the weird side things are the puffy jacket I was wearing lmao

anyway I'm fucking obsessed with this, I love this kid

ORDERS OF BUSINESS TODAY

Aww, adorable

1) massively reorganize the house. THROW SHIT AWAY. if we don't use it, it doesn't need to be in easily accessible storage. if we DO use it, it needs to be in easily accessible storage and not in heaps everywhere

2) dishes, laundry, sweeping, mopping, CLEAN

3) groceries

4) make dinner + bunch of rice for next week's lunches

5) Tags!!!! Fight posts! Frankie's is already written, Kahl's and Jedao's should be easy

6) November event post draft. I got a lot of thoughts in my brain and just need to edit it down to something readable

fight posts fight posts fight posts

i have already spent 1 hour reorganizing a bunch of shit in the kitchen, and started a dishwasher run

next: the behemoth of the living room

45 minutes of hacking at the living room: visible progress has been made

I encountered an Emotional Dilemma and sat down to consult y'all

and realized the answer to my dilemma but now, catastrophically, I am already sat down

tldr: my grandmother had a beautiful house with a wraparound porch and lived there until she died, and when she did, everyone was allowed to kind of, just take whatever of her Billion Knickknacks we wanted

and I took several of her wind chimes because I always loved them, they were a huge part of my Sense Memories of Nona's House

I challenge you to guess, plurk, whether I have ever since lived in a place with any outdoor space in which to hang wind chimes

of course I have not

I did hang them in my old place, because there were some convenient sort of high doorway arches

but they never got rang, because no wind

and now I don't have a convenient place to hang them, but I don't want to just box them up and I don't want to throw them away, even though they're pretty old and idk if I could even give them away

but I'm trying to get rid of shit I don't use!!!!!

however, my parents now have a place with a nice porch (my dad's nostalgia played a big role I think) and I should give them the wind chimes to hang there

- I have cleared the coffee table, couch, island counter, and windowsill in the living room

plus random crab on the floor

unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher

I need to handwash some pans if I want to make myself a meal today :/

and I should start a load of laundry and then go acquire groce

pans: washed. lunch: cooked, eaten. One (1) part of the kitchen swept. laundry: started

I've got to get groceries now but it's cool enough that I should put on long pants

difficulties!!

groceries: acquired

now I need to make dinner and move the laundry but goat cheese is in my lap!!

MR. CHEESE!

LAP KITTY CHEESE!

he hopped away in time that I successfully baked some potatoes and fried some bacon

mmmmmm

potatoes and bacon

tomorrow: get fob from the hardware store, make rice, make chicken

clean room

more sweep & mop

put away laundry

more pan wash

- did some jedao tags (still have a few more really old ones)

time for coffee, meds, breakfast??

rice: cooked

fob: acquired

shower chair: built

laundry: put away

god there's so much more to do

I went from having, like, half as many chores as usual because my brother was helping with everything to three times as many

because now he's working full time and his job is physically more taxing than mine, so I'm the one with any energy

and also he's one of those Very Messy ADHD people

AND ALSO HE NEEDS REAL FOOD EVERY DAY

when I lived alone I'd just have ramen or a bowl of frozen peas like. half the time

and we have to get EVERYTHING clean and better organized because his boyfriend is visiting with his (boyfriend's) toddler for halloween

i am trying not to be weird and bitter about it but I'm having a moment

ouch, that's rough. Like, it's great that he can pull his weight financially now, but that's So Much Slack to have to pick up everywhere else in exchange

yeah ._.

did THREE TAGS in an hour

but they were Jedao's oldest threads that have been waiting so that's good

ok let's make dinner. and then more tags. and more clean. and we'll see

I am impressed by your productivity! I sat down to tag, made the mistake of checking my YT notifications, and then between those and a plurk that caught me just wrong ended up spiraling and doing nothing for hours

SO I made myself get up and eat and do productive RL things b/c of your example and am feeling less useless, so thank you!

oof. a lot of this stuff I've been meaning to get to for SEVERAL weeks, but hey

made dinner, made lunches for the week for me

had dinner with brother and watched one of his shows together

now: frankie tags!

sweeping and shit will just have to be tomorrow

and we have some leftover lemon chicken that can maybe go into tomorrow's dinner

I SHOULD still scoop the cat litter and take out the trash tonight at least. and shower

cleared my inbox!! got a few new things coming in and a lot of battle tag-ins to do

but now for sleep

very productive weekend, sleep well!