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mood: tired
weather: 57°F, clear but the week has been brisk and rainy and hot and everything in between
time: 10:35PM
got a few days worth of journals built up since i started working on this gemlog on the 19th.
got a VR headset yesterday! the very first night of play with it, was with my best friend, and boyfriend. we hung around in VRchat for my full charge and i can't remember the last time i laughed so much. i'm excited to have a lot more fun times with this! my boyfriend bought a Quest 2 at the the same time as me, for travel play and ease of use. he already owns the original Rift, so we do have that for some more serious play until i have a pc that can handle hooking up to my Quest. also excited about the potential for creative endeavors i have now that the limitations of set-up + my own pc not being able to run VR software yet isn't a problem anymore! i'm definitely interested in getting into making avatars etc... i have a more simple preference wrt VRchat avatars anyway. n_n
in real life news, charlie and i have been steadfast at cleaning the house more. we're really pushing ourselves to get cracking especially now that spring is here and the weather is so nice. it's easy to go through our open cement basement now, or to work on the outside of the house and yard! very excited for when we get to planting things in the fall for next spring. there's a very old beagle statue in the basement that i want to clean and put out again too. my dad talked about someone stealing it almost immediately. a beagle statue!? lmfao
my mood has been extremely up and down, but i'm finding a lot more reasons to be happier than not lately. i have so many things that make me feel very, very lucky, despite how disgusting and terrible things have been. it's extremely hard to focus on them sometimes, and maybe a lot of the things making me feel better right now are also escapism. as long as i keep working on the things i need to while indulging in [a lot of] escapism, it's fine isn't it? my better future will come as long as i keep moving in that direction regardless of other factors. *delusional*
hoping to cook a lot more. canceled doordash and it just expired. today i'm making taco rice with the leftovers from at-home spicy cheese taco shells lol, and then we'll have rice for a lot of other things too. tamago kake gohan, fried rice, so on... we eat a lot of pasta, rice, and bread here, haha|| really want to try my hand at making croissants at home! i want to bake a bunch and have them with eggs and bacon for breakfasts or slice them for croissant sandwiches with ham and cheese. we've been making sandwiches with brioche, chicken [lunchmeat or grilled], sliced cheddar, and apples of varying types-but honeycrisp has been our favorite. i can eat this every day.
another day where i pretty much ignored all else to spend some time in VR! today i spent a lot of time with friends. from around 8:30PM to 2AM i was exploring VRchat with jade, BT, and charlie. we played mini-golf and cleared a whole map, then wound down with cartoons in bigscreen. i've been having a lot of fun! thinking about buying and starting up zenith with them all as well. ପ(๑•ᴗ•๑)ଓ that's an open-world mmorpg, and there's cooking! i also want to get some cooking-specific VR games to play around with too. honestly the appeal in it for me is more like.. reliving my 'my disney kitchen' memories with some freeform cooking and seeing what all the physics and combinations do.
a cheap $20 pack of two rechargeable battery packs that we had bought for theme parks and travel plugs into the Quest and keeps it going for so much longer! charlie and i both want to get some 8-hour attachable battery packs, since they also function as a counterbalance to the front-heavy weight of the headset, but these batteries have been great so far! they are literally just some random well-reviewed pair on amazon so i'm not linking them here. for that matter, you could probably find them on aliexpress just as easily. i was running out of power halfway through golf and plugging my headset in let me last until i got tired, something like two or three hours later.
did go out to mcd's and got filet-o-fishes, which i find funny now because the next day🠚(today)🠚saw that pusha t made an arby's track and specifically called out the FoF🠚dually funny because my dad, on the way to pick up the mcds, mentioned how much he LIKES arby's when i mentioned i've been into fish sandos lately lol!? everyone's life is full of these deep coincidences and i think it's beautiful and also hilarious. other times it's just straight up convenient, like when you're talking to someone about something but maybe can't remember the source, image, or whatever... and then it's immediately brought up for you somewhere later. 🙏
had more taco rice today for breakfast! played ffxiv for the first time in some weeks even though i've maintained a sub this whole time. 🙄 want to kick my ass back into gear and get back into cleaning. also want to make some physical & digital art soon, & since i've been lackadaisical for the past week i've got to clean my desk off.
took my dog on a night walk around town and stopped by the nearest little free library. some book titles:
mr. wizard's supermarket science
harriet the spy
peril at granite peak
EMERIL'S New new orleans cooking
the bridesmaid's daughter
hardy boys adventures
stink and the great guinea pig express
cookshelf thai
so much variety! i didn't take anything, was just taking pictures of the way it was painted for friends. local artists painted the local little free libraries around me, and they reflect the area & culture. ✨ a quote on one side of this one reads, "i can travel to the ends of the earth on the wings of words." there are sunflowers and crabs painted inside. plank boats, sand, frothy waves, cattails, the ocean, seagulls, and the night sky on the outside.
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