaining drawers, which I'll do next. Old bookcases and doors may not even be next time we do furniture assembly depending on how long new plus doors takes, how long it takes me to do it and if I can find other places to stash everything in it that doesn't require the new bookcases being assembled, but we'll see how far I manage...

It's so bitty and frustrating because I have to be so regimented and careful about how much gets done when and I won't see any benefit from it for months. But I'm trying, whilst also having to fend off my parents expecting more progress than I can give... it didn't help that we were delayed by a few weeks due to an Ikea mess up so I couldn't even start cleaning things and rotating them around whilst other furniture is changed out or upgraded, but again. Trying despite my body's continuous bullshit.

( ffxiv alt levelling )

Now mogtomes is over, I should really get back to Stormblood msq... or other games I wanted to play, woops.

In the meantime: yeah it was absolutely worth doing last minute pvp for this.

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I did it! I did all the cooking!!!

Well okay not ALL the cooking, I didn't make mashed potatoes OR pasta, but I did a lot of cooking!

The microwave pancake recipe worked surprisingly well, so I had pasta sauce on that for dinner instead of making pasta to put it on. It was delicious. :3 :3 :3 Definitely gonna be making the pancake again, too! (You... really only need one at a time, they're pretty big. And they have an entire egg in them, so you even get some protein! :D)

Also cleaned the kitchen a bunch since I was out there - I made very sure to NOT leave things alone. Actually didn't get as much cleaning done as I thought I would, I thought I'd do a load of dishes too, but the sauce came together quicker than I expected! Not complaining, nope! :3

Other than that, nothing huge. New pokemon event is live, and I managed to get six shinies! :D Only need two more, which is nice. Managed to beat the raid with the same pokemon as the last one (yay both having weakness to fire!), so I didn't need to do any training up or anything for that either. (It was actually easier than the first one, weirdly enough! I guess it has less natural DEF or SDEF...)

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Current Location: Spare Room

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I did EVENTUALLY get myself into the shower - at like 8pm - but yeah, today was. Another not great day! :/ So no cooking. Tomorrow! >:

I DID remember to take the bins out, and to fill up the rubbish with random bits of foam my father's been keeping for no good reason, some of the carpet underlay, etc. We're still going to probably need to take stuff to the tip, but if I get as much out as I can each fortnight that'll help.

No Sibling today, so I finally messaged, and the current plan is Thursday. Which is fine, I'm glad I know now! Should stop me from worrying about it, heh.

Other than that, really not much. Brain has been extremely useless siiiiigh.

Current Mood: blah
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I haven't written anything longform resembling a fic for this (much like I did not for wolfilia week or wolzero week...) but I did collect some of my wolgraha thoughts together that I haven't touched on in fic before in sort-of prose to solidify it for myself more than anything. Mostly codependent cats. All varying levels of angst? Pretend to be surprised.

( First Meetings/Introductions )

( Hurt/comfort )

( AU )

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Didn't manage to get the brain together to actually cook it today, but I have all the ingredients I needed for pasta sauce now! :D Tomorrow will be a cooking day, yes. Would also like to boil some eggs, and someone on Azy's discord has an interesting recipe for microwave pancakes I'mma try. Not sure if they'll be good, but worth trying out! Both of those things can easily be done while waiting for various stages of the pasta sauce to be done, so yeah. Cooking day!

Maybe I'll also make mashed potatoes, simply because I have some potatoes and mashed potato is delicious. Will depend on how much brain I have, I expect!

If the weather's nice I should do washing again, too, so I guess tomorrow will be more or less a domestic tasks day. That's not bad! Dunno if Sibling is coming over, though, so that might change things. But it might not!

Also FINALLY did the binding off for the switch case - I had been avoiding it for weird brain reasons, stupid brain - and also did a repair on an adorable umbreon plushie A found for me! One of the seams on its ear had burst, so while the angle was kinda annoying (and now the ear points back a little, which I don't actually think is a bad thing), it wasn't a huge job. And now I have a tinycute umbreon! :D :D :D May need to find room for another display case or something, though, not sure where I'mma put all these toys...

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Did most of the sanding today! Just got a couple of bits on the longest board that I can't do with the electric sander - it's too long to move it out of the clamps without it hitting something on one end or the other, so I'll have to take it out entirely and hand-sand those bits that're covered. But that plus the one I need Sibling to help get the nail out of from yesterday is all that's left! :D (Tried the nail again, too. No dice. Bleh.)

Almost out of food again, so I'mma have to shower tomorrow morning and go do that, bleeeeeh. Like. I realise that it's by design that I only get as much as I can carry so I have to force my ass out of the house at least long enough to get food, but also why do I have to go outsiiiiiide, ugh. Curse you, long-term thinking looking-after-self brain!!!!

I think I will get the things for pasta sauce. Pasta sounds good about now. :V

But nothing is open for at LEAST two hours (I think) and also I do need to shower and stuff first sooooo nap now! It's too cold for showering anyway! Also I need to sleep, etc. etc.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Spare Room

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All-star get!!! Climbing through pro with the reduced gain from wins is no joke - it took about as long to break out of those five divisions as it did to do the other four ranks that came before it. But, I did it 😤 I exclusively played Juno aside from a handful of Mercy games at the end, and Mercy is much easier (one of her powers makes her ult super busted) but you have to spend a lot of your build making up for her diminishing returns and compensating for healing reductions the enemy team should and will apply, which I know from all my time spent on Juno. Juno is still my favourite though. Love a torpedo build.

I'll grab all my builds at some point... would be nice to document. I'm still going to keep playing ofc, we're racking up so many comp points doing so, but I've earned a bit of a break from hours of stadium a night (where did the Rems go who didn't like this mode... this is what happens when the dps passive in standard gameplay is too high...)

As you can see I'm in elite for tank and dps. Tanking is weird. You have to make yourself incredibly self sufficient and be a thousand percent aware of what the enemy team has for their powers and not overstay your welcome, even when your team is nagging you. I once had my supports complaining about me not diving - into five people, a bad idea - and the enemy tank is an Orisa, and she'll just use her uninterruptible, I have zero movement, five second long spin to knock me into a wall and kill me so no no I am not getting that close to her, sry. That said they were actually allowing me to do tank things and make space; a lot of this mode people don't want to cart sit, so I end up doing it regardless of my role. Tanks should never be doing this :') Juno is fine because I can heal from a distance and have high movement, Ashe is infuriating because I am sacrificing my match cash to push but again someone's gotta and she doesn't work well in spawn camps as the distance is too close, but D.Va??? I should never be on car duty. Anyways.

Dps is far and away the easiest role tbqh. So long as you play with your team and get your butt on point when necessary, and do your damage to force resource expenditure, it'll go fine. And sometimes you'll die alone on point and your team will magically decide they want to touch it then. Come on y'all let me set things on fire in peace.

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Candace

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Chooks Safe!

Chook Attack :( :( :(

all star 2 all star harder

Glasses. Why.

Taxes: paid!

sweep again and by then it's like seven fifteen

Sunday

Painting: round 1 done!

Pancake Sibling o noes

8/7/2025

Stained!

Quiet Day

sorbet how could you do this to me

COOKING ACHIEVED!!!

Oh look. Another day of nothing. :|

wolgraha week 2025

Food acquired! :3

7/31/2025

Sanding: Mostly Done!

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