It’s been a weird day. I napped through most of it and had a gnarly nightmare.
Also sharpening graphite pencils last night with a plastic handled boxcutter to practice has kind of left me with a soreness/blister on my non-dominant thumb (where I use it on the back of the blade to give an added push). Maybe I’m doing it wrong. I’ve definitely had to learn to take smaller thinner flatter slices and work more slowly backwards from the tip but perhaps the blade is still a bit dull or I’m doing it in a way that needs more force.
I also keep nicking/scraping the lead but holding the blade flatter and moving it rapidly up and down isn’t really removing the slivers of wood from the core like the book says it will. Maybe the smaller thinner slices mean the wood doesn’t just get fully chipped off. But bigger slices need more force and risks chipping or breaking the lead which only goes up with the more delicate charcoal pencils. In fact I think I did a slightly better job when I first started out on the charcoal pencils from random Youtubes and an old craft knife.
I managed to walk into a door handle earlier and it really fucked up my arm. I don’t know how hard I walked into it, but I’m surprised it didn’t go through me. Instant bruising, and I can’t lie on it. Neither panadol or Nurofen helped at all
Wild. I don’t think this is that bad, my arm is fine besides a lot of pain in that’s section. It’s about midway up my arm, between my shoulder and elbow. I’ll probably be fine
Mid way is mostly muscle - Biceps brachii, brachalis with triceps in the back of the arm. They’ll hurt today but there’s no overly exposed nerve areas like the side of the neck or in the armpit (axilla). You may want to consider ibuprofen or a compression sleeve if you have one on hand. Worst case make a sling so the muscle doesn’t have to support the weight of the arm. It sounds like you’ll develop an intermuscular haematoma aka corky aka charlie horse, they suck but there’s not a lot that can be done about them.
Fun fact: when you tear your rotator cuff you feel it mid-upper arm, not your shoulder. I’m not saying you tore it, but ‘yeah not that bad’ can turn out to be distinctly unfun as you age. If it’s not healing right, or still fucked by friday, DOCTOR. .
A bad deep bruise can surprisingly ache a lot, but pain will ease up over a few hours and then will only be tender if touched while it is healing. Bonus is you might get your very own aurora colours in the injured area. (Source: am clumsy and have walked into more towbars and furniture than I would like) Of course, if pain doesn’t dull down overnight you should get it checked out.
Thanks. It’s feeling about 15% better than it did when I posted that. Though I’m not sure whether that’s the medicine or just usual healing. I’m guessing it will probably subside into a regular bruise overnight, bit I’ll see a doctor if it’s not any better
Repotted my manzano but made a total mess of the living room when I picked up a lemon plant (that wasn’t doing anything) by the stem - despite knowing better - and the whole thing came out, scattering wet potting mix all over the place and onto my couch 😭
But it’s all been tidied up. Made a decent dinner of pasta with tuna, roast fennel (the last! I swear!), roast Brussels sprouts, and a “cheesy” sauce of nutritional yeast and pasta water with a splash of soy milk. Clothes are in, dishwasher loaded, shower had, and… I simply can’t handle any more responsibility for the day.
I did finally pick the scotch bonnets, but I can’t even think about that right now. someone ferment them for me idk why I’m so lazy to just throw them in brine.
Closing out the evening with an episode of tales from the loop - the writing may be uneven, but the VIBES of this show are just perfect. On episode 6 tonight. This is such a good one… heart breaking.
Edit: looked at the forecast ahead - goddamnit I should’ve washed my sheets and towels this weekend. I still don’t want to buy a dryer though… the sun is free…
I have an undercut, mainly because my hair is so thick I overheat easily. If I wear my hair down you cannot really tell I have one lol.
Most people didn’t mind, my dad and his side didn’t care in the slightest, and I couldn’t care less what mum thinks lol (I’m no contact anyway these days).
Workplaces haven’t cared at all, as long as it’s neat and clean, of course.
3 times I have shaved it down to the skin/light fuzz, usually after I had been dyeing my hair (10+ yrs black, shaved, pink/red/purple, shaved, then a blonde streak in my fringe, then shaved), and the most anyone has said was “omg do you have cancer” 😑😅 and I just said no, just wanted to shave it after dyeing so the hair grows back healthy.
@StudChud My three big concerns with getting a full shave are how it will look, how work will react, and random dickheads. That, and it's getting a bit chilly this time of the year.
How did people at your work react to the shave?
And did you get many randos making comments about it?
I had one meth head say I should smile more, but I think that was unrelated to my hair, (told him to get fucked).
People at work asked why, but that was early 2010s. When I’ve done it more recently, I just had colleagues/bosses say they liked it and it suited me 🤷♀️ so no negativity when I’ve done it.
If you do it this time of year, have a scarf and you can hoist it up to keep your scalp warm, or a beanie. I tend to do a big cut or shave at the start of summer.
The shaved bits get colder. Maybe spend winter considering your options with a plan to get a cut as it gets warmer. Ex’s with shaved heads have mentioned that there can be a bit of a stigma with some people about a woman with a shaved head. Maybe it’s just that fuckheads are drawn to bother anyone who stands out.
My hair is starting to get a bit too long at the moment — it's well-past shoulder length. It's regularly getting quite knotty and the split ends are getting bad. So I'll need a cut soon.
Maybe just get it trimmed or cut shorter this time and leave the big buzz for when it gets warmer?
I have had an undercut for a while, people generally think it’s cool. Can be a bit chilly in winter. One downside, it does need some maintenance - a half grown out undercut is very weird…
I’ve had buzzed sides with longer hair in the middle, and could decide whether to hairspray it straight up or brush it down over the sides. Really liked it. I’ve considered a full buzz cut for practicality, but maintenance and that would probably get more targeted by fuckheads.
Now I just cannot be fucked with anything or anybody and keep it cut short enough to brush but long enough to tie back
Another tobacco shop arsoned. Is it terrible that seeing as I don’t smoke or vape or participate in illegal tobacco gang warfare, I don’t care one bit. If they wanna bomb each other out of existence, probably works out just fine for the rest of us.
Problem is this activity also affects legitimate tobacco businesses that just happened to he competitors, to say nothing of the neighbouring businesses who have nothing to do with it getting their shops burnt out.
Yes that part of it is pretty awful for innocent businesses affected. I do wonder how it will stop. I’m guessing either the police have to sufficiently dismantle one or both of the gangs, (unlikely) or the gangs themselves have to negotiate a peace (more unlikely), or collesworth starts selling vapes and puts them both out of business (even more unlikely). I am open to more hypotheses.
There’s 2 days in a month where I give my ovaries what it wants. Today they got pancakes and Singapore noodles and a wheat bag. Later they may need some chocolate and Bailey’s.
I feel like there should totally be a group of people who band together to act as each others reference when they don’t otherwise have anybody. Mutual aid and all that.
Fiverr? Do they do that?
It depends on giving out your names and possibly details tho, and the referring person answering unknown numbers.
The worst part of the plant stuff is done. I still need to repot my manzano and prune back the red hot poker, and buy some veg to make dinner and meals for the next few days. Plus figure out what to do with all this rosemary I pruned off, and stock up on some oil and rice so I don’t need to do it after my trip…
…and despite all my going on about it, I’ve yet to start on my scotch bonnet pepper ferment. I gotta do that today so I can move that plant out onto the common area too.
Plus I still haven’t organised a full itinerary for my trip in 10 days time, I have an idea of where to go but need to sort out accom asap…
Argh, I want to just lie down and enjoy the rest of the day! I have a busy week ahead next week too, stuff on after work every single day 😫 and the weekend needs to be set aside for packing. I think I need to really be disciplined with my work end times the next week. No hanging around for a yarn
I have a lot of household and garden tasks, necessary shopping and I feel very motivated to do lots of art practice. I will have to start getting up early if I want to get stuff done!! 😊 Thankfully I am bored with tv and politics/news now so that won’t be wasting my time.
It’s definitely a good feeling to be away from the news/politics, not draining my energy unnecessarily. Though I find I am still tempted to retreat into online spaces/phone when I need some downtime and am stressed out or annoyed by people, I’d like to find some other outlets that I’ll actually stick to.
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