A More Fun Weekly Update!

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Weekly update time! Hopefully with more fun stuff and fewer words, but mostly because I feel like I haven't done a heck of a lot in the past week so there won't be a lot to talk about, lmao. Still! Accountability!! I've done pretty well with weekly journaling for a good three going on four months now so I'm gonna, stick with it.



Fun things that have happened in the past week! I don't think I talked about it because I was so stressed out last Wednesday, but I watched Dansui with Samy! We watched all eight episodes in about 24 hours, albeit in three separate doses, and I'm so. Fond of all of these good, soft swim boys. I wanted to watch it for Anzai because he plays Shiraishi in tenimyu, and was completely blindsided by how much I ended up loving Harumi, in large part because he's played by an ex-Jirou who I loved in THAT role as well.

And it was just, such a good soft thing to watch while being really stressed out, I'm always so thankful to watch things with Samy.

Friend June made a tennis and stageplays discord server! Everything has sucked on twitter lately because of the shadowban BS but if the net gain of that crap is a bunch of my friends who didn't previously use discord starting to use discord, I'll take it. It's been nice meeting friends of friends who I was peripherally aware of (because stageplays) but had never spoken to, and chatting more with people like Lily, who I follow on twitter but don't usually talk to. Our little server is nice.

My sister visited on Friday! I did the usual allergy shots and bubble tea routine with mom, and also grabbed heavy groceries with her car, and then we all went for a nice walk around the lake near my house. I'm sooooo happy the weather is finally getting nicer, that always has a big impact on my mood and being able to ride my bike again will be VERY GOOD for me, if I can just... Ass myself to re-inflate the tires and get it ready to ride again.

I went to visit dad on Saturday! I was going to go hiking with a few friends before metro-ing to his house but everyone slowly had to cancel, which is sad. But we'll reschedule, and I ended up walking with sis and dad instead! There used to be a golf course behind dad's house, which was bought up with plans to build townhouses there. But construction hasn't begun yet and it's been a few years so the entire area has gotten wild and overgrown and it's honestly? really cool to walk through? The water traps and weird plants growing all over and bizarre golf relics are surprisingly scenic.

There was a place where the trail curves around and looks like it circles back and we asked dad why he was turning around instead of just doing the full loop. He told us, go ahead, follow the path. Well, turns out it doesn't actually loop back to the beginning it just goes off to the other side of the course and ends, depositing you on the sidewalk beside the road on the opposite side from where we started. So sis and I did a big loop around on surface streets after our walk in the woods and probably got like, twice as much exercise as dad did. It was nice! Sis played some pokego and I experienced nature.

I went driving with dad on Sunday! The weather was nice and sunny and we started in the neighborhood he's familiar with so I could get used to his car again, and then drove through the next two neighborhoods over, which he didn't know. It ended up feeling like exploring in a videogame; the neighborhoods have a lot of dead-end courts and I turned down every single one as if filling in the map in a game, while kind of... Mapping out these unfamiliar neighborhoods in my head. My mental mapping abilities aren't great; I can only hold so much information in my head at once so I tend to have a lot of very small mental maps, and am bad at remaining aware of how they all fit together. So it was just... Nice to explore and to figure out how to navigate an area, and what roads go where, just by... Going down them.

I finally got sushi with sis and our cousin Steve! We were supposed to go for my birthday in December, and then Devon's birthday in February, and finally now, in April, we actually got sushi. We went to Sushi Damo in Rockville and I just, said fuck it, and went all in being an expensive date for my cousin, lmao. I ordered salmon carpaccio and one of their fanciest signature rolls with scallops and yellowtail and a bunch of nigiri sushi, including toro, and it was all soooo gooooood, god do I love sushi.

After a million years, Mel and I watched more of Nirvana in Fire on Monday! And Mels and Samy and I finally coordinated to watch more of ACCA on Tuesday! I really... Love watching things with friends. I'm always really tired in the evenings and haven't had the mental energy for writing or even crocheting, but watching stuff is within the range of what I can handle so it's lovely to be able to do it as A Social Thing.

This coming weekend is apparently the next play at Roundhouse with my mother and my aunt; I'd totally forgotten, but she texted me today to remind me, so I have that to look forward to!

I'm still really frazzled and will easily stress myself out, and I'm still spending wayyyy too much time on mobage. But I think I feel better than last week? And I am trying to make plans to go visit Yrin in Boston again, over Memorial Day weekend! It's looking fairly definite, I just... Need to actually get the time off from work, and buy plane tickets, and then I will! See Boston friends!! I love my good Boston friends.

And I love all of you, dear twitter friends who wander over here to read my rambling, messy dreamwidth posts. You are the true MVPs.