01-10-26 02:30 AM
feeling: tired

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything, so I just wanted to give a quick update.

I had hoped to “do more” with my days off. I’ve already done a lot. But somehow it never feels like enough. I always forget to factor in time for rest and leisure, so I’m always disappointed that I wasn’t as productive as I’d hoped.

I live at my mom’s right now to save money and pay off debt. I’ve been in my old childhood bedroom since last July. I repainted everything white and basically set it up like a small studio apartment, with a mini fridge, hot plate, toaster oven, and kettle acting as a kitchenette.

It’s served me well, and I’ve come to enjoy having a small, minimalist space. I spent all of yesterday¹ (Thursday) cleaning my room, which I haven’t done since returning from my UK trip a couple weeks ago. It felt really refreshing to reset my space.

Just as I winded down for the evening, my ceiling started to leak.

It’s happened here and there. My mom’s house is old, and my room is right below the gabled attic. Except now it’s leaking above my futon² where I sleep.

My sister’s old bedroom is next to my room, connected by an adjoining bathroom. I left it alone because I didn’t really need the space when I moved in.

Well, now I do.

The leak is only near my bed right now, so I’m not too worried about moving my kitchen stuff or anything unless it either spreads or get worse—which unfortunately may be inevitable. Until then I’m just going to move my bed.

Dividing my living space and sleeping area will probably be better for me. But it’s a pain in the ass to have to do all this stuff. I had planned on going to the library today and doing some studying. Instead, I woke up (at 3:00 PM…), had breakfast, played a fuckton of Tetr.io, then cleaned out all the clutter and junk that had accumulated in my sister’s old room, before giving it a cursory sweep and mop.

So I did a lot, but none of the things I had planned to do. ): I really wanna start posting here more regularly. I also need to work on transmen.online. I think I’ll make a new to-do list for my notebook here to keep track of everything I want to get around to.

Besides all that I’ve been working a lot. It was my first full work week since getting back home, and man did I fail to anticipate how much it would knock me tf out lol. I was sooooo tired.

I’ve been playing a lot of Animal Crossing: New Leaf again. I downloaded a nice looking cobblestone path design and I’m finally building a layout for my town. Nothing on the level of New Horizons terraforming—it was honestly one of the many reasons I disliked the game—but enough to have some fun with it.

I’ve also been playing a lot of Pokemon Volt White. It’s a rom hack of Pokemon White and includes a pretty steep difficulty curve. Gym leaders have OP Pokemon with good type coverage and movesets. One of the hardest early-game battles is against Burgh, the Castelia city Bug-type gym leader. I was stuck on this motherfucker for months and finally beat him a few weeks ago. I intend on writing a gamelog blog post about it soon!

Besides ACNL and Pokemon, I’ve also gotten into Tetris. It started with downloading Apotris, a multi-platform Tetris clone, on my 3DS, which I learned about from this Youtube video. I’ve since put almost 10 hours into the game haha. I wanted to play something on my computer too; even though Apotris is also available on Linux PC, I went with Tetr.io since it’s the most robust and has a big community. I’m still a noob, but I’ve been slowly getting better and learning different strategies.

So that’s pretty much it… lol. Otherwise I’m just trying to focus on taking better care of myself and my space. I’m hoping that I can get into a better routine and start writing/coding/blogging more regularly too. I’ve got sooo many blog posts that I want to finish, and others I need to start!

There’s some other stuff that’s been going on, but it’s just depressing/stressful shit I don’t really wanna devote more time to rn by writing about haha. Things will be okay in the end though, I still believe that!!

Hope everyone else is doing okay!

Take care <3333