Saturday~

Nov. 30th, 2025 03:56 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: Gwendal, facepalming. (Gwendal - facepalm)

Fairly quiet day today, too - didn't do any moving of stuff. DID go for a walk with Mama, and also fixed my domain problem, so all my homeserver things are working again, phew!

That's about all, though. Which was nice. Though Sushi DID do a dumb again... but is late so just have the chatlog, yes.

[01:37] Tyger: Want to hear today's Sushi Idiocy story?
[01:38] Azremodehar: oh no what did him do
[01:38] Tyger: He decided to walk along the curtain rail
[01:38] Tyger: Which went okay. Until he got to the end and realised the bookshelf he'd usually step onto is... not there right now.
[01:39] Tyger: So he had to go backwards
[01:39] Azremodehar: oh no
[01:39] Tyger: He managed like three quarters of the way until he lost his balance! And he didn't fall the whole way, he clung on with his front paws. So I was able to boost him up and he made if off just fine. [01:40] Tyger: But seriously, cat, REALLY??
[01:40] Azremodehar: him ver adventursome
[01:40] Tyger: His cone was scraping across the wall the entire time I do not know why that wasn't enough to make him realise Maybe Not Right Now
[01:40] Azremodehar: :facepalmtachi:

Recharge day

Nov. 29th, 2025 03:57 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: Eraqus' Avatar Kingdom chibi. Text: Eraqus (Master Eraqus - chibi)

Yeah I uh. I slept a LOT of today. I really needed it, not gonna lie.

Sushi is doing much better! He's figured out how to eat AND sleep in his cone, phew!!! And hasn't got out of it again, double phew!

I mainly just read stuff and played some games, when I was awake. Chill day, yes. Required. (Tomorrow I'm going to have to figure out what the fuck is up with my webserver stuff, because it's still not back up, which is going to be. Annoying. Because shit always is. Siiiiigh.)

I did forget that I moved another chest of drawers yesterday! So that's a thing. We haven't heard from the window people though, so it won't be starting on Monday. Hopefully they'll give us SOME notice? And double hopefully it'll be soon? It's very inconvenient to live like this.

Sushi Half-Tail

Nov. 28th, 2025 01:09 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: Xaldin's Avatar Kingdom chibi. Text: Xaldin (Xaldin - chibi)

Yeah, Sushi did have to get part of his tail amputated. :(

Got a bit long. )

Other than that I did pmuch nothing today. Brain all gone. Barely even napped, despite having a terrible night's sleep due to worried. Bleh. Brain, getting all worked up like this doesn't! Actually! Stop me worrying! As well as, you know, not helping the situation at all to be overtired. SIGH.

Anyway, now is for sleeping again, so hopefully I'll sleep better today...

How Are You? (in Haiku)

Nov. 27th, 2025 06:32 am[personal profile] jjhunter
jjhunter: Watercolor sketch of self-satisfied corvid winking with flaming phoenix feather in its beak (corvid with phoenix feather)
Pick a thing or two that sums up how you're doing today, this week, in general, and tell me about it in the 5-7-5 syllables of a haiku.

=

Signal-boosting much appreciated!
tyger: Personalised image-manip of a Rogue of Light.  (Homestuck) (Rogue of Light)

So APPARENTLY I let my domain registration lapse, whoops. Luckily, there's a grace period so I could still reregister it. Unluckily, it did mean it was more expensive. (Also I need to wait 24-48 hours for the DNS to re-propagate, uuuugh.) Very annoying, but not an unreasonable punishment for not having my shit together. :/

This is, honestly, a major problem with email in general for me, because I just did not check and see the reminders. Jobhunting makes it worse, because you get so goddamn many acknowledgement emails that mean absolutely nothing that having unread mail isn't even a vague concern. Which is bad. Need to find a way to manage it better, but haven't had the brain to do it thus far. If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it.

Moved my drawers yesterday, and some more of the display cabinet stuff. Plus some random shit to fill up the box it was in. Only one more dragon to go, and the rest is stuffed eevees, so that's not too bad!

Sushi's xray is at Before Goddamn Breakfast Time tomorrow morning, so I'm uh. Super nervous about that and also I should have been in bed at least attempting to sleep a while ago. Gotta get up early enough that a few months ago it still woulda been dark out, uuuugh. Also fuuuuck, Sushiiii ;; He's still fine in himself but I am. A fret. Yes.

Tuesday.

Nov. 26th, 2025 02:38 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: Lea handing Isa a sea-salt ice cream. (Lea and Isa)

Nothing huge today, which honestly was kind of nice.

Did some washing! Moved at least two thirds of the stuff in the display cabinet - need to find some more boxes for the last of it; most of the ones we have aren't quite tall enough to fit the bigger dragons. Still, most of them are done now, so that's something! The shells are also going to be annoying, but I already tipped over the bigger dish by accident when trying to get something else out, so I can just put them in a small box or something, will have to rearrange them all anyway.

Tomorrow will probably be my desk drawers, which are... very full. I REALLY need to rearrange the top two, and go through the bottom one looking for shit I can throw out. (Also file more things. It's my filing cabinet drawer, but it's unfortunately in a difficult position to get at most of the time, since the bin lives in front of it, as well as often the heater. I don't really have a lot of stuff I need to file, though, so it's really fine for my use case. I just get lazy, so I've got a small stack of medical receipts and tax stuff to file.)

Sushi is more or less fine in himself, though the wound is uh. Not looking any better. But his biggest complaint is that he is not allowed outside at all, not even into the run, and how! dare!!! Sigh. Anyway as it turns out it's good I couldn't make the appointment for tomorrow, because my father has one of his cancer check-up scans and that might've gotten awkward scheduling-wise. And, you know, Sushi isn't suffering, so...

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

Nov. 25th, 2025 02:56 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: A small ginger cat in a wicker bag (Sushi - bag)

So, Sushi's probably going to have to get half his tail amputated.

Details )

I am upset about this! Also kicking myself, because maybe I should've called the vet as soon as I noticed the wound or something?? But I'll try and wait to hear what the root cause is before going down that spiral.

Part of my problem is also that I haven't fucking eaten properly today, like a moron. I mean, I'd be upset anyway of course, but the level of volatility in my upset is not usual for me, so yeah I'm pretty sure it's the food thing. (I accidentally about 14 hours without a meal. Which included all of the furniture moving I did, and also it was very humid.) Ate a bowl full of green beans when I realised at like. 1am. But that's still A Little Fucking Long, and I doubt it was enough. Didn't want to eat too much at that time of night either, though... (Or cook. Cooking also not a good idea after midnight.)

However, for good things about today... I survived driving to and from the vet! It wasn't as bad as I feared; turns out a lot of the parts of driving I've kept some muscle memory for. I mean. I'm still not a good driver, and I was definitely worse than I have been, but it wasn't too horrible.

I also got myself a bahn mi while I was out to reward myself for Doing A Scary Thing, and it was pretty good! Not the best bahn mi around, but the best I could get near the vet's!

And in moving news, I moved both of my under-desk chests of drawers. Ramble )

And now I go to bed. Hopefully tomorrow will be better! I should make egg-pea-mushroom-tuna noodles for lunch, that's a good solid meal...

spiralsheep: Sheep wearing an eyepatch (Default)
While I was admiring the Habsburg women's hats a while back I noticed Elisabeth of Guelders, with her haute hat couture, and that she was described as an abbess. Long time readers might remember that I'm interested in the European "princess-abbesses" who held their religious offices heading various monastic institutions simultaneously with their secular lives and titles. AFAIK this Elisabeth with the good hat wasn't that sort of abbess, although wikipedia might know more than me, but plenty of her posh relatives were.

When you imagine a portrait of an abbess you might think of somebody like this lady, who wikipedia claims was an abbess from 1796 to 1808 (warning for skull as memento mori): Mother Abbess Kunigunde Schilling von Hintschingen.

You probably aren't thinking of Maria Elisabeth of Austria in this 1781 portrait specifically of her as a princess-abbess with crozier.

And you might not expect an abbess to have her official portrait for her religious office painted featuring an enslaved boy.

Here's another later official abbessly portrait with an enslaved (or ex-enslaved) man.

But all this must've stopped a long time ago and definitely wasn't still a thing in 1918, no? No.
Princess Abbess, 1918.

And I'm sure an abbess wouldn't find herself at a high society horse racing event.

In conclusion: Princess-abbess was a thing until surprisingly recently.... something something.... IDEK.

Note: (ex-)enslaved men, often used as subjects of social experiments, were also occasionally held in these courts as servants e.g. Mmadi Make / Angelo Soliman and Couchi / Gustav Badin. How "free" they actually were legally or in daily life is open to many unanswerable historical questions. And in a different court with differing customs Abram Petrovich Gannibal was the Ethiopian/Eritrean Russian ancestor of the current Duke of Westminster. And then there's Zamor whose evidence against his "owner" helped make the case for her legal execution.

Uuuuugh nerves are stupid

Nov. 24th, 2025 03:07 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: Izumi hugging Ed and Al (Izumi - hugs)

So vet again for Sushi tomorrow! This is fine. I am fine with that. I am not fine with the fact that my parents are away, and thus I need. To drive. The car. To get him there. :( :( :( I think I've successfully avoided driving at all since like. 2016? 2015 maybe? Maybe not an entire decade but A LONG ASS TIME, and even that last time was literally just driving the car back from the airport, which is. Not a lot of driving, comparatively.

So yeah, that's gonna. Be a thing. :| Also it's at 11am which is not THAT early really but I should uh. Really be in bed so I have a chance of being Alert for non-adrenaline reasons. Yes. >>;;

Other than that, have now moved most of the big stuff on my desk, other than the electronics. (There are. Um. Four computers on here. So there's still quite a bit of stuff. And a couple of piles of little things, which will take a while to sort through... which is why I haven't done it yet.) Also moved my little shelf, and started emptying out the desk cupboard! Mostly the stationary, but also some other random stuff. Still more in there, but it's a start!

Anyway now I am stopping procrastinating, going to bed, and hoping I don't have another nightmare, bleh. My brain was a BASTARD last night...

Moved some drawers!

Nov. 23rd, 2025 03:54 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: Axel sprite with a :/-face.  Text: you have GOT to be fucking shitting me (Axel - you're shitting me)

Moved the storage drawers I have at the back of my desk today! Moving rambles )

Other than that, played some solo Terraria. Terraria rambles )

Anyway somehow it's now 4:30 so I'm just gonna. Uh. Go the fuck to bed, you moron. Yes. That.

Day Off

Nov. 22nd, 2025 03:53 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: Entei, Suicine, and Raioku sprites (pokémon - legendary beasts)

Today I just... did not do any moving. Probably shoulda, but ehhh. I DID go to the shop and get meds, and played Terraria both with people and by myself, which is... something? Probably no multiplayer Terraria for a few days though, the host has houseguests. Including at least one of the other players, though maybe two? Not sure. Anyway, should be fun for them!

Other than that, uh. Not much. I napped a LOT today, not entirely on purpose. And now I'm up late because fiiiic, sigh. Self, just. Stoppit. But bed now yes! >:

Moving Shit: Commenced!!!

Nov. 21st, 2025 04:55 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: Mickey in his OXIII coat.  Text: Light in Darkness (Mickey - Light In Darkness)

Okay so technically I started yesterday, but it really FEELS like I started today, because I moved out the tea trolley I used as a work desk AND the bookshelf, so there's a biiiig gap where are whole lot of stuff now isn't.

It is, of course, the easiest of the furniture to move, but still! It's moved!!! And I can use the bookshelf for storage of stuff from my desk, which is also very important! :3

Other than that, A was in the area, so she dropped in for a couple of hours, so that was super fun! :D She was very impressed with the blanket, too, which given she's a MUCH bigger sewer than Mama or I are, is nice. :D And she said that the one time she did some quilting doing it by machine didn't actually take much less time than handsewing would've, which is uh. Slightly terrifying - h o w - but also nice to know I didn't waste a lot of time, really. (Thought I'd have the brain to post pictures today, but alas, moving shit ate it all.)

Played some Terraria, but the (extremely long) fic I was rereading got up to The Grand Finale and I got a little transfixed, thus... still awake. Yeah. >>;; But bed now!

Blanket is done!

Nov. 20th, 2025 03:14 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: Isaac and Miria, grinning. (Isaac and Miria -  ...na :D?)

Finished off the blanket edging today, as planned! :D So it's done for now - I do still want to put the scale lines in, but uh now is not a good time. I mentioned the window thing, right? Yeah. Really gotta get shit moved ASAP.

Moving stuff progress. )

Other than that, I also mucked out the chook coop, and the cat boxes, and went for a walk with Mama. That is a LOT of things for one me!

Sushi is definitely feeling better, today. And, I'm not sure how the fuck he hid it for FIVE FUCKING DAYS, but today I noticed he has a raw spot on his tail - it's pretty big, like 2-3cm long and ~1cm wide in the middle! So no fucking WONDER he's been keeping his tail down and close! I am less concerned about him having pulled a muscle or something, honestly, though also. Ow. Poor baby...

Anyway he's whining at mealtimes again, and used my shoulder as a springboard to get up into my bed this evening, so he's a lot more like himself! (Even with the annoying things, alas...)

No multiplayer Terraria today, I was too busy, but I did play a bit in my solo world. Found shimmer! Shit is freaky, ngl, you just drop right through. Still, a cool thing!!! :D

Sleep nao plz

Nov. 19th, 2025 02:59 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: Aqua, from the BbS opening cutscene (Aqua - >|)

I am very tired, and have been all day. I expect not going to bed until very late last night had something to do with it. I had an accidental midday nap, too, so... yeah.

But! Blanket is almost done! I just need to do a zig-zag around the edge where the border finishes, that's all! Would have done it tonight but my father had gone to bed and the sewing machine is in the room next to his bedroom, so... He could probably sleep through it, but I'd rather not disturb him. AND if it suddenly gets hot tomorrow I can still use the blanket, it's in a perfectly useable state now yay! :D

Other than that, played some Terraria with people again, which was fun! :D And a bit more on my own after I worked on the blanket.

Sushi is walking a lot better today, so I'm hoping that's because he's actually healing as much as the painkillers. Given he was still walking oddly yesterday, I have high hopes! His tail is still drooping, but the base of it is a lot more expressive, so hopefully that's just the swelling...

Also wow what is the cloudflare bullshit, bleh. As someone on one of the discord servers I'm on said, "Boy howdy, do I love having 90% of the internet run through about 3 different companies." :/

Sushi is okay!!!

Nov. 18th, 2025 04:11 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: A small ginger cat in a wicker bag (Sushi - bag)

Vet day today!

We ended up having to go to the further away vet anyway; we went to our usual but the vet there was all '...we don't have an xray machine here and it might just be swelling but I'd really like to make sure he doesn't have any broken bones in his tail', so yeah. We went and did that.

It turns out it IS just swelling! Which is a relief and a half! They gave him a painkiller injection (which should last ~3 days, which is really! Impressive!!), and I've got some more anti-inflammatory painkillers for when that wears off. Plus poop medication, because while they thankfully didn't find any broken bones on the xray they did find he was full of poop. Probably because moving his tail was so painful! But medication just in case, too.

Anyway, despite All Of That, and also having to be sedated for the xray, more or less the first thing Sushi did when we got home (perked up a LOT from the painkiller) was start sniffing at the back door, trying to figure out if he could get it open and go Outside. SIGH. He has clearly not learned a single thing!

But hey, at least he'll be fine! Eventually! And he's feeling better, too, which is great.

Other than that, played a bunch of Terraria both with people and by myself, and then I got distracted and... yeah. But, you know, stuff and things and more stuff and more things and whatever. Yes. Bed time.

Terraria Day

Nov. 17th, 2025 03:29 am[personal profile] tyger
tyger: Yuuko, burning a feather.  Coloured manga scan. (Yuuko - fire)

Sushi is about the same today as he was yesterday. Which is something. But it's also not great. :( Definitely vet tomorrow, yes.

I pretty much just played Terraria today. Which on the one hand is good because I had a very large time doing a social thing, but also. It was A Lot. And then I played more solo after everyone else went to bed, to try and catch my character up a bit. Probably not a great idea, actually, brain is very fried.

Still, good to do a social thing! Also it distracted me from being worried about Sushi. ALSO also I've been working on the blanket long enough I was probably due a day doing nothing, but uh I don't think it's been relaxing, what with all the background worry-stress... :/

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