Dragon's Diary

apologies for not posting so much lately, i've just been exhausted.. but i had a lot of fun on sunday night!! me, the wife, the roommate, and roommate's friend all hung out for a few hours downstairs. it was really nice! we hung out and watched a bunch of goofy videos and i laughed so much my throat felt sore for a while after.. it was a lot of fun!!

oh, and the bottle i ordered finally came in a few days ago!! i was so upset at first because i couldn't find the package and assumed it got lost in the mail, but it was just somewhere i didn't look! it's so, so cute ;_; i picked the color yellow but the print was completely random. i'm happy it's dinosaurs!! it's cute and (thematically) matches the dinosaur themed paci clip i got hehe



i love it a lot!!! i've been using it almost every night since i got it, it's so nice for winding down and having a yummy drink before bed.. the original nipple that came with it was pretty cheap and flimsy so i went and bought a better quality one and it's perfect!! very chewable ^__^ (i am The Biter)

today and yesterday have been such LONG work days.. it's good for money, y'know, but god, it hurts so bad.. having chronic pain is so miserable sometimes, it's hard to not let it get me down and just ruin my mood but i do my best..! gotta keep on truckin even if it's hard.. i work tomorrow, too, but it should be a short day!! which i'm excited about! means i get to enjoy the rest of the evening & night even more :-) halloween... i hope i get home early enough to hand out candy!! i love halloween so much it's the BEST holiday!

also, at work today i was putting away some merchandise and i saw a big blue dragon plushie that looked like someone had changed their mind about and just tossed aside.. it's reeeeally soft and was only 6 dollars, which is crazy for the size!! so i kind of caved in and got it, lol... a little reward for surviving the last two days

so this past sunday was REALLY fun! shan's friend frank came over and we all hung out. we went to see the comet, which was beautiful!! and then we went home and played a really goofy game for the GBA on his emulator called "Pocket Dogs". it's such a weird and charming little game, and i think it can easily be considered "bad", but i had a LOT of fun with it and now i'm gonna start playing it on my own, lmao. it's SO precious ;_;

i had a long day of work today & yesterday so i'm really tired and achy, but i'm off tomorrow! i can catch up on laundry and relax :-) yippeee

finally went to the doctor today about the rash on my arm that i've had for about 2 1/2 weeks.. on the plus side, she agrees that it seems like i'm on the tail-end of it, and she said i was doing a good job taking care of it :-) i make sure to wash & disinfect it a few times each day, and i keep it wrapped up / bandaged if i'm going outside or going to bed so no bacteria gets in it. she prescribed me some antibiotics that ill be taking twice a day for about 10 days!

hopefully this'll clear it up.. i'm so ready for it to be over. it's been so itchy and gross and annoying :-( it's been making sleeping that much more difficult ughhh... but i will survive!!!

oh, and one of shan's friends is gonna be in town this weekend which is excitng! we're gonna hang out with him on sunday! we're thinking of going to the cat cafe that just opened up, but you have to schedule ahead of time, so if that doesn't work out, we can just find other cool stuff to do :-)

my roommate shan invited me to go hang out in VRChat tomorrow night with some friends.... they're gonna be doing karaoke but i don't Have to sing or anything, he just wants me to join and hang out.. i'm so nervous but he said there's a quiet room downstairs in the room where the sounds from outside are very quiet / muffled so it'll be nice if i get overwhelmed .. i'm just!! so anxious!! i used to be so much braver about this kind of stuff, especially online.. i was a lot more outgoing and excited to meet new people, but now i'm just this anxious mess waugh

i'll do my best!!! i think i'm gonna use a model of larry from pokemon as my avatar, so if i'm awkward it's at least in character (LOL)

whew this has been a busy week so far, and i probably work tomorrow, too.. working 4 days in a row isn't really much for most people, i know, but my chronic fatigue & pain make it so painful.. i also hit my right foot (my bad foot OTL) against a metal bar today and it hurt so badly i felt nauseous. but i survived!! also, i got to play my music over the bluetooth speaker in the warehouse near the end of my shift, so that was fun. :-)


i've been thinking about pokemon legends arceus so much lately that i.. may have started another playthrough on a different account. because i am absolutely NOT wiping that save, i still have a bunch of stuff i wanna do, i just want to re-experience the story SO badly!! it's so good! it's fun and silly and sad and exciting and heartbreaking!! i'm gonna fuckin cry over every major story beat again!!!!!!!! YEEAAHHH!!!!

for my new file, i picked the "boy" character because i wanted to see if the girl's dialog would be any different, but so far it seems identical, which i appreciate, honestly! i've hated the rivals/friends having different gendered dialog since like RSE days, lol. i vividly remember how annoyed i was when the boy rival was always really mean and condescending to you, but the girl rival was soo sweet and friendly. blegh ptooey yuck!!!!

but i'm already having so much fun!! haven't even fully explored the first area yet bc i'm training up my little baby team, but i'll get there >:-) here's my character & team so far! (i don't name pokemon immediately, i like to let a nickname come to me naturally while training them, so that's why a few may be unnamed)

my COVID & FLU SHOTS!!! HAHA!!! anyway yes i told my roommate "i'm gonna go get shot at baker's" because i do think this is a funny joke to make when getting shots every single time. it never stops being funny. i will stop making this joke when i am dead

anyway, i'm off today and it's the beginning of my 3 day weekend (saturday, sunday, monday) so i figured i'd just go and get my shots so the worst of the side effects (like arm soreness) can mostly go away before i have to go back to work. i'm definitely due for these, but i was putting it off bc i didn't want side effects to make work harder lol. but now i am PROTECTED. or i will be in the next few weeks once its had its time to like. work in my system

playing more pokemon legends arceus and training up my shiny sneasel bc i really want to try the path of solitude stuff... i wanna show off... i wanna show ingo how cool i am (choking back tears) (i like him a normal amount)

here is my shiny sneasel, his name is totty :-)

• Content Warning: mentions of some medical stuff, menstruation, emetophobia

oh boy. it's been a rough day today & yesterday... got some news that my mom was rushed to the ER because of an abcess on her kidney, but they managed to drain it and are gonna keep her in the hospital while they run some tests and keep an eye on her.. i hope she feels better soon. my mom seems to have such bad luck medically, there's always something going on :-( i just wish she could catch a break..

and then today i woke up, my period started, i felt like garbage but tried to go into work anyway, but that resulted in me 1. throwing up in the bathroom 2. throwing up in the breakroom (trashcan) and 3. having to go home because i was shaking and sweating uncontrollably and felt like i was going to burst into tears. so then i came home and managed to nap for about 2 hours and i'm feeling Slightly better, but still hurting and feeling generally bad. eughhhhh... what a day.

i just made myself some instant tonkotsu ramen and a nice hot cup of tea, so here's hoping the rest of the night will be a little more peaceful :'-)

today was really nice! i hung out with my roommate & my wife in the living room and we all played games together. i was playing pokemon scarlet and shan & my wife were playing splatoon 3! :-) also shan made some potato mochi and it was soooo good..  waugh

i also found two more shinies today! this time it was a shiny Tyrogue and a shiny Espurr!



it's starting to feel more like the shinies are hunting me instead.....

hi, i woke up early to go get my car's registration updated because i kept forgetting to do it, but it took over an hour because google maps is Wrong about where the dmv's are. it lists state drivers licensing offices as dmvs, but you literally can't renew your registration at a licensing office, because it's for GETTING your license, not doing actual car stuff -_- aughhh.

still, it was kind of nice to just drive around for a while on a chill morning and listen to music. i treated myself to a gas station soda & some pizza slices on the way home :-) i'm off work today so i'm just gonna chill and probably play some more ESO. i've been questing in northern elsweyr lately, and it's SOOO FUN. one of the first quests i did was helping a guy find his pet guar, who he named gordon. gordon was very cute and he was returned home safely!!