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Aug. 27th, 2018 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWe got home around 3:00 yesterday and more or less collapsed. I need to do a load of laundry, but I'm not sure we have enough laundry detergent for it.
I had planned to try to do the grocery shopping today and to time it so that Scott could pick me up on his way home from work, but apparently things blew up over the course of the last week, and he's going to be staying until it's done every night this week. I don't want to do it by bus because we need distilled water, laundry detergent, and almond milk. I could carry one of those three but not two. I think I'm going to have to ask around to see if anyone local can help out.
The week is going to be busy. I had to go to the credit union today because our first payment on the home equity line of credit was due and Chase's payment portal hadn't been willing to have the UMCU as a payment destination. I've got it set up now, but I'll have to go down there again if the monthly payment goes up more than about $10 a month (which it might after the garage roof payment).
Wednesday is Skyline's makeup registration day for those who couldn't go in last week. I don't expect the registration to take very long at all, so my current plan is for me and Cordelia to go downtown for lunch and then take the city bus to Skyline.
Thursday morning, I have a doctor's appointment. I don't think that will be a big deal because it's my primary care doctor. That's an easy bus ride both ways.
I just placed an Amazon order. I needed more Gel-Kam and then added a few things from my wishlists and from Cordelia's. I shouldn't have spent the money, but I really wanted to do something nice for myself.
I managed to do some writing last night, the first since the 11th. That's my longest dry spell this year. I'm pretty sure August is going to be my lowest word count month this year. I'd need to more than double what I currently have in order to equal February's count.
Last night's writing was meant to be part of my Iddy Iddy Bang Bang story, but it took a left turn at Albuquerque to create yet another branch of Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion. I finished that story this afternoon which means that my IIBB story is still not working right and that I have another 3K word story to edit and post. The new thing is, at least, something easier to find a beta reader for than the IIBB story.
(I'm probably not even going to try to find a beta for the IIBB story. The whole needing to read 100K of other stories first combined with Yuletide sized fandom and darkfic and explicitness and... I don't need a pony. I need a unicorn.)
I only got about five hours of sleep last night because I couldn't fall asleep to begin with and because I couldn't get back to sleep after Scott got up. It was just too difficult to find a position to lie in that didn't start hurting just as I was about to fall asleep. The result is me having trouble with basic arithmetic for things like bus schedules. For some reason, when I got done at the credit union, I looked at the time and somehow subtracted 35 from 48 (the outbound bus leaves the transit center at :18 and :48) and got 8 instead of 13.
I checked the time more than once as I walked to the stop and never spotted the error. That left me kind of panicked when the bus didn't come right after I got to the stop because I knew I took more than 5 minutes to get there and because it's only three blocks from the transit center to that stop.
I had planned to try to do the grocery shopping today and to time it so that Scott could pick me up on his way home from work, but apparently things blew up over the course of the last week, and he's going to be staying until it's done every night this week. I don't want to do it by bus because we need distilled water, laundry detergent, and almond milk. I could carry one of those three but not two. I think I'm going to have to ask around to see if anyone local can help out.
The week is going to be busy. I had to go to the credit union today because our first payment on the home equity line of credit was due and Chase's payment portal hadn't been willing to have the UMCU as a payment destination. I've got it set up now, but I'll have to go down there again if the monthly payment goes up more than about $10 a month (which it might after the garage roof payment).
Wednesday is Skyline's makeup registration day for those who couldn't go in last week. I don't expect the registration to take very long at all, so my current plan is for me and Cordelia to go downtown for lunch and then take the city bus to Skyline.
Thursday morning, I have a doctor's appointment. I don't think that will be a big deal because it's my primary care doctor. That's an easy bus ride both ways.
I just placed an Amazon order. I needed more Gel-Kam and then added a few things from my wishlists and from Cordelia's. I shouldn't have spent the money, but I really wanted to do something nice for myself.
I managed to do some writing last night, the first since the 11th. That's my longest dry spell this year. I'm pretty sure August is going to be my lowest word count month this year. I'd need to more than double what I currently have in order to equal February's count.
Last night's writing was meant to be part of my Iddy Iddy Bang Bang story, but it took a left turn at Albuquerque to create yet another branch of Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion. I finished that story this afternoon which means that my IIBB story is still not working right and that I have another 3K word story to edit and post. The new thing is, at least, something easier to find a beta reader for than the IIBB story.
(I'm probably not even going to try to find a beta for the IIBB story. The whole needing to read 100K of other stories first combined with Yuletide sized fandom and darkfic and explicitness and... I don't need a pony. I need a unicorn.)
I only got about five hours of sleep last night because I couldn't fall asleep to begin with and because I couldn't get back to sleep after Scott got up. It was just too difficult to find a position to lie in that didn't start hurting just as I was about to fall asleep. The result is me having trouble with basic arithmetic for things like bus schedules. For some reason, when I got done at the credit union, I looked at the time and somehow subtracted 35 from 48 (the outbound bus leaves the transit center at :18 and :48) and got 8 instead of 13.
I checked the time more than once as I walked to the stop and never spotted the error. That left me kind of panicked when the bus didn't come right after I got to the stop because I knew I took more than 5 minutes to get there and because it's only three blocks from the transit center to that stop.
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Date: 2018-08-28 03:45 am (UTC)Scott got home just before 9 tonight.
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Date: 2018-08-28 03:52 am (UTC)(pixie dust?)
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Date: 2018-08-28 10:52 am (UTC)Scott's been thinking about a car for Cordelia for many years now, mostly with an eye toward her taking me places.