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🌈 Rainbow stickers by Current Inc, 1988 🌈

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Which game would you play first from the Sega Genesis 6-Pak?

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sometimes i forget what it feels like to take care of myself

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Look what i made!

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Sorry for the lack of activity! I’ve been working two jobs as of late, and I’ve been getting very little free time. What free time I do have is being spent with friends and family.

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Kipling Sven Extra Small Monkey Keychain

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Return to Sleepwalk: 002

Island: Lost.

As much as I’ve tried, I couldn’t recover my island. I had to start all over.

As unfortunate as this was, I was given a good opportunity. I have the opportunity to do the things I should’ve done the first time around, and I can stick with what I wanted to do originally, but failed so: keeping all the villagers I found originally.

When a villager arrives, they won’t be forced out. They will get to stay. I won’t pressure myself to have ONLY cool and cute villagers.

My first villagers: Tammy and Sheldon. They will stay here and enjoy their island life.

I hope that my original island still exists somewhere, and my old residents are happy.

I miss Ike, Dora, Daisy, Jeremiah, Kabuki, Goldie, Benjamin, and everyone else. I miss Ike the most, because he reminds me so much of my dad. I miss Dora because she reminds me of the mom I wish I had. I imagine Dora and Ike are happily “married” there. I miss Daisy because I found her on an island and she is named the same as my childhood dog who passed away. Interestingly enough, Daisy visited my Daisy’s memorial portrait often!

Benjamin and Jeremiah are probably playing together right now.

The original sleepwalk still exists. All is peaceful. They don’t know I’m gone.

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Return to Sleepwalk: (A journal series about my island in ACNH)

001: The Night Before

A few months ago, I sold my switch so I could have the money to pay rent and bills. I saved my animal crossing data, but I’m unsure how (or if) I can get my island back. Tomorrow, I get a switch lite in hopes I can visit my island, sleepwalk, again.

Sleepwalk was an island I made on launch day. I pre-ordered the game, and started playing immediately. I even stayed up so I could start the game as soon as possible.

Animal Crossing New Horizons helped me through a lot of difficult life events. It helped me through the pandemic, the breakup of a long-term-relationship, three pet losses, the worst job I ever had, and a lot more. I made friends with this game, and I “visited” friends when we were states or countries apart.

I rebuilt the arcade I used to work at. The arcade that got shut down when the pandemic hit. I loved that place, and I made an (almost exact) replica of it in-game.

I worked hard to make a memorial garden for my lost pets, even putting photos of them on my island (large photos!) and I wrote about them on the bulletin board.

I celebrated my birthday in-game when everyone in real life forgot about it.

It broke my heart when I had to sell my switch. I know it’s just a game, but it helped me cope when my other coping skills weren’t working. I felt happy in Sleepwalk.

Tomorrow, around noon, I’ll buy my switch lite. I will get my account put in it, and I will attempt to bring my island back. With the lack of cloud-saves and only an island transfer tool, I am so scared I won’t get my island back.

If I need to start all over, I will. I’ll even try making my new island better than the previous.

I hope I’ll have my original island back, though.

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Doggust Days 12 & 13: Greyhound (Kona) & Mutt

Bree Lundberg's greyhound who just turned 8 & a random mystery dog I saw while sketching yesterday.

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It's okay if you don't feel hopeful about the future right now. If hope is out of reach, try curiosity instead.