Birthday Month 2023 August 15: Well, now, that was a Day.

First day experimenting with sleeping when I am sleepy and not when I am not. Also, yesterday I ordered a thumpy alarm for deaf and hard-of-hearing people like me, because I do still need to be awake when there are outgoing packages to be picked up. We shall see. (I generally nap on the couch very near the door, and my dear mail carriers are very good at thumping the door loudly, because I can't hear regular knocking most of the time. I have a sign I put out that says PLEASE THUMP THE DOOR, and they generally do.)

The one downside to going free range with sleeping is I do not key things to the hours of the day very well, so I missed the packing window for something. I'll just have to pack it to go out Thursday. I can do this.

Also, managed to have workbench time! YES. And some VERY satisfying workbench time. Besides all the earrings that need their earwires, there was doing of a thing that needs doing which I think is going to work.

Besides all that, my back continues to improve.

OK then, that was a Day. Oh, and there was a sort of durian moon cake thingy! I never had one of those before, though I have known I like durian ever since the place with durian milkshakes was a little ways away from here. This thingy was good. Bánh pía custard hopia, is what it said if I read it correctly. Om nom.

Have you tasted something recently that you haven't tasted in a long time?

Birthday Month August 16: a-ha! midnight approaches!

Still letting my sleep cycle choose itself, but today I have gotten my Etsy boxes packed and labeled with postage on them, and have done so in time to schedule a pickup for tomorrow. Yay! As my vibrating alarm clock arrived today, I have the technology appropriate for a hard-of-hearing Lioness to be awakened in time to switch to the sofa near the door upon which the excellent USPS person-of-the-day will thump loudly, if they have read the sign beseeching them to do so. (I cannot hear a regular knock unless it's under exceptionally favorable conditions.)

After I have something cool and enjoyable to drink, I have a few eBay things to pack as well, but since there is a pickup already scheduled, I do not need to race the clock here. The metaphorical clock, I mean, rather than the thumping one that will go inside my pillowcase... or possibly in a bag hung round my neck. We shall see.

Yesterday I forgot to write that the perfume of the day was Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab's "Death" from the Tarot series. It is in a 10ml bottle, which will tell you how old this particular BPAL scent is. (Somewhere around here I have a couple of tarted imps, if there are any old-timers who remember those.) Today I'm wearing a Nocturne Alchemy scent: Ra's Vanilla Amber. The NA perfume oils do not age as well as Possets or BPAL.

And I got GLORIOUS WORKBENCH TIME today, and finished a thing, and have other things almost done, and I cannot wait to show you. Probably I will photograph a bunch and put them up in the Etsy shop while waiting for the USPS.

How do you interact with your mail and package pick-up/delivery people? Do you have favorites?