I have been having a very strange week, squiders. Also a very stressful week. Something that is not easy in general is proving to be harder than anticipated, which helps nothing.
BUT. I do have a new refrigerator as of yesterday. And it came two weeks earlier than expected. (Our last one started leaking for no foreseeable reason about…a month ago? Six weeks ago? It took us three days to get it to stop AFTER we’d turned the water off to it. And we discovered it was leaking because there was water in the basement. Hopefully it had not been there for very long.)
Shopping for refrigerators was also very stressful because there are fifteen million different refrigerators and something wrong with all of them. Our old one was 21 years old and with all the new ones it seems like maybe you get 10 years out of them. Oh, and it was $3000. On sale.
(So it must have been a month, because now I remember we bought it for a 4th of July sale.)
(I mean, if a major appliance is going to die, during a sale is conceivably the best possible time.)
Anyway, so the refrigerator crisis is over, for now, and we just have the current crisis, which I am not going to talk about because we’re smack dab in the middle of it, but hopefully it will be resolved by the end of the day tomorrow, and then I can worry about other things, like the backpacking trip my spouse wants us all to go on this weekend. (My camp sleeping pad is not holding air and I do not know if I have the spoons to look for leaks in the next 48 hours.)
(I’m trying to get it downgraded to, like, eight mile hike.)
My laptop messed up an update Monday morning and proceeded to dig itself further into the FUBAR hole with each step I took to fix it (“oh, do you want to roll back the update? well, that didn’t work, would you like to restore to a backup? That worked–just kidding, it didn’t.”), so now I think we are at the point where I have to wipe it and reinstall everything. (Trying to just reinstall Windows has failed multiple times.) I’ve hijacked my spouse’s for the near future, but it did eat my whole Monday, and of course I had such plans to be productive.
So, on the writing front, well. I’ve done my critiques for the critique marathon. I had started actually going through my story ideas for outlining purposes, but now I’ve lost my place and I’m going to have to start over. Also, while I can get into my OneDrive here, my Google Drive refuses to install which means I have to run everything through the browser, which I hate.
Trying to give myself grace. It’s been an upheavily last week, and my stress levels have been awful, and maybe we’re just not going to get any writing done. And that’s just got to be okay.
Reading is happening but some of it has not been books (I read a volume of manga, and am most of the way through a graphic novel that I maybe have already read once? Some of it seems familiar. I am going through the older things on my Amazon wishlist because they’ve been there forever and just consuming them at this point), though I am in the middle of three books, and I could conceivably finish them in the next week. Maybe.
Gaming is NOT happening because Steam got eaten with the rest of the laptop. I did buy myself some new games for when it is fixed because I feel like I deserve a treat. The only thing I’m really worried about is House Flipper, but I think my progress there is saved on the Cloud (fingers crossed).
I finished my New Mexico sketchbook earlier in the month but have not gone back to it since then.
Anyway, squiders, it’s been madness. I hope you’re faring better in your endeavors!
