#All the laundry is done

[trivialbob]

My week of ambition

There is PTO to use before year end. I took off this entire week despite no travel plans for Thanksgiving. I never can sleep late, my body doesn't do that, so I am up at at 'em long before the 7:15 AM sunrise.

It actually feels nice to get dressed first thing in the morning. Too often, because I work at home, I neglect clothing until the afternoon. This week I'm all about warm socks, jeans, and sweaters instead of a slippers, a robe, and sweats.

Sheila still has to work. Today she has a very early shift. Her vampire genes prevent her from enjoying sunrises like I do.

"But honey, it's not that bad. It's still very dark out as you get ready for work!"

"Shut up, Bob."

For the rest of this week I'm wearing a garlic clove to bed.

Rather than sit around in my robe, surfing the Internet or binging TV shows, I have been cleaning and organizing--while fully dressed.

The clutter of a hallway closet bothered me. I took out everything. When I put it all back in an organized fashion I saw we have enough shampoo, sunscreen, and bug spray to last the next twelve years.

That situation is a byproduct of a messy closet: Don't see what you need? Buy more. That happened in one of the kitchen cabinets I cleaned. We have enough tinfoil to protect us from a fleet of black helicopters.

Outside the Christmas light are installed. My motorcycle got re-winterized after the past weekend's jaunt. Some late falling leaves are now mulch. And that was just Monday.

I have been reading books too. Recently I finished David Sedaris' most recent one and really liked it. Yesterday I started one of his others, a "best of me" collection. Didn't care for it one bit. I read a few pages from different chapters, but nothing caught my interest. Today that book goes back to the library. Someone on a podcast read a piece by the author Patrick McManus the other day, about the difference between a creek and a crick. It was beautiful and funny. I'm going to get some of McManus' books today.

And finally, during weeks like this I don't treat myself to nice restaurant meals. The fridge and freezer should be devoid of leftovers by the weekend (barring any turkey we bring home from hosts on Thanksgiving). I'm trying to use up even non-perishable foods in the cabinets. That helps my cleaning and organizing too.

Should a zombie apocalypse occur this Sunday, I won't even have a day's worth of food on hand. That is my goal.

#All the laundry is done #The dishwasher has been emptied #That means I can now clean the washing machine and the dishwasher

[skrunksthatwunk]

non-comprehensive haruhi autism creature comp

i mean just look at him she's literally

#kiss kiss fall in love :| #i'm not kidding there's so many panels like this. haruhi is a little bug with big beautiful brown eyes. literally (O_O) #nobody else is drawn like this in the manga it's just haruhi #still going through the manga yippee #ohshc #ohshc manga #fujioka haruhi #haruhi fujioka #i am a big believer in autistic haruhi and this isn't the biggest reason but it is a funny reason to me #also hitting haruhi with the he/she headcanon beam. i can't help it but also i mean. maybe a little more justifiable with haruhi than anyon #else i can think of. like just look at the show idk read the manga #ouran high school host club #ouran koukou host club #woahh fancy fancy pulling out all the stops (i guess) #eugh i should stop writing tags my laundry's been done sitting in the dryer for like. 20 minutes #also sorry these images are so small and busted i uh didn't look at them before posting and am not going to fix them <3

[takonxmz]

“In another life, I would've really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.”

@heyholmesletsgo 's XiYao prompt for MDZS Gotcha for Gaza -- Thank you for donating!

Here is a less ~oohhh angLeS~~ version

#mdzs gotcha for gaza #mdzs #my art #pentel brush pen #xiyao #jin guangyao #lan xichen #lan xichen x jin guangyao #watercolors #i havent used watercolors in a hot minute #“a sketch!” lol welp #less of a sketch and more of a messily done finished piece? #anyway #everything everywhere all at once is a perfect movie and no one can tell me otherwise #mdzs modern au #mo dao zu shi #u know ayao is doing the laundry bc lxc cant

[kaldurcalm]

Hey does anyone have tips for keeping fleas off the damn dog while depressed and not earning your own money?

They're taking up residence on her tail.

#no i don't want to use essential oils. mostly. #it would be nice to just spray her with rosewater and be done with it. #i gotta get over the malaise and either schedule a grooming appointment or give her a bath #I've misplaced the flea medication i brought with me #seresto collars are at best over 40 dollars #fleas are learning to ignore certain medications #i need to bathe her like every week right? #please excuse me while my executive dysfunction despairs. #i gotta talk myself into being able to do this again. #it's just. so much. #the yard the dog the floor the dog all of the laundry the dog laundry again the dog the floor again the dog #those alternative collars don't really work. they just smell bad.

[bookrat]

Pretty sure my little man has a case of abundism affecting the marble tabby coat under all those white splotches

#random pet post #it really is a weird coat pattern #I'm never sure if I should describe him accurately as a white marked tabby or as the first impression people get of a black and white cat #love his little backward C's #I got all my other pets around the same time and they've been dying off one by one this last year or so #I'm down to just this 4yo kit and Bruiser #actually I'm not done whispering in the tags #pretty soon it's just gonna be me and this terrible little man against the world #and he gives me such weird problems you cannot even begin to imagine #took to the leash and harness without a bit of difficulty but I can't take him anywhere cuz he freaks out about people 500ft away #really difficult to find sitters for him cuz he gets so stressed about changes and waits until 3am to SCREAM #he's 17 lbs and wants to sleep on my chest 14 hours a day #took him on a work trip a week or 2 ago cuz of aforementioned petsitting troubles and some kind of wire got crossed #so instead of stress peeing in my laundry basket he now humps the nearest blanket covered limb to alert me of problems #he got scared of his water dish recently and is only now starting to get over it after 3 weeks of drama #he knocked it over last night and humped my leg while I tried to sleep to try and convey to me that he was thirsty #I'm thinking of getting a second cat and just fucking hoping that it'll be normal and maybe Prompto can target it for some of his weirdness

[papermonkeyism]

A bit of random once-in-a-blue-moon fan art as an attempt to unclog my brain so I can maybe get some actual adulting done.

Have a Pâté.

#oops i fan arted #That one anon once I finished watching the second Crit Role campaign: 'I'm expecting tons of super feelsy M9 fan arts now >:)' #Me: shows up half a year later with a dead rat from another campaign #Not much of a fan artist you might have noticed #Ugh I have so many things I need done and I'm incapable of putting them in order of which to do them #I've been stuck here for a week already send hlep! #I need to do laundry and arrange travel stuff and do unemployment things and dishes and and #Then there's the whole ArtFight thing that I've done nothing for because there's all of the everything that needs to be done and I can't #Aaaauuuuuuuuuurgghhhhhrllghhhhhhh! #The skull is of a crow and not raven but close enough #I do like how this turned out though! #Critical Role #Pâté

[atthebell]

125 days since spiderbit 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 im doing great

#bell.txt #if my math yesterday was righr which who knows #also almost seven months since things were good at all for qc #well october was kind of cool but literally everything else has sucked so fucking bad its actually unreal #like i never can explain how truly metrically they fucked him #every day i grow closer to posting that laundry list of problems and how i would solve them #narrative problems tbc ince again. not logistics #although i could also fix thise by virtue of knowing how to send an email #also also by cool i mean like narratively well done not like he had a good time in october bc well #anyway. i would like to stop being sick and also every other problem to go away

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

i'm never fucking sewing again

#i will be happy with it tomorrow i think #i need to like actually quilt it down but I'll probably just do it in some of the corners by hand bc im gonna fuck it up if i try w the #machine i Know it #but it looks ok! #objectively for a first (and last 😑) quilt and you know what #it's fucking done and not sitting in my laundry hamper with all the other abandoned crafts like it has been for the past like 6 months #i know i probably made it Worse by doing the inside out thing instead of binding it like a Smart person #however #if i'd have done that i Never would have finished it so

[simgerale]

me after attempting to get back into sims and realizing i had a lot more to do than play the game

#hi everyone #I’m going around hugging you all #okay now that we are gathered here today #i will simply acknowledge that i have been gone for a very long time and then also acknowledge that maybe it was for the best #i relied on sims to be my only creative activity even if i tried to write a book at the same time #and also. i prioritized sims over real life responsibilities. that’s just a deadly combination lol #but I recently noticed I just replaced sims with Netflix. with YouTube. with anything that gave me quick dopamine #literally became addicted in a sense. still am but I’ve been cut cold turkey from most everything #I get off work and go. okay I’ve done the dishes and the laundry……..I could read or write or bake…. #I try to write and sometimes i get a good hour #then I read for a few hours and then get tired of it #and I made cookies Tuesday so I’m waiting for those to be gone before baking again #I’m just so pitiful that I feel BORED and don’t know what to do #so I said….. okay what if I do sims for an hour. #I downloaded some new cc Tuesday and tried to play yesterday #y’all ……………….. I can’t find the energy anymore to set up elaborate scenes and pose my sims and plan posts #I said wow… this is boring without my intervention and fake story #I said wow…….. all this for what? for tumblr? yes I created cool things and provided joy. but is that inherintly important compared to my #own joy? my own everyday activities I should be doing? #y’all I do not leave the house unless we got out to eat or shop or travel to our parents #.. I have little desire to. I’m trying to find that desire #but my husband is busy with grad school and work and I don’t want to do anything by myself #I’ve found myself in one heck of a slump #I didn’t want to be human for awhile. just had no desires no interests no ambitions #I was slacking off SO HARD at work. I just had no drive to do well #I’m still working on it. I’m still trying to get caught up. I’m still trying to force myself to move every day. #but I am struggling y’all. and I can tell you that sims… sims isn’t helping rn but I want it to so bad. I want to get back into it #I didn’t mean to disappear on everyone. I got married and then life got busy and then I fell into this hole of nothing #I didn’t even WANT to crawl my way out. but my husband has helped a lot. I feel like such a child!!!! #I reached max tags. 🙃 bye love you all. till next time

[cath-lic]

idk if this is, like, cheesy to say out loud, but i really really like thanking god for the littlest things. elevator opens at the exact time i need to get in? thank you! my favorite snack is refilled in the vending machine! god’s work, baby! i narrowly avoid tripping over a sidewalk curb? holy spirit is looking out for me!

#usually my thought process when something like that happens #is less of a structured prayer #and more like YAYYY ❤️🎉 YIPPEE ‼️ GOD LOVES ME ❤️🎉 #all because i was able to get my laundry done in a timely fashion #christianity #catholicism

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Just a random thought on "The Second Stain", at least as presented by Granada Holmes.

For a WIP I've been looking into the (cursory) workings of 19th-century British politics and also how it operated in the realm of society. It seems interesting to me that 1) Lady Hilda seemingly knows nothing about politics, and 2) that her husband desires to keep her so far out of its affairs. Female relatives, especially wives, of upper-class politicians were often indispensable to them through their social functions. They could bring influential people together by being seen at key social events, involving themselves with philanthropic and charitable activities, hosting dinners and dances, and taking part in activism (such as the Primrose League), among other things. Many times their web of friends, relatives, and even lovers could bring valuable 'ins' for them and their husbands. Also, even if they were not expressly educated on the subject at home of boarding or finishing school, many came from families with some involvement in politics (as the heads of the aristocracy held seats in the House of Lords, for example) and grew up with it in their natural environment. Some of the most influential hostesses of that era that come to mind are Lady Jennie Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill and wife to Lord Randolph Churchill; Hannah de Rothschild, later Countess of Rosebery and wife to former Prime Minister Archibald Primrose; and Margot Asquith, second wife to former Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.

Obviously, there are exceptions to this fact -- men could make it to the top without wives to help them along. Gladstone, four times the Prime Minister between 1868 and 1894 had a wife that was rather shy; and Arthur Balfour had no wife at all. Although they were anomalies, it could be that Trelawney Hope is among them, and takes rather a more... traditional? line of thought when it comes to women's roles.

(Also, fun fact: in the episode, but not in the canon, Holmes mentions that she is the daughter of the Duke of Belminster. Therefore she is addressed as 'Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope'. Her husband, on the other hand, is just addressed as plain old 'Mr.' This is because daughters of earls could keep their titles if they married down, even to a commoner)

Source: edwardian promenade (my beloved)

#i only say all this because lady hilda seems interested in knowing about politics? #but maybe she's just interested to find out the consequences of what she's done #like girl... what could you have possibly written that is so scandalous you'd risk prematurely starting wwi #it's gotta be important if they're blackmailing you - they're not asking for his laundry list #i've been super into belle epoque british politics recently so bear with me #ramblings #granada sherlock holmes #granada holmes #acd holmes #the second stain

[cozylittleartblog]

i think i am going to make a pay what you want digital zine this year for people who want to get into making little artist alley knick knacks like keychains and stickers and enamel pins, cuz i get a lot of asks about that and i think it would be nice to put my design skills to the test and have it all in one place! that being said, what kind of questions do y'all have about this stuff that you would want answered? everything from packaging to shipping to the products themselves, what would you guys want in there? keep in mind i have only sold on etsy myself and a couple craft shows, so i can't give much advise about personal storefronts.

please put them in the replies on this post so it's all in one place!

#not art #etsy #enamel pins #stickers #keychains #zine #i will probably put my suppliers in it for everything but enamel pins but there's a whole laundry list of reasons #why people dont give up their pin manus and its all very good reasons i am sorry to report #and i say that as a collector who loves pins and wants more pins in the world #HOWEVER i will be giving as many resources as i can to put people down the right path at least!! #that being said you might not Want to just use manufacturers handed blindly to you :') so i will be including pros and cons #of the suppliers i Do give as well. sometimes a manu is great for one person and terrible for another and both experiences are valid #it will be pay what you want so you can poke around for free if you're just curious #but if you do go into business and get sales please consider swinging back around and putting a few bucks in my tip jar #for sharing copious amounts of time and research in one little place for you #not to mention all the time its gonna take for me to compile this together in a zine wjbhdfsbhgjdfg #it will be a fun project though :) something new i've never done before

[kuchipachi]

doing the bare minimum today 🚶🏻‍♀️

#walked to the grocery store and got a smoothie after staying in bed all morning/early afternoon #i did get laundry done tho plus i made rice before climbing back into bed #i still need to wash my sheets….. honestly if i didn’t somehow get today off who knows how long i would’ve put off doing laundry #self

[pillowprincessvarric]

Did laundry, folded laundry, AND put laundry away today everyone clap you're sooooo proud of me you want to clap and throw me a party

#usually i only get the first part done. second as well if we are lucky. #and then it all sits in a pile by my bed that i sift through for 2 weeks until i have to do laundry again #but not today! that shit is in the closet #where! it! goes!!!!!

[a-flickering-soul]

Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth / Ada Limon, "Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds" / Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House and Other Plays / Tamsyn Muir, "The Unwanted Guest"

[transcription under cut]

Image 1: --whole body surging in spasm. Gideon's heart started up again. Before she could move, Palamedes was there, and with terrible tenderness-- though they were alone in the room and the world alike-- he kissed the back of Dulcinea's hand.

Image 2: There once was a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her-- immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife's hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love.

When I met Ana, I knew: I loved her to the point of invention.”

Image 3: "The Warden,” she said, “has been exchanging letters with Dulcinea Septimus for twelve years. He’s been—a weenie—over her. One of the reasons he became the heir of the House was to meet her on even footing. His pursuit of medical science was entirely for her benefit."

Image 4:

Palamedes: (Pause) Look-- I doubt I'll get another chance to say this, so...

Voice: Don't. You don't have to.

Palamedes: I loved you. I love you still. I would have worked out how to love you better over time.

#tlt #the locked tomb #the unwanted guest #the unwanted guest spoilers #flickerthoughts #flicker's meta #guys if i think abt palamedes and dulcinea for too long it makes me literally want to hurl #god. god. god. #there was another poem i was looking for that had a line smth like #'love like the laundry could also be done' and it was abt a mom who cared for gay men w aids?? smth like that #and i would've tied that back to dulcie saying cam would have to cook #and how cam had memorized palamedes' letters to dulcie too #and how she asked palamedes 'will she know who we are in the river' #but it was a bit too much for this post #anyways im still so devastated #also sorry abt the one single image tumblr changed their image processer for new posts and it just autocropped all of my screenshots

[batz]

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#spending so much time doing house stuff when i have dpwntime all i can do is snooze #the landlord replaced the fuckd up laundry machines tho! we have these fancy ones now tht sing annoyig songs when th clothes r done #gonna start painting soon and then im gonna be reattaching the cabinetry in the kitchen bc its all fuckd up #frank.txt #u know despite how rough things are i AM hapy w this place . its so cozy and VERY quiet . and my abuser doesnt know where i live anymore #which is gr8 ! i can go outside and im less likely to deal w irl stalking again. still an agoraphobe bc stalking scary as hell BUT #At least im an agoraphobe in a cozy house that is far away from my prev place so its also safer #mental illness and seasonal depression and ptsd stuff kinda make this month scary for me BUT #its ok. its esp ok bc im making ham on xmas. literally all is well when i can make a big meal and watch ppl eat my food #downsides of this house - well ttoday i saw a stinkbug in the oven:(