I really want to make a blog post because I have spent my weekend mainly alone, only talkin to the Jean Cocteau staff and Ester, the librarian I volunteer with. I am going through Tomodachi Life withdrawls and also reading way too much fiction and listening to way too much radio but that is leagues above YouTube shorts that it is okay, I think.
I really have not been watching movies but I think I shouldn't force it. I've seen 37 out of my goal of 50 films and so I think I am doing just fine. I could have seen more, technichally I could've seen a thousand by now, but I am really a girl of a million hobbies.
this graph is outdated, from when it used to be a sheets endevor
I have a deep desire to watch anime again, though I have yet to really act on it. I have this giant spreadsheet, you see, that is the only thing I use notion for, truly for no reason. I should go back to google sheets but then I'd have to transfer a whole bunch of stuff over. Google sheets lets you make unlimited charts and graphs.
A lot of people do not assume I am someone who knows anything nerdy because sometimes I wear skirts and also I already know wayyy too much about 18th and 20th centuary history. But I had a few years long phase that ended when I discovered Marie Antoinette (2006) and I replaced it with movie watching. And now I have youtube which I consume so much more of but pay attention to so much less.
I am hoping to change my routine with a change of location and perhaps you might see some media reviews in your very special future.
Okay, that's it for a little rambling and something more organized to come soon (pleasepleaseplease)
I am going to use my laptop and I am going to watch movies, not videos.
I am going to use my laptop to make things. I am going to stop playinng Tomodachi Life Living the Dream for a week. Seven days.
I am going to do the dishes when I get home tomorrow, I am going to sit at my desk, which I am going to clear.
I am going to figure out what is wrong with my wifi and I am going to have a stable wifi connection.
I am going to get an email from one of the jobs I applied to and they will want to interview me and they will love me.
I am going to restart my laptop and my wifi will work.
If I let myself be more intentional with my evenings, I can achieve more in less time. I will go to bed earlier, I will have less headaches and I will watch the sunset. I will not realize my room is dark and the sun has set before I decide to make dinner.
I will watch a lot of movies. I will watch so many movies and read so much of my book.
I am going to put new batteries in my CD player and listen to CDs and the radio.
I will wear sunscreen.
I will accept where and who I am, with the intention to improve, move closer to my goal. If I have an apartment, I need a job and plan and drive to make, volunteer, learn, go out.
My wifi will work.
The library wifi will stay connected for more than three minutes before making me sign in. I will never have to sign into this library again.
I will have so many YouTube videos waiting for me when I am ready to reapproach YouTube.
I will find something else to do than look at Pinterest. Pinterest is okay when I am not home, but when I am home and I have my book, I do not need to look at Images.
I am going to use my laptop.
I am going to recover through making, I am going to have less headaches, I am going to feel successful, and I am going to steal ibuprofin from work, but not too much. I do not want to hurt my liver.
I am going to use my laptop and I am going to post so much this post won't be on the main page in a week, when I am back to playing Tomodachi Life. I will then introduce you to Tomodachi Life and it will not be awkward that you and tomo are fighting for my attention.
I have an apartment in Somerville, MA!! I refuse to live anywhere that doesn't have the most rickety looking landmarks and anything younger than baby Syracuse founded in 1820. I am extremely exited for a billion and one reasons, one of the highest being container gardening on my first ever balcony. I also can't wait to have multiple roommates and a real TV. Sometimes, it really sets in how survival mode Santa Fe has been for me. I hope to one day not have to choose between fun and necessity next time I am in this city. I want real snow and real store hours. I want a deli.
The last major pieces I need are a successful moveout and a job lined up. I have applied to enough spray-and-pray fake indeed positions and now I am using references and cover letters. PLEASE HIRE ME!! I will do anything for $20 an hour full time.
I have moved on a bit from KSFR. I like it when I want company. But when I am writing and I am thinking and especially when I am applying to jobs, something I want a stream of every jazz song ever and a few ads for the third annual whiskey and cigar festival. So I have been listening to station 101.5, the Cat. I am listening to it now and I really like their choices except for their jazz vocal pieces. Those are either the wonderful classics or someone doing some horrible cover. Often a white man doing something his voice wasn't ever meant to do and he sounds cheesey.
Oh my god now they're playing teh fucking ODD COUPLE THEME!! A song I didn't know why I knew until I used my phone to tell me.... don't let my dad find out about this. Also when is Gen Z going to discover the Odd Couple on YouTube shorts so it can take over my feed and I stop seeing Sachiko and her evening drinks bc I, too, will become a female alcoholic.
I have fallen into a routine I often go in and out of which is that I can't watch anything but youtube but every youtbe video looks bad. Also, all I want to do is play video games. I haven't written a letter or really truly tried in my diary or read some non fiction which are all hobbies that, to me, take a little bit of effort but have a differnet kind of pay off than playing Tomodachi Life. I think part of the problem is my messy living room and always being in my bed. But I love my bed!
At some point I must make a post about all the things I feel about the new Tomodachi Life, which I have played several hours of but no one would know, since my switch has been offline for quite a while. I am a mega fan of the second Tomodachi life game, to the point of playing the japanese-only original for a little while (this feels like a cover letter but maybe I am writing too many cover letters). So I know what I loved and I know what I miss and I know what I am very happy isn't in the new game.
Okay, I must go to bed and not ramble about something I know I could make an organized post about. I need to go to bed to prepare for work and work and work tmr!
I've been listening to a lot of public radio as I wait for vinesauce to upload. The station I have found is KSFR (101.1 in northern NM). You can check in on their site, which also means I can listen in wherever I am. I like how it can be anything and there's nothing I can do about it. I started my morning with a story about the Gaza Flotilla and then listened to this, which is the closest I've ever gotten to actually reading Marx.
I also like to listen to the music they play from all sorts of genres. If I don't listen to enough genres duirng the week I get bored with music. I've only become interested in the past day or so. I haven't actually spent a lot of time with the station but I 've already experienced so much. I really loved Jazz et Cetera which I did some stretches to before work on Friday.
Other things going on include being tired, applying to jobs and thinking about this drawbridge opperator job I applied to. I don't really think I'll get it, I have almost no nautical experience, but I love to dream of different places and different lives I could lead.
I started this on May 2nd, and since then I have applied with the Roommates for an apartment, I was rejected from the Drawbridge Opperator Job and I have grown the balls to ask my managers for references and so I am applying to better things than just the dredges of Indeed.
I am still listening to KSFR when I can, I am surprised I have kept this up, I am now lsitening when I walk sometimes, though I prefer when its mostly music, which has changed now that the money drive has started. I am hoping to donate when I get paid next week.
I also saw the Michael Jackson movie, high and eating popcorn with mustard. I saw it with the Coworkers and it was a great time. He is not someone I know a whole lot about, I really didn't know about the whole burns thing. I liked the cgi animals because I am terrified of chimps and do not want to look at a real one.
This might be all I do as the heat gets turned up on my life... this blog may be a bit on pause until my weekends become more clear... I keep telling people I will leave them and it is very painful to do. I came here not knowing anyone, and for a while I thought I never would. But I did make a life in Santa Fe, I failed at avaiding nesting, even if it was only emotionally.
That's all for this little blog post that somehow took me 9 days to write. ๐
Literally several weeks ago (4/10) The Illustrators (and me) had game night via discord. We hit up all the classics: Gartic Phone, Skribbl.io and Jackbox!
Before we start, the music:
And now here's a gallery of images from that night:
Devistating news, my dear friend seb's hamster, Coco, has passed. She was three, I think, and a world traveler. In her honor, seb asked me to make some drawings of her:
Hope she's eating so many seeds in hamster heaven ๐
Today I took the bus to the Library where I volunteer and the bus driver I had wore reflective aviators and had a handlebar moustache. He also wore a black baseball cap witha propeller!! woah!!! This was very exciting for me but I could not take a picture, so I drew him. I sent this poorly done notesapp piece to anyone and everyone.
I also have been wathcing a lot of youtube lately and less so movies and tv or even sports (which I do now). I watched a movie yesterday on youtube for free, and I've been doing that a lot, and I haven't been watching a lot of Hulu or anything else because I'd rather just scroll youtube, and I dont have to pay for it!
I really like all the free movies and TV you can find on youtube, some offical some not so much, and things come from all over the world. They also are really great or even better, really bad. You can watch Pride and Prejudice like this or like this or even this and I swear I even saw the zombie version all for free on youtube (though i can't find it now, I may have done it other ways...)!
Anyways, besides watching movies, I love archeology documentaries and iceburg videos (which are very fun to critique). I listen to mixes and watch clips from actual reality shows all the time. My whole feed has been flooded by Tomodachi Life Living the Dream content, which is tough because I need this game to just come out already.
I've watched at least 500 hours of Vinesauce last year not coundtin what I watched when my Ex Roommate had ad-less youtube. He is my favorite and I cannot explain it and I know he can be cringey but, in the 6 years I have been watching him (not long in the Vine-verse), my youtube ecosystem relies on his content. I rewatch his old playlists all the time, I'm currently doing Resident Evil 7, and his modern stuff too. He used to be our "Third Roommate" bc we'd just put him on all day. I started with Tingle and the 2019 christmas stream and have just kept going. He hasn't played evry game but he tends to be the only one who played a niche thing you don't want to find a rom for.
Nisipisa is my fav boston youtuber. I used to only watch her for her window shopping series, as most people do, but then she got me into sporcle and now I just watched anything and everything she does. Maybe she's my Boston inspiration. She is so much fun and is always going viral on tik tok. She's got a great voice and has very smart jokes for Girls Like Me!
Tamakid is a toy collector and artist who adds a lot of graphic deisgn and extra music to her videos that are so aesthetically pleasing to me. I want to amke videos like this one day, but I need to start making videos at all, which requires planning I don't have the time for. Anyways, her content is so cool and a lot of fun, even if you don't care for collecting, she does so many other things! She's where I believed I'd be as an adult when I was collecting tokidoki horses as a kid.
I Heart Mess is my favorite Substack (not hard tbh, tho do check out flesh world) and now one of my fav channels and I have just learned Emily Kirkpatrick is now THE DIGITAL EDITOR OF INTERVIEW!!! Which I am so happy about, she deserves this and only so much more. Her videos are fun even for those who do not care for fashion because almost everyone (except celebrities) loves to dunk on celebrities!!! She brings you fabulous images and news that really doesn't matter but it does make you feel better when the rest of the news cycle is just muck! This, instead, is slop.
This historian makes videos on literally anything and they're all about 2 hours long. He's more recently committed to no AI (which he was only using for images) so don't get scared if you see some in earlier videos. Since I discovered him yesterday, I've watched videos on Millard Fillmore, TWA, 1981 in England and now Koscot. I've been falling asleep to it since I've started watching vinny play horror games and it is too interesting that I just get very relaxed, but I still find myself looking up stuff on Wikipedia instead of falling asleep.
Okay and her's a list of other channels I watch just every once and a while:
WiiLikeToPlay
Fundie Fridays
Katie Robinson
The World of Maude
Rick Steves' Europe
caseoh
Nemf
Felipe Bravo
Bliss Foster
Summoning salt
Rajiv Surendra
Malcolm P.L.
WiiFit Yu Log Channel
Mike's Mic
The Histocrat
and many mooooore....
I can only hope that you have a better understanding of me and my mind. It is hopefully not too revealing and I hope, even if you are a regular reader, that I still habe some mystery to you. But my entire soul is within all these links and images from my Web Stickers board on Pinterest lol.
One does not need streaming when you can watch things made by The People!
ello everyone! I am postingg again. One day later. February 2025 behavior if you must ask me, when I made 25 posts in one, 28 day, month!
This is my creative warm-up before I work on an inaugural letter to a friend that I started on my lunch. I realized all the [artist] themed notecards I got at work make [artist] a part of me and my work and so I have decided from here on out I will be obstructing [their] ugly work so I can get the cards I got for a dollar at the scratch and dent sale. I like the cards size and material wise, but I do not want to have to be limited by these paintings. So I've covered the card with oragami paper.
Here is a song for you:
Here is what keeps happening at work but I don't care because I think it is extremely cute even tho now everyone knows which locker is mine, i guess if they want to steal my book and ruin my day:
But anyways, here is a small list of things I have made while in Santa Fe. I don't have pictures of everything, especially not my letters, which are my masterpieces, or the gifts I have made for the Future Roommates, which are truly my greatest desert works.
Anyways, as someone outside my window sits on their horn, here are some little projects:
before i got into weaving, i was on a paper mache shelf kick and i made a bunch. this one holds my hoops over my other earrings
from below. fish kiss
a garland made from a giant real estate magazine
another shelf with ducks gued onto it. and a hippo toy
sun print and the first thing i made on a loom that i also made
my diaries are all a part of the biggest piece I will ever make
the second weaving. it didn't come out as good but i learned more
That is not everything, as I keep saying, but it is a lot, and that makes me feel very good. I have been trying to make more, do more, read more and I have been able to do all these things as I grow as a person as well.
That's all, this is a bit of a mini post and I have a letter to write!
