Good mornthing!

[blissmorgan]

Last night I went over a new friend’s house for game night with him, his wife, and two other folks I had not yet met. I was Very Nervous, because STRANGERS! but I was also Excite because Gaming And New Friend(s)! We played Oregon Trail: The Card Game, which I have played a few times before and none of them had ever played. We watched a How To Play The Game video before we got started, and they giggled about how much the guy says essentially  “Y’all gonna die,” and then noticed that the official instructions basically said the same - that if at least one of you get through 50 Trail cards to the Willamette Valley card, you win the game, but more probably the game ends when everybody dies.

 

Two people died of snakebite. One person died of I think Typhoid. And two of us made it to the end! WE WON! We were flabberghasted and delighted.

 

It was also really nice to go out to do a thing, and have everything totally fine and taken care of at home. No phone calls in the middle of things, and in fact no actual trouble that needed handling; SALM is a good Bonus Parent, and got all the Spawn to bed without issue. And he is Awesome Partner; he encouraged me to go have fun with people, and there was no resentfulness or any sort of sense of debt incurred when I got home. He’s glad that I’m maybe building a little bit of meatspace community, and he’s looking forward to when he can do that himself. I’m looking forward to that, too.

 

I must note before I forget the layers of scents on me, because they are so GOOD together:

 

Roadhouse from BPAL: Truck stop sleaze. Weedy dandelion and hops with a whiff of tobacco and hemp and a swirl of booziness.

 

Windward Passage from BPAL: Breezes blowing off of the waters of the Caribbean: marine accord, seaweed, and bladderwrack.

 

Susanna Dean from SailorZeo on Etsy: Her happy ending is receiving a cup of hot chocolate sprinkled with nutmeg. Her scent has notes of chocolate and nutmeg, as well as rose for the ka'tet, musk, and moss

 

I do not work today. This is the first week in a long time that I have not been asked to take on any bonus hours; the woman I was largely covering for on her maternity leave is back, and so they aren’t asking me to come be there and do the thing. This is inauspicious, given the large probable vehicle bill that I need to save up for. I’m nervous and a bit unhappy about this timing. On the other hand, the vehicle still runs; I can save a little and get the brakes done, and then save like WOAH and get the exhaust taken care of before annual inspection in May. Assuming I don’t get the loan I applied for, that is. Jury’s still out on that one.

 

But not being at work today and tomorrow is weird, and sort of.... disconnected feeling. I am going to spend some time being useful around the household - try to clean up the living room one day, and the kitchen the other. Today I started in on laundry, and am glad this was a load I was at home while it was running because it was off balance. I ran into the room and tried to rebalance it. I did it ass-backward and made it worse, and in the process of trying to steady the laundry robot (we have a stacked single-unit, dryer above washer) it rocked so hard that the nearly-full family size laundry detergent container came crashing down from where we keep it atop the machine. I just barely managed to put my hand up and....not catch it, really, but slide-slam it down onto the lid of the washing machine. It would have hit me right in the head otherwise, which is a scary though. What if concussion? What if knocked out and then the already rocking laundry robot fell on top of me?

 

It does not do to dwell on the awful things that did not happen unless I am brewing them up to write into a story.

 

I have laundry to sort and fold, and also bunches of yarn to sort through. I need to bulk-destash, and start figuring out what to do, project-wise, with what remains. Otherwise it is merely clutter.

 

But so much of my headspace today is concerned with the fact that I do not have a kitty and this is Not Right. I need a kitty. Does anybody know anybody whose kitty made some new kitties that need home? I have a home in need of a kitty.

 

Hello, Blisstopia.<3

Comments

[fractalfrog]

I am glad you were not injured by the detergent.

I'm sure someone within 50 miles of you has a kitty. I don't think any kitties I'd know about here would be reasonable to try to get to you.

I am having feels about clutter. Maybe after I figure out my ballot and vote and take care of the grocery shopping, I can spend some time decluttering. There's an awful lot that needs to be done in our house, and I've been taking care of other things, like making chandelier happen in the dining room (the old one was removed in 2016) and adjusting to everyone being in high school and one kid in marching band.

I want to declutter. I want to take a break from everything for 2 days. Warring desires.

[blissmorgan]

There are many kitties nearby; I spent some time looking at a brother-sister pair that are at a rescue place the next town over.

I have much clutter angst. Every time I clean, it gets refilled, because entropy gets on everything.

[wa_bob]

Good morning! I'm glad for good smells and you not being overcome by the laundry machine monster or dysentery on the trail.

It's Monday so I'm still finding my place in the week.

Plenty of rescue organizations have new-to-you cats that have been vetted for household living and health (in addition to shelters). As a friend of mine says, cats happen and you will find one that makes your household it's place in life. 😺

[blissmorgan]

Kinda shocked that nobody got dysenerty, tbh.

There are several rescue orgs in the area, so I need to start puttering around to them to meet the kitties and find out what their fees and such are.

Hullo Bliss 10-22

[darklilli]

Nothing much to say today. Perfume is not my thing.

Hullo Bliss.

Re: Hullo Bliss 10-22

[blissmorgan]

Hullo Lils. How's the car? How's the thing with the garden/yard stuff going?

[misterangel]

Yay for gaming friends :)

Rocking laundry robot sounds scary. I've never seen stackable ones; but I've never really looked because our last 3 have all either been left behind be emigrating housemates, or replaced under warranty.

[blissmorgan]

It's less that they are stackable (which is to say two units that can squat on one another) and more that it is perma-stacked; it is a unit, a laundry center, completely attached. This is not the one we have, but ours looks a lot like it: https://images.homedepot-static.com/productImages/b7d3dced-34c5-4c34-ab34-961146971dc1/svn/white-whirlpool-laundry-centers-wet4024hw-64_1000.jpg

[rokenford]

Didn't have it in me to say hi earlier. Hi now.

I've considered today starting writing on here on DW. Recording the adventures of Blisse. Perhaps in a diary format? Game hasn't started for me yet. My first session is on the 11th. Maybe I'll do some entries prior to that session to help get me in character

[blissmorgan]

Dooooo eeeeet!

[rokenford]

Uhhh...first attempt up now.

[blissmorgan]

It's so much fun!

[hlinspjalda]

I second the idea of rescue organizations. All my kitties except for my very first one (which I rescued from a dumpster) have come from rescue organizations.

[blissmorgan]

Secret Agent Lover Man has tended to get his kitties from rescue organizations. I have tended to get mine from folks whose kitties got surprise-pregnant.

Finding a kitty on purpose does mean that the former is probably more the thing for me than the latter, this time 'round.

[shredded_paper]

We scored our kitty by going to the local shelter and asking to see their oldest resident. No one wants old boys even though they're the sweetest and most grateful to come home with you.

[blissmorgan]

I very much want a cat on the mid-to-younger end of the scale; we just spent the better part of a decade caring for a tiny ancient beastie, and we need a kittyfriend that is... not that, for a little while.

[johncomic]

My day was filled with uneasiness about the myriad things that could go wrong, and none of them did. Was the full moon to blame?

[blissmorgan]

If it was, does that mean persons with anxiety are lunatics?

[johncomic]

holy mackinaw, our way of thinking has circled back to the Middle Ages!

[blissmorgan]

Well, at least I know how to make the clothes for that age...