Time for everyone's favorite game: Am I getting sick, is it my period, or do I just need a bath and a sandwich?

Got it down to 400 blocks a day to finish by the end of Feb, but also, I have a HUGE gap in the knitted pokedex coming up. Balancing that is gonna be tricky.

Post a monster! #knitting 🧶

Having been in marching band means I can't not do this for walking surface elevation changes, lol

Missed 2 whole days of working on this commission bc fasting for bloodwork sucks when you're over 40, so now I need to do 500 blocks per day to finish by the end of the month. Fortunately, I have 2 whole weekend days to throw into it and maybe get caught up.

Lots of thoughts around the kid at halftime, but it boils down to- Publicized ICE abductees do not exist to be inspiration porn for you and- I desperately hope The Muppet Show reboot keeps the original format bc some folks need to see that behind-the-scenes org of a big show is a fucking nightmare

For this commission, I need to complete 430 "blocks" every day to finish by the end of Feb, and I'll have 1 Mar to do the edge and launder the blanket. I've already done my blocks for today, so after a break, I'll start on tomorrow's.

I thought I was at the 25% mark on this commission, but then realized I messed up my technique in a way that would be easily hidden by the edging BUT WOULD STILL BOTHER ME EVERY TIME I HIT THAT SIDE, so out those two rows go.

KEEP WELL CLEAR AT LOW SPEED

Coworker: That's clever! Me: Oh! You play ttrpgs? C: No Me: But you know what a dump stat is C: No Me: ... You know what dopamine is? C: Ahh .... no Me: .... Not to be rude, but how do you know it's clever then? C: Oh! Because you're clever, so obv you'd have a clever mug! Me, internally: 🙄

Tiny Boopsie is not cooperating, but I am getting reps in for crocheted hair pieces, so I can't be too mad at her.

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.

I will need to put Tiny Boopsie on hold to patch up a hole in my knitted pokedex, but I should have something hashed out this weekend, maybe

I have discovered *why* the pattern is written as it is (it is still bad) but the point about the hook remains the same.

For the record, he named the Bellsprout he caught on stream after me, and I'm the deadliest 'mon on the team!

This crochet pattern is bad and it should feel bad. Also, who puts a 2mm hook in a beginner kit?!?

The tiny, chibi, black-clad witch on the book here is the most entertaining thing I have seen in a good long while and everyone should go read from page 1 to find out why.

SHE'S JUST A DEVIL WOMAAAAAAAN, WITH EVIL ON HER MIND! Some art of Zerothia because I love her. #art #kaijufluffsart

Watch out for the ONE question where they try to trick you by putting "I want AI" as the bottom option where EVERY other question has "I don't want AI" at the bottom!

Spent the day bullying my roommates into taking all their various odds and ends off the dining table, packed up the tree, and shuffled the living room around to accommodate the new TV that Roommate won in a raffle at his company's holiday party. Not quite finished, but done for today at least.

This is why I don't mind always being the one to reach out and make plans. None of my friends are diagnosed but .... Also, I sometimes have to remind my roommates that they have nieces (plural) now. Their sister only lives an hour or so away, in a direction they travel often.

People who have had small, elderly dogs- Is it a normal aging stage for them to become pathologically driven to seek out cords and wrap them around their neck? Or is this a cry for help specific to this animal we let shit on our floor?

Didn't take me long to screw up the numbering, but I'm back on track now.

Did I seriously get it right, first try?

I'm coming up on the first gap in my knitted pokedex, which means I may have to venture out to buy yarn today, or else I'll break my streak.

If you see a fox, post a fox 🦊 I just posted the other day, but I can post again! These are from before I started printing color accurate eyes. #pokemon #knitting 🧶

They headed to my inbox in the form of an offer letter and background check authorization!

I brought up the "Monday's Child" poem in casual conversation a bit ago, and Roommate was on a discord call while making his dinner, so now everyone in the call is figuring out their birth day fortunes.

For my birthday, I have received an illness. Cheer me up by checking out my ko-fi and maybe getting something for a fibercraft-needing person in your life? Ko-fi.com/xelsknitsandstuff

NAPKIN CHECK!

My new boss has a slight lisp. Anyone know the best voice-to-text program that might account for that? He's spending too much time editing his dictated notes.

My new boss has a slight lisp. Anyone know the best voice-to-text program that might account for that? He's spending too much time editing his dictated notes.

It’s time for the #GhostnolaIndustries #ExtraLife #CardioSoles marathon! We’re live & I’m going to kick my own ass until this game is done! twitch.tv/geoff_a_ghost

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

Day 1: Bulbasaur Best starter boy! #pokemon #knitting 🧶

As of tomorrow at 10am, I will be officially unemployed. I've got some applications in, but starting today I'm going to double down on the knitted pokemon project. If you or someone you know need a cute plush for upcoming gift giving, hit me up!

Finished a smol commission. Not 100% sure what it is, but I don't have to be to make a plush of it! 🧶 #knitting #crafting

The worst time to no longer have a cat obsessed with being in your lap whenever you are sitting still for longer than 5 minutes is when your intrusive thoughts refuse to be drowned out by anything other than arrhythmic purring.

I just had a wacky thought- if we do, in fact, get this house, then the computers will likely no longer be in the same room. Ben and I wouldn't have to worry so much about echos from mics. I could, quite possibly, become a leetle blue PNG dargon what sits on Ben's head when we stream together.

I'll be putting an offer on this house today, so infrequent reminder that I sell my handmade yarngoods and take commissions! ko-fi.com/xelsknitsand...

I'll be putting an offer on this house today, so infrequent reminder that I sell my handmade yarngoods and take commissions! ko-fi.com/xelsknitsand...

I have never seen The Goonies, only 1 film by John Hughes, and (much to @bencreighton.bsky.social's dismay) almost none of The Simpsons.

Going to see a house I might like to buy tomorrow. I really think the listing agent got some details confused, but here's hoping!

The Little Dog followed me into the bathroom and got herself stuck between the open door and the wall. She kept trying to back out, hitting the doorstop, and walking forward again. I am a terrible person for giggling and not helping.

I've been seeing the Emotional Support Prince going around again, and just a reminder that if you require an Emotional Support Somebody, I can hook you up!

The cat distribution system is toying with me and I don't particularly enjoy it. Either furnish me a new lap cat, or don't, but please stop taunting me with cries of kittens I can't find at my job sites. >:[

Me: Little Dog, you are pacing with your rail tucked. Do you need to go outside? Let's go out. LD: ah yes. outdoors is where pee. Me: Good Dog! :D Ten minutes later, back upstairs LD: and on floor by bed is where poop. Me: DAMMIT! >:[

Not yet blocked or end-woven, but I got something mostly finished today. #knitting #crafting #yarn 🧶

Technologically advance a band: Super-radio