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Jul. 21st, 2025 05:35 pm
southernmedicine: (relatable logan)
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Y'all I am being tested.

I woke up this morning and looked at my phone and the first thing I saw was a message from my movers telling me that they have canceled on me. The day before my move.

So I was up, awake, and online trying like hell to find a new moving team who could move me with one day's notice, for a price I can afford, and with decent ratings. Luckily, by the grace of a forgiving universe, I was able to do this. Now I just hope that these new guys I've hired actually show up tomorrow morning.

Then I ran out of packing tape and bubble wrap when I was almost done packing, and had to drive on over to Walmart to get more. When I started my car, it made a very strange sound, and I wanted to SCREAM because why, why NOW, WHY NOW? Panic mode. No time or ability to fix my car before I leave in a day and a half. Renting a car for two weeks and returning it thousands of miles away would cost me like two thousand dollars, so that's out!

Fortunately? When I started my car again at the store, it sounded fine, so? I don't know???

I want to scream into a pillow.

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Jul. 21st, 2025 12:41 am
southernmedicine: (bode blaster)
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I kinda wanna puke!!!

I've spent the past two days packing. This evening it hit me for real: on Tuesday night I will go to sleep with nothing save for a bag packed for the upcoming road trip once all my belongings have been loaded onto a truck, and on Wednesday I am going to leave this house. Between the time I leave it, and the time I arrive in Wisconsin, I will temporarily not have a home.

And then I'm leaving California. And my new home will be in Wisconsin.

It's true that I've spent the last couple of months trying to visit all my favorite places, see my friends, eat at all my favorite food places, ect. It's also true that this past Friday was my final day at my job. But it's only this evening really, truly sunk in.

I'm going to relocate to the Midwest. I'm going to leave behind everything I have ever known for a) love, and b) financial necessity. I don't know when, or even if, I'll return. Of course the goal is to move back to California in the not-too-distant future, but you just never know what's going to happen, you know?

I can't believe that there was a time I was writing about Blair here in this journal, wistful, sad, full of yearning, because we were not together and I did not think we ever would be. Now I'm about to move in with her.

The cousins and their nephews were supposed to be gone until Tuesday, but they came back today, two days early. This is annoying, because now there will be seven people in the house again, while I'm trying to pack and maneuver boxes downstairs to line them up neatly for the movers. I will have to battle for a spot in the bathroom whenever I need to use it, will likely have to wait god knows how long to shower once I'm finished packing and am drenched in sweat. At least I already got my laundry done, which is great, because ain't no WAY I would be able to battle for the washer and dryer before moving day now that the house is full again.

I also discovered that all my groceries have been eaten again, which left me fuming, but it is what it is at this point and I'm moving in two days anyway.

I can't wait to live some place... quiet. Only myself and Blair to worry about.

There's a long road ahead, yet. But at least from here on out, every day is sure to be interesting.

Some books

Jul. 18th, 2025 09:15 am
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This is on Cult Pens alcohol marker paper. I can see places I messed up, but it's all a work in progress. I don't know if I prefer to the Winsor & Newton marker paper. Still struggling with reds, I need a darker shade, but I saw another set on Vinted that had the reds in it I could use. 

Any tips on what paper/card to use I would appreciate. I really enjoy using the alcohol markers.





 


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Jul. 17th, 2025 01:31 am
southernmedicine: (annoy)
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I am so tired.

The neighbors got a new dog and they are the kind of people who believe that animals belong outside, period. So this puppy was barking and barking and howling all night. At around 2am it finally stopped. Then it started again at around 6:30am. I tried so hard to get back to sleep, but I had to get out of bed at 9am anyway to make my dentist appointment, so I just curled up and closed my eyes and listened to a podcast. Rest is better than nothing, I guess.

So on four and a half hours of sleep I went to the dentist and got my teeth cleaned. It was so relaxing, it was better than being at home, which... yikes. But I mean hey. Air conditioning, a big comfortable chair, and that really nice soothing whooshing sound of the cleaning tool. I almost fell asleep getting my teeth cleaned.

The dentist also examined my crowned tooth and even took an X-ray that he didn't even charge me for, just so that he could make sure there was nothing wrong with it. No infection, anyway; he made a slight adjustment to it, thinking maybe the pain was from the shape being a little off and me putting too much pressure on it when I chew. So that's all good! Phew.

Tomorrow (today) I have off, so I'm going to head downtown to donate more stuff to GoodWill, stop by the used book shop to see if they're interested in buying any of my small stack of Read But Didn't Really Love So Don't Wanna Keep books and a few nerdy collectibles I haven't been able to sell. I need to buy more packing supplies too, so I can get started packing up this bedroom.

Things are still chaotic and stressful but... coming together. Slowly.

Two Brief Murderbot thoughts

Jul. 15th, 2025 10:16 pm
muccamukk: Blue sky with aeroplanes trailing red, orange, yellow, green and blue smoke. Text: "Not June. Still Queer." (Misc: Still Queer)
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That I haven't seen anyone else mention.

ONE.
I like that they cast an older actor. AS is closing in on 50, and it might be a Hollywood 50, but he looks like he's seen some miles along the road. It makes things hit different than if they'd cast a thirty year old who looked like they just hatched. I know they compressed the timespan in the show, but in the book it'd been something in the range of four years between when it disabled its governor module and the start of All Systems Red, plus however long it'd been enslaved before that, which it doesn't even really remember. Which I think is better represented by someone with some lines around their eyes.

TWO.
Nenya speculated about if they were going to do the later books (and I think they'll do three seasons to cover the first four novellas, combining Artificial Condition and Rogue Protocol into the second season, and then call it a day), and if so, if we'd see the ship from System Collapse. I'd been thinking that, actually, Expandmild spoiler for System Collapse )

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Jul. 15th, 2025 04:48 pm
southernmedicine: (relatable logan)
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Oh my god.

The moving crew I hired comes to get everything and take it to the shipping facility one week from today.

I have a dentist appointment tomorrow morning.

My last two days at my job are tomorrow and Friday.

We have DnD this Sunday.

I have to pack. I have to do laundry. I wanted to visit all my friends one more time each but I don't have time. I'm out of time.

Dragons

Jul. 15th, 2025 04:54 pm
renfys: (Mari Lwyd)
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Some dragons I drew and coloured using alcohol markers on alcohol marker paper which I have never used before. I realised I hadn't finished yellow before I printed him and I don't have a lot of variations in red but that feels like a colour problem not a me problem.

Close ups

 

 




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