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WASSUUUUUUP

feels like it's been forever since i've posted here. really haven't felt a need to, since Finch has me writing personal journal entries more often :p still going strong on Finch!!

I mainly started this blog because I like to do journaling every once in awhile, but I was losing interest, so the possibility of getting occasional interactions, including even just likes, made it more interesting

I don't really know what to write about here now! But I'm glad to still have this blog, at least :)

I'll keep it up and I imagine I might figure out some use for it in the future, or I might start using it for the aforementioned reasons again at some point :)

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one of the coolest things about people (well okay this definitely is just one of MANY cool things now that i'm thinking about it) is the ability to fill in a conversation you hadn't even been consciously listening to

it you catch a word or name that sounds relevant even tho you were focusing on something else, it can often turn out that your mind was subconsciously paying attention, and it can fill in the few words or even sentence or two preceding whatever it was that caught your attention

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AAAAAAYYYYYYY FINALLY STARTED THE DINOSAUR LESSONS ON KINNU

WHICH ALSO MEANS I'VE FINALLY (for this short time at least) LEARNED THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SAURISCHIANS AND ORNITHISCHIANS (lizard-hipped: "saur" for lizard, like in "dinosaur" and bird-hipped, "orni" for bird like in ornithologist)

funnily enough, birds are descended from lizard-hipped dinos, specifically theropods (the two-legged carnivorous famous dinos), but modern birds' hips DO more resemble the bird-hipped dinos' hips

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okay, actually! speaking of Finch! just thought of a Finch idea. i made a "task storage" journey to look at when i'm wondering what i could be doing or to schedule tasks for the far, far off future

Finch is limited in categorizing tasks, so using a journey as basically a folder is my solution for now :)

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i've started writing in my personal journal more often, so i'm not sure what to write here lol. i still have my looping Finch task for posting here, and i'm clearing those tasks rn, but ye :p

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i've started writing in my personal journal more often, so i'm not sure what to write here lol. i still have my looping Finch task for posting here, and i'm clearing those tasks rn, but ye :p

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wonderfully having a gushy pleasant day :) closed up--well, haven't closed it YET but everything's out of it :) closed up my storage unit and now have one of my irl friends as a buddy in Finch (she started using the app only like 10 days before me and we both were like "i'm going to see if i stick with it before mentioning it to anyone" 😂 she brought up the app last night 🥰)

hugged my aunt who helped me move into my new place and she took back a "card table" she let me borrow for sorting items at my storage unit. she said she'd been looking for it, wondering where it went, and then i just happened to message at that time, and she was like "oh yeah, i let Tenta borrow it" 😂

nice day, gorgeous bright yellow-white sunset breaking through a blanket of clouds as i made my first "How We Feel" entry for the day outside the storage business, waiting for some cars and trucks to leave the property so i could back out

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been having a tough time the last couple months because of re-injuring my back. not even sure exactly what's causing the issue in the first place. got an x-ray a couple weeks ago to try and narrow down an injury location so i could get an MRI, but the x-ray didn't show anything out of the ordinary

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Tenta try to make a tumblr post without getting distracted by side blog notifications challenge: impossible

ANYWAY

I AM BACK

AND I GOT A SHINY DIALGA WITH GOOD ATTACK IV'S THAT KNOWS ROAR OF TIME RAAAAAAAAAHHHH

it was actually funny and super surprising because i caught eight of them tonight. and that was my eighth. i was just using daily raid passes + some free passes from checking into a Community Ambassador meetup (i'm not an ambassador. the ambassador gives out stuffs :p) + the three bonus raid passes i happened to have before tonight. then i bought ONE pass and i was only going to buy one. and that was the shiny! yippee!!

also met with my tutor today and that was my first three hour session this semester (the others were two hours only because my back has been so bad), so overall i'm just feeling great :)

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let's see what little Finch screenshots i have saved that have given me a smile

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let's see what little Finch screenshots i have saved that have given me a smile

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oH. RIGHT. AND ANOTHER THING I'M DOING ON FINCH IS HAVING A REPEATING TASK TO MAKE AT LEAST ONE BRIEF ENTRY HERE EVERY THREE DAYS

idk if i'll actually stick to the "every three days" thing, but it's a "keep until complete" task, so yay :) and emphasis on "brief." i don't want it to be a stressful thing, just something where i record something random every once in a while

so my new thing on Finch is convincing myself to get out of bed before 10:30 am, which is actually a big deal for me right now, considering noon and 1 pm have been my norm for a while, outside the one day a week i have class

(doing my best right now to keep writing and not censor instead of deleting this post in shame or embarrassment)

currently awarding myself a +30 task if i succeed at "getting ready for the day by 10:30," and i'm hoping to slowly bring that time down by ten minutes a week. so, 10:20 next week

it's only my third day with this task idea, but it's helping so far :)

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so my new thing on Finch is convincing myself to get out of bed before 10:30 am, which is actually a big deal for me right now, considering noon and 1 pm have been my norm for a while, outside the one day a week i have class

(doing my best right now to keep writing and not censor instead of deleting this post in shame or embarrassment)

currently awarding myself a +30 task if i succeed at "getting ready for the day by 10:30," and i'm hoping to slowly bring that time down by ten minutes a week. so, 10:20 next week

it's only my third day with this task idea, but it's helping so far :)

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it's 1 pm and i've only left my bed to use the bathroom and to answer a computer support call that was a followup from a call yesterday.

then i got this notification

Bloib, thank you Bloib :'0 just struggling to get moving. ADHD stuff i think -- i should be fine if i start a playlist. but this little affirmation was great because i'm anxious about my school assignments and the time it'll take to begin them because of physical disability stuff

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it's looking like i only might need to take one class next semester if i switch majors. i'm in a 3D art (computer art) major, and for some reason i just cannot figure it out unless someone is helping me one-on-one. i can sometimes work alongside YouTube tutorials, but then glitches happen and i need to wait for forums and chat groups to respond, and that's just not possible to do as often as i need. i've failed or dropped literally maybe half my 3D classes (dropped to then re-attempt in a future semester), when before this point i was a "mostly A's with occasional B" student

hoping to meet with a guidance counselor tomorrow or next week. hoping real hard i might be able to graduate soon

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this was a more touching and mindblowing notification than it should be

just the thought of "i can be someone worthy of being looked up to" was wild

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okay so i'm probably just gonna post super sporadically and randomly and mention new apps every few months or smth and that's how it'll be :)

anyway hi! i'm alive! actually maybe it hasn't been that long since i last posted this time but anywho

yippee!! trying the app Finch and enjoying it way more than i expected. very cute and refreshing dialogue from my birdy Bloib when she returned today

also hoping to make a "tags" post for Finch for myself lol 'cause, from what i can tell, making single word tags and using them consistently is the easiest way to find certain notes, like checking why you skipped a particular task each time

i also want to collect and easily find what i do each day for the "one thing that makes me happy" and similar stuff for those days i'm feeling really down and can't think of anything