Unlocking my Fallout dog, Christmas, and new stationery
Well, I finally did it, I got to rank 81 for this season and unlocked the white shepherd, who looks a lot like our late dog, Freya. It’s nice that I finally did it, but it’s also bittersweet to see those mannerisms on a dog that looks so much like her. Especially the little foot stamping and the random big yawns. I think the camp pets are meant to bring you items sometimes, but so far all virtual Freya has done is run hectically around the camp lol. And it turns out I didn’t even have to get rid of Beckett! Which my husband is not especially thrilled about as he’s weirdly jelly of Beckett, even though he’s only there to represent him in the first place lol. I think they need to record new dialogue about the camp pets though, because Beckett and the dog spend an uncomfortable amount of time just solidly staring at each other in silence. Also some new story quests would be nice from pretty much every character.
(Side note, I was originally going to romance the astronaut, Sophia, but her looping dialogue was so frustrating. FLOATING IN SPACE FOREVER. JUST, WHY?)
Recent video about my camp and how Beckett keeps getting into his underwear lately. I need to record a new one to come out tomorrow (I deffo won’t get a Resident Evil one done in time), largely about the camp dog, but man, I still don’t have much of a voice. Like I said in the last post (I think) we’ve had covid and are just so tired lol. Christmas has been very sedated so far. So not sure how much I’ll actually be able to speak in the video.
Related to being sick, actually, is the fact I can’t wear my wedding ring right now. I got a new very thiccc silicone one that will hopefully not get loose anytime soon, due to it’s aforementioned thickness. It’s kind of comically wide for my fingers but it was otherwise fine. However, I had been having a lot of fevers and sweating so much. Apparently I had been doing a fair bit of sweating specifically under my wedding ring lol. I got up the other day and my finger felt weird. I took the ring off. Oh man. The skin had gone super white and weird, like I’d been in the bath a long time, but instead of bath water it was sweat I guess. And, there was some sort of lesion on the top of my ring finger. It’s been leaking a lot of fluid, I keep putting hydrocolloid patches on it to absorb it, but it just keeps coming. And I tried to put the ring back on over said hydrocolloid patches when the rest of the skin dried out, but it was very sore and my finger feels so swollen.
So, until this weird lil wound clears up, no wedding ring. I feel naked and weird without it. But I also probably need to calm down about it, we don’t magically become unmarried when the ring isn’t on. I’m definitely overthinking it. I wound up on a google train about it and apparently a lot of couples just don’t wear their rings at all. And I guess I’m halfway to being one of those people since I hate the feeling of my actual titanium band anyway, and use silicone ones. But this whole situation is reminding me of how much I just don’t like jewellery in general.
I wear the same default titanium labrets in my 3 remaining lobe holes every day, they almost never come out. I have a default necklace, a little medallion of Polaris, which is an important personal symbol to me; I alternate between phases of not really wearing it because I hate feeling the chain on my neck, and of not taking it off at all, even in bed.
I think it’s being Autistic that causes all my issues with various textures and feelings. I like dangle earrings and don’t want to part with the ones I have, but I’m never gonna wear them unless there’s a super special occasion, I honestly don’t have the energy to spend on fiddling with my ears otherwise. I really have no need to wear most of the jewellery I’ve accumulated. I could probably be a “don’t even wear my wedding ring” person. I’ve been hoping to get a new smaller titanium one I can use as my proper wedding ring (while keeping the original one from the ceremony safe), but I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever find one I can tolerate the feeling of. I’m also terrified of being degloved, which also contributes to my use of a silicone one lol. Maybe I also won’t care about any of this when we’re free of covid and slightly sane.
I’ve put in my 2025 planner inserts now; I’m still using the gorgeous A5 purple Malden as the cover, but I’m experimenting with Personal Planner inserts this year instead of new Filofax ones. I used Personal Planner diaries many years ago and got on quite well with their grid layout, so fancied trying that again. Only issue I’m having so far is that the pages feel like very stiff card and are difficult to turn, but maybe they’ll soften-up over the year.
In other gaming news, I got very addicted to Crime Scene Cleaner when Vily bought it for me. It makes me quite motion-sick though so I can’t play for a long time. I got a few games for Christmas that I look forward to checking out, I will probably start New Vegas on stream, assuming it doesn’t crash for me lol.
Aside from unlocking my dog, in FO76 I finally put up with enough of Danilo’s complete lack of wherewithal, to earn 300 stamps and unlock the plan for the jetpack for my armour. But then I had to launch some nukes to get enough materials to craft it, that was a whole thing. But getting up on random roofs with the jetpack is extremely fun and exactly the sort of thing that I like to do.
- All about my Fallout characters - January 20, 2025
- Unlocking my Fallout dog, Christmas, and new stationery - December 30, 2024
- My brain has left my body - December 17, 2024