Have a good week, everyone!

saw two movies in the past week: american fiction and dune: part two. the latter was really, really good. i liked american fiction, too. good combination of funny, sad, and heartfelt.

we moved into our current house last march, and we’re still moving stuff out of the old house. i think we’re on the home stretch at least (yay, puns)… my stuff has been out of there for awhile, but my partner lived there for ten years, so he accumulated a lot over the years.

echo had her trainer evaluation on sunday and performed wonderfully. basically all she had to do was walk around and not show signs of fear or reactivity to a new, mostly empty room. she accepted petting from the evaluator and was generally very chill. she also did great the two times i took her to the neighborhood restaurant patio, so it looks like i may have another brewery dog in the works! she starts her canine good citizen class in a couple of weeks.

i’m working at my polling place tomorrow for the primary election. i’m pretty disillusioned with the system in general, but i think it’s a good thing to do for the community (plus, the money i make can go toward more dog activities!). it’s gonna be a loooong day, and we have new, idiotic voter ID laws that should really be thrown in the trash.

Last week was warm and this week is following the trend too. I was feeling anxious about it so I dug into the pile of wood chips that was housing a bunch of 5 gallon buckets which were in turn housing a bunch of seeds that we were stratifying over the winter. Germination had started, but just barely.

The good news is that I caught them before the buckets became a mass of super delicate roots I’d have to tease apart. Last time I missed that window I killed 80% of the seedlings I tried to relocate, but I transferred maybe a hundred Spicebush (Lindera benzoin) seeds into one of our air prune boxes, alongside a few dozen Seaberry (Hippophae rhamnoides) that went into their own box (I’m not allowed to sell them but oh well). And scratch tests on cuttings from last fall are promising!

The bad news is that I’m not sure if my Pawpaws (Asimina triloba) are okay, and I had really hoped I’d have a better idea about where they’re at. I’ve had issues in the past keeping them wet enough and I may have overcorrected; hopefully some will germinate and grow but I’m a little sad about having to possibly go another season before I’ll get another chance.

I’m going to tentatively poke my head back in here after being gone for a while.

I play two gacha games and have managed to set down the one I’ve played the longest in favor of the one I enjoy more, so I’ll count that as a win. I’ve started getting back into a hobby I started last year, but I got really overwhelmed and burned out. so now I’m back, hopefully, trying to take that slow.

I started writing fanfiction again recently after almost two decades out of spite because I didn’t like where the game’s writing went. and I think lastly I’m just grateful my dogs are healthy, one had a bacterial infection that just cleared up last week.

I hope everyone else’s week is going well so far!

Seems like I am meeting twice a week with the chef girl on the regular now, we swap who comes over who’s city each visit. Things are going pretty well in that respect, our 7th date comes up on this Thursday where I will be going over her place again.

But my life is still a bit of a mess as I can’t get effective ADHD medication because my diagnosis was private (because the waiting list for a diagnosis on the NHS is 2+ years), so now I have to suffer through being unmedicated and buy what little methylphenidate I can afford off the black market to keep myself sane for the foreseeable future, makes me feel pretty fucking hopeless in that respect.

Well, I’m not on Beehaw, but my roommate pulled a hit & run while (I suspect) high on ketamine last week then tried to get me help them hide the vehicle in the garage. Luckily no one was hurt and the people caught up to them and they didn’t get away with it.

This is not the first time ketamine has been a problem with them. Now they’re refusing to even admit it was a hit & run and I’ve had to give them an ultimatum to either go to rehab or gtfo.

Confessed to a woman I liked. Didn’t get flat rejected. Still said no but with conditions so I’m gonna call it a victory.

A friend who knew her blabbed to her over messages about somebody having a crush but didn’t mention it was me. She responded that almost certainly it was gonna be a flat no. Then she hunted her down, found us, and upon realizing I was the only one said friend was hanging out with who wasn’t in a relationship and I was clearly super nervous, it became really obvious from there it was me.
I didn’t get a flat no, so that was good. Response I got was basically “I’m into somebody else, but if that doesn’t work out I don’t see why it couldn’t potentially happen if we became better friends.”
I’m very happy with that. Even if nothing else ever comes of it, I don’t get why people don’t like romantic rejection. It’s basically an infinite friend glitch.

Lots of job training.

No one who makes the rules at my job has ever actually worked it, and it’s frustrating.

So I grocery shop for people. We have an app that shows us the current item on the list, and we have to scan it to move onto the next item. In theory it takes us through the store in a nice streamlined order.

But the system isn’t perfect and sometimes the order makes no sense. I like to look over the list and make sure I grab things I’ll need to scan later.

Sometimes customers block a product and won’t get out of your way. I like to see what’s next on the list and grab that instead of doing nothing while I wait for the customers to move.

Sometimes I realize that I don’t have meat or produce bags on my cart and have to grab some, so I check the list to see how many I’ll need.

They just announced they’re getting rid of the list.

Every time they change something, my numbers tank. I don’t know if I’m recovering from this one.