clevermanka (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
clevermanka) wrote2020-11-21 09:18 am
clevermanka) wrote2020-11-21 09:18 am
Saturday
Guardian/adjacent
Those smiles.
Behind the scenes Zhu Hong, Lin Jing, and cat Da Qing.
Friends who've watched Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, when does Tang Fan start exhibiting some level of basic adult competency? I love Sui Zhou so much and Wang Zhi is coming into focus wonderfully but I'm really bored with Tang Fan's antics and I need to know he starts being less annoyingly hapless soon.
Only five chapters left to post of Deconstruction. People seem to be really enjoying it which makes me feel so good. I'm a little blown away by the response, to be honest. I knew Ghost Story would have a limited audience due to a number of factors, but I didn't realize how many more people would engage with something that didn't have the MCD tag. 😆
Thursday at the Asian grocer (a new store for me, since the one I used to go to is way over on the other side of town) a guy who'd been stocking shelves on the other side of the aisle I was on approached me with his mask pulled down to his neck while I was waiting at the checkout. I panicked! I said something (probably unintelligible) about not being comfortable with unmasked people, I gestured at my own (masked! OBVIOUSLY!) face, dropped my (full!) basket on a nearby counter and literally ran out. So now I can never go back there again! 👍 I drove to my old place for curry paste and rice noodles where they have a huge plexiglass sheet hanging across the entire checkout counter.
Yesterday I did a bit too much. Ran final early morning errands to pick up things I'd forgotten on Thursday (because of course) and on impulse bought a larger humidifier at the hardware store. It's already made such a difference and my nose is much happier. But once I was home I decided since the car was out of the garage I should drag out the bathroom shelving unit (one of those that goes over the toilet) for spray-painting (it was a hand-me-down, very worn, and frankly hideous in white). I knew I wouldn't have enough paint in any one of my rattle cans so I used four different colors--started with a textured dark gray, then the flat matte olive green, followed by a metallic gold and then a last spritz of silver. It looks like mottled, sparkly moss now. When my Truth Coming Out Of Her Well shower curtain arrives, they're gonna look great together. After it dried, I hauled it back into the house, re-set all the stuff on it, and laid down for a moment. Woke two hours later and was pretty groggy for the rest of the day.
Even though I should probably take a day of rest after that, I gotta prep the food I bought Thursday before the vegetables start to wilt. I'm making split pea soup and this pureed zucchini soup for the freezer. The cabbage potato curry (which I'll have to fudge because I have no whole spices) can wait another day at least. Tomorrow or Monday I'll see if I can finish assembling my bed now that I have the broken piece back (which the guy did a really great job on, hurray!). Gonna try partially screwing in the side braces to hold them in place while I attach the top and bottom.🤞
I'd already decided to isolate as much as possible starting this weekend, but yesterday my county issued a more restrictive... idk what to call it, advisory? Nothing government-mandated of course (can't restrict our freedoms in the US! [unless you're a woman, or black, or queer, or disabled, or or]). Among a few other things, they recommended people limit gatherings from 15 to 10 and places can't sell booze after 10pm. Because that'll really make a difference.
Is anyone else frightened of the COVID vaccines? I wish I wasn't so prone to tin-foil-hat paranoia. I'm just honestly terrified of there being long-term side effects that we have no way of observing yet. I already have enough health problems and while I've always been strongly pro-vaccine this one feels different. What precedence is there for something like this going through testing so fast? I don't trust anything or anyone right now and I hate it.
Those smiles.
Behind the scenes Zhu Hong, Lin Jing, and cat Da Qing.
Friends who've watched Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, when does Tang Fan start exhibiting some level of basic adult competency? I love Sui Zhou so much and Wang Zhi is coming into focus wonderfully but I'm really bored with Tang Fan's antics and I need to know he starts being less annoyingly hapless soon.
Only five chapters left to post of Deconstruction. People seem to be really enjoying it which makes me feel so good. I'm a little blown away by the response, to be honest. I knew Ghost Story would have a limited audience due to a number of factors, but I didn't realize how many more people would engage with something that didn't have the MCD tag. 😆
Thursday at the Asian grocer (a new store for me, since the one I used to go to is way over on the other side of town) a guy who'd been stocking shelves on the other side of the aisle I was on approached me with his mask pulled down to his neck while I was waiting at the checkout. I panicked! I said something (probably unintelligible) about not being comfortable with unmasked people, I gestured at my own (masked! OBVIOUSLY!) face, dropped my (full!) basket on a nearby counter and literally ran out. So now I can never go back there again! 👍 I drove to my old place for curry paste and rice noodles where they have a huge plexiglass sheet hanging across the entire checkout counter.
Yesterday I did a bit too much. Ran final early morning errands to pick up things I'd forgotten on Thursday (because of course) and on impulse bought a larger humidifier at the hardware store. It's already made such a difference and my nose is much happier. But once I was home I decided since the car was out of the garage I should drag out the bathroom shelving unit (one of those that goes over the toilet) for spray-painting (it was a hand-me-down, very worn, and frankly hideous in white). I knew I wouldn't have enough paint in any one of my rattle cans so I used four different colors--started with a textured dark gray, then the flat matte olive green, followed by a metallic gold and then a last spritz of silver. It looks like mottled, sparkly moss now. When my Truth Coming Out Of Her Well shower curtain arrives, they're gonna look great together. After it dried, I hauled it back into the house, re-set all the stuff on it, and laid down for a moment. Woke two hours later and was pretty groggy for the rest of the day.
Even though I should probably take a day of rest after that, I gotta prep the food I bought Thursday before the vegetables start to wilt. I'm making split pea soup and this pureed zucchini soup for the freezer. The cabbage potato curry (which I'll have to fudge because I have no whole spices) can wait another day at least. Tomorrow or Monday I'll see if I can finish assembling my bed now that I have the broken piece back (which the guy did a really great job on, hurray!). Gonna try partially screwing in the side braces to hold them in place while I attach the top and bottom.🤞
I'd already decided to isolate as much as possible starting this weekend, but yesterday my county issued a more restrictive... idk what to call it, advisory? Nothing government-mandated of course (can't restrict our freedoms in the US! [unless you're a woman, or black, or queer, or disabled, or or]). Among a few other things, they recommended people limit gatherings from 15 to 10 and places can't sell booze after 10pm. Because that'll really make a difference.
Is anyone else frightened of the COVID vaccines? I wish I wasn't so prone to tin-foil-hat paranoia. I'm just honestly terrified of there being long-term side effects that we have no way of observing yet. I already have enough health problems and while I've always been strongly pro-vaccine this one feels different. What precedence is there for something like this going through testing so fast? I don't trust anything or anyone right now and I hate it.