digitally minimizing

Nov. 10th, 2025 09:20 pm
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my post as written in /decluttering here:

over the past couple of weeks i have been deleting photos from my phone and cloud storage! its part of a whole digital minimializm upheaval in my life with a heavy emphasis on privacy and actual human connection. in the process ive realized that alot of my data footprint is in PICTURES. thousands upon thousands of pictures, most of which are frankly duplicated upwards of 10 times each (if its a selfie session easily 30-50 photos, out of which i like one or two)

so awhile ago i started with the strategy of favoriting photos that i really liked out of these photosets, and therefore my whole photo storage!

this has made it easier to go through and remember and delete things that truthfully i have never looked back on or thought about again. in the moment these things felt very meaningful to capture in pictures (so meaningful i needed 127 photos and 11 videos of a single concert), but looking back i have almost no attachment to them! and im a sentimental person.

so i have been using screen time where i would have scrolled previously to go through my library on my mobile phone and continue MASSSSS deleting. today i got rid of another 2.5k easily!

it feels good also to empty these essentially over memorialized memories because some of them were painfully associated, or i looked at them and some pain of rememberance came up with it, or disgust, or just plain old detatchment. even the ones that were great great memories but i know i would appreciate more if i could say print 25 photos of the whole trip out and make a memory book- it felt like a weeding process.

i repeat, i am a sentimental person and keeping photos, taking photos, curating photos, making collages and mood boards and vision boards is really really important and integral to me fundementally. which is why this feels even like an artistic extension of myself.

and i get to look at all my photos in the process of this decluttering!!
yayyy!!

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Nov. 10th, 2025 11:10 am
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Realized after my most recent gym session that I'd been misreading the training plan and I have accidentally skipped about half a training session so far, and sessions are going to take longer than I thought. Whoops. The good news is, I also realized that this is a great opportunity to watch Dropout, give that reading on my phone at a 3mph pace is not super comfortable. So fingers crossed I actually like Dimension 20!

I made squash dumplings and banana bread and if I can make myself get off the couch, will bake gâteau invisible and a fresh loaf of bread. How is it possible that I picked up my CSA box on Friday, went to the farmer's market on Saturday, got some groceries Sunday, and yet I still need to buy more ingredients for food? Also I would like a gold star for excavating the frozen bananas, it is really hard to keep weird-shaped things like whole bananas organized neatly, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

More sleep = less concentration???

Nov. 11th, 2025 02:45 am
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I seriously had A Time of it with the blanket today. Got two rows done, but it took forever, I just couldn't fucking concentrate. Dunno why! I got lots of sleep last night! And yet!

Mama and I did do some work on the chook run, and also the chook run extension thing today, which was...

...look we ended up tying one of the poles in place with wire because the fastener provided just Would Not Catch, so. That's. Roughly how it's going. And then we put the door together, which is uh... a rectangle... and we somehow managed to twist it. The instructions are Not Complicated, and yet.

Gonna try taking it apart and putting it back together while laying it on the table tomorrow, and if that doesn't work we'll need to ask my father, which. Will be. Annoying. Still, can't be more annoying that That Goddamn Thing, and who knows he might even have a solution for that. (Doubt it though, it's a fucker.)

Monday nights

Nov. 10th, 2025 07:35 pm
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nothing quite like settling down in a corner of a low-budget restaurant (with free wi-fi!) after a long day at work, company laptop out and dreamwidth open (yes i type funky dreamwidth posts and ao3 comments on my company laptop)...

just for the old couple at the table next to you to start arguing :shifty-eyes:

so far they've argued about whether they should pick their meals using the physical or digital menu (the physical menu won out), and the wife wants the husband to investigate the cost effectiveness of "thermal scanners" and "ultrasounds" (for what? omg)

but i'm just like: tea? tea? will there be tea?

edit: there was no substantial tea. my disappointment is immense.

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An AI-critical post I really like:

lucillewalterblack:

my Anti-AI Disabled Artist Hot Take is that I think a lot of disabled AI users believe in a right to comfort that fundamentally doesn’t exist

and I know this is the piss on the poor website, the no-nuance website, but I feel the need to point this out because I see a disabled AI users talking about “the art community” like we’re a lot of elitists for believing that the process of making the art is what bestows worth upon the finished product. I saw a post where someone went “we all understand that not everyone is going to be a pro athlete because of factors out of their control, why can’t we understand that’s true of artists? what if someone is intellectually incapable of learning how to make art? what if you train and practice for 20 years and you never get good? why should I be barred from making art just because I’m not good or I have difficulties?”

and to that I say the process is the point, even when it’s hard, and I also say abled artists struggle and strive and practice too.

if you practice the flute for 20 years and never get good you will have reaped the benefits of playing for your own entertainment. people play recreational sports with no hope of going pro because they enjoy the experience of playing for their own entertainment. poems that are shitty can express emotions and sentiments authentically and bring catharsis to the author through the experience of writing. acting can be bad and still meaningful to the actors.

doing the thing is the point. the end result is not the point. a stick figure on a Post-It gave the person who drew it something meaningful, it exists as an expression of something the artist felt and the process of drawing it was an outlet for those feelings. assembling a collage requires examining your emotions and using found elements to assemble an expression of those emotions. creating a moodboard is the same. making a word cloud and arranging the words based on what you like best, creating a playlist, tracing a pattern in the carpet with a hand or foot - all of that is meaningful because it is done by a human who is doing it to express a feeling or sentiment. It is done earnestly and translates brain things into something observable. the colors, the positioning, the shapes - you, the artist, are actively making choices that best express your taste. this is why procedurally generated images aren’t art, this is why procedurally generated text isn’t art. there is in fact an inherent value to assembling the final product. the assemblage of the final product is what makes it art. even if the assemblage is screaming to express anger. even if it’s shedding a tear. art is a thing created directly by a human being. eventually when machines become sapient enough to showcase their souls they’ll be able to make art too.

if you do not care enough about the process to want to engage with it despite its difficulty or learning curve or challenge level, you are not entitled to the end result of a finished work of art. it is an unfortunate reality of being disabled that we are not going to do things or get things as easily as abled people. but abled people aren’t effortlessly creating art from perfect comfort either. doing hard things is its own reward. I believe that everyone, no matter their ability or skill level, is capable of making meaningful and important art that authentically expresses their feelings. there is no such thing as Too Disabled For Art. there is no such thing as Too Disabled For Anything But AI. you might never be good. do it anyway. keep doing it. do it badly. that’s how you get better.

(and, just to be clear, I’ve been training in drawing for 23 years, and I’m still not good, and I still get something emotionally beneficial from the act of drawing. again, if you don’t care enough about the process to engage with it despite the difficulty level, you are not entitled to the end results.)


vital functions

Nov. 9th, 2025 10:14 pm
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Celebrating. Anniversary. <3

Reading. Ravindran, Link, Stocks )

I have also: been skimming a variety of pain-related academic publications, and: printed out not one but TWO translations of Treatise on Man for the coming week's work reading.

Playing. Things!

  • Gently pootling along in I Love Hue.
  • Inkulinati! Delighted by having made it along the High Combat route on the second map page of my journey with... really minimal damage sustained; also very pleased that having worked through most of the Academy and now having made Progress on my Journey I now have enough of an understanding of mechanics that Proper Shared Activity is viable. (... had a Very satisfying Pushing A Helmeted Dog Off Its Level when it had considerately broken down a neutral gate for me.)
  • Fluxx! A particularly ridiculous game, that spent a whole bunch of time Draw 1 Play 1 and then suddenly exploded into Draw 3, Play All, Rich Bonus, Poor Bonus, Party Bonus, and Inflation, among others.

Cooking. Um. Three things from [the Roti King cookbook]9https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/466240/roti-king-by-sugen-gopal/9781837832118)! Surprised by how Very Into the beetroot thingy I was, and the pumpkin stew Grew On Me over the several days we spent eating it.

Also a tomato salad from East, which I was meh about -- but hey, that's one more thing crossed off that particular cookbook list!

Eating. This weekend we have had Many Avocadoes (which are a Special Treat), and also A made me blueberry pancakes for breakfast this morning.

OH and a variety of Things To Share from The Artful Duke in Bromley: macaroni cheese not particularly exciting but also very definitely not Cold Sad Soup, and therefore very welcome; sweetcorn "ribs"; three bean chilli nacho Situation; halloumi fries with hot honey. This occasioned the realisation on my part that "hot honey" is upselling for "sweet chilli sauce", which I find very amusing.

And a big pile of tomatoes my mother sent us home with, along with a chunk of Schwarzbrot :)

Exploring. Bromley "zoo"!

Making & mending. ... I got one of A's mildly problematic fountain pens writing earlier today and then promptly made it stop again. Gonna keep poking at the nib. (Tines were misaligned. Fixed that but/and they are now also a bit too splayed for capillary action to work properly; I think this predated my starting to mess around with it...)

Growing. The Mystery Habanero fruit are getting bigger. I am extremely impatient about how much bigger I need to wait for them to get before I can taste one to see how bad an idea eating it neat was.

All the various patio saffron are coming up, but the trough do not seem to have any interest in flowering this year, so I am going to need to Have A Think about what to do to make them happier. Honestly the answer is probably "buy another bag of bulb compost and bury 'em deeper".

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Different people I've learned have different ways of thinking about a week. Some start on Sunday, some on Monday, some another day. I like to think of it as 1-7, 8-14, etc and then a short week at the end, regardless of what day it starts on. So this should be through Friday (but I forgot).

Maybe I won't even do Christmas, I'll just keep going with these! Ha!

New stuff in Bold

old stuff )

Day 4: Kinktober - voyeurism - Inception - Arthur/Eames - Rating: Teen: https://100words.dreamwidth.org/781625.html

Whumptober - Don't be scared - Non-human whumper: BTS - Rating: Teen: Vampire AU called This Moon, That Moon, Chapter 4: https://archiveofourown.org/works/72297901/chapters/191159266

Day 5: Kinktober: waxplay: Carmilla: Gen: https://100words.dreamwidth.org/781625.html

Whumptober: My panic's at the ceiling but I'm face down on the carpet - Dream journal - Phobia: BBC Sherlock: Rating: Gen: https://vocab-drabbles.dreamwidth.org/180736.html

Day 6: Kinktober: Outdoor Sex: BTS: Poly Omegavers Swiss Family Bangtan: Chapter Rating: Teen: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65825563/chapters/191163691

Whumptober: No grave can hold my body down - caught in a net - pinned to the ground: BTS - Rating: Teen: Vampire AU called This Moon, That Moon, Chapter 6: https://archiveofourown.org/works/72297901/chapters/192863091


More old stuff )

Day 9: Kinktober: Shibari: BTS - SUGA/Jimin - Swiss Family Bangtan: Explicit: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65825563/chapters/192290411

Tentacles: BTS - SUGA/jhope - Yoongi's tub: Rating: Mature: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37632481/chapters/192587311

Day 11: Kinktober: Somnophilia: BTS - Rating: Teen: Vampire AU called This Moon, That Moon: Chapter 5: https://archiveofourown.org/works/72297901/chapters/191780026


more, more old stuff )

Day 27: Kinktober: Animal play: BTS: Jimin/Junkook: Explicit. The dog next door: Chapter 2: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63092950/chapters/191162051

Sonic Expo

Nov. 9th, 2025 02:28 pm
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I haven't been posting much. My work hours were increased and I've been too depressed and low energy to draw or piddle around on most websites. Anyway: I was at Sonic Expo yesterday, it was fun while it lasted, but was kind of weird compared to the other two cons this year.

  • I only got a day pass for Saturday. Three day tickets were expensive, I figured Saturday was the busiest so I was okay with paying more, but that didn't go as planned... (read more)
  • The pro is that the convention center is nearby, the con is it's a lot smaller compared to hotels in Dallas. Sheraton and Hyatt could easily fit 7-8k+ people, but there were "only" 2k people who arrived at noon Saturday. But a lot of things were delayed because of the crowd's size. The line for the vendor's hall was so long everyone had to form OUTSIDE the building. And the catering was in the vendor's hall, so I had to suck that up if I wanted lunch...
  • Speaking of catering, um, I'm glad I brought my credit card because it was TFF/TFS all over again! Strange overpriced fast food, a slice of pizza was $8 but at least it was big... The Hyatt at least had food trucks outside.
  • It was a lot less social compared to the other cons. There were a lot of cosplayers and whatnot, but outside a few exchanges I had in the game room, most people were occupied with their own group. Especially in the game room and lobby...
  • Slime Garden was a demo I played in the game room. It's open access right now and a Chao garden-alike with a fishing mini game and island exploration to get items. Very clever, it doesn't deny it's "Chao garden as its own game" but still has its own ideas. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3332460/My_Slime_Garden/
  • Dono's Tale was also there and I completely fell in love with it. It's such a lovely and brilliant homage to various platform games, I can't wait for the Switch port. My short description doesn't do it justice, I had no caffiene today. If you like Yoshi's Island, Kirby, Megaman, etc. DOWNLOAD THIS DEMO NOW!!!! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812250/Donos_Tale/
  • The "big" crowd and small building led to a lot of panels getting delayed or rearranged.
    • Case in point, a panel about Sonic and neurodivergence was postponed an hour later, and the crowd was so long it was delayed by 15 minutes LMFAO. The panel was what I expected, but the Q&A near the end brought up a good conversation about both parenting autistic children and the pros and cons of self-diagnosis. The nuance of the latter is why I've walked back on online communication and prefer IRL stuff, I can imagine a panel where two people say "self-dx is valid" but two others say "as a professional, can be dangerous due to overlapping symptoms and can lead to misdiagnosing yourself" would lead to a screaming and name calling online lol.
    • Another panel was said to be at 8PM on the schedule was moved up an hour. It appeared to a Discord server's movie stream but live lol? We mainly watched random Sonic cartoon episodes and that iconic McDonalds commercial from Pakistan with the horrible 3D models. I forgot how legitimately funny AOSTH is, we were watching that one episode where the Amazon woman tries to marry Robotnik and Mama Robotnik crashes it. Sonic Boom also seems.... interesting? It looks weird but the short episode with the stalker tapir was almost equally funny in a modern way. (It's over a decade old... you know what I mean....)
  • Vendor's hall truly did not disappoint, and there was some merch for other popular series there. But I ran into an issue that a lot of artists are still on Twitter... I started using Bsky after TFF to have my foot in a semi-mainstream space, but the Sonic Expo hashtag on there was really quiet. I really don't want to remake Twitter even if it's for following/reposting/DM only, I don't have the energy to maintain so many accounts at once. (See: The fact I'm x-posting this to 3 other sites...)
  • I did commission ChibiJenHen, I will post it.... When I have the energy to....
  • My biggest complaint is the concert and actual tickets are separate. I get a smaller venue needs their money, so I'm fine with VIPs and donators getting priority and one day passes. My issue is everything shuts down when the concert started at 8PM, and if you didn't buy separate tickets, you're fucked. I figured I could play in the game room while it's going, but I was told it opens back up from 10PM-1AM... basically nothing to do for a few hours. Most people in the lobby were hanging out among themselves, so it got awkward and I left by then. Normally I get depressed the day or week after a con, but it happened an hour later... Not sure if I'll return next year unless this set up changes.
  • I ran out of phone data before I left. I really need to bring offline entertainment like a Switch lol. Also I need to have a badge by Harmonycon in Februrary.

📝 weeknotes (nov. 2-8 2025)

Nov. 9th, 2025 08:23 am
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Life Updates

Since my last Weeknotes update, I’ve left [redacted location] and arrived at my new catsit. I’m in Denver for the rest of the month! The cats here are adorable (as always) and the apartment I’m staying in is really nice; the owners are kind and let me come early and stay a few extra days, which was great for me because I saved a bit on accommodation money.

I’ve now been here with the cats alone for a week and I’m really enjoying the whole experience. I’m in a residential area and it’s super fun to walk around looking at all the interesting houses and the trees slowly dying for the winter. I’ve been going out nearly every day just wandering around (in a borrowed fleece jacket because it’s been fairly cold (for me)) with a few occasional forays into the rest of town.

I’m a little annoyed that most (all??) of the museums here have a fairly high entrance fee ($10+ minimum). Of course yesterday was free museum day and I totally forgot…

Read the rest of this entry » )

Crossposted from Pixietails Club Blog.

Character name?

Nov. 9th, 2025 11:07 pm
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I have started writing fiction. At this point, I have a whole three paragraphs, a narrative tone I have hopes for, and a complete block on the name of the character I'm talking to. For Reasons, this is bugging me more than it should (yes, they are currently Character A).

So, crowdsourcing. Please suggest me names suitable for a middle-ish class surburban white woman Australian born in, say, the mid to late 70s. I was faintly tempted to just call them Jenny, as such a large percentage of that age group were. But it doesn't fit the vibe for reasons I can't articulate. This is someone who's trying to fit their quest / portal fantasy activities into the hours between school drop off and pick up, while also balancing any number of other commitments (are they on the P&C? I haven't worked that one out yet). (I have also discarded Liz, Lisa, Kate, and Sarah, all of which were common in that age group). I'm kind of avoiding names of friends, with the caveat that if you want me to use your name for a complete stranger and risk the assumptions people will make if they ever read it, tell me that!

Will I finish this story? Well, history points to no. But it is three more paragraphs than I wrote last year, and I have more plot to go with it than I did last time I tried to get this scene out of my head. I give it two chances.

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This is not a thing I should be proud of and yet. Sleep schedules, man. Make living with other people hell. (Or, at least, with Mama. My father isn't a great housemate in many ways, but he's extremely accepting of sleep.)

Anyway! Mama and I worked on the chook run extension thing for a bit today! UGH, still so frustrating. But we've made progress!!! Probably more tomorrow, too, as long as the weather cooperates. Which is not guaranteed, at all, everything was soaked this morning it just happened to come good so we could work in the afternoon...

Other than that, couple of rows on the blanket - I don't think I'm quite at halfway, but I'm getting there for sure! Just gotta keep a steady pace and I should get there without too much trouble. If nothing goes wrong, of course, which does mean I'll need to keep it well away from Sushi... He's been made of beans recently, zooming around the house much more the usual and back to climbing up curtains etc. etc. etc. He picked a fight with the cardboard scratcher I have behind me this evening, which was pretty funny. Yeah, you show that cardboard who's boss! XD

The Friday Five on a Sunday

Nov. 9th, 2025 03:36 pm
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  1. What’s harder to live without, chocolate or alcohol?

    I've frequently given up alcohol for weeks. I've never dared give up chocolate. I might turn into a monster.

  2. Does the colour yellow remind you of anything?

    A few things. Drawing the Sun with crayons. The walls of the Camden flat I lived in when I first moved to London. The colour of baby poop (soooo weird).

  3. Who most annoyed you last week?

    The Andrew formerly known as Prince. Just go and fade away into obscurity already, although really you should be in prison, you entitled twerp.

  4. Do you have a cutesy romantic nickname for your partner (or previous partners)?

    Yes. I'm disinclined to expound on that.

  5. What is your favourite Stephen King movie?

    Er, none of them. I can't watch most horror films. They give me nightmares for weeks.

an assortment of nice things

Nov. 9th, 2025 12:48 pm
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Despite *gestures* everything, there are still nice things sometimes!

  • Miss H just got made redundant, but on Friday she heard that she'd successfully interviewed for another job at her institution, so the cat's Dreamies are no longer in peril.

  • Another friend just got promoted! Exciting new job title.

  • I have some annual leave this week, and it's going to be amazing.

  • Pictures!
irrepressible

This one's from quite a while ago, but I came across it while I was uploading the others. I did know that flowers could break through pavement, but it's still pretty impressive to see! Tiny little leaves tearing up the tarmac.

Migrants welcome <3

Between Reform somehow, horrifyingly, topping the polls, and my city being smothered in Union Jack flags put up by people who definitely don't have any racist motivations of any kind and who are only purely coincidentally buddies with Tommy Robinson, it's nice to see something I can agree with for once.

gigantic leaf

This was on my parents' road - one of the trees in the allotments was dropping these absolutely colossal leaves all along the pavement. I thought they looked acer-ish, so presumably sycamore, but I've never seen one a quarter of this size before. I told my swimming buddy who volunteers for a tree charity about it, and she suggested it might be a London plane (after saying "I know you said the leaves were absolutely enormous, but I wasn't expecting them to be that big"), which seems plausible on a quick internet search. Just so comically gigantic though.

Not so nice: now I have to go to a double choir rehearsal where a) the conductor has already made it clear that he's not going to follow the precedent of our newly-retired chorus director and finish the second rehearsal early because everyone is tired by then, not that anyone thought for a second that he would, and b) they've cut the break between the two rehearsals down to thirty minutes, which I am not convinced is long enough when we have two and a half hours of rehearsal each side of it...

supposedly fun things… DFW PTIII

Nov. 9th, 2025 10:29 am
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keeping up with the last of the quotes from this collection.

p203 (on discomfort with D. Lynch body of work and approach)
“I’m going to submit that the real “moral problem” a lot of us cineastes have with Lynch is that we find his truths morally uncomfortable, and that we do not like, when watching movies, to be made uncomfortable. (Unless, of course, our discomfort is used to set up some kind of commercial catharsis — the retribution, the bloodbath, the romantic victory of the misunderstood hero line, etc. — i.e. unless the discomfort serves a conclusion that flatters the same comfortable moral certainties we came into the theater with.)”

OKAY thats the last quote, the ending of the book, while very entertaining, was a novelesque narrative piece that had no notable gems of standalone sentences or phrases :)

TOTAL REVIEW SUMMARY:

This was the first DFW book i have read in my life. ironically due to the essays in this i also have now watched my first D. Lynch movie in my life. i would say that this book was reccomended to me as an introductory piece to the body of DFW’s work because of its essays, variety, and philosophical bendt. I do feel that it would be a stronger rating and more impactful if he had kept it at the level of essay, philosophy and added a modicum of well positioned and poignant narrative. BUT NO. there are HUNDREDS of useless extensive dostoyevskyesque in detail excruciating sentences of fictional narrative to get through in this book. i am now at the stage of my human life where i do not feel any sense of disloyalty in skimming and subsequently skipping as much of a written piece as i need to in order to maintain my sanity and interest in the work. i dont feel bad personally for doing this, however i happpen to think this visceral reaction was intentionally added to the fabric of this book?? like some kind of psychic test of his readers to see if they could endure it?? well, as a reader, and human being, i feel i have put myself through listening, watching and reading enough useless media that i didnt consent to take in. so i skipped it. the only person who would be able to, in good faith, finish every sentence must be very personally interested in tennis. i would also like to say that i was actually enthralled in the ending of this book to the extent that i brought it into the PUBLIC SAUNA with me and therefore the last 26 pages that i finished of the book fell out, IN THE SAUNA. they are tucked into the back happily severed.

Hornets

Nov. 9th, 2025 04:28 pm
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There are hornets here now in New Zealand. 😑 This isn't good for our bees and horticulture.

Here's how to make a home-made trap:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/577661/hornet-invasion-how-to-make-your-own-traps


25 in 2025: 4th quarter part 1

Nov. 8th, 2025 08:54 pm
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1. learn to hem pants
2. go to a new grocery store
3. attend a jhope concert in Brooklyn
4. make an essential oil spray
5. submit an application for a job
6. interview for a job
7. participate in a fic exchange
8. read a manga
9. go to Costco
10. work!
11. eat at a new restaurant
12. explore a trail at a new state park
13. try a new craft
14. play new board games
15. try new recipe
16. play a sport
17. accept a new client
18. try a new bathroom appliance
19. go to someone's house for dinner
20. try a new fruit


My Indian lady is my new client. I like her a lot.

One of my other clients got a bidet! It fits on top of the toilet. It has a remote control and many, many settings. I tried it out this week. Definitely an interesting sensation. But it is helping him to preserve his skin and stay cleaner and healthier due to his limited mobility and flexibilty.

Tonight we went to friends from Minisculus' last year soccer team, a Malay family and they served a new-to-me fruit: rambutan. We have never actually been to anyone's house before for dinner. We don't have friends like that, so it was a new experience for us.

rambutan

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