Nice day outside! I'm getting out my hula hoops!

Okay... it's been too long. I accidentally slapped myself in the side of my head with a 10 pound hoop because I know the moves but it's been too long since my body last did them.

Maybe go lay down for a while. One trip to the ER for a hula hoop injury was enough for this lifetime. Not trying to do it again.

@AmserJ Paolini wrote those dragon books, right? Somehow, those never appealed to me. I get weirdly picky about dragon stories.

I have decided to read the Percy Jackson books because everyone I personally know makes references to them, but I haven't read the books or seen the movie. I'm not opposed to reading YA fiction because even most adult fiction is below my reading level (thanks, hyperlexia...been this way my whole life) and it's mostly safe on trauma triggers.

I already love page 1!
#CoSoBooks

@amarand I do not! I've seen some and liked the look, but I was afraid they might be too likely to chip and break when rolling them. Do yours seem to have good durability?

@amarand Yes, but the only one who has always had access to my dice wouldn't touch them. It's part of his autistic nature to never touch someone else's stuff without permission. The other people who've been around the past few years wouldn't know where I keep them. I'd like to think they'd ask, but I know for certain they just wouldn't know where they are.

@amarand I do keep them all together! They have their own bag that I knitter for them. I'd lose them all if I didn't. But no...just the one wanders off and turns up in places it makes no sense for it to be.

The new dice will go well with the ones I already have for divination work. Similar, so they all go together. Different, so I can easily tell them apart when used together in a reading. And having a whole second set opens possibilities.

I will still be frustrated that I cannot find the piece that repeatedly goes missing.

My favorite d20 goes missing from time to time. I've had it for nearly 20 years, and it disappears for months and then shows up again. None of my other dice do this. I can't just replace it. I would know it's not the same piece.

And that's how I ended up ordering a whole new set of dice today. 🤦‍♀️

@amarand I was practicing for making a sock monkey for my nephew. The friend who told me about making dolls from socks looked at it and asked, "You can't just make cute animals, can you?" 😄

Oh! I have the story up on AO3!

The Call of Sockthulhu

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3273095

Years ago, I wrote a version of "The Call of Cthulhu" that is like Lovecraft meets "Toy Story". The whole thing is played out by toys. (The policeman comes from the Fisher-Price family.) Cthulhu is Sockthulhu...a doll made from socks.

I also made Sockthulhu at the time, and found him this weekend while going through some boxes!

Well, I've sat locked in fear and despair long enough! Let's see what I can go disrupt just by daring to exist in that space! 🥳

I'm finally getting started reading N.K. Jemisin's "The City We Became"! This one's been on my list of things I intend to read for a while.
#CoSoBooks

@InUnfunky @XaoslordErie @th3j35t3r I like movie adaptations of Moore's work a lot more than he does, which doesn't take much because he hates them. But I get where he's coming from. He writes with the medium in mind. No matter how much I like the movie, I absolutely love the graphic novel when it's his work.

I found a spot in my current knitting project where the yarn had frayed nearly to the point of snapping! It wasn't easy for me to fix it, as those stitches were already finished. It would have been even harder to fix if it snapped and things started unraveling some day in the future when I'm wearing it, though.

Woke up to find this in messages from my husband today. 💜

https://youtu.be/Lxwcmhj63l4

@Alfred Why does my snake keep taking spiders in as roommates?

@SpaceSlothForever I'm usually a "The original is best!" person, but this has been my favorite version of this song since it came out. The emotion! I was in tears the first time I heard it.

@LowEndMuse I started with a regular acoustic, but my teacher suggested a classical for the neck being more comfortable for my hand. I immediately fell in love with the sound! I've had my guitar long enough that it's been through serious life changes with me. That instrument is a family member at this point.

@LowEndMuse Classical. So acoustic and nylon, but with half of them wound on the outside.