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So I didn't end up doing any work when I got up to feed the cats, I was too pancake, but it was okay! Because! It rained all day, more or less. Not much, but enough that the actual air was a lot drier! (Would've been extra annoying if I was working outside, of course, but as I haven't been... Lucky day for me!)

I also did manage to get the rest of the sanding done, as planned! \o/ It more or less went as expected, hahaha, which is always nice.

Tomorrow will be... hmm. It'll depend on the weather actually. I need to get more dust masks - I thought I had enough, but it turned out that the ones in the second packet had elastic that has degraded badly so they're uh. Better than nothing buuuuuut not good - so if it's not raining I might do that first? Those I know they have at the closest hardware store, so might as well do that first thing when I'm still clean from my shower.

Otherwise, will be filling and stripping, tomorrow! Theoretically I could also get some sanding done, but I doubt I'll have time. There's quite a bit of stripping to do, though I think the filling will mainly be annoying due to having to move the ladder around so much, rather than time consuming. I think I'm getting better at it! Hopefully...

I did a LOT of filling today, and I think it's all done! Or, at least, it's all done until after I sand some things back, there are definitely bits that'll need extra filler and places that may or may not depending on how the sanding goes. Still! It was a lot of stuff to get done, and I'm pleased I managed it all! :3

I also baked! Three loaves of the choco zucchini bread, nomnomnom. (Two are going to be frozen, if I want more after I'm done with one loaf I can make more!) I definitely shouldn't've waited to make them until like 2:30, but, well. Sometimes we make very stupid decisions, that's just. How it is. Yes.

Tomorrow I get to try and figure out how the fuck the black chook got out of the run - she was perched on top of it napping when I went to put them to bed. I suspect the problem is she is very bored, which is. Not something I can really do much about. What with the foxes. :/

Also, sanding. Tomorrow is the return of Doing A Sanding, bleh. Important, but ugh the having to be so very careful and wear a mask and so much vacuuming ugh, hate it.

I DID go up to the hardware shop this morning!

Unfortunately they didn't have the thing I needed. Because they don't do paint, they also don't do more than very basic sanding stuff. For some reason. (Even the guy who worked there was confused by thing!)

So I need to go to the other one, which is fine! Annoying, because it's the opposite direction, but fine. My ankle wasn't up to it today, one thing was Enough, but it's already feeling better than it did this morning, so tomorrow should be fine.

Sibling's dropping in tomorrow morning, and should help me learn how to use the saw so I can actually cut things when I need to from now on, which is good! :D

In actual room work related news, I went around and cleared out the tops of the picture rails! This involved using a chisel in a couple of places, which is a New Experience for me, but it worked fine! :D So rare that theoretical knowledge translates to practical knowledge so easily! Am pleased. I also did a round of filling, and put tape on the edge between the cornice and the roof.

Unfortunately, when peeling back the tape to reposition in a couple of places, the paint just. Came off. :| :| :| Sooo I'm gonna have to redo a bunch of the edging! I'm wondering if the filler I've been using is a problem - it's SUPER crumbly once it dries, and I have a sinking feeling that that's what's breaking, not the actual paint layers, since the stuff that peeled off has white on it, which is probably the undercoat. Since I have to go to the hardware shop ANYWAY I'll ask'm about it. I absolutely do not want to have to redo any of the filling, buuuut I might have to, sigh. I was PLANNING on doing a second round of filling after I finished the tape but given that I decided not to. :/ Still, I did get some stuff done, which is nice!

Today did... not go as planned. Not even a little.

Ankle still hurts - it was really bad during the day, though it's started to feel a bit better in the last couple of hours, so hopefully it'll be back to normal tomorrow. But even walking around the house was difficult, so I didn't even think about going anywhere!

And also, in the warmest part of the afternoon, the power went off. :| Which was very worrying! Because food! But luckily it got fixed before anything defrosted, it was just uh. A much longer wait than I was expecting. (I mean. We get power flickers semi-regularly! But actual downtime is unusual.)

HOPEFULLY this means that the scheduled maintenance downtime on Wednesday will be skipped, but... Well. We'll see, I guess! At least that one won't be surprising, though. (Also, this is the one good thing about having a gas stove. Can still make food even if the power is out. Then again, once we get a battery setup hopefully it'll mean that general power outages don't affect us either... but we'll see how that pans out in practice.)

Anyway, did very little at all today. Slept a lot! Played a stupid room escape game and some Terraria, read fic, and mostly just kept off my feet. Zero work on my room, alas, but ankle recovering is MUCH more important.

So much wall cleaning today. So many cleaning cloths needing washing! (Luckily for me and my ability to keep going without washing every two seconds we have an absolute fuckton of cleaning cloths. In this household we do not simply throw out no-longer-wearable clothes etc! At least until the cleaning cloths shelf space is overflowing again...) Also may have kind of destroyed the corner of one of the window architraves by accident. >>;; Trying to get old nails out of the wall: more difficult than I expected! Well, the first three were easy enough... May have to get Sibling to try, given our comparative upper body strengths.

Anyway not a whole lot other than that, really. Did play some Terraria, which was nice. Mostly just a clean-flop-clean-flop-clean-flop cycle. Which isn't the worst way to do it, but is very boring...

So as is usual the day after I have a very productive day, did NOT have much in the way of ability to can today. Alas! Is annoying, but also not a surprise.

But I did do two rounds of touch ups and I THINK it's done now. Gonna wait to see it in natural light, but HOPEFULLY....

If that's the case then tomorrow will be all with the cleaning and the filling and the scrubbing and etc. etc. and I'll probably go and get the paint, too. Didn't have the brain for it today, alas.

One of the things I DID use my brain points on was freaking out once I got up from my morning nap, because there was a car! In the driveway!! A CAR!! That I didn't know!!!!!

Anyway there was a lot of flailing around and ringing the council and etc., before I actually went outside to look at it, as opposed to through the window, and it turns out it was my uncle's car. He was visiting my auntie in hospital, and parked there because holy shit hospital parking is a nightmare. So it was fine in the end, thankfully! Still, did use up quite a bit of energy on that, so it's probably no surprise I didn't have enough to cook curry this evening. Welp. Tomorrow, I guess!!! The chicken is definitely defrosted enough now, at least...

Given that I didn't actually DO anything except a load of washing on before sometime after 5pm, I'm surprised at how much stuff I got done today!

(I slept most of the afternoon, because it was the kind of oppressive heat that makes you want to cry if you have to do anything athletic in it. Also the paint specifically says to not use it if it's over 35 degrees, and it was... 34.8 on the BOM app. So you know. Close enough to not want to risk it!)

Anyway here's a list: ( Long list is long. )

I was kinda considering going to bunnings again for the rest of the paint (and some advice for blocking off the massive gaps down the sides of the bookshelves), but I'm glad I didn't - it started raining about the time I woulda left, and it didn't stop for several hours. Maybe tomorrow, instead!

Either way tomorrow morning will be peering at the ceiling and hoping to not fine more places that need more paint. If I don't find any I guess it'll be time to peel off the tape, reapply it to the other side of the line, and start scrubbing the cornices and tops of the walls! I think I'm gonna work downwards in sections, so the next bit will be the cornices and the tops of the walls above the picture rails. Just makes it easier on my brain to have smaller sections to focus on, you know?

Anyway, time to hide the zucchini bread from Sushi and take a nap, yes! :D Also figure out where I put my phone, I should really make sure I don't have any messages before I sleep...

Optometrist today! Apparently my script hasn't actually changed that much??? I am SHOOKETH, I thought eyes settling down wasn't ever gonna happen to me! But hey, maybe it will!!! I'm only almost fucking fourty, omfg...

Anyway, found some nice frames, and new glasses are ordered! Let's. Not talk about how much that costs, ow. Still, will be super great to have some glasses where the fucking coating isn't flaking off! >: (Optometrist says it's a known issue with hand-ground lenses, they're just more prone to it. SIGH. Goddamn eyes, making trouble in all vision-related fields, I swear... Nah, they're not bad. Just. So fucking short sighted, bleh.)

Other than that... got food while I was out. Haven't cooked any yet, but I have it!

Also finished the second coat on the ceiling, and did a round of touch ups, too. Will need to see it in daylight to finalise it, because hoooooo boy does it change how it looks depending on light source, but it's getting there!!! >:

Ideally I'll get up and do the touch ups at kitty breakfasttime, but I'm uh not asleep yet so we'll see how awake I am in... four and a bit hours... >>;; In my defence I was playing Terraria so late because I was waiting for my hair to dry after showering and it was REALLY REALLY BOTHERING ME for some reason, so a brain-eating distraction was. Good. And I showered immediately after finishing the touch ups, so I'm not worried about showering late. It's just a bit cooler today, so it took longer to dry. Weather!!!

Anyway. Now is time for bed and naps, and we'll see how much I can get done tomorrow!