Dear Fucking Diary
Gradumatation
I am graduating college! I have completed my AA degree!! In Art. :3 I am a REAL ARTISTâ„¢ now.
Only joking. I was a real artist beforehand. Soon I will have a silly bit of paper that says I am not only real, but also educated.
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Box Dog
I made a table out of a box, and he looks like a dog.
Their name is Box Dog.
He/they pronouns.
He still needs feet. Right now they're in loaf mode.
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Healthy Living
Today I went foraging and picked a bunch of mallow. It is a native 'weed' to California, and totally safe to eat.
I washed the leaves and cut the stems off, and let them dry. Then I chopped them up and made a frittata with mallow instead of spinach!!
It's delicious! I'm quite pleased with myself. No pics because I just ate it O_O I was hungry.
I also foraged some madrone flowers, which I'm going to make into tea later.
And I wound up walking 4 miles while foraging. That's approximately 8k-10k steps! Which means I was not sedentary :3 I was distinctly active today.
Life is good.
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Grumblings
Sometimes I feel like I am somehow doing neocities wrong. Like I worry I don't use the term 'shrines' properly. And that my web design is too weird and different. Or maybe it's too basic.
Then I remind myself. The whole point of neocities is to do my own thing on my own website.
Like... I don't know what I would put on my shrines pages other than pictures. I don't know why I would write a whole thing about why I like something. It just doesn't fully make sense to me. Almost makes me feel like I'm trying to defend my reasoning for liking a thing. And I feel like that enough as it is without making a whole fucking page about why I like something.
So my shrines are just pictures and stats and links to things I've made etc.
Personally I like my webdesign. IDK what else I would do other than like... Making the scrolly bit you look at everything in more like some kind of viewport or game console, etc. I have a vague idea of how I would do this but have yet to implement it. That is my fav kind of design though. I like when it's all centered in the page and graphics on the sides. I also like to enjoy a nice background.
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Progress
I have been working out and lifting weights! Around September of 2023 I weighed about the same as I do now. But since then, I have lost 2-3 inches in my hips, belly, thighs, and chest. Which means I have lost fat and gained muscle to stay the same weight with a smaller size.
And I can lift more! During this time period of September 2023, I was struggling to lift 20 lbs weights in a shoulder press with dumbbells and couldn't lift the 35 lbs weights at all. Now I am struggling to lift the 35 lbs weights, but I can do a shoulder press with this weight now~
Since I got a gym membership at the start of the new year, I have been able to add 10-30 lbs to most machines. Particularly the tricep pushdown, crunch machine, and the seated leg press. For seated leg press I actually have been able to add 60 lbs! I can leg press more than I weigh!
I am a bit stuck with shoulder/chest/delts area in the same weight range. However, it is getting easier to do these so I feel I will soon be able to do more and with heavier weights!
Progress! It takes time, yes. But I am becoming a version of me I am quite proud of. I am in my bear era.
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NaNoWriMo 2023
I won NaNoWriMo 2023! 🎉
I have participated in NaNoWriMo 3-4 times in the past. This is the first time I've ever completed it! I wrote 50k words in a month! OMG!!
I'm so proud of myself ~
My novel isn't completed yet, but I am really close to done. And I'm glad I did it. It's been a lifelong goal of mine to write novels.
And I have an idea for the second one already ! :3
Also LMAO reading what I wrote last kinda makes me cringe. I was really heavy in that 'twin flame/soulmate' thing. Nowadays I don't belive in that crap... how much a person can change in a couple years...
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