Plant your hope with good seeds

Earlier today I was exploring the internet, as once does, and was linked to this fascinating comment on Reddit about No Zero Days. CW for mental health stuff, of course, but it was really nice to read a comment by someone who's clearly not a professional but who has good stuff to share.


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ANYWAYS, bearing that last thought in mind, I....signed up for intro to swing dancing! :D :D :D I have never taken a single dance class, I am not a dancer, but I think this is going to be so much fun. Just a great way to get out of the house, do something active (releasing endorphins! GIMME!!), something fun, and something with other people. Even if these other people are to not become my BFFs or anything like that, they'll still be acquaintances for about a month and maybe even longer! Who knows!

I'm so deeply excited about it. ;o;

I also signed up to do volunteer work on Earth Day! \o/ My company supports its employees doing volunteer work and I like volunteering! It makes me happy doing some good sometimes. ;3; So I might be signing up for more volunteer opportunities in the near future. :D

In other news, I got really, really into Baldur's Gate 3, was playing like six hours a night (unheard of for me!) and then got really, really anxious about it and had to set it aside for a little while. This is how you know I'm a mess. XD; Honestly, I suspect it was because I was getting on Reddit and reading people ~hot takes~ and it got in my head; I need to not do that! But I was also getting overwhelmed by how open it is and how welcome mistakes are, because they lead the story in different directions! So many different directions. It makes it a little hard to look up help. And idk, it was just a lot. I'll definitely come back to it when I'm in a better mental state. For now, I'm gonna try to focus on games with simpler mechanics, I think!

Also! I saw an ad for this CLAMP and Netflix collab to adapt Grimm's fairy tales. I'm kind of interested in watching this! If it has ridiculous CLAMP dramatics and homoerotic tension, that's all I really need. I encourage the plots to be incoherent as hell.

And with that, I leave you guys with a picture of my most beautiful little girl, Chicken Nugget (we call her Nugget). ♥ ♥ ♥

Today is absolutely a mental health day. I was not okay yesterday but I still managed to go to work, pick up my niece from where her car broke down, then accompany my great-niece to the damn airport (the Atlanta airport which is both a hellish drive and a hellish airport, but we ate at IHOP which is always nice). Then I woke up this morning and was like nopenopenope I can't do this today.

The good thing is I absolutely know what's causing and that event isn't coming and going until a couple of weeks so I gotta just. Power through this.

Anyway, I'm poking at fics tonight and seeing what I can write. imperion got me thinking about simblers and Sim storied again and I'm just like hmmm. :\a The Sims 4: Parenthood DLC came out today but I don't have money to buy that and won't have it for a couple of weeks, which is a bummer. :(

Hello DW friends, how are you? I've been very sad lately and I don't understand why.

Classes have started and I'm pretty overwhelmed. ( talking about classes )

I went to the dentist on Thursday and it wasn't quite as bad as I'd expected it to be. I ended up missing class and work on Thursday-Friday, but I was assured that that was the norm for oral surgery so I did my best to not feel guilty about it, hahaha. I now have another appointment September 24th, so that's happening. That's just going to be fillings though so, you know, not so bad.

( mental health stuff )

Anyway, this is a sad post. I'm working on art and writing Stucky for [Bad username or unknown identity: fan_flashworks"]. I've finally decided to buckle down and get some of those achievement badges.