#bc of the goddamn pandemic...

[britneyshakespeare]

Also wasn't the 2020 election so miserable with how we were all waiting for results for literal fucking days??? Oh my God...

[bitchybylershipper]

look what I built today yall 😎

ANF I DIDNT MESS IT UP!!!!!!!

[legally-killable-sparrow]

This guy sitting here saying ooh I’ll finish my coffee in ten min and then go take a shower well it’s been fifteen minutes bitch and my Lyft is coming in thirty with or without you.

Don’t fuckin sigh like this is stressful for you when I remind you that you need to start getting ready to go five minutes ago bitch I’m the one goin to the doctor to see if there’s something severely wrong with my goddam internal organs, you’re just here for support stop making me stressed because you’re eternally late and even more inifinitely uncaring that this messes shit up for other people

[cadaver1ne]

im so over people who treat quarantine as the worst thing that happened to them. bc they're never talking about the actual pandemic or the death toll they're talking about how bummed they were to stay at home for like a year. goddamn

[woundedearth]

vent /

goddamn i had another dream about my old friends last night and now i’m just thinking about the bizarre dynamic where. anything baffling or harmful or ~Asocial~ THEY did was permissible bc of mental illness. other ppl tho? me explosively panicking and inexplicably crying and self-isolating the entire pandemic tho? that’s just a bad personality trait

(and to be clear i have mountains of patience for people struggling and i genuinely think it’s cruel to judge people by their lowest moments, esp in a community of other mentally ill and neurodivergent ppl. i think a lot of the behavior that destroyed that friendship was prob an outcome of everyone’s mental health clashing. it just makes me sick to remember this wild double standard bc it constantly made me feel like if these ppl don’t understand and empathize with me, no one can. no one will. there’s something just fundamentally bad about me. and they did this to a lot of other people! constantly! like what the fuck ya’lllllll)

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 11/21/2023

awful lot of cooking content from me, who hates cooking but finds the evenings jittery and boring

listening

Doorbell by Sterling Press, off the spotify weekly recced playlist. i don't know that i like this song. i don't know that it's particularly good. goddamn if it isn't catchy. alt britpop, they hate being compared to blur but mmmm. you do hear it. notes of ska as well. a song to blast in your car when your spring break plans fell through and you're driving to the good target two towns away from your hometown.

i don't think this music video could have existed pre-pandemic-- idk doorbell cams were that ubiquitous or well known, despite heavy advertising from nest.

from an interview:

Speaking about the new release, they said, “We wrote the song in our mates garage using drum samples off YouTube. We spent all night writing it then in the early hours of the morning drove to Maccies to have breakfast and had it on repeat the whole time. We all fell in love with it straight away. These lyrics speak to the importance of authenticity and sincerity in your actions. In a world where appearances and pretences can be misleading, it's a reminder to be true to yourself and to avoid trying to impress others for the sake of it. “I feel like its an experience we all share. We all know someone who goes off to uni or gets a new job and you bump into them on the street and they act as if they have no idea who you are. I guess this song is reflection of our frustrations towards those people.”

they have what i would consider an unusual amount of hype and presence for a band that has exactly three songs out, but they've all been making music together and separately since well before the pandemic so maybe they've just finally broken out? i can't figure out who these kids are related to. i don't think it's a full on industry plant but i do think someone's dad has some money.

a friend once said she hated how eighties songs faded out like a printer running out of ink, and i do not particularly care for how 2020s songs end with the entire band vanishing underwater.

this song is truly not that deep but it is thoroughly stuck in my goddamn head.

listening: special podcast edition

i am not looking for solutions. do not say solutions at me. i am taking through a brain thing and having a weird workflow and brain problem. i have tried other apps with browser support and do not like them, and i cannot have my personal apple id tied to my work computer bc i have and frequently use a work apple id.

i have been listening to podcasts through Spotify ever since mmm november ‘20. it has not been a good experience but juggling the Apple Podcasts app through my phone (distraction minefield) and whatever im listening to or working on with the work computer is a nightmare. ethics of spotify aside, it is a tremendously successful all in one listening platform. i do not have the brainspace to manage my own music library, and support my favorite artists in other ways.

i am not looking for solutions. do not say solutions at me.

however, if you listen to enough podcast episodes, spotify does not seem to believe you when you tell it to unfollow a podcast. it just keeps letting you know hey this has a new episode. this got me stuck on a loop where i was listening to more and more episodes of two very prolific conspiracy theory debunking podcasts to the exclusion of almost everything else. this was not very good for my mental health.

i am not looking for solutions. do not say solutions at me.

despite the real annoyance of finagling a very distracting phone and the work laptop, i have gone back to Apple Podcasts and (after weeding out a variety of podcasts for a variety of reasons) started listening to friends at the table again. not sure why i stopped but i felt a weird amount of guilt around restarting?? the tablefriends neither know nor care. i have finally finished road to palisade and am excited but nervous about starting palisade proper

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reading

a local religious thrift store has absolutely rancid vibes but does regularly have 6/$1 book sales. there were a couple older trade paperback comics the last time: the first three volumes of ULTIMATE XMEN and a radom What If? superman.

my trouble with the xmen, and i have to read something from it once every two years to remind myself, is that magneto is right. they will never be able to assimilate into white picket fence middle america, or even among the liberal coastal elites or whatever the term du jour was in 1999. the box will always be smaller and you will never be perfect enough. i did not enjoy this enough to continue bc of this fundamental disagreement with most xmen comics.

also it looks like this. magneto’s lair has an arch in the shape of the arch on the front of his helmet and that was pretty baller, but there’s a real. what was they gimmick blog about all the comic book women in contorted spine-breaking poses? it’s like that a lot. WHAT is ororo’s body doing there

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watching

hey. what the fuck do you mean tomato sauce is that easy. i dislike tomato sauce and almost exclusively eat jar upon jar of aldi brand pesto. im not allergic bc tomatoes aren't tingly but it's just sort of Nothing all the time. what do you mean it can be good???

i don't actually remember why i'm subscribed to mr internet shaquille. perhaps, like so many other food things, it's kali's fault.

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playing

g/enshinposting.

pulled this horrid little brat. very pleased with myself.

i do not. love. her story quest. it falls into the childrens' media trap of Sometimes It's Okay For Other People To Stomp All Over Your Boundaries If It's For The Good Of The Group! or perhaps this is just a thing i'm particularly twitchy about. either way, annoyed that other characters of this importance have gotten some deeply moving writing and so far furina has...not gotten that.

the next character i am excited about is lolita taylor swift, or geo-aligned lady with big fuckoff sword. from some early maybe-leaks i think she would pair beautifully with my playstyle and my pirate lady with big sword. my playstyle is mostly brute force damage. i hit things as hard as i can until they fall over and i've played the entire game (with some exceptions that required actual thinking about elemental reactions) that way. it pleases me.

re: the conclusion of the annapausis sidequest, genshin does a really good job of teasing out "ok in a world with actual gods, what does spirituality look like/what are the differing views on fate/how do people make sense of an afterlife". mostly this is gnosticism. and sometimes it's a real life occultist secret society (reskinned Rosicrucianism). fascinating writing choices.

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making

turkey cottage pie with scalloped potatoes, bc i had a five-pound bag of russets that were starting to sprout. im just going to yoink this pic i posted earlier bc it is now half gone and in tupperware form

this is the first time ive ever cooked in a dutch oven and im in love. i thrifted this for $20 some weeks ago but bc the lid has some chips and rust i haven't used it. which is silly, bc the body of the oven is fine. de-rusting and seasoning the lid will wait for a day when i actually need it bc for now we can get by with doubled-over sheet of aluminum foil.

used this recipe: only had a pound of ground turkey and liberally stretched it with potatoes (i think about three and a half pounds out of five) and three pounds out of a cheap frozen veggie mix bag. did not include mushrooms bc i did not like them. threw in some bay leaves bc i have a giant bag of them, i think i almost doubled the wine bc i doubled the recipe, but i do not think i remembered to double the beef stock. i also shook in a liberal amount of italian seasoning bc i have a cheap jar from aldi i want to use up.

the final product was somewhat soupy. i anticipated that slicing the potatoes was going to be the longest part (mostly true, i had to take breaks) and kept them in a big bowl of cold water to stop them browning while i chopped and after i blanched them. i also could have reduced the filling down some more but i am not a patient woman.

not as intended but still yummy, which was a lovely surprise bc usually when i fuck recipes up i fuck them up But Good. plus new technique (dutch oven). if i make this again (likely) i will do instant potatoes on top bc this was a fuck of a lot of chopping for one recipe. thinking about getting one of those stupid little hand smash veggie choppers bc a full food processor is extremely out of budget.

[greenvertumna]

So many ppl talking about keeping chickens in our neighborhood bc of egg prices I swear to god they’re gonna start a goddamn bird flu pandemic in their backyards

[foolishfalls]

wahhh i know i’m being kinda annoying w my posts lately. i also know i shouldn’t apologize or waffle abt it bc its my blog. but you know. self awareness and logic never helps me anyway. shit is just bad. and i know it’s bad for everyone else too. i know i’m not unique here. but that almost makes it worse.

focusing only on how bad it is for me gives me this illusory sense of control. focusing on the fact that everyone else is suffering too… it can lead me in several directions.

sometimes, it’s like oh yeah. maybe we can help each other. gotta build solidarity. i try to find small ways to make myself useful (usually spreading info about problems i care about, donating to or boosting GFMs if i can, etc.) like sometimes reminding myself i’m only part of a much larger struggle really CAN help. it gives me a reason not to despair and to keep going.

but then there’s the other option which is buckling under the full crushing weight of all of that collective suffering. then there’s despair. it feels easiest to slip into despair when i think about how everyone is affected but despite that, so many people cannot see the truth of it or willfully refuse to acknowledge reality.

especially with the ONGOING pandemic and covid, especially with illness and mass disablement. but with so many other things too. like… if the people closest to me who have seen me suffer due to this can’t acknowledge reality and put on a damn respirator and make more of an effort to educate others, then how will we get anywhere, you know?

it’s so hard not to despair looking out on all of this. i feel like i live in hell. opportunities for joy are so sparse for me for many reasons. the worst being that i am too deeply buried in layers of trauma responses and CPTSD to truly connect to people safely or healthily. and a disease that is wreaking total havoc on my autonomic nervous system. top that off w the fact that a huge chunk of people i could try to connect with are covertly living out the eugenicist belief that the world would be better off if i died, and that i and others like me are a worthy sacrifice to be made as long as they can do business as usual and access their frivolous comforts…

like goddamn. how am i supposed to go on? i mean i’ve been doing it but i’ll be honest. i really don’t know how much longer i can.

[emcandon]

Should I do an SDCC highlights reel? Yeah okay for sake of my own memory let's do this!!

Brought a bunch of Hawaii snacks and cookies to feed folks. My second round of feeding the Tor booth, Publicist Caro was like "I think I'm understanding something about how Sunai came to be" and I was like HONESTLY IT'S JUST HAWAII CULTURE. It is my pleasure to feed you but also it's a social norm I am emotionally compelled to uphold!

The Tor Dinner and the Star Wars Dinner were at exactly the same time on exactly the same day and I got the Tor invite first so went there. Bemoaned having to choose to Editor Tom and Editor Liz at the Star Wars corner of the PRH booth and they assured me there would be more dinners. WHEN THO. I wanna hang. They're so sweet.

Editor Tom pointed me out to every fan at the booth while I was visiting and was like BE NICE TO EMMA; THEY WROTE A PANDEMIC BOOK AND HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS BEFORE. Thank you, Star Wars fans. You are consistently really cute.

Also apparently they were selling out of Ronin by like, day one, so that's pretty cool.

They actually sold out of both Ronin and The Archive Undying by the end of day two/beginning of day three! Which is! Pretty fucking rad!

I hung out a lot with JR Dawson, Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle, and @miatsai as a kind of debut posse, and had some truly fantastic conversations with all of them.

Also got to meet @charliejaneanders!! Whose work I have adored and admired for goddamn years!! Along with Sylvain Neuvel, who is a lovely goofus. And Martha Wells, Nnedi Okorafor, and Charles Soule at the other panel, which was amazing bc I admire the fuck out of all of them in different ways. (And Pierce Brown was also there, but lol i don't go here, who is he.) (the answer is he's a big enough writer to have folks cosplaying from his books so like, he's Known i'm just a Weirdo Aesthete).

Hope I wasn't too much of a nightmare for the second moderator bc I could not shut up about the fundamental toxicity of late capitalism as a social structure when he just wanted to ask what we thought of various technological developments (BUT MY GUY THE GAME IS IDEOLOGICALLY FLAWED. WE CAN'T Y/N ON TECH ADVANCEMENTS SANS THEIR BROADER CONTEXT. GENOMICS ARE TECHNICALLY A VERY COOL VERY PROMISING FRONTIER BUT ALSO, UNFORTUNATELY, EUGENICS.) (I'm extremely normal-brained and definitely know how to abide by the rules of ice breaker party games.)

The most important thing to know is that I got to bring a plus one, but my wife had to go back to work after book tour/wedding trip, so I brought my largely not very nerdy mother. She had a great time people watching the cosplay. Love her.

[fereldanwench]

so i feel like garbage yay

this cold is one of them deep head congestion colds and i just feel lethargic and gross

and im very VERY cranky because i got sick from a goddamn trip i didn't want to take in the first place and there's shit i need to do (like go to the post office to get my forwarding address changed because i can't do it online because USPS is garbage) and now cant

i also really wanted to walk up to the little entertainment district thingy near us and have fun with the husbando this weekend but nope can't do that now either

but you know WHATEVER what's done is done

but on the lighter side of things, the new updates for cyberpunk look like a lot of fun and i love the emphasis on, like, rp immersion with the ncart system and personal radio. one of the things that's kept me in the game for so long is just exploring night city and taking it all in so having yet another way to do that is very exciting

and the motorcycle overhauls!!!!!!! doing wheelies is one of the best things about riding bikes in games IM SO GLAD THEY FINALLY ADDED THAT

also just paid rent today which normally would not be a good/exciting thing, but it was so nice to see a much lower number there than what we'd been paying for the past few years. and for a place that suits us much better, too

and i think we should be getting our new couch today which I'm sososo hyped about. we got rid of the ones we had a little over a year ago bc they were really cheap and made from that shitty vinyl material that started cracking and flaking everywhere, and replacing them was just a really low priority since the old living room had basically become husbando's office/man cave during the height of the pandemic.

but now we have a proper living room again! and I've always wanted a couch that has a chaise lounge piece (since in true bisexual fashion i can't sit normally and need plenty of flopping space) which is what we got. so i guess if i nothing else this weekend, i can enjoy cuddling with my cats on our new couch :3

[satorugojjo]

I’m just gonna say it, but I think current kids younger than 15 are almost incapable of dissecting anything with critical nuance. Because there is a HUGE difference to the 15 year olds BEFORE lockdown, and after. I’ve seen Gen Z teenagers on tiktok and tumblr have the most empathic, kind, amazingly supportive and intelligent opinions in 2020 who have now grown up and are in college absolutely killing it - they’ve gone into lockdown already having developed their emotional skills and come out of it with a lot more depth and growth. But YOU guys were 12 and younger when the pandemic started, you spent YEARS of it online without interacting with a wide variety of people and learning to read between the lines as you HAVE to in order to navigate the real world and peoples speech patterns and behaviours. You grew up alone in your house behind your screen, without being able to bond with classmates or friends, and most importantly, without anyone to temper your thoughts, or have rational and calm discussions in person. Half the teens I see on tiktok and tumblr NOW are so full of hate, so quick to put down and dismiss peoples choices, so quick to troll and voice really bizarrely conservative and ignorant opinions as if they’re entitled to do so, and so anti-empowerment and anti-ENJOYMENT in general. And I’m gonna be real with you and say it’s because of lockdown. It’s not entirely your fault bc y’all are still kids.

Your literature programs would have been cut, you’re just reading for the assignment, you’re not engaging in seminars and debates and classroom exercises the way you would in class, and all the while you’re just being increasingly exposed to sensationalist media that boils down complex and nuanced topics to a black and white, yes or no, 7 second hook. And it’s made you incapable of approaching anything with logic and empathy, because you just didn’t HAVE that the way everyone else did during their formative middle school puberty years. So now the moment you have a singular negative opinion of something, it’s all encompassing. There is no give, no flex, everyone is guilty until innocent. And why wouldn’t you think that? That’s what people have been doing online during the whole pandemic, cancelling people for 1 comment taken out of context, or being so quick to say something negative first instead of positive. You got comfortable behind your screen instead of being taught the consequences of saying shit things, and now when it comes to exploring all angles to a situation like you should be taught how to the way EVERYONE is, you take it at the most basic, surface, face value.

And when it now comes to fandom spaces where you have older fans in the same space as younger fans, there’s so many more instances where something will get an inordinate and undeserved amount of hate or hype based on a very surface level of understanding. Inherently, this isn’t a good or bad thing, it’s just a thing. What IS bad is when people come under someone’s obviously thought out and nuanced opinion to be like “you’re wrong for liking this bc (insert a completely unrelated logical fallacy of a reason)”. “If you like this book that happens to be a straight romance, you’re homophobic” IT DOESNT WORK THAT WAY AND IM SICK AND TIRED OF ARGUING WITH PEOPLE WHO NEVER BOTHERED TO DEVELOP READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS EVEN AFTER FINDING OUT THEY DON’T HAVE ANY.

Please for the love of GOD I am begging you guys to learn how to analyze literature. Like in an enforced curriculum at a high school level way. Please. YOU will be better off for it, and in turn the rest of us. This isn’t the new wave of boomer-esque hate against the kids. Gen Z is the goddamn future!!! This is a very specific, very VALID gripe, about a very small subset of kids who spent their formative years chronically online. And please! I am BEGGING teachers to recognize this and help their kids out to fix this. There is already a lot of hate in this world and we don’t need a new wave of people spewing hate under the guise of pseudointellectual liberalism because they don’t know how to see any deeper. This is one of the main reasons puritanism in the younger generation is exponentially on the rise! We’ve taken away the ability for them to form a fully informed opinion, and it’s now a self serving spiral. BREAK OUT OF IT, I AM PLEADING.

[vibinsanemoved]

what u smoke? DO U HAVE ANY FUNNY STORIES

I USED TO 😭😭 once i get a better job i'll go back to it, so for now... tis drinking LMFAOOO

LMFAO YES I DO HAVE ONE that i always laugh when i talk about it

sooo i was already pretty high and was drinking i think it was... barcardi with some cola (i had like maybe 3-5 shots of vodka but ... im not lightweight tbh)?? i was folding this random ass napkin on the table in some particular way while my friends were talking about like latest things bc we were all working remote thanks to the pandemic,,, so catching up and stuff,,, and once i started getting somewhat sober or just yk like chill, not highly inebriated ??? i was folding the napkin mindlessly then got super confused bc suddenly i forgot /how/ i folded it alskdjfskdl and i legit just out of nowhere was like "HOW TF DID I FOLD IT???" and my friends all laughing and go "your high as fuck self playing tricks on your sober self" THEYRE NOT WRONG BUT GODDAMN

[yermes]

I was reading your pinned and “.. yall tried to curse the moon made me feel some typa way..” and um, what?!

On tiktok during the pandemic people who didn’t know a goddamn thing about magic tried to curse the moon 🤷‍♀️

Example of why I don’t talk about magic unless asked directly bc I don’t want to indirectly add to some dumb wild shit going around

[hislittleraincloud]

Hmmk so the Lords is a 98% possibility now (got 2% riding on the dogs all being okay). I wonder if I should have my friend warn them about my fragile ass, seeing that they're close...this is the friend who had them over for a barbecue. Or, I could warn directly. 😂 It wouldn't be hard to. The ABW within me wants to, but meh...I'm Ajax-level shy 😭 Until you get me there. Then I just ✨unfold✨ into the person people want to talk to when I don't want them to.

I have a gas mask I need to put together. It's either that or my regular gear/new goggles. Will probably go w the new goggles because that gas mask is fucking heavy. But it would probably be funny with the RMEP shirt.

I never go out to events like this post-pandemic. (Pre-COVID? Yes. I've seen the Lords 3x already but not in about 20 years. And never alone. ��� First time for everything.) Today was goddamn hot as Hell/80°, and the heat advisory is still on until midnight Friday. I'm glad the shit I'm wearing tomorrow is thin...I'd die of heatstroke if I wore what I usually wear outside.

I'm going to have to have a plastic bag for my phone and ticket and weed bc I'll have both in my underwear/boxers (I have pocket boxers now...WHERE WERE THESE THINGS 30 YEARS AGO?). I don't have to carry a thing in my hands except my cane (taking the House M.D. 🔥 cane). I don't even know how Imma hydrate in the heat, but I'll have to find a way. 😭

Thirty-six years ago I first heard "I Sit on Acid" on a college radio station. I was in my bathroom back in New England. I thought it was weird, but I also thought I had heard the vocalist saying "Sit on your face...I wanna sit on your face..." I was 14 and knew what that meant (remember...I was practically born a perv and wrote that RPF smut six years prior to this, which contained lots of oral...and I never aged us up, either...💀💀💀💀💀), but I wasn't sure of what my ears heard. And sadly, the jockey didn't tell us what the song was or whose it was. It wouldn't be until my senior year almost 4 years later that I'd get Lust because I was already going to the clubs and the DJ played it and my brain suddenly jumped (I ran to the DJ and asked what it was).

Anyway. I need to sleep. Busy fkn day today.

[elviehun]

Sigh. Agreed. One of THE best, not just in fob terms but like, generally, worldwide. At least 5 of their longer fics live rent-free in my head 24/7 bc I've read them so many times I basically know them by heart. Not a week passes that I'm not rereading one or two of my faves of theirs. (Watch out, may be Spoilers)

Man, the Wall Street AU. The words *Wall Street* will Never be the same for me. Ever. The actors AU. The ANGST. Oughhhhhhh. Perfect. Perfect. The 2017 Trick or Pete piece. It just RIPPED MY HEART OUT OF MY CHEST and I've NEVER cried so hard. Same goes for the 80s HIV AU. Good God. The amount of tears I've shed for those boys. The warm fuzzies of the ending. Gaaahhh. The writer AU. Just... awgh. The one where they meet playing pool in some bar, so sweet I could die. THE GODDAMN NOWHERE time travel one????? A FLAWLESS amazing angsty horror love story that should be on the bestseller shelves in bookstores forever???!!!

Also, remember how they were ALWAYS unfailingly kind and comforting and attentive during the pandemic, never ONCE forgetting to add an invitation to vent or talk to them on here, if anyone needed to, at the end of EACH chapter they posted?

They gave us so much joy, I also hope life gives it all back to them tenfold. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Not all heroes, etc.

i miss ao3 user snitchesandtalkers. i hope they’re doing great and experience true happiness every day

[fereldanwench]

husbando still has to work today, so I've enlisted the help of my SIL to do another round of moving this morning/early afternoon, and then tomorrow, she and my brother will also come over for a few hours to help with getting most of our smaller stuff out of the old place

(then we'll probably order some lunch and fuck around bc the four of us are just ridiculous together tbh lmao <3 brother and husbando esp bc they just start riffing off each other and then we're just all on the floor in tears laughing so hard)

we're moving from a first-floor unit to a higher floor in the new place (which I'm actually stoked about, i much prefer being higher up), so we decided to hire movers for heavy furniture/appliances because fuck that noise. we did a 3rd-floor apartment move once NEVER AGAIN

i'm already so sore after just a few runs from yesterday though lmao my legs are gonna be so stiff after this weekend

anyway movers will be here early monday morning. we wanted to do it earlier, but they were all booked sat & sun so that is drawing it out a little bit. we're not gonna bring the cats over until we can sleep there (athena gets separation anxiety & i dont want her stressed in a new place without us around) so we'll bring them over Monday afternoon

but before that, on sunday we'll have sit around for two hours for internet to get setup at our new place, and idk what the fuck xfinity is doing. they make canceling their shit so goddamn difficult. it's not even like there's a chance they can retain us as customers, we literally can't use them in the new place

we've got until close to the end of the month at our old place to clean up, but i scheduled our utility shut-offs a little earlier, so next weekend will be the mega cleanup weekend

and then it'll just be the fun stuff! we're getting a lot of new furniture, and I'm so excited to have a living room again. our current one really morphed into husbando's office/man cave over the pandemic bc there was nowhere else for him to set up a WFH office, and i miss just having a couch to flop on with the kitties

i'm still not 100% sure what i'm gonna do with my new office space--i have one wall figured out, but the room is a little smaller than what i currently have, and i am losing some wall space so i'll have to figure out how to make 3 desks (one for art, one for gaming, and one for work) fit nicely in there. but it's a puzzle I'm excited to solve :D

and we have a good-sized balcony space i can't wait to furnish! that was one thing that was always lacking in our current space. plenty of space to expand my little urban garden and get some cozy seating out there

anyway, SIL will be here in just a few so no more rambling. I'm just a big ball of energy right now IM SO READY