Victory Road

Much quieter today! My auntie and uncle did drop in in the morning, so not totally quiet, but much quieter. :3

My major thing of the day was doing a very involved job app; hopefully I at least get through the first round?? Maybe??? Fingers crossed, yes. >:

Other than that I did do a little bit of room prep, took the bed slats out! Just gotta do the side rails now, but those will involve tool use and I want to have someone hold the sides so nothing lands on my head, if possible.

I also hung my curtains back up! On a string! We got rid of the curtain rail when the skip was here for the window stuff, because it's not like I'll need it for blinds, but it's also going to be like 40 or something tomorrow, and no shade at all would be... not great. So I attached a long string to some picture rail hooks, and put the curtains back on that. It's working surprisingly well! :D Actually opening/closing them would be a nightmare at best, and likely cause the whole thing to come down, but for a temporary sun shade it's A++ good use of available materials, and I didn't even have to nail anything to the wall! :3

Windows are all done! (Well. They need to be painted. But that's a different job entirely.)

They look much nicer with the architraves in, which isn't a surprise! :3 The flyscreens aren't exactly the same, it turns out, they have a different snibbing mechanism. Soooo we'll see how that goes vs Sushi. (I am not exactly confident in its ability to keep him in. He is extremely determined.)

Speaking of the cats, they had their vet appointment today! ( Vet medical stuff! )

Other than that... went with Mama when she went to look at bathers, mainly just to get out of the house. The three of us REALLY don't fit in the back of the house together, particularly not at the moment, so it was good to not be there for... a couple of hours.

Yeah. It took forever. And Mama didn't end up getting anything, because the current look of stuff is uh. Cleavage everywhere! Which she's not comfortable with. And this is WITH the stuff with built in bras for big boobed people! :/ Would really be nice if there was something with support that also, you know, covered you up a lot more. Sometimes bathers are not for fashion, they're for not getting sunburned when you're wet! Mama has enough sun-related skin problems as it is!!! Siiiiigh.

Anyway, REALLY looking forward to being able to go the fuck back to sleep after kitty breakfasttime tomorrow morning. I didn't get to sleep until I don't even fucking know when last night, I just know that the last time I checked the time after going to the loo it was like 4:45, and I was up at 8, so yeah I did NOT get enough sleep. Had a bit of a nap, but really not more than like an hour, which is... still not enough. Nope.

Anyway. Yes. The sleeping, it should start now. Yessss.

All of the windows are in! :D The cats are extremely unimpressed, because it's only the windows, and so there are no windowsills for them to jump up on and peer outside with. But the rest of us are very happy, because it means no giant holes in the house overnight. :D

Everything else is gonna get finished up tomorrow, so no big deal there. The new windows are pmuch the same, except they're a little bit more fancy - they've got actual locks, not just the snibs. I... don't think we're ever going to need them, unless the metal is way, WAY weaker than the previous windows', because once you have the window snibbed it ain't going ANYWHERE. But hey, we have them! (I expect that they're designed for people like my aunties who get all freaked out by ~what if there's a burgler~, which is um. Mostly fearmongering, honestly, you're way more likely to have your car broken into than your house.)

We're of course going to have to re-install anti-cat measures, because according to the window sales guy the flyscreens they carry are only the same ones we had before, and, well. Sushi. He has proved he can get out of those. Siiiigh. I've caught him trying recently, too, so can't just hope he's forgotten about it!

Anyway, not much other than that! I finished knitting that sock up to the heel; can't do the heel 'cause I need the pattern, which I keep... on my raspi server. Which is Not Accessible Right Now. Alas! Still, got up to the heel, which is good! If I have time and brain to craft tomorrow, will see if I can drag out the one fibrearts equipment bag I need to do some crochet; didn't really wanna do that today but I'm pretty sure I know where it is so it should be okay.

Before that, though, gotta get the cats to the vet for their yearly vaccinations! That's. Going to be a thing. Given they'll be trapped in the back of the house while the window people are working, and Tortilla will be freaked the hell out because strangers!!! EXTREMELY LOUD strangers!!! But hey, at least it'll get us out of the house for a bit!