Holmes Minor

We're apparently supposed to get rain this weekend. On the one hand, we need it. On the other hand, I have stuff I want to go out and do. But maybe this is a sign to stay home and do my indoor tasks, lol. Not like I don't have plenty that needs done.

Wip Wednesday! I got prompted "regal" last week and I got one hit off of it buuut it was from a section that I've wip-clipped before. So! Something new it is again. Since it's a direct continuation of a previous excerpt, I went ahead and included that for context:

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I'm so tired of having to move Christmas gifts out of my way. My brother and sister-in-law both-- when I can actually reach them-- keep saying we'll figure out a time to get together and then go silent. I might just try to catch my other brother when he's not busy on a weekend and just drop the stuff off on their doorstep, Idk. I'd rather not since I like watching the kids open gifts but this is ridiculous. I know they're got their own stuff going on but they could at least quit blowing me off :/

I really hate the way fandom does polyamory. "So-and-so has two hands," yeah, most people have two hands. The number of hands a person has doesn't correlate to how equipped they are for a polyamorous relationship.

There are exceptions, obviously, but so much of it feels less like a real interest in character dynamics and more an excuse to not have characters make grown-up decisions. Just a rejection of any amount of inconvenience or discomfort or challenge. It's toothless.

And it's almost always a throuple or sometimes quad situation. There are honestly so many more ships I could see in V or parallel relationships vs closed circuits. For that matter, there are so many ways to do a closed circuit that would better suit different ships but no one told fandom at large.

Idk, it just comes off so often as shallow and childish and like a token effort to be ~progressive.

I've more or less accepted at this point that progress on my room is gonna be slow. I had let it get to be kind of a mess and I made a bigger mess-- albeit a more organized one-- when I moved everything. Unless I want to just bring the mess back in, I need to take care of little things as I go. Aaand I've realized the bulk of what I have going on is just a bunch of little things in a trench coat. Not much I can put into a donation pile, unfortunately. I may need to get a miscellaneous pile going and then reorganize my closet again.

Anyway, my hooks are still scattered but I got a lot of my yarn tidied up and put away. Also did some more weaving in ends on those granny squares I did a few years ago. Yeah, I'm still not done with those. Aside from how many loose ends there are and how bad I was at leaving long enough tails back then, I genuinely just hate touching a lot of them. I've gone and let my hands get soft on good quality yarns, lol. It's a good thing I decided to make them a curtain, lemme tell ya, because I could not stand them now as a blanket, let alone a garment. My officemate has just started learning to crochet and my oldest niece is interested, too, so I might try to foist some of my cheap scraps off on them. (Side note, I've just realized I lost a needle somewhere on my bed. At least, I think it's on my bed. That might actually be the best case scenario here since I'd t least know where-ish it is.)

The books need to be sorted, which is something I'm not prepared to sit down and do yet. They needed to be off the floor, too, though, so I just stacked them haphazardly on my bookcase. I always enjoy organizing my books on the shelves, so I'm looking forward to getting to that once I've weeded out whatever I'm not keeping.

Lots of recycling, especially paper recycling, got broken down, which did a lot to neaten the place up even though it didn't contribute much to putting the room back together. I'm hoping I can manage a trip to the recycling center sometime this week.

My main concern is with the bigger stuff that I'm not keeping but that still needs to be kept somewhere until I get rid of it. That'll be my bins of mostly-Transformers stuff and Travi's old tank, for the most part. I've also been sitting on two big boxes full of styrofoam to be sent off for recycling but the shipping prices had me procrastinating and now it looks like that company maybe doesn't take shipments anymore? I need to look more into that. Speaking of, kinda, I have a bunch of boxes set aside for shipping and potentially gift-giving and I'm starting to feel like they're more trouble than they're worth. I don't ship that much stuff and most things I'd want to gift come in boxes anyway. I'll see if I can make space for them under my bed, otherwise it's time to consider whether most of them should be coming with me to recycling.

It's hard to know what to prioritize, what with all the disarray. The clockwise method helps with that but then I still run into issues when I can't do anything more with certain things until certain other things are dealt with first. But those things aren't always straightforward either. I'm not giving into frustration but this whole thing taking so much longer than it looked at a glance like it would is a hard pill to swallow, ngl. Still. I can look around and see the progress I've made and I'm pleased with that. And I know I'll be even more pleased when I finish.

I ended up getting to work about an hour later than expected because my niece's school thing ran over and traffic was weird. It was alright, though. We didn't have much left over, so my office mate had no trouble getting it finished before the first drop. Said first drop wasn't too bad either but there was still plenty to do by the time I got there. We ended up having to leave a few trays from the second drop until Monday, which isn't great but would've happened regardless due to when we got those cases.

All in all, not a bad day. The kids had slept well and so were pretty well-behaved for me. We played, we ate, I let them watch a couple episodes of a cartoon and they each did a sticker picture. The four-year-old did fall off my bed at one point and there was some rather pointed disobedience of my instruction to not touch each other but other than that, it was smooth sailing.

There were a few highlights. First of all, I'm not sure the four-year-old quite understands what a tornado is. One of the first games they played involved my Optimus and Megatron plushes working together to save the day from one. How, you may ask? Megatron distracted it while Optimus sneaked up and defeated it from behind. Yeah, Idk. Second, when I let the kids know that lunch would be arriving soon, she told me that she was really glad because she was "hungrier than [I could] imagine." Or any of her siblings could imagine. Or her mom or dad. She was awfully rambunctious for a kid that hungry, imo, but maybe that's the limit of my imagination talking. Lastly, while working on his sticker picture, the two-year-old too to exclaiming, "Oh, dear!" whenever even slightly inconvenienced. Idk if I missed the one of the cartoon characters saying it or where else he might've gotten it from but it was both cute and confusing to listen to the constant, "Oh, dear! My sticker!" "Oh, dear! My paper!" "Oh, dear! The eyeball!"

My sister's oldest has a luncheon at school tomorrow and parents have been asked to not bring younger siblings along. She couldn't find anyone else to look after the littles, so I got the go-ahead to be a couple hours late for work. Not the best timing since this is the end of the pay period and I won't be able to make up those hours but I'm fortunate enough to not be counting on those hours' pay.

I'm hoping I can set them to playing and I can take some time to continue working on my reorganization. If not, well, it's not like I'd have been able to use that time for that task on a normal day anyhow.