TODAY WAS SUCH A FUCKING EXPEDITION AND I REALLY WISH IT HADN'T BEEN!!!!!

lays on the ground

The day started with our laundry machine being full of ants, which is fucking great and also I have a whole paranoia thing about my food getting infested/tainted by ants so like. Now they're somewhere else in my home, and that's terrible!

And of fucking course Liz and I had been planning on catching up on laundry today, so we were like...okay. Cool. We can go to a laundromat, do a shit ton, and call it good (for now). But nope!!! It's never that easy!!!!!!!! On the way to the laundromat, literally less than 5 minutes from the house, we got a flat tire in a chunk of road with nowhere to pull over.

COOL COOL COOL

We made it to a gas station, took a bunch of laundry out of the car - you know, because we were on the way to the laundromat, so of course the whole trunk + back of car was full - and Liz got to work trying to put on the spare tire. But the jack for Pat's car is like super fucking finicky, so it was just not working right.

HOWEVER!!! WE WERE SAVED!!!!!!!!!! A friendly bisexual man helped us change the tire while his girlfriend and boyfriend took turns slapping his ass.....because apparently I was in the start of someone else's porno XD Liz paid him back by buying him a pack of cigarettes and a gatorade, and honestly it was just a very nice interaction. City living is great, y'all.

After that, we finally managed to get "lunch" which was...late enough to be dinner......whatever, it was very good!!! And then...laundry daaaaay~~~~


you know I had to bring the boys!!!!
The laundromat had a lounge on the second floor with free wifi, but 1) the chairs were the most uncomfortable things ever and 2) once we really got into the swing of it, there wasn't much time to "relax" or wait. It took awhile, but now we have tons of clean clothes!!!! Our laundry never runs right in the winter due to the plumbing being shit when it's cold, so we were very behind...

And then we rewarded ourselves with bubble tea :D


oshikatsu life ♥
Final step: getting a replacement tire. The initial plan had been to swing by a 24 hour tire place and get a used one for relatively cheap, but that only sorta worked. Pat's car takes a very odd tire size, so they didn't have any used ones D: But this was a process, since they had to look through a ton of tires...only to be met with failure D:

However, all hope was not lost!!!!! They did have a new tire, for a much better price than tires for his care usually run. All in all, it could have been worse, but it still felt like one thing after a-fucking-nother. I swear, I couldn't catch a break today.

Now I just want wanna curl up and either play enstars or crisis core...I'm beat! So I'll leave you with a picture of a tower of tires~

uhhhhh what have I been up to? Besides farting around the house...

Oh! Less housework this week, if only because I had some bad pain days. I did do a big grocery run on Friday. Me and Chi hit four different stores and I got basically everything we needed. And I did make dinner yesterday, even if it was something simple. I was on voice chat with a friend I made at Otakon - because that's a thing I do now???? - and managed to do a bunch of dinner prep while chatting.

Maybe I should try to talk to friends more??????? Like not just online, but on the phone/voice chat/whatever, so that I'm less lonely during the day and it inspires me to get more done. I always do more if I'm not alone. I dunno. I used to talk on the phone all the time, but now it's less of a thing...except for jumping into voice chat on discord is sort of a thing now, I think. I dunno. I sometimes feel old and out of touch, and I'm not even that old XD

I've been picking away at the layout for this journal, but I'm struggling? I dunno. I haven't been happy with a lot of the grunge-y stuff I've done lately, and I don't really know how to fix it. I've gotten back into doing some sparkle graphics recently, partially because I've been doing a backup of them over on InsaneJournal- which btw was a whole saga to get into. But yeah, I'm slowly putting up every freebie/requestable I've ever made over on killiansicons. I suppose I could do that here, but it would completely overtake my graphics journal...I've done close to 200.

ANYWAY. Apparently, my original IJ was deleted & purged for inactivity. I went digging and found the email...which was from when I was in culinary school and didn't have consistent access to a computer. So, I see what happened. But now IJ is fucking invite only - the bane of my existence and why it took me so long to get both LJ and DW accounts - and I don't have friends on journaling sites anymore. And I went around online trying to find someone giving them out, which of course I couldn't. So I made a tumblr post looking for one...which someone replied to today, almost a week later. As if I have that kind of patience XD I paid $5 for a month of paid time so I could get one.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. I couldn't register my original username, because it was deleted and purged. Because fuck you, I guess. I would have to buy a rename token. And I already had to pay for an account, so...I ended up using one of my old GreatestJournal usernames ;D I'm kirrianu over there, and it's been really great to use a whole shit ton of my old icons from GJ. I'm glad I back them all up before the site went up in flames!!!

Anyway. I'm currently waiting on the tree people to come by and give me an estimate for cutting back our neighbor's fucking tree, because they certainly won't do it. And then we can work on dealing with the roof leaking, before that whole side of the house gets fucked up.

Oh, right, I also napped on the couch this morning and had a weird dream. Considering I almost never dream...it was weird :T

Once again, I'm here to make an entry about all the shit I did all week without writing proper paragraphs or anything XD tho number one on the list is *pours one out* my paid account time lapsed and I spent all my fun money for the week on yarn, so I have very few icons right now ;w; My life is truly suffering.

Here we goooooooo!

• Took my Japanese test I missed from spraining my ankle and somehow got a 98% despite thinking I maybe possibly failed
• Went to three (3) different yarn stores to scope out the local goods. This was bad for my wallet but mostly saved by the fact that I had to wait until payday to buy anything
• Yarn, part two: Liz and I went to a gathering at the yarn shop closest to us on Thursday even and it was super nice!! Free entry, full of eccentric older people and queers around our age, free booze, and all around good times :D
• Yarn, part three: Liz, Pat, and I had errands on the other side of town on Friday so we stopped at a yarn store on the way, which had the exact yarn I needed for a knitted plush cat pattern. They were out of gray so I ended up getting just white and light orange, and I'm gonna make Hanna (rest in pieces soft baby)
• Also on Friday we went to the local BDSM dungeon for geeky boardgame night, which is honestly not that far off from the crowd at the yarn gathering I went to the night before XD tbh it was a lot of fun and I'll probably actually talk about it more later
• Made a new layout for my writing tumblr since my old one was like 7 years old. I did this instead of homework one day, because ummmm that's who I am lmao
• BDSM club, part two: got dunked on for having a Homestuck tattoo. Not because it was Homestuck - everyone was sharing their dorky tattoos - but because it was Eridan. Which is like, fair, but just remember that I had this tattoo before Liz and I even started dating
• Yarn, part four (I'm so sorry): we had to get groceries on Saturday, so I made us detour to Hobby Lobby for more yarn. I haaaaaate them as a company but what I hate even more is how fucking good their prices are for super unique yarn >< Pat got some neon yarn that I'm gonna turn into socks :D

Not on the list: The steady and increasing screams about Trigun every single day by everyone in the household!!!!!!!!!! STAMPEDE SATURDAY IS A HOLIDAY IN THE HOUSE AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO AFTER IT'S OVER!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

seriously we're all in soooooo deep

We did also make plans for when we're picking up Chi!!! Yepppp, time number three of Chi living with us, this time in a house with much more space. It's just meant to be for a few months until she gets settled in Baltimore and finds her own place, but I'm still excited. We're gonna make her watch so much anime with us XD And I am always pumped for road trips, especially up to NYC. It's been awhile since we've been!!

I'm gonna return to trying to do homework but mostly just making icons to fill the void in my soul (aka can't upload them for myself so I'll post them on my icon journal). OH RIGHT I changed the resolution on my laptop slightly so it doesn't feel like I'm working with icons for ants, and it's honestly been quite nice. The internet feels bigger and more friendly again!

But first, pictures! :D I had to get a new memory card this week because I somehow lost mine in the couch????? At least I'd backed up everything from it ;w;


Side bar for my writing journal, featuring my current fave pen + ink and Legato/Knives fanfic ;D

( I only remember half of this week from the pics I took lmao )

I took my xmas bonus to ikea and bought what I needed for a vanity!!! I've been doing my makeup at an ancient computer desk for the past few years, but I ran out of storage space in it pretty quickly. It really wasn't what I needed...but also money is hard so I couldn't afford to replace it. however!!! now I have a lovely one!!! :D I'm still waiting for a few of the acrylic organizers to get here from amazon, but it still looks amazing :D


this is what I spent most of yesterday working on and I'm so happy with it~~

( click for more progress pics!! )