Saturday: 167.4
Sunday: 167.4
Monday: 166.6
With Oli-Kitten: 173.2 lbs
(the scale had some variation today)
Yesterday I
* tracked all points
* hiked 30 minutes with T.
I worked Saturday and Sunday and I know it’s blowing my energy levels.
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I’ve been surfing through the Don’t-be-a-creep stuff recently, and one thing that comes up over and over again is unwelcome touch.
Thinking about this: in a gaming or con atmosphere, I’ve never (in my admittedly-bad memory) felt I couldn’t say “don’t touch me,” although I recall some negative reactions when I did so – because I’m a very tactile person as was often touching other people
Sideline: Have you noticed people tend to take “you did x with Y” to mean “you should do x with Me?” Very irritating.
My problem with unwelcome touch has almost always been in the workplace, where the reaction to telling people you don’t like being touched (I don’t, by strangers. I like touching my friends) is almost always hurt-offended-negative or, on rarer occasion, hurt-belittling. (I got him in trouble for that and other comments. It says something about our society that the two times I’ve done that, I felt really guilty).
How do you deal with touch in public/work situations? Why do people think it’s okay?
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We have a wasp problem we’re working on correcting, as ![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eseme learned when she was visiting (Sorry, Es!!).
Not only has Eseme (and T) been stung, but now Oli has learned to his displeasure what happens when you bother a wasp (ow, mom, dad, my face feels funny).
He’s fine… He had a day of swollen face and sadness, and now he’s back to normal, and I, too, know what happens.
The kittens have also learned that they don’t like storms, at least not rocking-loud-flash-bang ones like last night. They were watching it from the bathroom window for a bit, but then it got too loud for them.
Having kittens is more fun than I thought it would be. It’s neat watching their personalities develop. I still miss my Draker and Gats, but I’m getting fond of my babies, too
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So I freecycled 2 short (3′?) particleboard shelving units, thinking I could make a kitten tower from them, but they’re not going to work for that.
They neither match each other nor anything else in the house, not even my other particalboard shelving. And I’d like to do something towards having matching stuff, not the other direction.
Other than repainting them, does anyone have an idea for upcycling these shelves?
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rix_scaedu‘s Prompt Call is still open until Tuesday her time. Go leave her 14 prompts! (or less. I’m just enthusiastic.
Of the awesome stuff from this call, I most recently enjoyed On the Edge of Disaster, set in the same universe as her Rensa stories, and Testing a Theory, which makes me want to write a crossover with her into my Science! ‘verse
Speaking of prompt calls!
I am taking suggestions for my August 18th Rabbit Safari call.
Current suggestions include:
Storms and droughts.
Lost or forgotten things.
Fight ALL the oppressions!Fuzzy? (the first thing that comes to mind with rabbit)
Skins and furs
Legacies and fate
herefore adventures and quests, possibly with furred people.
And why it’s a Rabbit Safari:
Here’s a sheet. And a sheet with Theocracy.
My grandmother gave me those sheets when my parents built their house; I was 5. That makes them thirty-one years old. And they’re in bad shape, but I love them.
My mother recently brought down my childhood bed, which now lives in the upstairs as a guest bed. And I want to redo that space (Which is currently a mess, as eseme can attest; the paneling goes every which way, there’s neither door nor blinds, the floor is industrial linoleum, and so on). Not a full redo, because that’s going to require ripping out the walls. That’s down the road several years. But enough to make it nice for company. New sheets & blanket. Curtains and blinds. Mom’s providing the door. A rug. Maybe a piece of art for the wall.
And the bunnies! I’m going to work around that sheet, even though I can’t really put it on the bed. Have a new pillowcase printed at Spoonflower, turn the old sheet into part of a stuffed bunny pillow, maybe frame one of the bunnies.
So, while my bedroom is giraffe-and-safari themed, this one is going to be bunny-safari themed. And if that’s a bit juvenile… well, it might be a kids’ room someday, too. 😀
*bounce*
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This weekend, my friend eseme came to visit!!
We/I took her to
3 wineries
2 farmstands
1 Indian restaurant
2 craft stores
1 Wegman’s
and 2 closed Hydroponics stores.
She taught me a little crochet, enough to finish the baby hats for my cousin’s new triplets, met the kittens, tried out my beginnings of a guest room, and ate of the good food we cooked her. All in all, it was an awesome weekend.
Now all I need is some sleep 🙂
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“When we bought our house, my father gave me my grandfather’s hammer.”
“My mother brought her pick-up truck down and we went to the hardware store to buy lumber.”
(T:) “If we’re going to be hoarders, I’d rather hoard something we can just take to curb and they’ll take away for free.” (re. our growing collection of glass jars)
(Hob:) [If I was getting a wedding present] “You guys would get a home depot gift card.”
<3 my life
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