Something positive that happened to me today is I read this thread and learned how to pick up a crow. I always wanted to befriend my local birds, so maybe I’ll start with these pigeon tips. <3
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Last night I convinced my childhood best friend to join me on a silly little dive into the hobby that we initially met and bonded over again, and it’s been a lot of fun. I haven’t drawn this much artwork in such a short frame of time in like, literal months, maybe a year and some change.
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I was able to hook my chat bot up to speak Shakespearean English.
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On transit the other day- some boys around my age were chattering away in Japanese, before abruptly pointing at my phonecase (it’s a My Melody one at the moment, a bit scruffed, with a pink bunny popsocket wearing a purple bowtie) and saying ‘cute!’ I smiled, thanked them for the compliment- and his expression lit up when he saw my mask- (pastel pink, My Melody patterned) followed by a just as exuberant “so cute!”
A win for Sanrio fans everywhere.
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Man, the fact that you can just happen upon someone casually speaking Japanese - hell, the fact you have an actual transit! - is so damn enviable. Really tired of rural super-vanilla midwest living. I miss Philly, I miss Portland, I even miss the homeless people rushing up to clean my windshield at the red light for change.
I need some… some cosmopolitan-ness, some more receptiveness to new ideas, just a break from the painful provincialism and tribal mindsets. I grew up here, but after being away, I can’t stand being here anymore.
Sorry, normally fine, but hits me randomly. Can you be homesick for anywhere but your home?
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I split my time between the crunchy granola suburbs and the hustle and bustle of the big city growing up- so I kind of understand the whole super vanilla kind of bland sameness. My condolences- it’s kind of soul sucking. That’s one thing Toronto’s always got going for it- whatever you can say of the city, (and you can certainly say a lot, haha) it’s never boring. Unpleasant, kind of stinky sometimes, chaotic, sure- but there’s always something going on around somewhere, and the place never sleeps.
I think you can definitely be homesick for somewhere that isn’t your home, though. I feel that way about the beach and the forests- something about being thrown around by the waves and nearly pulled under is weirdly cathartic, and there’s nothing quite like standing in the solemn silence of the trees while the lake threatens to swallow your boat whole.
I miss all sorts of fragments of places with an intense yearning to go back to them- some places I never can, because they’ve been demolished like the playground I used to clamber around on as a little girl, others because they belong to someone else now, like the apartment building an older relative used to live in right out of school.
Others aren’t really properly places- hotel rooms from family vacations, temporarily inhabited and soon discarded, that one brilliant moment of hovering just beneath the surface of the pool and watching the light fracture over the surface of the water. It’s weird. So much of life is wrapped up in nostalgia.
Hopefully you can spend some time in somewhere more metropolitan soon, though. A day trip over the holidays, maybe? A weekend getaway?
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No. But you can be so nostalgic for a place or time it’ll crush your head.
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There’s a silvery full moon shining through the thinnest veil of fast-blowing frillly clouds.
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Ooooo~
> LICK MOON
Worth a try.
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Mmmhhh… Cheesy.
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I dragged myself out for a run with my local social run group this morning. It was so icy we had to run on the grass rather than the paths, but the world looked so beautiful. I love winter skies.
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I figured out how to make some fake doors slide open in the background to reveal the actual game on Twine 
(It’s not perfect but it woooorks!)
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Be careful with the ice! My wife and I both fell on ice while we lived in Kansas… It can happen so quickly.
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Amanda made a post on here mentioning a subscription box to bones that her husband had gotten her as a gift- and I saved it into my bookmarks, knowing that I’ve got a handful of friends who are fanatics about death and taxidermy and the like who’d probably be interested: and it cropped up in conversation with @biohazardblade. Perfect callback moment.
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Finally called in to get my adderall refilled so I can focus and start getting stuff done again! So woooo!! Also, like @sophia mentioned, we talked about fun taxidermy stuff, and now I have smth 2 look 4ward 2 purchasing one of these days!
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I just taught my last class of the semester.
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That’s a whole mood.
I swear, the whole process of getting treated for ADHD is such a nightmare. It’s a thousand bridges to cross, and you need meds because you already have bridges to cross in the first place!
The day when you finally get your next bottle of adderall is basically a holiday by itself. I’m throwing a small party for myself every time. Like, I not only got through the all the phone calls and bureaucracy, but also survived the car drive to the pharmacy and back. I don’t care what common standards are; that’s a victory.
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Exactly!! It sucks so much that my adhd in and of itself is the road block to call in to get my meds refilled which I need for my adhd! Can’t wait to take my pills tomorrow and finally start up on stuff again!!! Happy meds refill to you when you do get em refilled :)!
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It’s the time of year when the cats* get really snuggly! I have been blessed with many lap-sits.
*Well, one of the cats. The other is kind of dumb and I don’t think he’s worked out that sitting on people is something he can do.
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