some good things make a post

[kaberett]

1. Unexpected cousins video call, yesterday. I'd entirely forgotten suggesting it until one of them was all "so what time are we doing this then? same as usual?" and I went "!!!" and... curled up on the sofa next to A and chatted to my cousins for a bit. It was nice.
   
2. During which A painted my nails! Because I remarked idly a week or two ago that not using wheelchairs much at the moment (if I'm going out at all it's with the Tramper) means I might actually be able to sustain decorated nails without immediately chipping them to hell and gone, having forgotten that my thumb splints also dig into polish, but -- anyway, yes, so I idly remarked that I'd still never got my act together to find an appropriately dark charcoal I liked, and so he did some research and the next thing I know some base coat and some charcoal and some matte top coat has arrived, and currently all my nails are matte charcoal grey except my ring fingers which are a shiny dark teal, and it's nice.
   
3. Ring splints! Ring splints are, in fact, still great.
   
4. Yesterday's p a k i d g e: as mentioned a while back I spent a... lot... of time going through Etsy's hair stick listings, and eventually found one I liked the look of for everyday and one I liked the look of for Fance. The everyday one has arrived; I have spent most of the intervening time with it keeping the bog mummy braid up. It seems to be working! Maybe tomorrow I'll take it to the allotment and see how it does with something more vigorous than being a sofa lump.
   
5. Pear & apple crumble, made with A: we've been doing a whole lot more collaborative cooking recently and it's lovely.
   
6. ... though in this case it was made largely as an excuse to check whether the latest operation on the oven had been Successful. It's an electric fan oven, you see, but it's also a portal to some kind of hell dimension as revealed by the extent to which it channels the screams of the damned. We'd replaced the fan at the back once, after simply repeatedly greasing it didn't work; we'd pulled the whole oven out and dismantled the back to get at different bearings; but A realised I think last week that there is another secret hidden fan in the roof of the thing, so this evening I cooked dinner around a minor catastrophe and then... it didn't yell while pudding was made. A MIRACLE.
   
7. Physio that makes me hurt less and work better continues a revelation.
   
8. Tomorrow's bread, which I'm going to put in the fridge for the night as soon as I get up off the sofa, is mixed wholemeal and white with pumpkin and linseed. It is an extremely satisfying texture, so far.
   
9. The Internet is an incredible thing. (#vagueblogging, but, right, okay: connection with all of you lot all around the world, exemplified by a number of conversations over the past few days; the sheer amount of information and the access to human knowledge and achievement, exemplified by the contents of today's new tabs sitting open.)
   
10. I'd been feeling wretched for about half a week and then yesterday my mood took an abrupt turn for the better, and everything suddenly feels that bit easier and that bit more like there's room in the world for hope. I'm especially grateful for that.
    

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[me_and]

Performing minor surgery on the oven to oil the hidden fan also revealed a lump of metal casing next to the fan. I have no idea what that casing is for, but I do now know – via a loud "ow" and tripping the house RCD – that it's carrying 240 volt AC.

[fyreharper]

Eep!

[ludy]

Urgle!

[worlds_of_smoke]

♥

[lunabee34]

Yay for #10. I need my own turn around. *basks in your shine*

[vass]

2. Charcoal is a good colour for nails.
3. I experimented yesterday with taping my thumb (MPC) to see if splinting might be for me, and answer is... possibly. And also that yes, you can use masking tape as an improvised substitute for kinesiology tape. It's not as good, but it doesn't hurt.
4. p a k i d g e
5. That is lovely.
6. Congrats on reduced screaming.
7, 9, 10. <33333

[kaberett]

affection <3

[fyreharper]

<3

[booksarelife]

I’m so happy about #10! I’ve definitely been keeping an eye on my brain and have had to step back a bit several times, but this week in general has been better

[silveradept]

Yay for the good things.

[alexwlchan]

*purrs loudly*

These are all excellent things and I am happy for you.

“I cooked dinner around a minor catastrophe” … raises eyebrow. Do I want to know?

<3

[jesse_the_k]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[rydra_wong]

During which A painted my nails! Because I remarked idly a week or two ago that not using wheelchairs much at the moment (if I'm going out at all it's with the Tramper) means I might actually be able to sustain decorated nails without immediately chipping them to hell and gone

I have a similar thing; my normal climbing schedule ensures nail polish lasts about 24 hours on me. There are people who can climb without chipping their nail polish, and I am not one of them.

currently all my nails are matte charcoal grey except my ring fingers which are a shiny dark teal, and it's nice.

Oh god that sounds AMAZING.

[kaberett]

I really enjoyed it a very great deal. "There won't be... much contrast?" said A, a bit dubiously. "I DON'T CARE," I said, "THAT'S THE IDEA."

I am now contemplating doing something similar but with stripes of the other colour up the middle. (Because why do variation in colours when I've obviously got the objectively best ones sorted already and could instead vary the style.)

[rydra_wong]

Tangent, re: the chipping of nail polish: I once did a kintsugi-inspired thing where I repaired all the chips with a contrasting colour (gold, in fact, when the original was blue). Kept it going for about a week before it got too blobby.