State o' the Weirdlet
May. 2nd, 2009 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weirdletBeen a bit since I posted. Daddy's home, and incredibly much saner and happier and in less pain on oxygen day and night. He's not snacking nearly so bad, we're keeping him mostly on lean meats and some vegetation, with enough bread-stuff that he's happy (simple carby things like anything more processed than oatmeal will turn into glucose and spike your bloodsugar like nobody's business). Every little bit helps. He's still keg-bellied, but it's more regular fat and less bloating.
That last bit was probably TMI, but hell, I live with it every day, you're reading my blog, you'll deal.
ACen is this coming weekend, and I've been gathering costume bits. Hopefully mom will get a rent check from one of the tenants- we made a mortgage payment, shows we're willing to work with the guys, and things are tight. I wouldn't call this a problem, except our usual 'household' budget is halved this fortnight, which means no sneaking big things like a black tshirt onto it and feeling guilty about sneaking in a bit of makeup into the bill. We'll make it, sure, but I've learned to never trust things are going through until the money's in your hand and/or you've seen the clean bill saying you owe nothing- and even then it can turn around and bite you in the ass (signifigant look at *you*, Roosevelt University Financial Aid Department and Student Accounting...). But the sooner that check comes in, the sooner things are easier here and I can ask for my allowance without (too much) guilt.
Oh, I also took a civil service exam to qualify as an office monkey for the state, and I got A's and B's for that suite of positions- no more than one or two wrong questions a section, and typing skills practic'ly off the charts. So after already-employees and veterans, I'm on the first list of prospective callbacks for a job.
In the beauty department- I tried something this evening, washing my face in olive and castor oil with a hot towel to follow. Weird idea, I know, but it seems like I've tried everything else, and clearly sucking the oil *out* of my skin isn't working. I'm not seeing any of the flakiness that's my usual coating, and while things are kind of red after being abraded by the toweling/scrubbing the way they always are, it looks no worse than usual. We'll see how that works out- I know better than to expect a miracle cure, but it's worth a shot.
I'm looking forward to playing with my makeup for ACen^^ Goth Evo-Rogue.
Edit- Oh, and as for that lovely coat I got for my birthday- I had it home two days and one of the cats vomited all over the back of it.
I love my furbeasties. Boiled, baked, ground for sausage.
Anyway- I'm letting it dry out, I'll try and break it off once it's good and dessicated, and then have the stains drycleaned out. If it needs redyeing afterward, well, I got a guy for that. I can get it fixed before I need it, but after I can afford it.
That last bit was probably TMI, but hell, I live with it every day, you're reading my blog, you'll deal.
ACen is this coming weekend, and I've been gathering costume bits. Hopefully mom will get a rent check from one of the tenants- we made a mortgage payment, shows we're willing to work with the guys, and things are tight. I wouldn't call this a problem, except our usual 'household' budget is halved this fortnight, which means no sneaking big things like a black tshirt onto it and feeling guilty about sneaking in a bit of makeup into the bill. We'll make it, sure, but I've learned to never trust things are going through until the money's in your hand and/or you've seen the clean bill saying you owe nothing- and even then it can turn around and bite you in the ass (signifigant look at *you*, Roosevelt University Financial Aid Department and Student Accounting...). But the sooner that check comes in, the sooner things are easier here and I can ask for my allowance without (too much) guilt.
Oh, I also took a civil service exam to qualify as an office monkey for the state, and I got A's and B's for that suite of positions- no more than one or two wrong questions a section, and typing skills practic'ly off the charts. So after already-employees and veterans, I'm on the first list of prospective callbacks for a job.
In the beauty department- I tried something this evening, washing my face in olive and castor oil with a hot towel to follow. Weird idea, I know, but it seems like I've tried everything else, and clearly sucking the oil *out* of my skin isn't working. I'm not seeing any of the flakiness that's my usual coating, and while things are kind of red after being abraded by the toweling/scrubbing the way they always are, it looks no worse than usual. We'll see how that works out- I know better than to expect a miracle cure, but it's worth a shot.
I'm looking forward to playing with my makeup for ACen^^ Goth Evo-Rogue.
Edit- Oh, and as for that lovely coat I got for my birthday- I had it home two days and one of the cats vomited all over the back of it.
I love my furbeasties. Boiled, baked, ground for sausage.
Anyway- I'm letting it dry out, I'll try and break it off once it's good and dessicated, and then have the stains drycleaned out. If it needs redyeing afterward, well, I got a guy for that. I can get it fixed before I need it, but after I can afford it.
