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Tis an interesting weekend here. My sister's ex, who still lives here, is going off to the US for some surgery, staying with some of their partners for recovery, and their mom is here to help out with the household and spend time with her grandkids. So yesterday was a bit much, with 2 extra people in the house to navigate dogs around. Hades is a big, reactive, German shepherd. He is mostly just barky but he is a BIG dog and that's intimidating. We have a house that is pretty easy to close him off from people so that everyone has space but it mostly falls on me to do it when I am home, because I am more aware of where he is, etc, and also not everyone is like. Considerate of him, even though he is the one who lives here. Today the ex and their gf left early to drive into a giant snowstorm because they are not really great at planning and forethought! Good luck to them I guess.

In other news, I finished the audiobook version of Braiding Sweetgrass, which I highly recommend, and started listening to the Iliad, Lattimore translation read by Charlton Griffin. I signed up for an audible trial for this as I couldn't find anything free, but I'm really enjoying it. It is kind of fun to listen to the epic verse read aloud, but then just translated it into colloquial modern speak for my own entertainment as we go. Eg: Hektor: OMG Paris you are making us look like a bunch of punk bitches wtf. Being pretty is NOT enough. Now I have to fix this. Paris: Valid, but also sorry can't help it if I'm so handsome! And so on.

Meanwhile I'm working on writing my candyhearts assignment (its going slowly but I hope will come out well), and slowly working on knitting a top for which I'm altering the sleeves from bell to bishop.... third time's the charm on getting them right I hope!

Watching through My Hero Academia with Nary, and Fangs of Fortune (gorgeous and sad) with Nary and our friend Kennesaw, Theoretically watching Mysterious Lotus Casebook again with my sister but she is often busy when I have time for it. Playing-ish with Nary (she is playing but I'm helping :V) the second Apollo Justice trilogy. Playing in so many ttrpgs (but online), including right now, but its not my turn so I figured I would try actually writing something here.