oh no i didn't even think about that! i'm so sorry lol. i'm talking about the 3d design company that bought out Zbrush and Redshift, my bad!! they're making licensing absolute hell.

I'm don't know if this is something you can do @Gargoyle Cat, but my parents put a concrete hole in the backyard where they stick the middle part of this kind of dryer. It's much more stable than relying on those three legs when there is wind, so there is no need to obsessively watch it on windy days. You might just have to remove the three legs in case this is not available without in the US.

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I still have trouble getting in and out of the two worlds I am connected to with my hypnagogic dreaming abilities. Last thing I remember, I was nursing an older gentleman's blackened left eye. (Note: Although I am a fan of Tom Lehrer's Masochism Tango, I didn't blacken this man's left eye like in the song and for those wondering, Tom Lehrer, aside from being the inventor of the Jell-O shot and a university professor, was one of the fore runners for artists like "Weird Al" Yankovic.)

When I woke up, I found myself having to refill my medication and supplement boxes.

It's really, really weird. It's like Kingdom Hearts. One day, your brain is able to discern the insanity of daily life and the next, all Hell breaks loose as you find yourself in these Dreamland locations where the 5 senses of which are sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch are part of it but you don't have the ability to tell if you're in the dream because you do not have the capacity to lucidly dream.

Sorry, I didn't explain the hole thing properly. The hole is a bit bigger than necessary and goes low enough for the dryer to be stable but loose enough to be easily removable. So, my mom takes it inside every time the drying is done. and puts a cover on the hole so it doesn't fill with water if it rains. I wish I had a picture, I'm not very good at explaining.

Was woken up by the sound of my cat Gemini about to vomit. I was sound asleep and I heard her gagging.

There's no other surefire way to wake up someone than the sound of a cat gagging and vomiting. How no one made an alarm clock with this noise is beyond me. It should be on Shark Tank.

I hope you won't hear those sounds until it is taken down in a controlled manner. A friend of mine in Florida just had an old tree fall on her house. Roof broken, tree branches all over the kitchen and living room, weeks until she can get back in.

Had to deal with my debit card getting hijacked.

Because I am a Wells Fargo customer, (not by my own choice, but switching banks would require government red tape that I have no time for right now due to a dental extraction in less than a month and that has red tape of a different nature) I had dealt with crappy hold music that sounded like a bad rendition of Van Halen's "Jump" and having to clarify the charge that didn't make sense and then another round of crappy hold music, which sounded like a hound dog playing a saxophone but not quite forming the proper sound and the eventual "We will do everything in our power to make it right. Your new card should be in the mail by 3-5 business days' time."

Also my mom had been in a sour mood. She told me and my father, the two of us being ticking time bombs of sheer insanity, that we weren't at fault. She's going to the hairdresser today so I better be kind to her when she comes back from her errands.

I also had to reschedule my appointment with Dr. MP in Nephrology (Long term use of lithium is bad for your kidneys, mmmkay?) and I swear, if I wanted to have my broken tooth pulled, I could have waited a couple extra days and have the reception desk do it.

Being an adult sucks when you reach your thirties. Younger generations don't trust you, no matter how tragically hip you are; older generations still give you talking downs to you, even if you have a brilliant idea to make the world a better place to live.

Not to mention people bugging you to have kids, regardless of your ability to reproduce and provide.

I could go on, but you get my message.

Ninja spider.

So. About a week ago, this huge spider decides to *poof!appear* on the wall next to my bed. I didn't have anything to catch it with, so I carefully walk out to get some paper, get back, it's still sitting there, and the moment I get close, it zooms down behind the bed (as spiders do).

I look for it, but apparently the back of the bed hasn't seen a vaccuum cleaner for the past (probably at least) 5-6 years or so, so a couple days later I decide to take a round of shining it up, including the rest of the room as well, plus changing the bed.

No sign of the spider, so I kinda hoped it had been vaccuumed up at some point, because I was pretty thorough behind the bed (although couldn't move the bedframe, so there were probably still places that thing could hide).

Fast-forward to yesterday night, just as I'm getting ready to turn off the light when going to bed (and still hadn't seen the creepy crawlie all day)...

NINJA SPIDER *poof!appears* on the wall again.

This time I was ready, so now it's swimming in the drains (or probably gone further than that).

Spiders... sincerely never know where you've got them

EDIT: And last night, another (but smaller) spider, in almost the exact spot I found the big one the second time. Those little beasts! This one didn't get the chance to try out any ninja survival skills, though.

Wouldn't say it ruined my day, but it's just not the same - listening to a dubbed version of animated Star Trek. I can get over the cameo voices when they're just talking, but the translated catchphrases sound absolutely ridiculous.

The series itself isn't too bad, though. Most of the characters are new ones, so their voices aren't any more annoying than other dubbed voices. The one character they've got recurring throughout from one of the live series, they've managed to find a voice that manages to keep some of their personality, so it translates okay.

Would prefer an English version with original voices for the rest of the cameos, although a few of them probably would've been a bit difficult to get hold of since they went "all the way to the beginning" original for several... But oh, Spock, they did you dirty - that catchphrase is sooooo much better in English (sounds extremely corny translated, and the word they chose for "prosper" is so off the mark even if it technically means the same). I almost fell out of my bed laughing

On the one hand, I'm shocked, of course. On the other, my boyfriend has a bad case of hoarding things in his fridge and freezer, and the worst thing is, it really doesn't stink unless opened/pulled out, and the only thing forcing us to clean the freezer and the fridge is that sometimes it gets over-capacity and stuff simply has to be thrown out to make room for a new batch of groceries.

Good thing we have a small deep-freeze compartment built into the not-so-big fridge, so there isn't that much room to actually hoard big-time. However, it's definitely one of the top reasons why I'm against him getting a bigger/standalone freezer unit. Simply too much capacity to go rogue.

Though freezer isn't really as bad for us – it's the pickled vegetables, expired mayo jars etc. that go bad and take up room in the fridge. And some of those aren't even past their date; they've just been opened and forgotten about.

didn't quite ruin my day, but i swear this one person waits for other people to share their work so she can then share hers and bump them out of sight. it's getting seriously annoying, especially since she draws all of these nearly identical environments in a single day and those of us that spend days or even weeks on our work, stuff that's not colored pencils, get pushed out of sight so people only ever comment on hers because they don't feel like scrolling up. when she comes in to bump you out of sight, she'll give a quick "cool!" with some emoji before she's suddenly the only one visible again. it's extremely annoying to myself and all the other artists in the group but i'm the opposite of confrontational so i just suck it up and deal with it. a lot of artists have simply stopped posting their works there because nobody sees them anyway. it's ridiculous.

I missed my check in with my case manager, S, yesterday. I had to get something caffeinated delivered to my door. Good thing I had access to shelf stable goods.

This time, I will talk to S when she calls. She knows I play Animal Crossing: New Horizons because she heard me on speakerphone catch a sea critter in the ocean when I surfaced and the high-pitched "woo-hoo!" Chirped. As much as I admit I multitask when I should be giving my undivided attention, I have been caught on the toilet from government officials asking to initiate paperwork more times than I cared to count.

Between paperwork, quality of life operations, doctor visits, lab testing of bodily fluids, conference calls, my duties at home, and hospital stays, my ability to become a voice actor and a mechanical engineering genius with mechanical children and fathers to accompany them and an army of wait staff to wait on you hand and foot, is being hampered.

I really want to go back to school and build my city of droids. But my teeth are a mess and I am suffering from my mental health issues. Constantly finding myself unable to stay level for long.

I can only hope for the best as time goes on.

Dropped a glass bowl. Shattered into shards.

Any questions? Cause I had quite a bad night's sleep... actually, I didn't sleep at all last night and had to see my mom off to work in a downpour.

Barclay's Bank!

They increasingly behave as though OUR money was THEIR money! Why shouldn't I spend as much of MY money as I want, when I want!

I'm in the market for a new gaming laptop. I need a new gaming laptop. I have been shopping around, comparing prices, checking specs, looking at reviews - I don't make hasty purchases.

So I find one that I like on Amazon. Once again I check all the details; seems right, and if I order it now I can get it in two days. Can't wait to get TS3 installed on that thing.

Well, forget that! Barclays won't verify payment on my debit card. Why? My card details are right, my address is right, my phone number hasn't changed. So far as I know I have never authorized any limit on how much I can spend. So why? Because it's £625 and I don't generally spend that much at one time on Amazon? Why must I be treated as though I were trying to do something irregular or dishonest?

So what do I have to do now? Go trailing all the way into town to ask them if could I please have some of my money?

Banks! We lend them OUR money; they invest OUR money; they get fat returns on OUR money; and in return they pay us next to zero interest! And then they have the cheek to tell us what we can do with OUR money!

P.S. Sorry for the rant. I just needed to get that off my chest. I'm normally a very thrifty person where money is concerned, but if I don't get a new laptop soon I may have to give up simming altogether. I could take up knitting I suppose.

Mother in law is doing her usual. I'm mildly angry that she asked SIL for pictures of our son (MIL is not in contact with us and hasn't been for well over a year now) and when SIL said she'd ask us if that's ok, MIL told her she didn't have to ask, just get one off fb and if we find out, to tell us it must have been someone else. Usual boundary stomping MIL.

I mostly just feel bad for SIL though, who is currently pregnant and it seems like MIL isn't interested at all in her baby but is obsessed with ours. I kinda feel guilty, because if we were in contact with her it wouldn't be like this... but also MILs constant behaviour is too much and she won't improve. Its been so much easier being no contact with her.

When I woke up this morning, my hearing was reduced on one ear, for no apparent reason (just the sense of being clogged with a lot of cotton, no pain or anything, and fairly sure it's not actually clogged), and now some hours later I've got a constant sound going. I've had it happen a few times before but only temporarily, maybe only a few minutes, definitely not several hours. Just hoping it's not got anything to do with my brain going pressure-cooker again...

Plus possibly a very light cold or something - I don't know - my throat hurts a bit on and off, as if there's something brewing but not quite going anywhere.

Would've almost thought it was an ear infection or some such, but I've never had one, and there's no pain and no pressure or anything like that.

When reruns of TV series have crossover events, and the channel doesn't send the parallel seasons at the same time, or only sends one of the seasons. I either miss the first or second episode - or worse - 3 or more episode crossover events!

The one I'm annoyed for now had an episode in season 5 for the first episode in the crossover event and the other episode is in season 6 for the other show - but it's currently at season 2... And it keeps happening. There's 3 series and absolutely no rhyme or reason to which seasons and episodes belong together. The episode usually just starts weird or ends with a cliffhanger that isn't solved in the next episode, and it can be wherever in wichever series/season.

And then there's the issue when a streaming service only has one or two of the series, so if you want the full experience you're stuck trying to match up a bunch of streaming services (the CW Flash/Supergirl/etc. universe is fun to watch but an absolute nightmare to keep track of when it comes to crossovers and which ones belong in there... Ended up falling off the wagon a couple or so years back, and who knows how many series they've added on lately - used to be 4 or 5 in that universe, at least the ones I had any interest in, now there's 10? 20? I've lost count... ).

My dental surgery is approaching and for the past couple of days, my jaw has been practically clenched shut in the tense feeling because I have a cardiologist appointment and this is because they are not only going to use general anesthesia, but also intubation to work on my teeth.

I'm fully aware of that awkward stare most doctors give me, given my weight and size, thinking "How are you still alive?"

Not really happy with today's plans. Although retail therapy helps, it's about as fleeting as the cash in your account.

Struggled to fall asleep (and the duvet felt too warm), and when I finally fell asleep, I dreamed that I struggled to fall asleep. So when I woke up my brain insisted "but I haven't slept at all" (and I was all clammy)

Dream-me had the good idea to switch the duvet for a blanket halfway through, and for some reason chose a different bedroom in the house, so at least I knew it had been a dream - but still slightly weirded out when I woke up.

Insect season has more than officially started.

If it has 6 or more legs, keep out of the house and far away from me, or deal with the consequences (that's all year around, by the way - but particularly during summer)

Already dealing with spiders and isopods roaming about the house more or less year 'round (the isopods got themselves a lair somewhere, getting through a gap we haven't yet found - they particularly like waddling around my bedroom, and I've found them in/around my bed multiple times, which isn't fun. Same with the spiders. Those nasty buggers I don't want anywhere near where I sleep ).

I'll usually leave the little buggers alone outside, but if there's dive-bombing flying insects or any of the sort that get a bit too annoying... well, depends how annoying they get.

My grandfather had two brachycardia episodes in the past couple weeks, so he needs an artificial pacemaker put in to function again.

Remember, my current living arrangements are dependent on his lifeline.

I feel asleep and slept for 4 hours yesterday. By the time I woke up, it was dinnertime.

Having to go bug hunting in my bedroom again. I swear, those critters are getting on my nerves! Three isopods and a spider decided to hang out less than a meter from my pillow in the span of just a few hours. I think they're having a party under the bed...

(and it's not long ago since I vacuumed under there, so I don't know where they're coming from - if anything, they're appearing more frequent now than when there was a literal dust mountain under there ).

This morning I went to get a package that came outside EU. I was prepared to pay the VAT and docs were ready when the employee told me that there's no package for me. Checked the tracking again, called DHL center then went back to the same office since the tracking info was correct so the package should be there. I was approached by the same employee but this time they didn't even made effort to check for the box and told me that there's nothing in their system (on the PC). Thankfully their colleague noticed that something was happening and came in. A few minutes later he came back with the box and explained that for some reason there was no information about the package in the system, not even with the tracking code also, mentioned that their system and the one in the central should be linked which makes it even weirder.

AUUGGGH! I got some supplies for when I decide to join the gym's swimming pool, but I fell short of a few supplies that go with it.

Swimsuit
Wet\Dry bags
Stretchy bracelet for keys
Menstrual discs
A clear backpack
Extra clothes
Wallet for ID and Vaccine ID

Missing toiletries, absorbent towels and a waterproof bag for my phone for stowing for the locker room.

Well, I can always swim at the pool on any given day of the year...it's indoors.