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Your Belated Weekly Update
Time for ye olde weekly update.
I am once again disgustingly frazzled, but at least this time it's because I had a morning full of meetings and only half the day for Usual Tuesday Things and had WAY MORE UNUSUAL TUESDAY THINGS GOING ON THAN NORMAL so I'm behind with Work Stuff and I hate it.
But that's alright.
There were a lot of things I was ABOUT to do which I'd mentioned in my last update, and all of those have now happened! I safely retrieved my package from the post office! I read many (but not quite all) of my new doujinshi! I went hiking on Sunday (3/18) with my friend Sonya! I went to the dentist the following day!
I'm still so fucking pumped about all the old ass tennis doujinshi I bought, they're beautiful and so many of them cater to my niche, uncommon fetishes and I'm... So happy... There's one sanayuki artist who I cannot stop talking about on twitter because they drew "the one where Yukimura brushes Sanada's teeth and it's the most sexual thing I've ever seen where both people keep all their clothes on and there is no below the waist touching" and also "the one where Sanada washes Yukimura's feet and then Yukimura steps on his dick and it's all wonderfully downhill from there." Their porn is just... So pinpoint my exact aesthetic of "Yukimura absolutely ruining Sanada's life and also body but in a fun way because he is so very, very fond of Sanada and just wants to get 300% up in his space to express that."
So I caved and made a third doujinshi order in one month for the other ten books by this artist which suru had in stock.
Hiking was really fun! I took Sonya to Great Falls, specifically billy goat trail, which she'd heard of before but had never hiked personally. It was... Really nice, it was such a warm and pleasant day and we got to talk a lot and make jokes and just, have a nice time in another human being's company. We saw hawks! They swooped down really low to the rocks everyone was on! Suuuuuper cooooool!! And afterward we went for Ethiopian food at the place I took Samy and Indi around my birthday which was both DELICIOUS and fondly nostalgic because it's just, become a place I go to with friends.
My dentist appointment was good! I'm so so so happy with my new dentist, no one has yelled at me and the hygienist is literally the best I have ever experienced in my life. She warned me that she's slow, but that it's because she's very gentle and very thorough, and she did not oversell herself. This is the only time I've ever left the dentist's office without my gums being sore from being stabbed five million times with the pointy metal bits, probably because she only stabbed my TEETH and cleaned them and didn't stab parts of me which are happier un-stabbed. It was wonderful.
However, there was a problem with the crown where it was made like BLINDING UNNATURAL WHITE instead of a color remotely matching my teeth, so it's being re-made and I am going back AGAIN in a month to make a second attempt at having it put in. And I had to get x-rays, because I haven't gotten x-rays of my teeth in like four or five years.
Which means so far I continue to spend zero dollars, but that my eventual bill when I actually get the crown in is going to potentially be Terrifying.
I should perhaps stop buying Japanese pornography until after I pay for it, l o l
We had a snow storm! It snowed Tuesday night into Wednesday and kept going all day, and my work tends to go with school closings more often than not which means we were closed and I got an adult snow day! I spent the entirety of it reading doujinshi because my second doujinshi order out of three (weeps) came on Wednesday and I had Even More Books to read.
I also assembled the most shameful object I will ever proudly hang on the walls of my home and at some point I need to post a picture to twitter. I bought a light-up whiteboard frame with eight slots for corkboards and photos and after Samy bought me ONE Shiraishi stageplay bromide, I bought myself... More bromides... So I'd have one of each actor who's played Shiraishi. And then several more because Samy is turning me into a monster. And then I framed them and put them on my wall. They're beautiful.
Last week just felt so totally fake because of the day off in the middle of it, and y'know, that's probably why I'm behind at work. I got all the regular weekly stuff done but I should've gotten a head start on monthly stuff considering I am GOING TO BOSTON FOR A WEEK AND A HALF, but I didn't. Because I am an idiot. And now I'm scrambling to get everything done that needs to be done in preparation for me to miss a week of work. It's awesome.
I went to my mother's for the weekend! On Friday night we went to see Love, Simon with mom and my sister and my friend Maggie and it was. So good and soft and warm. It's such a squeaky-clean, gentle movie about coming out and it pulled at my heartstrings SO HARD in largest part because I'm so terribly happy that this is something young baby teen gays can go to a theater and see, as a major motion picture. Our theater was PACKED, even in a pretty rural, less-than-liberal area of Maryland, and the clapping and cheering for two boys kissing and just, general emotional sense of the room made my heart ache so hard with happiness. It was a really, really good experience.
On Saturday I spent the morning with Maggie; we got Dunkin Donuts for breakfast, went to the hair salon so I could finally get all my hair cut off again, stopped in at the library, and then went to her house to watch the pilot for a new crime drama called "Instinct" purely because Alan Cumming is in it. Maggie is such a good friend because most of this was like "want to run errands with me??" and she said yes because she is The Best. We went back to my house after Instinct and sat around and chatted with my family for a while, before I went out with mom and sis for our requisite sisterly clothing shopping adventure, and to get Indian for mom's birthday. I am now the proud owner of a very loud hoodie, a couple dresses, and several cute new skirts.
Also the curry at the place we went to was sooooo goooooood, we ended up talking to the owner for a long time because he was VERY EXCITED to chat and I suspect mom and sis could've done with less of that but... I loved it. It was nice hearing this man talk about coming to the US from India and working as an engineer and then opening a restaurant with his wife more or less as a hobby just because his wife loves feeding people and he wanted to. It was good.
Sis and I spent much of Saturday night and Sunday mainlining a ton of Mr. Robot, which was the only other thing we planned for the weekend, lmao. That show continues to make me feel like I am slowly losing my mind, but I'm enjoying it a lot. We left off two episodes into season two.
And now it's the work week again!
I feel like these entries are becoming increasingly pedantic but seeing as I haven't actually kept up with my personal once-a-day journal since ending my hiatus, it is useful TO ME to have a record of what the fuck I am doing with my time. And maybe? Hopefully? It's interesting to someone else? I always hope it's at least a little bit interesting.
I totally fucked up with all of my self control plans about twitter but I'm just, not gonna be mad about it. I wish I didn't waste so much of my free time on this shitty garbage website full of literal white supremacists, but sometimes your executive function just critfails so hard you literally cannot even stand to read a book on your phone's ereader, and at those times I figure twitter is, perhaps, an acceptable alternative to just staring at the wall and wishing your brain would chill the fuck out for once in its miserable existence.
Maybe when the weather fully gets nice I can just go outside for a walk when my brain screws itself that badly. It's always really hard kicking myself into just GETTING UP and doing it but once I do walking or biking is so nice because it asks so little of you mentally. I love biking, I need to take my bike out and re-inflate the tires and such so I can cycle again.
And at the end of this week I'm going to Boston!
I'm very excited to see all of my Boston friends and even if Unforeseen Difficulties not related to me required me to shuffle plans around a little, I think everything is sorted now for con and vacation! I am going to do So Many wonderful things and flop on so many good friends and then when I am done I will probably come to dreamwidth and write about it. But I won't write on dreamwidth while I'm in Boston, because I am probably leaving my laptop at home.
And that's things! My mental health is still (vague, wobbly hand gesture) but I'm doing my best and I am mostly less paranoid that several of my friends hate me and just won't talk to me about it, so that's cool, I guess. I'm trying to kick my ass into doing RP stuff again, and I'm going to try to write something for the hikago comm's blind go event, and for tenipuri big bang. It feels weird to dip back into fandom participation when I'd kind of been on a hiatus from events and exchanges and fic-writing, but like... I've been in fandom for more years than I haven't at this point. I reckon it's good for me, even if I'm experiencing some trepidation about it.
Thanks for being my friend, beautiful readers. And for listening to me ramble, always. ♥
I am once again disgustingly frazzled, but at least this time it's because I had a morning full of meetings and only half the day for Usual Tuesday Things and had WAY MORE UNUSUAL TUESDAY THINGS GOING ON THAN NORMAL so I'm behind with Work Stuff and I hate it.
But that's alright.
There were a lot of things I was ABOUT to do which I'd mentioned in my last update, and all of those have now happened! I safely retrieved my package from the post office! I read many (but not quite all) of my new doujinshi! I went hiking on Sunday (3/18) with my friend Sonya! I went to the dentist the following day!
I'm still so fucking pumped about all the old ass tennis doujinshi I bought, they're beautiful and so many of them cater to my niche, uncommon fetishes and I'm... So happy... There's one sanayuki artist who I cannot stop talking about on twitter because they drew "the one where Yukimura brushes Sanada's teeth and it's the most sexual thing I've ever seen where both people keep all their clothes on and there is no below the waist touching" and also "the one where Sanada washes Yukimura's feet and then Yukimura steps on his dick and it's all wonderfully downhill from there." Their porn is just... So pinpoint my exact aesthetic of "Yukimura absolutely ruining Sanada's life and also body but in a fun way because he is so very, very fond of Sanada and just wants to get 300% up in his space to express that."
So I caved and made a third doujinshi order in one month for the other ten books by this artist which suru had in stock.
Hiking was really fun! I took Sonya to Great Falls, specifically billy goat trail, which she'd heard of before but had never hiked personally. It was... Really nice, it was such a warm and pleasant day and we got to talk a lot and make jokes and just, have a nice time in another human being's company. We saw hawks! They swooped down really low to the rocks everyone was on! Suuuuuper cooooool!! And afterward we went for Ethiopian food at the place I took Samy and Indi around my birthday which was both DELICIOUS and fondly nostalgic because it's just, become a place I go to with friends.
My dentist appointment was good! I'm so so so happy with my new dentist, no one has yelled at me and the hygienist is literally the best I have ever experienced in my life. She warned me that she's slow, but that it's because she's very gentle and very thorough, and she did not oversell herself. This is the only time I've ever left the dentist's office without my gums being sore from being stabbed five million times with the pointy metal bits, probably because she only stabbed my TEETH and cleaned them and didn't stab parts of me which are happier un-stabbed. It was wonderful.
However, there was a problem with the crown where it was made like BLINDING UNNATURAL WHITE instead of a color remotely matching my teeth, so it's being re-made and I am going back AGAIN in a month to make a second attempt at having it put in. And I had to get x-rays, because I haven't gotten x-rays of my teeth in like four or five years.
Which means so far I continue to spend zero dollars, but that my eventual bill when I actually get the crown in is going to potentially be Terrifying.
I should perhaps stop buying Japanese pornography until after I pay for it, l o l
We had a snow storm! It snowed Tuesday night into Wednesday and kept going all day, and my work tends to go with school closings more often than not which means we were closed and I got an adult snow day! I spent the entirety of it reading doujinshi because my second doujinshi order out of three (weeps) came on Wednesday and I had Even More Books to read.
I also assembled the most shameful object I will ever proudly hang on the walls of my home and at some point I need to post a picture to twitter. I bought a light-up whiteboard frame with eight slots for corkboards and photos and after Samy bought me ONE Shiraishi stageplay bromide, I bought myself... More bromides... So I'd have one of each actor who's played Shiraishi. And then several more because Samy is turning me into a monster. And then I framed them and put them on my wall. They're beautiful.
Last week just felt so totally fake because of the day off in the middle of it, and y'know, that's probably why I'm behind at work. I got all the regular weekly stuff done but I should've gotten a head start on monthly stuff considering I am GOING TO BOSTON FOR A WEEK AND A HALF, but I didn't. Because I am an idiot. And now I'm scrambling to get everything done that needs to be done in preparation for me to miss a week of work. It's awesome.
I went to my mother's for the weekend! On Friday night we went to see Love, Simon with mom and my sister and my friend Maggie and it was. So good and soft and warm. It's such a squeaky-clean, gentle movie about coming out and it pulled at my heartstrings SO HARD in largest part because I'm so terribly happy that this is something young baby teen gays can go to a theater and see, as a major motion picture. Our theater was PACKED, even in a pretty rural, less-than-liberal area of Maryland, and the clapping and cheering for two boys kissing and just, general emotional sense of the room made my heart ache so hard with happiness. It was a really, really good experience.
On Saturday I spent the morning with Maggie; we got Dunkin Donuts for breakfast, went to the hair salon so I could finally get all my hair cut off again, stopped in at the library, and then went to her house to watch the pilot for a new crime drama called "Instinct" purely because Alan Cumming is in it. Maggie is such a good friend because most of this was like "want to run errands with me??" and she said yes because she is The Best. We went back to my house after Instinct and sat around and chatted with my family for a while, before I went out with mom and sis for our requisite sisterly clothing shopping adventure, and to get Indian for mom's birthday. I am now the proud owner of a very loud hoodie, a couple dresses, and several cute new skirts.
Also the curry at the place we went to was sooooo goooooood, we ended up talking to the owner for a long time because he was VERY EXCITED to chat and I suspect mom and sis could've done with less of that but... I loved it. It was nice hearing this man talk about coming to the US from India and working as an engineer and then opening a restaurant with his wife more or less as a hobby just because his wife loves feeding people and he wanted to. It was good.
Sis and I spent much of Saturday night and Sunday mainlining a ton of Mr. Robot, which was the only other thing we planned for the weekend, lmao. That show continues to make me feel like I am slowly losing my mind, but I'm enjoying it a lot. We left off two episodes into season two.
And now it's the work week again!
I feel like these entries are becoming increasingly pedantic but seeing as I haven't actually kept up with my personal once-a-day journal since ending my hiatus, it is useful TO ME to have a record of what the fuck I am doing with my time. And maybe? Hopefully? It's interesting to someone else? I always hope it's at least a little bit interesting.
I totally fucked up with all of my self control plans about twitter but I'm just, not gonna be mad about it. I wish I didn't waste so much of my free time on this shitty garbage website full of literal white supremacists, but sometimes your executive function just critfails so hard you literally cannot even stand to read a book on your phone's ereader, and at those times I figure twitter is, perhaps, an acceptable alternative to just staring at the wall and wishing your brain would chill the fuck out for once in its miserable existence.
Maybe when the weather fully gets nice I can just go outside for a walk when my brain screws itself that badly. It's always really hard kicking myself into just GETTING UP and doing it but once I do walking or biking is so nice because it asks so little of you mentally. I love biking, I need to take my bike out and re-inflate the tires and such so I can cycle again.
And at the end of this week I'm going to Boston!
I'm very excited to see all of my Boston friends and even if Unforeseen Difficulties not related to me required me to shuffle plans around a little, I think everything is sorted now for con and vacation! I am going to do So Many wonderful things and flop on so many good friends and then when I am done I will probably come to dreamwidth and write about it. But I won't write on dreamwidth while I'm in Boston, because I am probably leaving my laptop at home.
And that's things! My mental health is still (vague, wobbly hand gesture) but I'm doing my best and I am mostly less paranoid that several of my friends hate me and just won't talk to me about it, so that's cool, I guess. I'm trying to kick my ass into doing RP stuff again, and I'm going to try to write something for the hikago comm's blind go event, and for tenipuri big bang. It feels weird to dip back into fandom participation when I'd kind of been on a hiatus from events and exchanges and fic-writing, but like... I've been in fandom for more years than I haven't at this point. I reckon it's good for me, even if I'm experiencing some trepidation about it.
Thanks for being my friend, beautiful readers. And for listening to me ramble, always. ♥
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I am absolutely a doujin-hoarding dragon, no part of this is inaccurate. I have FOUR BOXES of books and every one is at least half-full. Honestly doujin hell is a weird corner of fandom but I just... Love owning beautiful art objects so it's worth it, probably.
SEE I JUST?? Have no baseline for what someone SHOULD expect from a hygienist because I'd never had one who didn't stab you, so I just? Kind of assumed?? That deep cleaning wasn't possible without stabbing happening. Now my eyes are opened and I'm wondering if lots of other people have actually had pleasant dentist experiences for ages because they had good hygienists who don't murder you, lmao.
I'm glad to have brought you to DW, too!! It just feels... Mentally quieter, and sometimes that's nice. It's just always the constant instant gratification struggle with twitter, RIP.
But yeah, hopefully con will be good, thank you!! I plan on having a nice time, anyway. ;u;