So then she said...

About four hours after that last post, the December ick did, in fact, bodyslam me.

One of my least favorite things about getting older is how my body reacts to the ick. I'm hopeful this is just a cold (it's bad enough as it is, thank you), but this and the last ick (and I think the time before) both included a full day where I could breathe relatively fine with just the smallest, tiniest smidge of a whistle that let you know that hey, congestion was on the docket at some point. And my brain fired alllllllllllllll the way up and well into panic mode on "WE CAN'T BREATHE! WHAT IF SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAPPENS WHEN WE FALL ASLEEP?" Sooo... every time I would finally just about to drift off, I would be jolted back away by that alarm blaring in my brain. Which would set things off all over again. Even KNOWING it would happen this time, I still had entire hours where I was basically just like, "look, we just gotta get to...uh, 6am. 6am, it's fine." And do that for hours on end. It was not fun. The kicker was that after a certain point, like maybe 10:20am, I went upstairs (turns out I could doze a little longer if I 'slept' in my computer chair here, though it was less sleep and more brain stopped screaming) and propped myself up in bed again, and I was out. I woke up at some point, saw the cat on my pillow and thought, "oh, kitty! Loves me. Probably shouldn't be that close but when will I ever get to snuggle? I'll just lie here for a sec-----zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz." So spent Saturday trying to rest and failing, spent Sunday resting and occasionally heading downstairs for a saltine or three.

Alas, I didn't make it out of the ick without hurling, which I'd done Saturday right after calling out of work. Huzzah. I'm not sure if that or the coughing is why certain parts of me hurt like hell. Probably both.

Not sure if I caught Widget's ick, something else, or a half and half situation between Widget's and A's from work, though I do know I doomed myself when I refused to share a handheld thing with A because I didn't want to catch her ick. Like as soon as I said that, you could feel the fates laughing.

Anyway, I'm feeling better but I also know that's a very low bar to clear and that I should absolutely not overextend myself because better than panic attacks on the half hour is barely a bar to clear at all.

Oh, and I forgot that sometime Sunday evening, I went up to bed and got all flummoxed because suddenly I was roasting and couldn't figure out what the hell was happening, oh god, had the fever flared back into existence, should I begin worrying, what to... oh, yeah, uh no. I just had a sweater on because earlier in the day I'd had chills and while sweating the ick out isn't fun, it's kind of part of the deal. So yeah, I had a freakout because I was hot due to wearing a sweater and it took me entirely too long to figure that out. Brains, I gots 'em.

*does happy dance* Got my art prints yesterday and got to open them this morning. :D I snagged four prints from Mike Maihack's holiday sale to add to the two prints I already have. His stuff just makes me happy to see, so I figured might as well get some happy.

Snagged Hi there, Kara, Super Lucky Mini Print, Rooftop Greetings, and Bombs Away. :D

Now I'm heading up to bed to finish my book and then get some sleep. I should probably also move my laundry now that I think about it.

The cat is being helpful.

Not sure when I'm going to post this, but I finally caved and bought a proper storage option for my polish. Well, I bought one even though I know I'm going to need more than one. But I don't know how I'll actually feel about it when I get it and start to use it, so I am being responsible and starting at one.

Also, I still have absolutely no grasp on dimensions and what they actually translate to in reality. Cass apparently has this but worse, because I have never bought a huge TV by accident.

Anyway, I am still awfully excited to figure out which polishes will make the cut and which will continue to live in my plastic totes or shoe boxes. I have a vague idea of which brands I'm going to go with, as I think I'm going to go with the ones I tend to get crankiest about having to move heaven and earth to get to when I want to use them. That makes sense, right? If I weren't a coward, I'd look at my spreadsheet and see how many of those brands I have and then I'd be able to figure out if this is a two drawers per brand thing or what. But I'm going to be ~surprised~ because why not. In case future!me wants to laugh at me, my current tentative plans are: BKL, WFL/Royla Lee, and HT. I have another round in case there's room, but we're not going to jinx it. If nothing else, I'm hoping to get everything out of the cardboard boxes for now. BKL and HT are in two of the larger plastic totes, but WFL is in a CB box.
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Eeee!


Don't look at the state of my bookcase, k?

So, it hath arrived. It wasn't supposed to be here for another twenty minutes at the earliest but it showed up about two hours ago. I semi took it outta the box, but I'm leaving it in the protective wrapping because the straps will make it easier to carry upstairs if Widget doesn't come back tonight. The box is legit huge and for a second I thought I'd completely lost any tiny amount of spatial awareness I possessed, but no, they just really weren't fucking around with packing. It's the prettiest shade of blue. *swoons*

Gotta admit, part of me desperately wishes I could just call out and organize properly and then flop into bed and watch Stranger Things. But I must wait, I suppose.


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Soooooooooo... yesterday the cat and I hauled it upstairs, moved stuff around, and then got to work filling 'er up. I did mostly get what I wanted in there. WFL has room for more, in theory, but BKL filled up and then had to room with WFL, so... there's that. HT has room to grow and has more room if I take out the topcoats/basecoats I have in there, but I also realized I still have some downstairs so we'll see how much room is actually left. That being said, it'll be SO MUCH EASIER to put those away.


It's so BEAUTIFUL. (Also, multichromes and shimmers are a bitch to figure out where they belong!)

I went random-ish for HT since I keep them in their cartons/boxes for reasons I don't fully understand (I might go back through and sort them into rainbow order, or close to with the ones I'm not likely to use anytime soon at the very, very back), but went rainbow-adjacent for BKL/WFL. I'll admit it's not my best work because after awhile I got tired and still had other things to do, but again, it's so much easier to get to these now so it's not a big problem to re-do the rainbow, or change it up entirely.

Future!me, the round bottles fit 77 in a drawer and HT is 96, I believe. Not sure if I could make another few fit but I need a little wiggle room and it might also be different without the cartons.


Would I have bought this not on sale? Probably not. I did wait for their BF sale and now I wish I'd waited for CM since that was a better sale but it also shipped and arrived in like, four days, including a holiday, so there's that. It also arrived fully assembled and that was a big part of the appeal, plus half the time when I checked the more popular/less expensive option, it would laugh and say no shipping for you. So, dunno what that's about but it did limit my options. Overall, pleased, but I also have only had it up and running for a couple of days. I did put the two HT collection boxes I had in my HT tote on top, along with my advent calendar (told you it was decoration) and my holiday AG doll. Festive.