la-dee-la-dee-da-dee-dammmmm

 what a day mannnn

Rare Item Found: two cooking days in a row! even weirder, both tasted good... and most of the dishes are done now. To be fair a bunch of that was Sam because she is a dish WIZARD but still. I did at least some dishes today, AND I put a bunch of new stuff away into cupboards. I'm gonna be all confused for a few weeks because I don't know where anything is, but on the plus side of things I have a big cup full of knives now! And a bunch of matching cups. And some nice plates. and --

Yeah a bunch of roommates left stuff around and a lot of it's getting donated, but before that I nabbed a bunch of things. So now I have twice as many pans, and a bunch of plates and bowls and cups and spatulas and also a toaster and a blender!! I'm very pleased with myself, this is bringing me back to high school when I'd always be on the lookout for free food I could scavenge. Not because I didn't have food, I just forgot to bring any to school so I always went to the cafeteria and got a carton or two of milk and a piece of fruit. They served "breakfast" but that was just really sweet cereal and a Capri-Sun and I didn't really want either of those. So! Milk.

I've also been quite the yappy mood today as I'm guessing you can tell from the two LONG paragraphs above. Did some writing, did some research for said writing, stumbled onto several canon quotes that backed up a theory I'd had spinning around for a longggg time. Very pleased with that, because usually my theories are stuff that I pull out of the air and can't support. Not ideal! 

So of course I went through the entire recording I had made of the chapter and wrote down the exact dialogue as spoken in the game, and wrote up a somewhat unpolished essay on how the dialogue in this one chapter backs up my theory!!!!

And now I'm just kinda rambling here too. It must have been a slow day. I think I get a bit more ramble-y when I haven't got out much. My fault. I should get out more but it was a Tired day so I didn't except for a walk around the block. Maybe I should make a rule that as long as I'm doing nothing useful on my phone I might as well do it outside. That would get me some fresh air, at least?

Other stuff about the day.... oh here's something -- Sam has a new job now! She's going to older folks' homes to help them with stuff. Very cool and I think it suits her REALLY well like she's the sweetest and she really likes helping people and she tells me all the time that she really likes old people in particular. So I'm super happy for her :)))) (kinda making me antsy, though, about the fact that I don't have a job. I should really have one by now --)

Lavender nail polish I put on three days ago is still relatively intact today, even though I'd been moving boxes and messing with beds and cooking and allll the things. I'm actually quite happy with that, it's quite the durable nail polish! Finally took it off today, though, because my nails were getting a bit long and I wanted to cut them, and also they were starting to hurt and I didn't want to leave the polish on too long becaues it's bad for the nails.

Depression scarf really earned its name today though. After my temporary writing second wind I was very tired so I went to camp out on my bed and crocheted. Probably spent at least two hours on that before I finally got out of bed to... I don't even remember. But it was long enough that my head started to hurt because I was dehydrated. 

Fun new thing learned: Asian food is sometimes more forgiving than American food because it has so many strong flavors in it. I made egg roll bowls with burnt rice and very haphazardly measured spices and turkey instead of pork and like a bunch of other things and somehow it still tasted roughly equivalent to normal. Compared to a lot of other stuff I try to make that tastes a bit off no matter how hard I try to make it correctly, I appreciated that a LOT. Tangentially, I think next thing I cook will probably be soup in my slow cooker. I have not used it yet and I think I would like to.

Also up for the next few days: my computer! Desktop tower, I mean. It's still in the wrong apartment. Every day I go down to game for an hour or two. Then I'm like yeah I should probably move this at some point and then every time I'm like ...NAH that's a problem for future me so it's still there.

writing or drawing canon characters scares me. I don't like it. If it's my own character I can draw them however I want and nobody can jump me in an alleyway for drawing it wrong. But canon characters... oh no people have OPINIONS. I usually try not to care so much, but it does kind of stress me out because I know that if I get a canon character "wrong" then people won't bother to read or interact with whatever I did. And like. Sure if I get a canon character right then people will be interested but I'm not really confident that I can do that.

 Only one other person currently in the new apartment with me. Her name is Brooklyn and she is also new. She has two guys who are usually hanging around with her or helping her move in or eating her food -- one of them is the boyfriend and the other one just seems to be here for some reason. Not entirely sure what the deal is there. But she has made the effort to talk to me, which I appreciated? Her room is right next to mine and I hear that one song "Baby, baby baby OHHHH" like at least twice a day. I think it might be her alarm. Also sometimes she has her boyfriend in there and they'll be laughing really screechingly and it's like GUYS IM RIGHT HERE so that's fun. Good thing I have earplugs