frith_in_thorns: Red teapot with a teacup (.Teapot)
New Year's Resolutions I would like to gently suggest to my toddler for her consideration

1. I will sleep ALL NIGHT in my own bed. Maybe once a week, as a compromise? Once a month??

2. I will eat things other than peanut butter.

3. I will at least maybe TRY foods I have enjoyed very much in the past when they have actually passed my lips, instead of just comedy shaking my head like I'm trying to make it fall off when SCARY FOOD like anything not made of peanut butter is offered to me.

4. I will stop sticking my fingers up Mummy's nose while we're snuggling.

5. I will hold hands when walking on the pavement rather than throwing myself dramatically to the ground because the act of my hand being taken means ALL MY BONES DISSOLVE.

6. I will accept that having stroked the bunny very nicely several times does NOT mean that I have now earned the right to grab her fur and try and pin her in place for cuddles.

7. I will stop feeding the bunny things she is not allowed, like biscuits. Or building bricks.

8. I will wear a hat outside. For more than 30 seconds at a time. Occasionally.

9. I will turn off the magnetic attraction I have towards scissors, knives, fragile objects, open cans, cleaning products, basically everything that could kill me and is therefore obviously GREAT.

10. I will stop playing the game where I climb onto the sofa and then throw myself off (with a little run-up first) regardless of whether either of my mummies are actually prepared for IMMINENT FLYING BABY, even though obviously they should always be prepared for IMMINENT FLYING BABY.
frith_in_thorns: A rainbow of yarn on shelves (.Yarn)
It's a long time since I've started without an apology for not posting for a while, isn't it? Well, I'd hate to break the streak.

If you've seen me on twitter/instagram, you're definitely aware that I have completely and utterly fallen down the sewing hyperfixation hole. But! Making custom clothes as a business is actually working! I keep being stunned by this, but it's true. Not that I've generated any actual cash so far, since I keep immediately reinvesting in more fabric - but I can now confidently join preorders for really exciting fabric, for instance. And my order book runs into mid-January currently. And I've had several repeat orders too, which is deeply relieving!

Liongirl continues to be great. Funnily enough, she is currently HUGELY into lions. "Dear Zoo" is her favourite book and she wants to keep turning between her favourite pages of the lion, the giraffe, the snake, and the puppy. She can do all the sounds! (The giraffe is less a sound and more stretching one arm up into the air.) Aside from that, she can shout "wow!" and "hooray!", and these are all the words she feels she needs at the moment. The lion-roar is very much her favourite and is surprisingly multi-purpose. The other week she met my friend's baby, who is a few months younger than her - he was wearing a bib with a lion on, and she kept poking it and shouting "Rawr!" cheerfully in his face, to his mild concern.

Other things... my extremely focused obsession with Liu Sang continues. Writing a multichapter right now with actual plot which I'm probably pretty pleased with although I constantly have wobbles.

Not much else. My mental health is honestly not great, but these three things are life rafts. Talking to people continues really really hard - yes, I have been reading DW constantly but making zero comments. I really love the reading, though.

Maybe I should do the thing of making a DW post literally every day in December even if I have nothing to say - I keep thinking of little things to share and then deciding they're a bit long for twitter and a bit short/boring for here. But I never think that about anyone else's posts, lol.
frith_in_thorns: (Apt Tisamon honour)
Today I went to a garden centre which was hosting a little funfair. I decided to buy some fresh doughnuts, as you do. They come in bags of four, so I thought that Liongirl could have one and I could have three. (They're tiny, don't judge.)

There was a man and a woman in the van, both fairly old. They were frying these doughnuts to order, not taking them out of a ready-made stock. The woman asked the person in front if they wanted sugar on their doughnuts, they did, she put the doughnuts in a paper bag and sugared them. Then she just did mine too on autopilot and passed them to the man who tried to pass them to me.

Me: Oh, actually I didn't want sugar on all of them. I wanted three with sugar and one without.
Him: They've all got sugar on them
Me: Yes, I know, can I have one without sugar, please?
Him: They've got the sugar on them already
Me: Yes, can you maybe take one of them out of the bag and give me a different one without sugar on it?
Him: You can't have just one without sugar. They all go in the bag and then the sugar goes in the bag and you shake it and they all get sugar on
Me: But... could I maybe have three in a bag with sugar, and one in a different bag with no sugar?
Him: They don't come like that.
Me: But can you not... make one like that... please?
Him: ...
Woman: OH FOR GOD'S SAKE *shoves him out of the way and proceeds to put three doughnuts in a bag with sugar and one in a separate paper bag without sugar
Me: Thank. You. <3
Queue of people having built up behind me: *incredibly boggled looks*

They were tasty doughnuts.

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