If I drop something and I'm barefoot (which I almost always am around the house, I don't like wearing shoes or socks at home), I often pick it up with my toes and pass it up to my hand instead of bending over.

Coda!!
i do that too! :)

I actually do that a lot too.

it's mostly NOT when it's cold out. now i'm wearing nice warm hand-made socks all the time. it's also cold in the house. brr.

Yeah, I'm more like Coda. I almost never wear socks when I'm at home.
Actually, I have a pattern I need to dig out, once I've finished a few things, for some "yoga socks" that has variations for no heel, no toes, and both, which I LOVE for some nice yoe-less winter "at home" socks. Unfortunately the first pair I made was too tight in the bind-off and shrunk a little in the wash so I couldn't wear them and I haven't made a full pair since then. XP

i have three skeins of yarn that i've gotten throughout the year (one in feb, two over the summer) that i need to make in to more socks. i have a few hollyday things first though. then the socks. and my blankets. XD (i have one in progress, getting near the end... and two more in planning stages!

I have a lot of sock yarns that I've stocked up on over the last few years tbh. >.>
One was gonna be for socks for a (now former) friend in pretty, dark wine/berry reds and teal and the rest are half in the pastel unicorn-y color schemes and half in other assorted non-pastels. Oh! And I also have a fiery red/orange/yellow one too.
I'm good at making plans, but not making items... ;>.>

I also have a partial skein of a gorgeous self-patterning sock yarn (or possibly a sock-weight baby yarn tbh), but I don't think I have the label from it, which is frustrating because I was hoping to find/buy more of it (which would probably tricky since it's kind of old and probably discontinued).

But I still need to finish up the custom cat plushies before I do any other projects, so I'm gonna try to work on them more this week.

oh i'll get around to making the items... eventually.

we may have a 5th cat....

Yay! More kitties! ALL THE KITTIES!!!
>8D

LOL!

hubby said there was a stray kitty out on our desk. i'm wondering how hubby knows kitty is stray

I tend to think of "stray" as a multi-purpose term referring to any potentially lost or homeless cat. Like, maybe the cat is just lost, but maybe it really is purely stray and in need of a home.

kitty was crying and shivering on our back deck, hubby brought kitty in, kitty had some water and threw it up. :( coat is kinda matted, daughter thinks kitty might not have been taken care of. but kitty is friendly, so there's that.

i posted a picture on our Nextdoor community, we'll see what happens

Awww poor little thing.

yeah.

hubby and daughter are taking kitty over to a walk-in animal hospital to see what's up, and get some details

Aw, hope the kitty isn't in too bad of shape and can find its home or find a new one.

so it turns out kitty isn't very well. she's somewhere between 8 and 12 years old, has a heart murmur, and kidney issues, and her body temperature was cooler than normal. being outside certainly didn't help any of that. she had to have humans, but the consensus was she'd been outside for quite some time - longer than she should have been i think.

i posted on my local nextdoor site and i don't think anyone looked at it. i looked at lost cat postings on facebook too, and none of them matched.

basically, her quality of life would not be good, so hubby made the decision for the vet to send her over to the rainbow bridge, and hopefully some cat or dog is there waiting for her.

Awww poor kitty. T_T
At least she's not hurting now.

yeah.

thing is, hubby knew her for only a few hours, and it's harder than he thought, i didn't even meet her, and i'm teary eyed too. i suggested it's maybe that we weren't able to give her a second chance. :(

Yeah, that's probably part of it. I think having to make that decision, just in general, is probably a tough thing to have to do too.

it doesn't get easier, even if the kitties don't live with us, it would seem.

I think I'll take over my brother's Island in Animal Crossing and shape it how I like. >B} Muahahahaha!
Also, I hate that the joycons are so messed up and don't work like they should. =~=; I'll need to figure out how to play without them.

I started playing Tomodachi Life again!! ^___^ Haven't played it in so long.

Oh gosh! xD That game is so cute and ridiculous! I wish I had the full version, but I only got to play the demo. ;u;
Still I liked the demo. x)

It is. XD I forgot about it for a while.

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Thinking of saving for a switch lite, even if it's a used one. =w=

Going through my mother's inventory of bead supplies and considering making myself something with some of the neat things. Just have to learn the proper way to do it so it doesn't fall apart.

I wish you luck bio!

*buys bag of reese's pieces*
Coworker: that's not your dinner is it
Me, remembering that I have no food at home: haha, no, just a little snack...
;>.>
<.<;

Kad I hope you're able to stock up on food ;u;

Yeah, I should, hopefully, be able to pick up groceries on the way home tonight.

Going to work angry really helped distract me from my leg pains for some reason. o-o
Maybe I should go to work with churning rage inside me again? *-*

One of my favorite directors, Kim Ki-duk, passed away from Covid. I should look into finding the ones I haven't seen yet.

That's unfortunate :(

Might be looking up apartment rentals halfway across the state because I heard about a job that I never realized was potentially one of dream jobs until now...
>.>
It's all theoretical research at the moment, but something I may plan/aim for.

That sounds exciting!

Having done a bit of research, it seems like the job may or may not be a year-round position, it looks a lot like it's just a June-September summer job, but tbh, would still be amazing (it's a dinosaur museum! 8D). And is actually not that far from me, as I discovered while trying to find rental properties there. I was confused as to why it kept just bringing up places in the city I live in until I checked a map. I legit thought it was farther away than it is, but is only about a hour's drive. (So if I were to go for it, I'd either have to move closer, if I can hunt down anything even, or face a 2 hour round-trip commute per day.)
Unfortunately, I do not have, and cannot afford a car just yet, which is problematic. But like I said, it's more of a "research for long-term plans" rather than an immediate thing.

Yeah I get you. I wish you the best of luck in achieving your long term goals <3

Good luck on everything, Kad!

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I finally sold a commission I had been working on for a while today! *u* Had it finished a little while ago.

Good luck with your possible big plans Kad! :O Think well on your decisions and best of luck! A dino museum sounds cool! :D

Nice job Kitty! :D You can feel proud about it, I hope you do!


Actual shout: I should probably turn in soon, it's getting late, and I got christmas shoppin' to do tomorrow morning, at a really big, really cool antique store!~ ^U^ I hope I find something for my family there. :D

Thank you. :3 I do, and glad to have it with the person who asked for it. xD Which is a friend, but yeah, just glad they have it now. XD

I feel like getting crafty with Xmas ornaments this year. :0

wow that sounds cool, Kaderin! hope everything works out for you! :)