Reaching Out

OK there has not been much of anything happening, but!

I FINALLY PAINTED MY STUDY!! It's a really nice green. My brother also came over to help me put up pictures. One wall has my degree certs and the artwork for my stories. I have James Ng's Imperial Steamworks series as well, though my first priority is a draft image since that's more limited edition. I also had other art ready to be framed, and that went over my sewing station desk, with generous amounts of space for corkboard action.

I've been fostering kittens! I met the mother cat a few weeks back--she meowed at me as I was passing by and I didn't understand why, until I passed the stairwell where she was waiting outside of, and through the doorway saw her nursing her four kittens. I've been chronicling the adventures of fostering them on Instagram Stories and do batch uploads on Facebook. My friend Munira helped me get them to a vet for vaccination and deworming, as well as a general checkup. Today I gave away two of my fosters! They're of course the white pretty ones =( But I hold out hope that someone will take the rest... the mom is so friendly and sweet, and my Fitbit sleep score is really high lately XD But she's also in and out of heat so her cat operatics are a bit much. I'm going to get her spayed as soon as I can.... hopefully in two weeks. They're currently limited to the front room study and bathroom, though I'll gradually let them out into the rest of the apartment, since the white ones were the ones with the flea problem. (I MEAN, it's POSSIBLE that the rest of these also still have fleas, and I just can't see them because they're darker, but I'm pretty good at

I've also been in talks to renovate my kitchen, and the work starts tomorrow!!!!! The contractor will be pulling out the cabinetry and re-doing the entire counter. RIght now the counter is some sort of wood, and the sink area is disintegrating as a result. I'll have it redone in tiled cement, and I'll be adding more counter space, so I can fit in a new conventional oven (my parents kept the one from the house they sold and it's just been sitting in their house). I was ready to just sacrifice some cabinet space but the contractor was like "why don't you just have it at chest level?" And I was SHOOK it had NEVER occured to me before that yes, in fact, it's a good idea to have a conventional oven at chest level!!! And it would give me more cabinet space for other things like foodstuffs and appliances! But right now it means housing all my kitchen stuff elsewhere and I guess I'll be washing dishes in my bathroom for a while. Not sure how I'm gonna live without my water filter (it's the one attached to the tap, not the jug type) but I had stored some up from a scheduled water cut last week, so yay.

I also need:
- a new exhaust hood because aside from the shattered tempered glass it's overall kinda disgusting and I haven't been able to make headway in getting the rest of the grease off
- to finish painting my living room
- a new toilet roll holder because somehow I did not notice the one in my front bathroom has been held together by duct tape all this time?? ARGH