singedsun

I took both Friday and today off for my birthday, giving me a four day weekend. While I spent Friday enjoying my birthday, I think I spent the rest of my weekend wrangling all my neurodivergent energy in combination with my extremely virgo vibes to reorganize or clean everything within my line of sight. I completely switched around my office, moving the desk and organizing all the cords to re-situate both my personal computer and my work laptop. I also had this huge rug underneath everything which I had to very delicately remove and then replace with a small runner instead. (My office was getting so hot during the day so I think both the new location near the vent and removing the big rug should help with.) I also brought up a new shelf from the basement in order to keep my office better organized. I cleaned a bunch too and I still need to mop part of the room but I'll do that tomorrow.

I used to do this a lot, before I was on better brain meds, where I'd just go into big rearranging or cleaning moods. Once it hits it's kind of compulsive, where it's all I can think about doing until I finally do it. In this instance though I had a good reason for the office stuff and I'm hoping that when I go back to work tomorrow I actually get the benefits I've been envisioning. I will say though every time that I go through one of these moods I'm always grateful for the meds that keep this from being really recurrent. It used to hit me in the middle of the night, in the middle of a movie, in really inopportune moments and that compulsive feeling was a whole long stronger. (Doing it all in a night instead of meting it out over a weekend, for instance.)

My chair is now directly in front of the window which the cats have all quickly located, so we'll see how much trouble they get themselves into with that before I have to change something. Kylo, our normally very quiet black cat who rarely visits my office, has already gotten her claws stuck in the curtain which I had to help her untangle from because she got to high up to lift her paw further. They've also located the one empty corner of my desk so I'm going to need to secure my monitors before they just knock them off the desk in attempts at cat shenanigans.

I did make my doctor's appointment this morning and she wrapped up my arm and told me that if the pain doesn't go away on it's own in a few days that we can do some steroid shots and an EMG test to see what's happening with the nerve responses in there. She did think it's likely carpal tunnel but it would take the test to know for sure.

The rest of my long weekend I spent catching up on Dimension 20's A Crown of Candy. For those that don't know what that is, it's a real play D&D show done by the crew at CollegeHumor (now Dropout.tv). They do their campaigns much different than other real play shows. It's SUPER well-produced with outrageous set pieces and miniature figures. And the lore of each story is very in-depth, they use a few people to help with all the pre-work of expanding the world's story, crafters to custom produce the models. The A Crown of Candy series is a sort of Game of Thrones-eque story but in a world where everything and everyone is made out of a different kind of food. It's a wild, fast-paced story. And instead of the three or four hour episodes of other shows like Critical Role, each episode is between an hour and a half and two hours. I really like how it's put together and when I'm done with this series, I'm going to pick up one of their others (they've had several). You can watch the first episode on YouTube here, if that at all sounds like your kind of thing. If your a fan of the McElroy brothers, they're in a series called Tiny Heist (where everything is based around toys -it's hilarious).

I did plan to rewatch Bill & Ted's Face the Music (which I watched on my birthday, and loved) but got so into A Crown of Candy, I never made it. So that will probably happen before I move on to another Dimension 20 show. I did rent a new horror movie called, The Rental -- but let me save you the trouble of picking that up -- it was slow, and really not that interesting at all. It wasn't worth the $6 or whatever it cost to rent. When I do another bad horror movie post, I'll say more.