Another Rest Day
Nov. 23rd, 2025 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
days_unfoldingGot my grocery order. Had lunch. I’m going to take another nap. Slept for four hours. I’m IBSing. Stomach cramps. Finally stable after three hasty trips to the bathroom. Ordered some new winter pajamas because mine are falling apart.
I found some nice dining chairs from Costway, but I’m not familiar with their company. They get decent reviews.
I need to get to bed early because the fence people will be here early. I’d like to be dressed before they get here. I need to take the dogs out (done) and take my meds first.
Hello! I'm Diana. :)
Nov. 23rd, 2025 03:49 pmwavyhaired posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
addmeAge: 40
I mostly post about: trying to build a gentler life, small daily victories and struggles, mental health, and job-hunting reflections
My hobbies are: walking in quiet neighborhoods, beginner yoga, journaling, solo dining adventures, reading nonfiction, and classical guitar.
I'm looking to meet people who: are kind, nonjudgmental, gentle, and thoughtful. People who understand being in transition and trying to build a life that feels more like their own.
My posting schedule tends to be: more or less daily.
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: cruelty, judgment, political hostility, and unsolicited advice.
Before adding me, you should know: I live with bipolar disorder and write openly about managing it while working full-time. I would love to meet other neurodivergent folks.
vital functions
Nov. 23rd, 2025 10:27 pmkaberettReading. ... I think, like, a page or two of Descartes (Treatise on Man), and that's it?
OH. NO. I also finished my first pass through indexing The National Trust Cookbook for EYB. That's right. That's a thing I did.
Watching. Three Whole Entire Episodes of Beddybyes, halfway through the third of which the toddler (who felt it was Very Important that we saw it) pretty much fell asleep where it was sat.
Playing. RIDICULOUS Inkulinati run for Preposterous Amounts Of Prestige.
Cooking. Medlar jelly (plain, spiced). Quince sorbet. Several bread. A batch of buttermilk pancakes. Some terrible First, Burn Your Lettuce, thereby ticking another item off the current Cook The Book project. Buttermilk pancakes.
Eating. One of the CHILLIS from the CHILLI PLANTS we brought HOME from the GREENHOUSE just after first frost (but they were fine); also A turned the small pile of peppers that broke off the sweet pepper I brought home on a bike, still green, into akuri this morning.
Exploring. Important sploshy stomp through the puddles of Barking Park. I... think that's it?
Growing. I have NOT sown any physalis or lemongrass in the electric propagator, to get them hopefully Established by the time I need it for Other Things in the new year. This is a deliberate decision. They can go in next week.
... and now it's very definitely time for bed, goodnight world. <3
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Nov. 23rd, 2025 10:25 amthedumbopt_imist posting in addme
Age: 16
I mostly post about: my dreams and random things that happened in my day, I may post pics from my Flickr at some point
My hobbies are: making music n playing guitar
My fandoms are: none 😭 I like music theory n rock tho
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My posting schedule tends to be: sporadic
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Before adding me, you should know: I'm a closeted t girl (irl)
Check-In Post - Nov 23rd 2025
Nov. 23rd, 2025 06:31 pmbadly_knitted posting in get_knittedHello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.
Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?
There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.
This Week's Question (courtesy of
ysabetwordsmith): When learning a new art or craft, do you prefer level-grinding the basics, skipping ahead to the cool techniques, or a mix of both?If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.
I now declare this Check-In OPEN!
This is a real place [geog, surrealism]
Nov. 23rd, 2025 05:16 amsiderea2025 Oct 28: PBS Terra [pbsterra on YT]: It Looks Like a Desert. But It Has Thousands of Lakes
When I heard in the video how big it was, I turned on satellite view in Google Maps and popped "Lençóis Maranhenses" into the search bar:
( Image below cut. Content advisory: trypophobes avoid )
Well, this is a new solution to the sandwich conundrum...
Nov. 24th, 2025 02:51 amconuly(Taken from the comments here.)
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Rest Day
Nov. 23rd, 2025 12:45 amdays_unfoldingWoke up at 8:30 AM. Fed us all. Napped. Slept until 3:30 PM. I hope that helps my cold.
I think that this is going to be rest day.
My singing teacher sent me a message that she could make up my lesson on Tuesday or Wednesday. Tuesday would work for me, but will my cold be better? I’m not coughing as much today.
It’s getting dark already (4:30 PM). Ugh.
Had lunch. Gracie is trolling for food.
I think that I’m going to take some cold meds and go back to sleep. Hmm, I should feed the critters first. No, I’m going to nap first. It’s still a little early. Slept until almost 10 PM. Fed us all.
Sometime this weekend, I need to dig out my gym clothes so that I can start strengthening my knee. I also need to get the security cameras together so that they can be installed.
I wonder if I should get the cats a cat wheel for Christmas? They would get more exercise.
Gracie spit out her pill twice in a hot dog. I tried putting it in a glob of cream cheese, and that worked.
Took Emergen-C, NyQuil, and my nighttime meds. Ordered cold medicine and food for delivery from Walmart. Now it's bedtime again.
Dione and Rhea Ring Transit
Nov. 23rd, 2025 06:23 am![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
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Seen to the left of Saturn's banded planetary disk, small icy moons
I had the most amazing idea the other night
Nov. 19th, 2025 03:09 pmconuly(It turns out I'm not the only person with this idea, which just shows how brilliant it is!)
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Another attempt at plumbing.
Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:13 pmranunculusAlso went to Farmer's Market for lettuce, bread and beef.
Got ground up coconut coir to bed the dahlias down in for the winter. Next spring it will be a nice addition to the vegetable beds.
There are fava beans soaking. Tomorrow we have to plant them. Will be my first winter cover crop.
So...
Nov. 22nd, 2025 11:40 pmconulyJust Create - CHUNKY edition
Nov. 22nd, 2025 04:13 pmsilvercat17 posting in justcreateI'm going to promote my blog post on the Ultimate Text Readability Trick because I had a friend need it today. The secret is CHUNKY OUTLINES (Instructions are text and screenshots, with alt text)
Between dog and wulf
Nov. 22nd, 2025 11:22 pmcosmolinguistWhat a busy day!
I got up for trans gym this morning, which should be normal for a Saturday but I missed it last week thanks to trainfail, and I didn't make it to the gym at all this week and my mental health suffered accordingly. So it was really nice to be back even if everything felt difficult!
Sadly D wasn't feeling well enough to do gym, but he was feeling well enough to give me a lift to and from and do some shopping for treats from the grocery store in between, which was welcome. It also meant we got a tinfoil-wrapped packet of our friend I's homemade pancakes, still warm when he handed them to D, which was really lovely.
Then this afternoon we had a doggy date! Thanks to Borrow My Doggy, a neighbor found us, said she thought she recognized us from the photos I put on the website, and indeed she was right. She and her husband are retired and dealing with various health issues that mean they need help walking their sweet adorable poodle/Irish setter cross, Teddy. He immediately loved V and I (again D was not feeling up to joining us, he needed a nap), demanded pets from us both and fell asleep pressed up against V while we talked with his humans. We all got along and it seems like we can help each other which is lovely.
Soon after V and I got home, angelofthenorth's friend came over, who soon said "I feel like I've found my people, even though I've never met you two before!" V was delighted at this of course, and I know it's something they and D have always aspired to.
We had a great conversation until D and I had to leave to go see Beowulf at Park in the Past. It was really fun to get to enjoy Beowulf in something approaching its original setting: In a dirt floored, wood-beamed, wool-thatched hut, listening to a bard recite it from memory and in between "acts" some talented musicians play a variety of folk music. We drank mead and D got to eat a wild boar burger. We snuggled up to stay warm and to enjoy each other's company. It was a great evening. Great day.
I have processed the fruit
Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:30 pmkaberettThere was less of it usable than if it hadn't been sitting in my living room for a fortnight, but there is one dehydrator load of apples drying, and one saucepan of Apfelmus cooling, and... I think the latter is probably going to get frozen (at least in the first instance) because I am not at all convinced I have water-bathing a couple of jars in me right now. That might be a December problem.
But. The pulp leftover from the medlar jelly is frozen in Future Sticky Toffee Pudding-sized portions. The quince sorbet is in the freezer in its tub. And the apples are As Above. I am very very glad to have got that all dealt with, but alas have no other thoughts to contribute. <3
Check-In Post - Nov 22nd 2025
Nov. 22nd, 2025 08:13 pmbadly_knitted posting in get_knittedHello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.
Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?
There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.
This Week's Question (courtesy of
ysabetwordsmith): When learning a new art or craft, do you prefer level-grinding the basics, skipping ahead to the cool techniques, or a mix of both?If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.
I now declare this Check-In OPEN!