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So I've been doing better since that last post. I'm actually doing things again, instead of just obsessing over one thing. It's a nice feeling, overall.

....it's weird, I come here with all these ideas about what to post, but when I actually sit down to do it, I can't think of anything interesting to say.

I've been writing again. Just doing 750Words (750words.com) for rambling purposes, mostly. I wrote a tiny bit on the Outpost (my TRON fic) last Saturday, and since then I've been poking at planning out a novel. I've had the idea for a while (almost ten years, actually), but actually figuring out what happens is giving me fits. Also I worry that my characters aren't complex enough and stuff like that. I have no idea what I'm doing, basically, and I don't like it.

I went out of town and visited my brother this past Thursday and Friday. Played Dungeons and Dragons with the group my brother DMs and had a lot of fun. We fought a dragon and managed to win, thank goodness. I wish I could play DnD more often, but I don't know anyone where I live who plays it (I don't know anyone at all where I live, in fact). There's a comic/gaming shop in a little town adjoining my town, but I think they mostly do Magic the Gathering and stuff like that. Meh.

My brother and I also went to see Pacific Rim Uprising yesterday. It wasn't terrible? But at the same time, it just wasn't as awesome as the first one. I feel like it misunderstood the things that made the first one work so well. It also felt like it was two different movies trying to be one movie. I feel like if they'd separated it out and just done two separate movies, it would have worked so much better. I dunno. There were some things I really liked, but it just doesn't have the same spark as the first one.

Oh well.

And now today I'm mostly hanging out. Trying to figure out how to plot this novel I want to write. Resisting the urge to write Pacific Rim fanfic. All kinds of stuff. I think I am definitely going to watch Pacific Rim at some point (I've got the soundtrack on as I write this). I need to get some medicine refilled and taken care of, so I suppose I'd better do that.

Not much else going on with me. Just taking things as they come. We'll see how it goes.

I really need to get a knitting/crochet/fiber arts icon. I am doing so much of it lately. >__>

So after my last post I got kind of single-mindedly obsessed with making amigurumi (which is a portmanteau of the Japanese words for "knitted/crocheted" and "stuffed toy"? I think?). You can see all my various projects on my Instagram [link]. (And also a picture of the cupcakes my sister and I decorated for my niece's birthday party.) I am having a lot of fun with it, but I think I'm going to start winding down my output, since my hands and wrists are starting to protest. I know for a fact that I'm not holding the working yarn the right way, but it's the only way that feels natural to me, and unfortunately it's not really great for my left hand. Which is the one I do almost everything with, which is not good. So... definitely scaling things back in that department.

I wish I could say there's other news, but there really isn't? The last like five days have mostly been crochet and Stardew Valley, both of which are fun, but do not make for entirely scintillating conversation. Whoops. I have made a lot of progress on Stardew, though. One of the objects of the game is to restore the town's community center, which you do by giving these adorable forest creatures different items for bundles. I have finished all the bundle packs except one, and I only need three more things to finish the last one. I'll definitely have it done before the end of Year 2 in-game, which is awesome as heck. So I'm excited about that.

But as far as other stuff that needs to get done: well, I need to clean my room. Badly. I'm planning on throwing out a lot of stuff I don't need (mostly old yarn I'm not gonna use [Red Heart is kind of the worst yarn ever] and some fondant projects from several years ago that are also never going to be used on anything) so I have room for things I want to keep. I probably need to vacuum up a lot of dust and cat sand and stuff.

I also need to finish my short story before NaNoWriMo begins. I'm not doing NaNo very seriously this year--definitely not shooting for 50k at all--but I would like to get this story finished before it starts, so I can concentrate fully on finishing The Outpost. (If I manage to write another 50k on this fic I will WEEP. IT'S ALREADY LONG ENOUGH DAMMIT.)

I have a bunch of ebooks out from the library that I need to finish. And start, even. Yikes.

At the same time, I need to keep my expectations on the day-to-day realistic. I can't except the world of myself, because there's only so much energy I've got to spare each day. I can definitely manage what I do with the energy I've got (like not spending it all on crochet, for example), but... adjust the expectations. I can't do everything every day. So... deal with it, I guess.

Anyway, I guess that's all from me for right now. I'll try to get back to post every day (or at least every other day), but I make no guarantees. :P

Okay, so.

Friday night my dad was flying in from California, and my mom and I had to pick him up in Nashville. His flight got in at 10pm, which was... not ideal, but probably more ideal than getting back at like 4pm in the middle of rush hour. My mom and I went down early, because she wanted to stop at Opry Mills (the giant mall there in Nashville) and get birthday gifts for my niece, who turns three next Tuesday. The only trouble was we kind of left too early--we got to Nashville at 4pm, which meant we had six hours to kill.

We managed to kill four of those hours in the mall, which got exhausting after a while. And then we went to the airport and I nearly had a panic attack because we couldn't figure out how to get into the terminal parking structure and drove around the airport campus FOUR TIMES before we figured out the way in. (Turns out we should have been following the "Short Term Parking" signs.) So that was fun--not.

But we got in, waited for dad for about 90 minutes, and then went home. We hit traffic on the way out because of an accident, and eventually got back home at 12:30am.

So needless to say I have spent the last couple days catching up from all that. I spent both yesterday and today knitting and crocheting everything but what I should have been, and playing a little too much Stardew Valley.

This is okay, I keep reminding myself. Sometimes we have to have lazy days. I am hoping to get back on the ball tomorrow and get things done, but... if I don't, that's okay, too. There is not a baseline of productivity I have to achieve in order to be a worthy human being. I am already worthy, and nothing I do or don't do can change that.

With any luck, I'll get things done this week. I'm not terribly counting on it, since I am returning to Nashville on Tuesday with my brother to see John and Hank Green on the Turtles All the Way Down tour, which is going to be h*ckin' fun. And then hopefully the stars will align and my brother and I will get to see The Princess Bride in theaters on Wednesday--fingers crossed.

But other than that... I am going to try to have a good week. I'll do as much as I can, and not worry myself about the rest.

Totally forgot to post an entry yesterday. In my defense, I was kind of exhausted. Also: nobody's perfect.

I've been doing all right the last couple of days. Been playing Stardew Valley a lot, which has been fun. I figured out how to mod it yesterday, so I've got some mods installed, including one that changes the look of the buildings and varies them by season. So that's fun. Looking at more mods and trying to figure out what I want to add at the moment.

I haven't written anything really since Monday. Which is NOT bad. It's fine. One of the things we talked about in therapy this morning was the fact that I need to stop setting such sky-high expectations for myself. It kind of fueled my depression last week, and has probably been affecting it for a long time. The bullet journal is kind of a help and a hindrance in this regard. But hopefully with some work I can get my brain to stop treating me like crap when I don't do All The Things.

I baked apple crisp today. This mostly came about because Mom and I tried the new apple crisp they have at Arby's, which honestly doesn't deserve the name. It's basically coffee cake with apples and caramel and whipped cream on top. Like. It's literally a cake. When everyone knows that apple crisp's primary ingredient is apples, with some kind of crispy crust (usually involving oats) on top. Duh. So I was kind of upset about that and feeling ripped off of my fair share of apples, and oh hey, we had plenty of apples at home, so... apple crisp! It was very tasty, and I can't wait to eat more of it. :D

Anyway.

I am hoping to get better about what I expect of myself in the coming days. I will keep you all posted about that, of course, and hopefully along the way I'll get some new things done and worked out and such. One can only hope. :)

I said I'd post every day, so here I am.

Today was kind of okay. I crocheted on the scarf. I made half an afghan piece. I played a LOT of Stardew Valley. I went to the library and typed up what I've got on my short story, AND WROTE MORE WORDS. :D So I'm quite happy about that. Just checked my wordcount, and it's at 1500 words so far, which isn't half bad.

I didn't do everything I wanted, and that is okay. I need to figure out how to be okay with what I don't get done.

Anyway.

I'm having a great deal of fun in Stardew Valley, as usual. It's such a nice, relaxing game. I picked the forest farm map and I love it, even if there isn't a lot of room for farming right now. I'll have to get on the farm planner site and see what all I've got to work with as far as space goes. There may be a lot of tree clearing in my future. (And rock clearing, and weeding, and etc.) I also won the first year Egg Festival and got the straw hat! I'm not sure it looks that great on my character, but she's wearing it for now. It's a cute little game, and I'm enjoying getting back into it.

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A wild HAPPINESS appeared!

And then crochet ate my life.

A tired-making weekend.

Whoops.

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