Today has been a rough day so far. I went to bed last night with a massive headache, and woke up with the same one today. S was sick last week, and she had similar symptoms, and she is still sick this week so I think I may have gotten what she had. It was inevitable. I had to wake up at 04:00 to be at work and ready to start by 07:00. It was a harsh morning, to say the least.

Work today was incredibly difficult, as my vision was blurry and my body was weak. My mind was also not very sharp, and I think I forgot a bunch of things with the setup. I wasn't upset at all during the rush or when I found that I had no backup/help until after 11:30, which is surprising. I think I was too tired and sick to care very much 😂 S picked me up after work today, so that was a nice surprise. I ❤️ her so damn much. We did order food from work, but we chose vegetarian options today. Gotta attempt to stay healthy 😊

Healthy will definitely be on the agenda when we move. S and I have three flights of stairs to take to get home, and the apartment complex has no lift. We also have to move stuff in and out, so it will be quite an adventure in getting fit! I'm actually excited about that. We will also be doing a LOT more walking around, as we will be living above a city centre. It's going to be sweet. 💃

So. Present. I got home about 3 hours ago. Since I've been home, I've watched a few of Safiya Nygaard's videos and messed around a bit with Obsidian. I was going to move my cooking recipes from Recipe Keeper to CookLang format and manage them in Obsidian, but it seems that the Templater plugin (as well as the built-in Templates plugin) don't want to create templates for .cook files at all. I have to make them in .md but the CookLang metadata doesn't render properly in Obsidian, and it was just an annoying mess that I didn't feel like dealing with so I got rid of the plugin lol MAYBE one day I will revisit the idea because how often do I really need to add a cooking recipe?

Speaking of cooking, I have to cook dinner soon. We don't really have anything, on account of trying to empty the refrigerator and freezer before moving, so its a mishmash of a meat, a sauce, a vegetable, and a pasta. Tonight it is bratwurst in store-bought carbonara sauce, with spinach and probably wholegrain fusili. That's simple enough. Now to see if I can motivate myself to get moving to make it. I am still pretty weak.

I've started doing a Day Planner thing in Obsidian again, and I hope I stick to it this time. Instead of detailing every single minute of my day like I did in 2022, which took a lot of time and effort, I'm just listing things in vague time frames (with the exception of appointments). It might help organise my days a little bit better, especially my days off where I accidentally fall into a hyperfocus void and come out two days later exhausted and unrested. Maybe adding cleaning here and there to the planner will actually get it done. I did manage to squeeze in a load of laundry this morning before leaving, because I stuck to the plan instead of ambling about.

Edit: (2023-01-31 18:32) Adding more stuff to the entry.

Yesterday's shift was sooo bad... 😢 We had multiple people come in late and two no-shows for the rush and oh my gosh I wanted to cry. We kept the times within expectations, but everything coming from me was sooo not up to anyone's quality standards and I left feeling not so fulfilled. 😭

Anyway... Good stuff time. The train ride to the apartment wasn't too bad. Mostly boring, and I kept falling asleep because I was tired from the shift...😴 S and I got a lot of exercise. Before I left for work this morning, I packed the car with supplies for the apartment. Soaps, cleaning cloths, dust wipes, garbage bins, garbage bags, pots, pans, utensils, things like that. It was two heavy totes that S couldn't safely carry. I carried those things up three flights of some VERY Dutch stairs that twist, turn, and narrow. Not once, but twice! I can totally see myself building up a nice butt and legs from living there lmao 💃

The couch arrived and I AM IN LOOOOVE!*~ 😍 It does need to be broken in a little bit because it is slightly harder than the store model. I can't wait to cosy up with S under a bunch of blankets ❤️

The tables are fabulous. I wasn't sold on the whole "Ironwood" (Animal Crossing peeps would know what I'm talking about lol) aesthetic in real life, but these look quite nice. They're three circular tables that nest. I saw a similar styled set once in a catalogue years ago and just haaaaad to have them. 👑 What the Queen wants, the Queen gets! 👑

We ordered our first takeaway from a local sushi place and the food was great. I didn't get what I ordered, though. In the app I selected a shrimp poke bowl with spicy sauce, and it came with sesame sauce. The receipt said sesame sauce, so I think their order taking messed up. Either way, it was tasty and we would order again. S enjoyed hers too and we can't wait to try other restaurants in the area 😄 I also brought my high heeled boots to try with the animal and flower print flare leggings, and I just about cried when I saw the pictures that S took and can't wait to wear that outfit when out and about in the spring. 💖 Super excited!!

At the moment I'm doing a bit of refactoring of LiveJrnl into submodules to eliminate code repeat. The more I use Python, the more I like it. At first it was for single-use tools and now I use it for pretty much everything. Now if I could only find a decent UI framework that isnt pyQt or pyGtk, XAML had me so spoiled...but that is for another post on another day.

Edit: Goodness, did the this post confuse jrnl! It interpreted the beginning of the title as a date and set the post date to 404-01-01 and I had to manually correct it in Sublime by moving the entry to the bottom of the file, and correct the date stamp.

I've completed a task for the day. What a rush. It is now time for bed. Tomorrow, some refactoring and language lessons.

Oh, and the couch arrives at the new apartment on Saturday. I'll have a 3 hour train ride ahead of me. Hooray, but at the same time I don't want to sit on a train for 3 hours lmao 😿

Ok. Real talk time. It seems like I'm using this project to distract myself. Normally I'm posting on Mastodon, but I'm not really feeling like my social battery has enough juice left in it to interact with other people.

I also noticed that I'm posting here roughly at the same time for almost every post. Quite interesting... I may need to look into this further. Maybe another day. I want to finish this project first.

I think it is time to get into the habit of writing into this journal instead of the other one. Two reasons. One, I leave behind all of the dark thoughts and toxicity. Two, new year, new me? I know jrnl has archives and such, but I really don't want to re-read those anytime soon. Into deep storage they will go.

A few days ago, I did a bit of a rework on LiveJrnl and made it so that templates can be passed as parameters, and output directories, and all of that. I just need to figure out how to package it as a standalone. Or maybe not. I like writing build scripts.

As for work, I have exactly 5 shifts left, and then I have to hustle to find a new job in the new city. Right now, we don't have a set move date, but as soon as the living room furniture gets there, we will be setting up the air mattress until the bed arrives. YAY!!!

oh fuck yes