Finally, the body of my Lanark sweater is done! It’s so cozy! 🧶

When the knitting project is out of the project bag, a cat might try it out.

I didn’t rinse the pan properly and Zevran is licking bacon grease with abandon. Ah well, have your treat.

sometimes I want to think about the things in my life that make me really really happy for example, I have this incredible artist's Some Desperate Glory art set as my desktop background www.tumblr.com/lhoandbehold...

make something. literally anything. something to eat. something to wear. something to hang on the wall. maybe it *is* the wall if you're into that. it will fix absolutely none of your problems but when you're done you will have the same problems *plus* a cool thing you made.

Started some bread. Later I will make a tomato and bean thing I got ingredients for the other day.

one time on Twitter someone adopted a cat named miette but they renamed her and someone said YOU RENAME MIETTE?? YOU RENAME HER LIKE THE FOOTBALL STADIUM mwah, mwah, incredible.

Want some slow tv? Buster sits 1 hour in a box. <3 youtu.be/sSvSIaMSQOE?...

Tomorrow is the last of the Christmas related days off, which feels like an extra treat.

Biking home in -17C 🎶 I’m so happy for my not so pretty but oh so functional lined mittens.

Zevran and I are watching sheep herding training.

I pushed 180 kg on the sled (and did the other seven stations of the HIIT) and I am fucking DONE. Except now I have to buy groceries and bike back home in the snow, because it didn’t stop snowing.

3 cm left…

It’s supposed to stop snowing sometime tomorrow, so I’m going to try and go for HIIT and groceries then. I’d get them delivered but there’s no time slot that works with when I’m home.

#40recs 5. glitter and gold by voordeel, hannibal. blood/violence/gore, flashing cw www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rspf... voordeel has a great sense of musicality/movement in vids (and i think you can see their impact on tiktok to this day). check out their yt for more, esp if you like avengers/star wars

My poor 97 year old neighbor was out in the deep snow with her walker and I saw her having trouble with the door to the laundry building. I went outside to help her and made sure that she got safely back inside again. She was putting her name down for a laundry slot on Wednesday.

It’s a good purring Zevran!

Alright I did it! Please share this link with anyone you think may be into me: forms.gle/6k7jNydbv1uP...

There, logging out of work. I have too many hours as it is.

Zevran was bored, so he came up to Fiona napping on my lap and did the ”I will bite across your jugular and hold you there” thing.

Yay, something to do! I got to call the sorting machine hotline. :)

Very pleasant working conditions today!

Yeah, work is shutting down the branches and telling branch people to go work at main today if they can, because so many people can’t get to work.

Took a nice hot shower. I am guessing I'll be able to get to work tomorrow, but I'll have to check when I wake up to see if anything is cancelled. If not, I think I can trust I'll be able to get back home tomorrow night.

Every time someone says "I can't write X, editors will never buy it" an angel loses its wings Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades. So maybe reconsider

Yay, I saw a picture of Bedelia! Sadly it was because she’s very very afraid of fireworks, but I’m happy she’s safe and thriving with my friend. <3

My read books of 2025 (collage from Storygraph).

We are watching birds.

Fiona is upset that Zevran and Opal have hidden away somewhere and can’t be found (they’re in the dryer, on the clean clothes). She’s complaining and comes for company.

I’ve been marathoning GBB season 16 all day. I’m at the chocolate episode.

Hmm, there will be a lot of snow in the coming days. The forecast gives the highest warning they have very close to work!town for Friday, when I work. Guess I’ll watch how things develop, if the warning changes.

I'm so excited to see if the rice will work.

Cooking lemongrass and onion in oil to start an interesting peanut sauce!

See why do we have to have like bigots and Nazis and hating other people for stupid ass reasons when I just looked at my planet from the surface of another planet and I don't even have shoes on. I'm in Soft House Clothes and slippers looking at my planet on my phone. What.

So I am officially asking for help. I tried pulling my thoughts together at my DW, which I dusted off for just this occasion. It’s the most recent entry here: perclexed.dreamwidth.org My goal is $350. I’m at $265 right now. Stretch goal is $500. Relief goal is $750. Deadline is Jan 3.

Time for bed.

Yesss I won 600 SEK in the Burmese cats club New Year's lottery!^^

I need 34 cm from the armhole and I’m at 25 and fisherman’s rib takes forever… So many hours.

I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this. Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?

I did a lot more than I’d planned today. First I got the large nonstick pot which should work like a sauté pan for my purposes. The first store didn’t have it even though their stock system said so, so I had to bike to the other one which did have it.

Got my new soap, which smells like wintery forest (siberian spruce, cedar, tea tree and cypress). Opal is modeling it.

I just saw there's been hail at some point today. I didn't hear it.

I was too tired to make myself go buy that nonstick pan, but I think there’s one available in my small town, not too far. Maybe tomorrow.

Making the oat risotto with crispy mushrooms and ketjap manis drizzle. The oats are not the same as the recipe, but are absorbing the liquid a little slower. There’s also fennel, onion and garlic in there.

Cold progressing as colds do. Time for vocal cords!

Opal fell in the toilet for the first time. She took her bath fairly well.

No, we don't have to accept hallucinatory, ecosidic creative stealing LLMs. The genie not only can be put back in the bottle, we need to do so. Accepting this as the state of affairs that we have to accept and going forward is an enormous mistake. www.patreon.com/posts/ai-and...

Here’s Zevran getting the petting he wants. Watch to see his birthmark in his ear he’s had since he was a kitten.

They’re trying to start a rescue group for Burmese cats for the Nordic countries - how admirable! It’s for situations where people die/get seriously ill and similar and there’s no obvious solution for the cats.

Stupid cold. Guess I’ll go back to bed.