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pshaw_raven) wrote2020-07-15 09:45 am
pshaw_raven) wrote2020-07-15 09:45 am
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It's Not My Birthday
I keep coming back here and apologizing for not posting as much. Now that I realize I'm doing it I feel a bit foolish. But, here I am!
I mentioned that I was writing more lately, basically developing stories for my comic, Muna. That's actually going quite well, but the story that's more ready to go isn't the one I expected to make so much progress with, where Feather & Bone is coming along more slowly. The story I think I'm going to go ahead and start has no name yet, and since I'm terrible at giving things names and titles I guess I'll just find something to crib from Bob Dylan. I mean, if you need something that makes you sound smart, you steal it from either Dylan or Shakespeare.
We canceled an upcoming Disney trip for August. We don't really believe it's a good idea for us or anyone else to go, and since we're still somewhat convinced we've both had Covid 19 already and can't be sure we wouldn't be spreading it, it feels very dishonest and uncaring to go gallivanting around at a theme park. Since it'll be my birthday, I'll probably make cake here at home. I'm kind of leaning to a vanilla cake with orange frosting for a Dream Bar or Push-Pop type flavor, or the matcha butter-cream frosting I already know is amazing but make a lemon or yuzu flavored cake.
We have also been discussing it off an on for a few months, but today I went ahead and ordered myself a Japanese floor futon. I have a cover I can use, so I just bought the mattress itself, and will probably put it on top of a memory foam pad I already own. I'm just tired of my regular Western mattress. It squeaks when it rubs against the wall, and it was never particularly comfortable since it was like a guest room mattress that Fox and Kitty bought at BJ's. There's a reason I have the thickest foam pad on the market.
I'm also just having one of my phases where I want to get rid of things. I feel like I have too much STUFF. So I may take another pass through the house and look at discarding/donating again, if donation centers will take things right now. I found myself sort of resisting the idea beacuse, "Well, I LIKE this stuff." Oh yeah? When was the last time you took it out and looked at it, or did anything with it? Probably the last time you tidied up. If that's the case then I strongly suggest (to myself) that you consider letting it go.
I don't want to just embrace minimalism for its own sake, or as an ego stroking thing of "look how much stuff I don't need." I think it becomes a real trap for some people, and they wind up living with just a backpack's worth of items not because they travel a lot, but because they're invested in this image of themselves as Minimalists. But as I mentioned in the above paragraph ... if I haven't used it or even looked at it since this time last year, I probably don't really need it.
I mentioned that I was writing more lately, basically developing stories for my comic, Muna. That's actually going quite well, but the story that's more ready to go isn't the one I expected to make so much progress with, where Feather & Bone is coming along more slowly. The story I think I'm going to go ahead and start has no name yet, and since I'm terrible at giving things names and titles I guess I'll just find something to crib from Bob Dylan. I mean, if you need something that makes you sound smart, you steal it from either Dylan or Shakespeare.
We canceled an upcoming Disney trip for August. We don't really believe it's a good idea for us or anyone else to go, and since we're still somewhat convinced we've both had Covid 19 already and can't be sure we wouldn't be spreading it, it feels very dishonest and uncaring to go gallivanting around at a theme park. Since it'll be my birthday, I'll probably make cake here at home. I'm kind of leaning to a vanilla cake with orange frosting for a Dream Bar or Push-Pop type flavor, or the matcha butter-cream frosting I already know is amazing but make a lemon or yuzu flavored cake.
We have also been discussing it off an on for a few months, but today I went ahead and ordered myself a Japanese floor futon. I have a cover I can use, so I just bought the mattress itself, and will probably put it on top of a memory foam pad I already own. I'm just tired of my regular Western mattress. It squeaks when it rubs against the wall, and it was never particularly comfortable since it was like a guest room mattress that Fox and Kitty bought at BJ's. There's a reason I have the thickest foam pad on the market.
I'm also just having one of my phases where I want to get rid of things. I feel like I have too much STUFF. So I may take another pass through the house and look at discarding/donating again, if donation centers will take things right now. I found myself sort of resisting the idea beacuse, "Well, I LIKE this stuff." Oh yeah? When was the last time you took it out and looked at it, or did anything with it? Probably the last time you tidied up. If that's the case then I strongly suggest (to myself) that you consider letting it go.
I don't want to just embrace minimalism for its own sake, or as an ego stroking thing of "look how much stuff I don't need." I think it becomes a real trap for some people, and they wind up living with just a backpack's worth of items not because they travel a lot, but because they're invested in this image of themselves as Minimalists. But as I mentioned in the above paragraph ... if I haven't used it or even looked at it since this time last year, I probably don't really need it.