yawn

17 Jun 2026 10:07 am
omens: the surgeon general (LRR surgeon general)
Pet Behaviour Nightly Rating: Nico - C, Sunny - B (not bad!!!! we slept in until 6:30) and yesterday's chipotle pork burgers with avocado were A+++. I'd bought a can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce bc I see it come up in recipes from time to time but never in one I was actually making, so I bought a can a month ago just to have on hand in case I fell across a recipe again, and then I'd be READY. We used it in the pork burgers twice and the rest in chili - definitely will become a pantry staple :D

Kelly is off all day kissin dolls (aka first aid training) and I managed garbage day all by myself in the nick of time!

Have written 4k in four days, we'll see how day 5 goes today but I still don't want do anything else so seems like it'll be pretty good (RIP Spanish)

I have to work myself up to calling my drs office, ideally today, but I do not know if it will happen.

I really have nothing going on and I'm bored. I thought maybe something would spring to mind when posting but lol

PS the bacon poutine fifa chips just taste like saltier bbq, unimpressed

ha

15 Jun 2026 10:41 am
omens: shivering crazyeyed cartoon me (crazycakes)
The go go go did not last. The entire last week was sluglife. Just tired, always. Things that happened:

(I have to get out my phone and see if there are photos, to jog my memory lol)

(Ok there are no photos except the loblaws deal of "if Canada wins we will give you two (2) chicken fingies!!!!" and a picture of two sad and lonely mid fingies. This cracked my shit up and my friend was like, "well, Canada tied, so does that mean you get 1??" Loblaws loves to do this giveaway shit from time to time and it is always insultingly cheap and never actually useful. I give you no benefit of the doubt, loblaws. None.)

- basically I've done nothing, but the last two days I've written like 3k. Which is insane. There has been much, much ranting and frothing about comics timelines (oh how deeply I hate war games). And done none Spanish, naturally. Hobbies: pick One

- we had a very thundering and raining day yesterday. Pansies are very pleased. I was very pleased about not having to water!

- we didn't even leave the house this weekend (though we sat out on the deck and enjoyed the storms a fair amount) so we have no good groceries!

- have some tiny bags of chips with weird soccer flavours, though, which I never would have bought bc I see a fifa logo and I get a rage (like the olympics rage, very similar) but Kelly knows (ofc) that I have food fomo and a deep love of weird flavours. I have only tried the steak chimichurri so far and they are pretty much the exact flavour of bret's côte de boeuf grillée (I miss bret's) crossed with the lay's Quick burger chips (which is to say: burned meat with a lil something), so I liked them but I only ate a handful and Liam ate the rest in the night (works for me lol)

- (parentheses)

But anyway, today I'm back at it. Got laundry and vacuuming to do, got podcasts to listen to. Got writing to keep tinkering with.

Puttering

4 Jun 2026 05:49 pm
omens: captain marvel (capt marvel masking up)
I have been staining tiny chunks of the deck railing, first as an experiment. We had a tester can the people who sold us the house left so we knew what colour to buy and it looks so good and is sooo easy. My tiny chunks are very rewarding, lol.

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And I planted the rest of the flowers I had bought which were suffering in their little flats for weeks. Everything can grow grow grow now. A while back I planted dill, cucumber & holy basil in my click and grow and everything has been looking great except the basil, I thought they were duds but they're finally coming up now!

Also made oatmeal banana raisin muffins today (added the raisins bc L likes them), and they're very good.

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I'm feeling very go go go lately, I hope it sticks a while.

There are TWO FLIES (at least?) in my house right now and the dog and I are DONE WITH THEM 😤
omens: Bernard Black (bernard black)
  • There is a robin on my rail with an alive worm wriggling in its beak, gross. In more adorable news, earlier there was a juvenile robin on my rail with NO worm AND many many spots :D they're such cute babies.

  • Sunny is eating well now, her old food moistened (which before she would not touch, but now since chicken flavoured wet food is written off as drugged and suspicious, she is loving the half step toward normality) with fortiflora probiotics. And she's eating her steroid pill normally again, too.

  • She is, in general, pretty much normal, aside from the diet. Last night she even rattled the closet doors a bit at 3am like a nod to old times >>>>:(

  • Her mouth is adorable, from what I've seen (mouth is understandably off limits, ty), no fangs on the right side, but still both on the left. I don't know what else they're planning to take, but I know they're not done. It'll be a couple months yet.

  • Liam's dentistry came in 300$ cheaper than I was quoted \o/

  • He's signed up for the canadian dental plan \o/ (it was not terrible, the process, mostly just that it required his pc, his phone, his laptop, lolol, he kept having to go find more things - and his tax return, ofc. Hopefully he'll have coverage by his August apointment! And we'll have to remember to renew his application by June 1 of next year. Directly after taxes, I guess.

  • Kelly's in Montreal for a conference about his new job and working long hours and being social all day like he's back in Alert, lol. Poor guy. At least they sent him BY TRAIN! In business class! And fed him! I'm so jealous. He texted me from the train and said "the woman behind me is calling everyone she knows to tell them she's on a train," hahahaaa I would, ngl. Train!

  • Lauren and I finished watching Undercover Miss Hong and it was SO GOOD. It is not a romance (it had us afraid that it was, for a while), and it has a cast of wall to wall AMAZING characters ("And also Jungwoo is there," says Lauren LOLOL it's very true, he is the weak link fr (the character AND the actor, lol), but don't be afraid: not a romance). The villains were all so so so good. Heists! Friendship! We had many ships, too! I have millions to say about this drama but it's all spoilery. Really recommended.

hmmm

31 May 2026 08:34 pm
omens: sun shining through leaves (Default)
Sunny was off her steroid while she was recovering but she's back on it today (and itchy) ;_;
omens: sun shining through leaves (Default)
testing again
omens: otters hugging (otterhugs)
Sunshine is recovering slowly. Her dental surgery was a lot and they only managed half of it. It was pretty bad :(

But yesterday she got her voice back and had a little bath. The day before that I was celebrating her using the litterbox, eating, drinking, and getting in and out of her tree! And she is eating her medicine in her wet food with no complaints (for now). So grateful because it is now her ONLY food option, due to allergies.

The dog is mega jealous of the cat's new wet food 4 life plan. He eats home cooked meals!! Literally his food is just human food with no salt or alliums. But hers is stinkier!!! Unfair!! ;_;

eta: sunny's tractor bandage :P

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every little old lady loves a tractor

ooof

26 May 2026 09:31 am
omens: Bender slapping Fry in the face (futurama slap)
The cat is at the dentist today. Her estimate is sitting at 2600$ before any cosmetic wart removal so she is gonna stay in her loveable swamp hag state :P everyone think good thoughts!

In other news, has anyone else's world been rocked by McCain no longer making frozen juice?? It was the cheapest way to buy juice with the least fucking plastic. ;_; and now, we've discovered that the finish dishwasher tabs are only being made in the pod type now, no little block of compressed powder! The pods fucking suck! I only had to pull a blanket out of the dryer with plastic pod shit dried on it once before I was like, no, these suck, actually, give me the powder back. Or the time they all stuck together into a giant jelly mass in the canister because humidity exists.

(We have the juice now (by which I mean liquid laundry soap - I heard it called laundry juice once in a reel and it became our vernacular), which is beside the point, because the washing machine in this house has a reservoir, which is very convenient.)

Anyway, Kelly found a different brand of powder diswasher tabs and was fighting with the wrapping on them, and then we realised that the wrapping is "dissolveable" .................I will use scissors, thanks. This dissolveable plastic is the worst. Compost bags are another one - we switched to the paper ones and haven't had a single problem with them.

This has been Old Lady Rants at Plastic, ig, and Doesn't Think About the Cat.

I'll think about this cat instead:

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When you ask your cat for help to escape death but your death is actually very warm and cozy???? (This is Lightfall by Tim Probert and it is DELIGHTFUL.)

LOL

22 May 2026 10:39 am
omens: Impulse, eating chips (impulse - chips)
The dentist's office called today because they'd accidentally made Liam a hygienist apppointment and not a dentist appointment this morning, lol. We ended up getting there before they could get ahold of us. So now he has a new appointment for June 2 (still way better than Sept 28!).. we went and bought snacks anyway, which we'd planned to do afterward because I needed tomatoes, and all he had to do was wake up early :D it worked out very well for him, if not his teeth :P

Kelly is working from home today and is in the front yard fighting a war against dandelions. We both love dandelions but the difference between our yard and the retirees' yards on either side of us is stark. :/

I started de-chaos-ing the office where my computer lives, but it is a big project. Sorting hobby supplies, figuring out storage, etc. Dreaming up a better desk situation, maybe. It's such a weird little dark room. I want it to be great but it has never quite been comfortable. Other than that, I have my daily Kdrama date at 3pm! We're watching Undercover Miss Hong & at 7 eps in, it is EXCELLENT. It takes place in 1997 and is a lot of fun. Wall to wall great characters & many shenanigans.

A funny bonus picture I forgot to share of Sunny
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Her little stick legs under that floof! From after her bloodwork appointment on the 6th. They had to poke both legs! No wonder she went ballistic. She's usually calm as heck but not that time. Or, you know, I guess cause and effect could be reversed lolol. Either way, she walked it off and so did Christina, the technician /o\ sorry, Christina
omens: Helena has a doofy face. Like 8P (doofy)
Hellooo, it's been hectic, I guess. Or I just haven't felt like writing. I have been stressed, which makes everything kind of go on hold.

The good stuff:

Been planting some herbs and flowers on the deck, but not too many because we have to refinish the deck (ughghghghhh). And I finally plugged in my click and grow (indoor garden) this morning, so that is fun, too. Kelly is growing grass in the front yard and it is FINALLY sprouting. Our yard looks like shit, lol. We haven't started tackling the garden bed.

Got L a dentist appointment for tomorrow morning! He has cavities that need filling but isn't on our health insurance anymore :( so we wanted to sign him up for the canadian dental insurance thing but he needed to have his own taxes filed & not as our dependent on Kelly's, so we did that and it took forever but we finally got them back and then found out the canadian dental insurance applications open in june ...FOR 2027. They had warned me at the dentist's office that it wasn't immediate coverage but they were like "it's a few weeks, I think" ..LOL. So. Gonna do that in June but in the meantime, he needs 1200$ worth of dentistry. 2026 is the year of dental bills, let's say. Cat, dog, Liam. At least mine has been covered (60%, anyway, for the crown).

Anyway it was funny because I was like welp, make the appointment, we need to get it done asap, and they were like "we can book him in for July" and I was like lolol that's his birthday, maybe the next date?? And the next date was Sept 28th. :P But we were pretty confident a cancellation would come up bc summer etc. Did not expect a call the very next day but we will take it! :D

Oh yeah, also the cat's dentistry got pushed back a week and switched to the vet that did Nico's dentistry. He's willing to roll with how her cleaning looks and do whatever's needed on the fly, whereas the other guy wanted to do a cleaning and then decide what to do and make an appointment to do it after. And I was like, yeah, I think we'll only put her under once, thanks. For longer, yeah, but it seems way less stressful. I hope it is the right choice. I don't think I mentioned it here but we got her pre-dental bloodwork back and we had paid for a special test of her heart function bc we had been told in the past that she has a murmur, so anaesthetic was a very scary option. But!!! Her tiny little chicken heart is functioning perfectly! It was such a relief to get that result back because I was worried if we got the opposite result back it would be like, well... what do we do now? I still have to get a pee sample out of her but she is very stubborn and I am very scatterbrained.

Hmm what else is good... I got an intoabar assignment and it is Steph Brown x William Boimler and at first I was like nooooooooooooooo but idk, they maybe have things to talk about. I'll have to rewatch some Lower Decks (not a hardship). All else fails, I want to get back into watercolour so I might just paint it.
omens: ñ in a thought bubble (dreaming spanish)
I hit the halfway point of the dreaming spanish roadmap (750 hrs) in early April, and went on to get a little over 56 hours in Spanish for the month (around 41.5 without counting the 14.5 spent reading!) - a pretty slow month!

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Obviously a hugely slow start to the month. This was because all I cared about in early April was THE MOON. I spent basically all day every day listening to the Nasa livestream astronaut chatter, it had ALL of my attention.

I unsubscribed from both DS and SBG in late March so they both ran out mid/late April, but I still watched a fair amount of both (especially DS before premium ran out - it's the big blue area in the early 20s).

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More reading than listening again this month! I would ideally like to get the listening numbers up (in combo with other activities like painting or walking) but I would like to take the hours from watching and not from reading.


Some native yt faves this month:
[youtube.com profile] nasa_es artemis stuff, but especially the ISS tours
[youtube.com profile] dreamaulol animation/funny stories
[youtube.com profile] ximenajagi a panameña in Korea
[youtube.com profile] thefunkycakeart watercolour tutorials
[youtube.com profile] MiniMagiaartnstuff air dry clay sculpture

And


Because it repeatedly cracked me up


TV shows: I'm still suffering through Unicorn Academy on Netflix. I also watched some Escandalosos on youtube (We Bare Bears!) but they're cut extremely weirdly for yt, though probably denser dialog with the editing.


Podcasts: keeping up with español al vuelo and the dreaming spanish podcast, listened to a backlog of Spanish Boost with Martín like it was a podcast, and a bunch of Cráneo. Getting better at understanding preschoolers :P


Books: all middle grades comics --

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Srta. Quinces (great)
Miles Morales: Ondas sísmicas
Srta. Campista (not as good as quinces)
Hermanas (not as good as Sonrie)
Apachurrada (not as good as Alérgica but still very good)
Super Sorda

My running total wordcount is: 122,700 (level 2!)

The Miles Morales comic felt like a huge jump in difficulty! I was strugglinggg - the combination of fighting/powers/science/superhero words was murder. I'm taking a month or two before I read the sequel, lol.

Super Sorda surprised me with BATMAN, though :D It's a autobiographical story about a girl who loses her hearing with meningitis as a four year old and her childhood growing up deaf/different (with superpowers 🙂‍↕️).

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Adorable!!!

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omens: drawing of a raccoon captioned "kity say hissSS" (hiss)
another 3weeks4dreamwidth meme via [personal profile] maevedarcy..!

Places

I'm filling this up at
:
on my deck, in the wind (avoiding the loud vacuum)
Last place I went to:
the doctor's creepy office
Favorite place in your house:
lounge chair in front of the big sunny window, good view of all goings-on
Last place I cried at:
lounge chair above, pmsing a week ago or so
Last place I laughed at:
in bed last night
Where did you go on your last vacation?
we stopped and visited family on our roadtrip across Canada, but that was really a move, not a vacation - we didn't even get to stop for tourism on account of having a dog and a cat with us. Before that..... like five years ago?? LOL it feels like a minute ago. We rented a villa in rural Belgium with a pool in the basement because we had money from the government to burn and covid had ruined our more adventurous plans
What was your favorite thing about that place?
The pool, the cows down the road, eurovision 2021 (banger year)
What was your least favorite thing about that place?
overbearing airbnb cleaning rules
What's your favorite place in your city?
the park by the lake/river
What do you like about that place?
water! birds! snacks!

50 This or Thats - apologies, bc I have no idea who I stole this from :P
Bagels or donuts? Doughnuts
Bar soap or body wash? Soap
Being afraid or being embarrassed? Embarrassed, I guess. I'm great at handling it without making it someone else's problem, and not so much with fear.
Big bash or intimate gathering? I'm so antisocial that I'm kinda like eughhghghgh about both, haha. They both have their pros and cons. Gathering, I guess.
Board games or video games? Video games (not multiplayer)

Bridgerton or The Crown? Haven't seen either, not my thing.
Cardio or weights? Eughghghguhghg :P I've never given weights a fair shot but it has to be better, right? I hate sweating.
Carpet or hardwood? Hardwood. I love rugs, though.
Clue/Cluedo or Monopoly? EUghghghghghgh XD we bought Kelly a MtG version of Clue that was pretty fun though, actually. So, that, specifically.
Cook or do the dishes? Cook!

Damp socks or a pebble in your shoe? Pebble. Always kicking pebbles out of my sandals but if I'm wearing socks, I'm enduring socks, even dry.
Dragons or unicorns? Dragon unicorn
Family vacation or solo trip? Family
Fork or spoon? Spoon, specifically a rounded spoon
General admission or assigned seats? Assigned seats, love clarity

Give or receive? eughghghghhghh
Hot cocoa or hot cider? Mulled wine on offer? I like both about the same in that they're usually too sweet and I'd rather have a coffee
Iced tea or hot tea? hot
Italian food or Mexican food? neither a top pick for me
Long car ride or short plane trip? Car for privacy, short plane trips are annoying

Mountains or beach? the mountain comes right down to the beach ime: face left, face right
Movie candy or popcorn? popcorn
Musical theater or concert? tough, but theatre I GUESS
Nightlight or no light? NONE LIGHT
Ninja attack or pirate attack? pirates

Outer space or bottom of the ocean? space, grudgingly (I love air)
Painful truth or comforting lie? truth (at the doctor, he was like "I'm going to tell you something you don't want to hear--" and I was like "I want to hear!!!!!" always better to know)
Pancakes or waffles? waffles, gimme that cronch, pancakes are overrated
Passion or friendship? friendship
Phone call or text? text pls

Pizza or tacos? pizza but grudgingly. it's easier to eat
Play or concert? Play
Playlists or podcasts? Playlists
Puzzles or coloring books? puzzles
Rain or snow? you don't to shovel rain, as my dad would say
Ramen or pho? I have yet to try pho! My fave ramen is the jjajang one

River or lake? river! (ocean >>>>> river >> lake)
Roller coaster or Ferris wheel? I'm not sure I've been on a ferris wheel but at this point in my life I think I'd choose it
Roller skates or ice skates? Ice
Salt or pepper? separate the bffs??? (it's salt, and i LOVE love love pepper)

Singing in the shower or singing in the car? both good, but car is better
Skinny fries or thick cut? skinny = more cronch
Sneezing or coughing? what. sneezing, ig
Snowboarding or skateboarding? snowboarding seems less likely to make me bleed
Snowmen or sandcastles? not into either but I will choose sand, even tho rocky beach >>> sandy beach

Spicy or mild? a mild spicy. like, probably mild, because I'm a baby, but I can't imagine giving up my spicy foods ;_;
Street food or fine dining? street food, fuck restaurants
Subtitles or dubbed? dub in Spanish :D?
Wine or beer? wine, beer is nasty
Zoo or aquarium? Zoo, solely gambling on the likelihood of death humidity

Unrelated news!!

Two of my fave fandom things are doing signups currently, btw:
[community profile] genprompt_bingo (ignore this opened like a month ago)
& [community profile] intoabar! Very chill and fun projects, check em out!


omens: loki givin the thumbs up sign (loki thumbs-up)
via [personal profile] maevedarcy & [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth:

Movie I watched:
Hilda & the Mountain King
Series I finished:
Finishing True Beauty (kdrama) this afternoon!
Book I finished:
Sisters by Raina Telgemeier
Book I bought:
Miss Quinces by Kat Fajardo
Book I received as a gift:
no idea!

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Food I ate:
A kitkat shaped like an F1 car
Meal I cooked:
Boursin pasta, very good
Drink I had:
a coffee with that FI kitkat

Song I listened to:
Strange Love by Halsey
Album I listened to:
Bad Bunny's DTMF in the car to get groceries
Playlist I listened to:
"Let's fuckin cry OK"
Concert I went to:
a fannish orchestra thing in probably 2017

Game I played:
2048 in the browser in a fit of nostalgia
Person I talked to:
Rachel, to set up a writing sprint
Person I texted:
my son, re: pizza

I'm doing really good at this writing sprint 😌🙂‍↕️
omens: (misc - lissa's books)
A meme borrowed from [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth (this post) - Put your mp3 player/phone/streaming collection on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results.

This sounded fun to me and also like it would probably be crap but also make me lol - I'm not a poetry fan but ngl, I think it turned out coherent!! I cheated minimally 😇 I skipped a song I hated and also one that started with like, onomatopoeia :P

poetry (& english translation) inside
Me desperté pensando en to' lo que me hacía'
patrzę jak zegar odmierza mi czas
przebudź się - jesteś wolny, jesteś wolny, jesteś wolny
Got a secret, can you keep it?
nie umiem śnić

Ja idę ciągle swoją drogą
Je viens d'une ville où il n'y a plus de loi
I never thought I would put my freedom in your hands
nie mów że mnie znasz
otwieram jedną z ksiażek
I can feel it in my bones
Nie znam słowa
Skasowałam Poloneza obok kina w mur
Hej, ja przed Tobą się rozbieram
Jestem dziewczyną lat 47

And just like that it's over
Trochę deszczu
Powiedz mi, czy wszystko okey?
I just wanna go back, back to 1999
Tak niewiele sam o sobie wiem


& in English (this is just google translating for the most part, so buyer beware)--


I woke up thinking about everything you did to me
I watch the clock tick away
wake up - you are free, you are free, you are free
Got a secret, can you keep it?
I can't dream

I keep going my own way
I come from a city where there are no more laws
I never thought I would put my freedom in your hands
don't say you know me
I open one of the books
I can feel it in my bones
I don't know the word
I crashed a Polonez into a wall next to the cinema
Hey, I'm in front of you, undressing -
I'm a 47 year old girl.

And just like that it's over.
A little rain..
Tell me, is everything okay?
I just wanna go back, back to 1999 -
I know so little about myself.

It's not bad, right?? Nostalgic and a little self-destructive and with too many I's, but plausible! A little Gender, too?? (The narration switches gender & idk, I think it works.) Anyway, you can tell my Tidal account is heavily weighted to Polish music, lol. I've only had it 5 years or so.

Ughhh

7 Apr 2026 01:38 pm
omens: (glitch moon)
Very BRIGHT and SNOWY today, lol. Gross!!! I thought we had moved beyond this!

My spanish-doing has taken a major hit lately with my need to write rising....except, I haven't actually written, either. Mostly just staring at the doc while I think "I should be doing spanish," or doing spanish and thinking "what if my story was already written." Not very useful!!

And my attention span is pulled to the NASA livestream every other minute, anyway. Astronaut chatter <3
omens: ñ in a thought bubble (dreaming spanish)
748 hours! Two hours from the halfway point of the Dreaming Spanish roadmap :D

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I don't know what the downswing in the middle of the month was because I didn't take notes, but it was definitely a combination of things: pet errands, dentistry (the blank day is definitely a dentistry recovery day), doing more writing, playing a new Stardew save & Supermarket Simulator, Kelly going on holidays, etc. Also, I took a month off ANKI (& therefore Polish).

Podcasts I listened to: Quiet talks with Mila (patreon), Dreaming Spanish, Español al Vuelo, Español desde el sur, WorldsAcross Advanced, and InterSpanish (this one is so much more enjoyable now than when last I listened to it, months ago. It's just one speaker reading a script but the topics are interesting). And Cráneo, a bit, a science podcast for kids.

TV: I continued on with the odd episode of the cartoons I'm watching but not a lot. I watched a Netflix cartoon about unicorn boarding school without knowing it was a sequel series (it didn't matter, and also, ftr, the unicorns got magical girl transformations; amazing)

YouTube: okay the funny thing is that at the end of every month I look at my stats and the top input sources are always dreaming spanish and spanish boost gaming. This month it was Noni. By a landslide. It's just that my supermarket simulator addiction is getting to dangerous levels, okay. He had twenty episodes and then did a new series (the game had changed a lot since he played it the first time). It's very goofy.

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(#2 was Diegodoal (cooking videos/vlogs), #3 was Dreaming Spanish (not including the podcast, which I log separately), #4 was Unicorn Academy, and #5 & #6 are both books!

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Also interesting: time spent reading beat out time spent listening - both still trailing far behind watching, of course.)

Some newer to me youtubers I enjoyed lately: [youtube.com profile] Japatonic (Argentinian who is also Japanese, living in Japan culture vlog stuff), [youtube.com profile] MrSalas (comprehensible input/language learning, but for spanish speakers), [youtube.com profile] Jepllavador (Seoul vlog stuff), [youtube.com profile] animalogices (animal science), [youtube.com profile] arquitectomarceloseia8716 (house reno stuff), [youtube.com profile] antoniouton (Mexican living in Sweden vlog stuff), [youtube.com profile] UnMundoInmenso (geography) and [youtube.com profile] BBCMundo (culture stuff, mostly)


Books I read:

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Historias del Mar (interesting middle grades comic)
La hermanita de las niñeras #5 (lower grades comic)
Hilda y el trol (I don't know if this is middle or lower tbh, but it was very short)
Alérgica (middle grades comic)
¡Sonríe! (middle grades comic)
and a couple NatGeo Kids books (lower grades non-fiction).

I really enjoyed Alérgica! My favourite of the bunch. My running reading wordcount is 71500! Definitely hitting 100k in April, which will put me into my "level 2" of reading!

February 2026 | Index | April 2026


omens: loki givin the thumbs up sign (loki thumbs-up)
Witch Hat Atelier 2 Coco is such a weenie :D I know I'm supposed to find her endearing but I'm mostly like "ooof poor roomie Agott," most of the time. And I need more Qifrey backstory or like, more worldbuilding, so I can stop thinking his small girl collection is pretty sus actually. Maybe I just don't know what kind of story this is (I actually really do not, but I'm enjoying it)

Witch Hat Atelier 3 and now the story wants me to find Qifrey sus so I am immediately "oh okay, he's probably legit and fine actually." We'll see, lol. I like whatshiscrap (silverwash boy) A LOT.

Allergic - what big feelings 12 year olds have!! This made me tearful twice, lol. It's about a girl who feels left out in her family (parents expecting a baby any minute, younger brothers are twins) who goes to adopt a puppy and finds out she's VERY allergic to all animals with fur or feathers. I really liked it.

Smile - I didn't know beforehand that this was autobiographical! Or that Raina Telgemeier is pretty much my age (I'm probably the age of her younger sister, I think), it was pretty fun to look back at that time period in comics form. (Dentistry/adolescence combo punch)

Mob Psycho 100 vol 5 - I never really know what's going on in these books but I'm always enjoying it. I didn't like that Mob was basically a side character in this one. I do not care about the other teens. I don't even care about his brother, tbqh. (Though I love how much Mob does.)

Found out Hoopla has "Bonus Borrows," a collection of titles you can borrow when you run out of borrows (my library only gives me 4 a month) - none are in Spanish, but I got a handful of things that seemed fun:

octopus pie vol 1 by Meredith Gran
Deadpool Classic vol 1 (a reread for me)
The Unbelievable Gwenpool vol 1 (issues 0-4)
Nancy Drew: the Palace of Wisdom (issues 1-5)

I went to look at the bonus borrows for April and couldn't find them, so maybe it was a one time thing. If so, that's disappointing, but I'll still enjoy my freebies.
omens: Dick!Batman says "Pretty please." (dcu - pretty please!)
A couple friday fives, since I had another sitting on my desktop :O

and also a cow joke courtesy of my string cheese

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So mean o_o

username/dw history )

and superstitions )

omens: Bernard Black (bernard black)
I'm still living on youtube with a small amount of Netflix cartoons (Sailor Moon Crystal, Kamisama Kiss, Capitan Tsubasa). One day I will watch other things! Very excited about One Piece season 2 but we haven't started it yet because it's hard to both feel like watching an hour of tv late in the day (yawn, old people)

I started the Witch Hat Atelier manga, and I really loved the first one. It's so pretty! I have the second one but I haven't started it yet.

I started watching a different streamer play Supermarket Simulator a while back and ended up finally buying the game (lol) and it's pretty fun but omg does my computer hate it. How is it harder on my computer than the sims?? Very goofy. And then the week after I got influenced by youtube shorts and started a four corners farm in Stardew. I'm in winter y1 and the urge has died down again :P I'm free again (maybe)

Music (gasp) a new album by Kwiat Jabłoni (Przesilenie), with orchestra backing. I am such a sucker for an album with orchestra (last month was Rosalía's Lux, which I finally got around to). Also Lor also just put out a new album (pele-mele), so I'm excited about that, but I've only listened to it once so far. Anyway, this song opens the album--

omens: (omens - sp)
This month was a dramatic fall in hours. ~59 in total, minus 3.5 for Polish (ouch) and 6hrs for reading.

the usual graphs n junk )

Anyhoo, short month. March is already better :D

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