I feel the heart of the giants.

oh!! btw, it's Make a Terrible Comic Day!!!

participation in make a terrible comic day is mandatory for everyone who knows about make a terrible comics day, which now includes you. A lack of experience is no excuse -- and in terms of making a terrible comic it's a head start

Fr though, I recommend! Doodle something if the urge takes you, there's no such thing as tomorrow! <3



(she did not come in)

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.

testing again

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:



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.)

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.

another 3weeks4dreamwidth meme via 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:
genprompt_bingo (ignore this opened like a month ago)
& intoabar! Very chill and fun projects, check em out!

A meme borrowed from 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.

748 hours! Two hours from the halfway point of the Dreaming Spanish roadmap :D



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.



(#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!



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: Japatonic (Argentinian who is also Japanese, living in Japan culture vlog stuff), MrSalas (comprehensible input/language learning, but for spanish speakers), Jepllavador (Seoul vlog stuff), animalogices (animal science), arquitectomarceloseia8716 (house reno stuff), antoniouton (Mexican living in Sweden vlog stuff), UnMundoInmenso (geography) and BBCMundo (culture stuff, mostly)


Books I read:



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!

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A couple friday fives, since I had another sitting on my desktop :O

and also a cow joke courtesy of my string cheese



So mean o_o

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