I went to the grocery store to pick out food for Karu time. They weren't around for it, mostly because shopping and looking at prices and making Adult Decisions keeps them away. So I was shopping for someone else, mostly. Aelita pointed out that I should probably get vegetables or something healthy like that but...Karu ain't gonna eat that. Aether and Aelita and I are the ones who eat healthy food. Karu eats dunkaroos.
Anyways, I see cookie dough and think, hey, that would be fun, fresh cookies. They'd love that. And Aelita and or I would be the ones working the oven. But then I remember, hey, what about cake. What about a cake mix? So I go over to that aisle and see that there's a boxed cookie mix from a brand we really like! Which would be more involved, so maybe we can work on this together. Like a group activity.
Aelita: That's a great idea, actually. This is something you can definitely do on your own, but letting more people front and experience things will be good for them, which will be better for everyone.
Aether: lol okay. Making cookies. Can't wait to see how this turns out.
Fuwa (who has not been around at all today)(but showing up just now): This is a stupid idea, no one wants to do this, it'll just get screwed up.
And I'm like. Well okay then! If you want to be like that you do not need to take part. Showing up just to say something mean is not very nice at all! But also I don't want to be, like, you need to go to the timeout corner or something. Also I need to finish up the shopping trip I can't be wrangling everyone in the middle of the aisle lol
Did some good writing when I got home, I think Fuwa was helping since we were super happy with what we ended up with. I was juggling the writing and some simple research and trying multiple things in my head before writing something down and...I'm doing a bad job describing it lol. It felt like there was that parallel processing, so we were working together, which is good.
I also think Fuwa's general irritability leaks over when we do co-con, though. Like during dinner, pretty much everything my roommate was saying or doing was aggravating. I kept (unconsciously) checking her work and wanting to start shit about her doing things wrong, or not helping enough, or not helping the right way, but I, bird, know better and kept that from being extenralized. So I was just very frustrated internally and then frustrated at myself for even getting this upset about essentially nothing.
The day's winding down and I'm by myself, I think. I have Friday evening, all of Saturday, and the early part of Sunday all to myself, so that means 1 day/2 nights of potential Karu-ing. This is also serving as a reminder to myself to get things set up for them (picking out clothes, getting food in easy to reach spots, plan out activities etc).