salticidae: marceline singing and playing her bass (marceline)
Went and got my novavax & flu shots today, hopefully they don't knock me out too bad 🤞 Also Tilly is slowly getting more and more cuddly with me >:3 she's started climbing on top of me during her breakfast wake-up calls and sat in bed with me soliciting scritches for a good 15 minutes today too.

I started playing Dredge a few days ago and I'm enjoying it way more than I thought I would - not that I thought it was going to be like. boring or whatever, I just don't usually play fishing games so I wasn't sure what to expect. I might be playing it a little too cautiously though lol I think I totally missed my chance to investigate that big red light from the first ~week of game time. Well that's just how it goes sometimes... but I wish the fishmonger would stop rubbing it in whenever I go to sell my catch lol

Also I'm obsessed with this biscochito flavored tea I bought recently. I'd never heard of the cookies before this but the tea is delicious (it's a hojicha base with cinnamon and anise (usually I dislike anise but idk there's just something about it in this tea...)) so now I really want to try the cookies themselves (or even try making my own).
salticidae: GIR in his doggy suit, lounging between two giant bowls of cheese puffs (cheetoz)
I got a cat tree for Tilly to put next to my desk (because she likes to sit next to me but doesn't seem very excited about getting up on the actual desk) and it's a little bigger than I anticipated even though I did check the measurements beforehand lol... it's fine though it's just a little awkward in my room. Worst comes to worst I can move it out into the living room, I'm sure she'll be very happy with it out there too. She's been napping in my bed all day though and hasn't seen it yet. Cat tree jumpscare once she wakes up 🙀

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I've been thinking about getting a mobile tablet for drawing purposes lately... I already have like a dedicated art tablet to use with my laptop, this would be like a little general-use thing that I just coincidentally use to doodle. I've been feeling the urge more often lately and it would be way easier to use on my commute and also -- this is the real reason lol -- when Tilly's demanding I sit out in the living room with everyone 😂 I kind of want to see if I can finagle it as my birthday present since that's coming up soon, but shopping around all the different models is hard. There's too dang many of these things.

Also I started listening to NIN recently and having heard the original version of Hurt I can now say that I agree with Cori that it's better than Johnny Cash's cover. Like, the cover is good obviously. I just think the original is better.
salticidae: soundwave from earthspark charging his shoulder cannon (es charging)
My brother's wedding is at the end of the month and I still haven't been able to find any good shoes to buy for it -____- I mean it's going to be relatively casual for a wedding so things could be worse but trying to find something in my size that goes with the rest of my outfit (dressy coveralls with modified blazer) (so like ideally I get a dressy "work" boot or something) that doesnt cost like 400 dollars is becoming a trial from god. Worst comes to worst I'm probably just going to get a basic pair of Docs since my mom already said that would be ok lol

Oh I beat Bomb Rush Cyberfunk the other day! The story ended up being a little lighter-weight than I thought it would but tbh that works for it I think. The platforming in it really is the star of the game - soooo fun and fluid.

Work is really grating on me lately :/ we don't have half the staff we should (I know everywhere is understaffed these days but this feels really egregious) so naturally instead of bothering to hire people the owner is subjecting us all to a totally unnecessary and overhyped construction project. I'm trying to keep the wise words of our friend Da Share Zone in my head but this situation is a little too complicated for me to Just Walk Out on unfortunately.

Anyway here are a bunch of Tilly pictures please enjoy :3 Read more... )
salticidae: GIR in his doggy suit, lounging between two giant bowls of cheese puffs (cheetoz)
You know, the real adjustment period I'm having to go through with Tilly is the fact that she's the kind of cat that needs someone to watch her eat... but only after she's down to the crumbs for some reason. She scarfs down two thirds of it no problem but she needs a buddy for the rest of it. Also she keeps wandering off before she actually finishes, so I'm like "ok cool I can go do something else" and then five minutes later she's crying at me to go back and sit in front of her dish again. I have to go make dinner for me too girl

In other news I picked up Bomb Rush Cyberfunk and it's fun as hell *____* Art direction: dope. Platforming: slick. Story: just right (so far. I'm not done yet lol). Soundtrack: absolutely fucking off the charts.

salticidae: soundwave taking a nap (soundwave nap)
Guess who woke me up no less than 3 times last night!

ottolie lounging on the floor

Okay well tbh I actually don't feel that tired about it (yet), but it was still pretty funny. And it enabled me to hear that really cool thunderstorm in the middle of the night too.

The important thing is that she came up onto the bed with me several times during that period, and then when I finally woke up at my normal time she was curled up against my leg 🥺 I know it hasn't even been two days since I brought her home so I need to be more patient but I was a little worried she wouldn't want to come on the bed bc I helped her up there at one point during the day and she immediately jumped back down lol. I was also wondering how long it might take her to feel comfortable jumping up places from a tripod stance, so it's good to know she's getting back in the game already! I even had to discourage her from jumping onto my bookshelves lol

I'm still going to get her some stairs for my bed but this is a relief also because it means I don't have to worry too much about the configuration of whichever cat tree I decide to get for her eventually.

And then before I even went to bed last night she had an exciting time poking around the rest of the apartment! My brave girl...

far shot of ottolie inspecting the living room

salticidae: howlback, ravage, and glit all sleeping in a pile (kitties)
I haven't been able to get any really good pictures of miss Ottolie yet because when she's not napping under my bed she's haranguing me for scritches and won't stay still... She seems to be adjusting well so far, though, and even poked her head out of my room for a bit earlier! She hasn't shown any interest in Poptart's old cardboard hide or the fabric fishy hide that I put out, but hopefully that's only a matter of time. Well, for the fish, at least. The cardboard hide might be too saturated in Pippo smell (& fur) for her lol... but we'll see.

I'm going to go out to petsmart today and see if I can't grab her some stairs up to my bed or a nice short cat tree or something; her missing leg is an amputation rather than a congenital feature, and the surgery was only a month ago, so she's pretty clearly still adjusting to the tripod situation. Wobbly girl... I don't know if she's going to want to use anything like that just yet tbh but I'd rather have it available for her sooner than later.

She also seems to be totally uninterested in dry treats so far (although I have some Churu I want to test out on her), which is extremely funny to me given that Poptart also had no interest in treats. I'm just fated to bond with kitties who can't be treat-motivated for anything I guess 😭

Ottolie lounging under my bed


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