I continue to exist, and have managed to do the one thing I absolutely have to do on a Monday -- hair washed. Extra important this week, as I need to pass as human tomorrow, ha ha.

For now, just curled up with games. I was trying my hand at Europa Universalis IV, immediately got confused, and brought up Victoria 3 instead. Which I'm still not great at, but at least I kind of know what I'm doing. Kind of. I should probably try a wider range of countries, rather than repeatedly defaulting to the US and UK. *laughs*

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Rub brain cells together, here's #caturday

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*claps hands* So! As said earlier, boss decided I needed a new work computer. As half of boss is spouse, and the other half is amenable, I've got nearly £3k of wishlist specc'd out in our PC Specialist account waiting to be ordered. We need to do a final check over, and decide if we're going to hop ship for AMD from Intel for the processors this time. From what I can see, the current generation of AMD over Intel is worth it.

But yeah, it's a ridiculous beastie that I'm getting on the work dime... *grins* But as spouse said when we were conversing with other boss, everyone else has had their computers upgraded/replaced in the past year, so it's just me holding out. Never mind I do most of my work on my desktop, ha ha. I'm like, well, the keyboard on my laptop broke (s'true, I'm the external keyboard because a few keys checked out), and he's like well *obviously* you need to replace it. *giggles*

And of course, today is Week Off Eve. We don't have anything planned, and that's glorious. I've been fairly well recently, but time off is always appreciated.

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Whew, I have probably done entirely too much, but. At least some of the household chores are processed, and I hopefully won't have to think about anything else for the rest of the day.

I finished another pumpkin last night, with the help of easily the most ridiculous thing I have ever purchased -- a foot long upholstery needle, ha ha. But it made shaping the segments a lot easier, and it also meant I got to wave the pumpkin at my youngest and say, 'I wash myself with a pumpkin on a stick'. Not that she got 'The Simpsons' reference, but still. :D

Today is more pumpkin, LotRO, and as said -- hopefully not moving anymore. I still haven't gotten around to taking pain meds for my severe, but not as bad as yesterday headache. I'm so far mainly fending it off with Vaporub.

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Nothing fancy on the books today. I finished the pumpkin and got it packed up to ship out on Monday (probably). I've started on one for me now. Got a few lil chores to do, but mainly it's gonna be continuing on my delightful Hobbit-y bs, ha ha.

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Today was Meeting-at-Home day. Which is to say, the other director of the family business came around to chat and do work things. We've hit an opportunity to rebrand and lose the godawful signage we inherited with the original merger, so spouse managed to whip up something simple and clean. So we'll see what the staff think and roll it out.

Yesterday we got kiddo to the hospital in time to get the x-ray of their mouth done. I suggested spouse do a site visit to avoid parking fees, and took kiddo into the hospital solo. It was a straightforward walk-in situation, and we left with a less stressed kid and a CD (they still exist xD) to drop off at the dentist.

Nothing fancy today now. Work is done, so game-and-yarn stuff. Pumpkin is progressing. I think I'm almost to the point I want to decrease, so. Party.

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Vivi was such a good boy today. He usually hides if a stranger is over, but today he was out and semi-social. I told him several times how proud I was of him.

(I'd also joked that another Virginia also from Texas might be within his comfort range. Maybe so, ha ha.)

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Oh yes, #caturday

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In good spirits this afternoon. Getting that stuff sorted for my kiddo was awesome. Of course, wish I could have done it for them sooner, but... being a parent doesn't override disabled. We're still doing our best, but it's on hard mode.

My spouse and I aren't particularly romantic or sentimental people -- our flavour is more pragmatic than not. That doesn't mean I'm not immune to sentiment, and got bit by a lil bit of it earlier. Oh no, being reminded that I'm still madly in love with my spouse of 18 years, the horrors. xD I've said before, I was spouse shopping from high school on, so when the right person presented himself, I snatched him up. He himself is equally pleased with our arrangement, ha ha.

*claps hands* Right. Back to game-and-yarn.

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Work is done for the day, probably. But alas, I cannot get back on my Hobbit-y BS because the servers are now down for 12 hours. Rude? Rude. So now I've got to figure out what I want to play in the interim. I've got 'The Settlers' (1994 gold <3) up, but like... do I want to poke at 'Minecraft'? 'The Sims'? I'll figure something out... gonna be knitting too, of course, but I still need to pair it with something. xD

*blocks a devil's advocate style twat on discord and sighs in relief* I finally added BetterDiscord so I could avoid seeing the 'blocked message' note, because ffs what is that stupid shite.

Um, yes, so. Knitting! Almost ready to add on the third ball. The first side is up to 20 inches, so 2/3 of the way there before I start decreasing. Which will also give me a clearer idea of how far I overshot on yarn required.

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