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Saturday:
- Went to a yoga class in the morning
- Went for a walk in the afternoon
- Went to Tim Hortons; it was kind of a zoo because they have their Smile Cookie promotion going on. Somehow I did not expect this. It was an experience much like Superstore on a Sunday afternoon and I kind of felt my soul leave my body.
- Took some books to the Little Library; didn't pick up any more while there, much to my relief
- Cooked some carrot and red lentil soup
- Finished reading Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. It was very good!! I've seen the film adaptation previously, but it's been a while plus the film is a very different setting, so it was fun to experience it almost-new.

Sunday:
- Cleaned my apartment
- Worked on my FTH fic with a friend
- Went to the Pride craft 'n chat. I was not the only person who showed up this time (hooray).
- Finished a watercolour painting while there, started another one also
- Picked up some books at the library that will theoretically help with my fic set in Berlin. Or possibly I will just end up plotting out a trip to Berlin and then not going there. (Similar has happened with other cities on other occasions, after all)
- Watched The Hit (1984). It's like, a combination of crime thriller and road trip movie? Kind of weird, but I liked it.
- Finally purchased a fucking computer, ugh and ew. I'm not remotely enthusiastic about this but it had to be done. As for the one that died, I do have a goal of replacing the drive and throwing Linux at it, but that will require research as I've never replaced a hard drive before and frankly right now I don't have the time or energy.

+ The weather recently has been kind of awful. We had a ton of snow dumped on us on Friday and Saturday; a lot of people were stranded out on Highway 63, with blizzard conditions. The highway had to be shut down and everything. For those not familiar with my area, this is the long highway on the 5-hour drive between Edmonton and Fort McMurray. There is a 200-km stretch without any services at all, nothing but wilderness. So it's a pretty bad place to be stuck. ...Anyway, the weather in town has been fine, but the overall vibe has been kind of intense. Also, I think maybe people are on-edge because the 10-year anniversary of the Beast is coming up.

+ Went to a yoga class on Saturday; this was one in collaboration with the local Pride group. It's the second event I've gone to in two weeks where I was the only participant who showed up. On the one hand, by basically having a private class I can target my own goals. On the other, well... part of the reason I even go to pride stuff is so I can make an attempt at interacting with people socially. So, very mixed feelings. Hopefully once it gets warmer more people will be in the mood to go to things.

+ I've been working on my FTH fic and having a really good time with it. LT/Pru is very far outside my wheelhouse, and I kind of wonder what the recipient will actually think of this one... But I just keep telling myself that they were aware going in that I don't normally write these characters, so. I guess we'll both have to accept that I'll do my best and that'll be that. I've been using my fountain pen to write it and ngl that is great motivation to work on it. Yay purple ink.

+ Speaking of which I've decided to keep track of how many times I fill my Jinhao with the Iroshizuku ink. I've marked down the purchase date too. Basically what I want to do is figure out how long it'll take me to go through the 50ml bottle through normal use. I mean, on the one hand I do like the idea of trying a bunch of different inks, but on the other hand it's a pretty big bottle and it doesn't seem like it would be practical to have other inks if it takes forever to go through them. As for the Kaweco pen, I already know that it takes me about 2 months to go through 1 cartridge, so there's that (which means I currently own, uh, 4 years worth of cartridges, but let's not get into that).

I went to a dance class offered in collaboration with the Pride org yesterday.

I was the only one who showed up. So, it was just me and the instructor.

On the one hand, I'd hoped to see some people I knew. Or at least meet some new people.

On the other, it was basically a private lesson, which is kind of cool. It was jazz-inspired dance style, in contrast to the Latin stuff I have learned previously.

Will anything I learned stick? Probably not. But considering my coordination and balance are very poor, it's helpful to think of different ways of moving, even if just for a brief time. Might be helpful.

I kind of hadn't wanted to go; I'd been like "ugh, I don't wanna". But, well, I'd made a commitment, put it in my calendar, and so (to me) I had to go. So I went.

It was fun. I probably would have also had fun if I'd stayed home and watched a movie instead. But the dance class was probably more intellectually stimulating.

I tried an onigiri for the first time today. It was kind of meh.

Then again, it was from the grocery store rather than a place specializing in Japanese cuisine.

Would try one again, though. From a different place.

I did like the seaweed wrap, at least.

I had a four-day weekend, but it was not restful at all. It was split between doing Chores/Tasks, and Familial Obligations. I made a cake over the course of two days. (It was a very good cake, will post about it later when I have a moment, but. Well. It was a very labour-intensive cake.)

Today I did my taxes and washed the car and got the second round of my hepatitis vaccine and did more chores.

Next weekend the parkade is getting cleaned, so on the Saturday everyone's vehicles have to be out from 8-6. Usually they do this on weekdays, but unfortunately not this time. I signed up for a workshop at the library that ends at 1; beyond that I don't know what I'll be doing. ...Maybe I'll just park my car at the grocery store, walk back to my place, and then go pick it up after the cleaning is done.

The local cinema has been closed for several months due to renovations. They're reopening soon and I will hopefully be able to catch Project Hail Mary, which I've wanted to see ever since I'd heard it was getting an adaptation. [/looks at schedule] ...Uhh. I'll have to squeeze it in somewhere.

I dropped off some novels at one of the Little Libraries. Currently I have a "2 out, 1 in" rule, because previously I was picking up too many things. In my defense, there were lots of good choices. ...Anyway I picked up Station Eleven and will hopefully read it some time in the next few months.

I have something going on every weekend this month, and it's all Fun Stuff That I Want To Do (coffee meetup, dance class, yoga class, etc) but also thinking about all of it kind of makes me feel tired.

Whew. So, my main computer keeps throwing up a bluescreen error. As soon as I get past the load screen, it leads me to that. Plus stop code 0x00021a.

A cursory search tells me that this is, uh, Not Great.

I've done some poking around, but I think for now I'll just leave this problem for... later.

I sure wasn't looking for a Project, but I guess I have one now. :Va

- Did some writing today. Tried to turn my brain off. It helped a little, I think. Realized that I need to be including more information about the setting. That's something I haven't been doing as much lately.

- Went to bring some stuff over to my mom's house. My brother called me the other day and said that he's worried about her health, and he was going to talk to her about it. She didn't mention anything about the conversation they had, so I don't know how it went.

- Watched Wu Dang this evening. For the most part it's an unremarkable film, but it had some pretty cool martial arts scenes. There's this one bit that's kind of a balletic kung fu pas de deux; the execution of that scene didn't quite live up to the concept but it was still pretty neat.

- I should have done some ironing this evening. I did not do it. Somehow I keep not managing to find time to do the ironing. It's exasperating.

- I need to book my flights for the vacation I'm taking in autumn. Note to self, don't forget.

Still feeling sick.

Didn't accomplish much this evening. Spent most of it trying to descale my iron. I'm not sure if it's completely descaled yet, hard to tell.

The things that I need to do are just some small things, but somehow I didn't have the energy.

I had to do 20 minutes of overtime after work because of a last-minute thing. On the one hand, yay overtime. On the other, I would rather not have had to do that. On the third hand, it wasn't a big deal because I didn't have plans after work, and also it was not as cold this afternoon as it was when I went to work this morning.

I already wish it was the weekend and it's only Tuesday.

Things I did this evening:

- Got a vaccination for tetanus and Hep A/B because I was outdated on both
- Ordered takeout for the first time ever
- Cleaned my fountain pen because it was skipping a bit
- Zoned out for an hour while trying to make my grocery list

I think it'll be an early bedtime tonight.

I'm going to have to go out to do a thing every single evening this week, and I am not exactly thrilled about it.

Some of these are things I want to do, some of these are things that I have to do, but part of me is just ughhhhh.