#I think I'll keep the current theme for January too I like it a lot. Until the new releases...

[kyouka-supremacy]

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[lost-highwayy]

Ahoy! 🌟

Merry Christmas and get well soon! Do you celebrate anything today on the 24th, or only on the 25th/26th?

I'm really bad at chess too, I never once won and it's never even close. But oh well. What are some of your favourite boardgames?

We finally got some snow the other day! In the city it melted quick, but up where I live it's still all white!

Oh, losing them on a trip is just the worst, that's when you need them the most!

It's really cool, and has a super nice, warm sound that I really like. It's not even that expensive either! I also have a Cort acoustic lying around, but it's a child sized one and not even mine... I'm supposed to take care of it for someone. Why do you not like your bass? It seems pretty cool to me based on a quick search!

I like a pretty weird comedy, so I might be checking it out over the holidays too 😁

It does have a similar vibe to paprikás if that makes any sense - if you like fish soups and paprikás, then you're sure to like this one too!

That sounds really good - I've never tried lamb, but that sounds like something very fitting for the holidays!

I've never heard of that album, but I will check it out now!

Oh, I see, that makes a lot of sense! We got to keep stuff like Christmas as we weren't exactly in the USSR just closely related, but my parents still joke about how during that time we had "pine tree holiday" instead of Christmas. (And it was illegal to give workers their pay just before it, so that they can't go buy fancy presents)

Yes, that's why I went to the Nick Mason concert too, they play my favourite era of Pink Floyd - I hope they're going to tour again, maybe then you get to go! Last time I checked BÖC are performing at things like rock themed cruises, so I might not be rich enough to ever see them haha

Oh, that's so cool to be able to see a band before you even really get into them - I think live is the purest from of hearing the music! And I hope Tom Keifer is going to tour again so you get to see him!

I'm feeling surprisingly good, usually I'm not so well mentally this time of the year. I'm doing some cleaning around the house these days, and tonight we have Christmas with my immediate family. On the 26th we have Christmas with the extended family and then I'm going to a party. But I'm actually working on the 25th, so it's not all fun and games haha. Do you have any plans?

I have a lot of special memories, it's been a really good year that I mostly throughoutly enjoyed! My favourite is maybe the small festival my best friend's girlfriend is an organiser of. Everyone was incredibly friendly, it was a really lovely atmosphere. And my favourite current Hungarian band, Hakumba was performing!

Do you have any favourite memories?

I should be making lists, because I'm always asked what I would like to get, but I just forget haha. Do you?

-⛄

hello!!

i'm a bit late as always but merry christmas!! i hope you have the best traditions! we celebrate on the 24th (also my brother's birthday haha) 25th and "in the USSR style" on the 7th of January. there is no such thing as too much christmas!

one of my favorite games right now is uno, as well as monopoly and some types of card games. and what about you? i'm so glad you have snow! that's what you need for a real christmas. though we still haven't had it again. apparently the grinch stole the snow haha.

my bass looks pretty cool but it's actually quite simple and requires an upgrade after purchase but for a beginner it's a good option.

now i definitely know i'll be making this on vacation! yes lamb is quite suitable for a holiday and it's especially nice when it's a special family recipe. oh some things from the USSR sadly spread to neighboring countries but i think that the holiday "Old New Year" in January fortunately remained only there lol.

oh i still hope that BÖC will perform somewhere besides cruises because we all would like to see them. i don't know much about their music but what i heard is definitely magical. and if you recommend something i will be happy. and i believe that Tom Keifer will decide to tour outside of America someday but probably not in the next year lol.

omg working on christmas is terrible haha! on this day i would only want to have fun but 3 years ago i also worked on christmas and at my work they constantly played the song Last Christmas. it was doubly terrible. but i hope after work your christmas will be wonderful! i think i managed to fulfill my plans i managed to buy more presents and give them and on sunday we will have a mini party with friends.

i am very glad that your year was wonderful! and left warm memories! and i wish the next year to be just as wonderful and bring lots of new impressions, travels and of course concerts! oh i would listen to the band Hakumba. to my shame i only know one old hungarian band Omega but they sound great! this year was quite difficult for me but i think the main memories are small trips. yes wishlists are very useful! but i usually give more than receive haha!

and once again merry christmas! my most sincere wishes for you! 🩵🎄

[lionews]

You guys really need to be nicer to each other on-site. Off-site is a different story, but basic respect should still be abided by when the user deserves it [I do not respect certain groups of.. disgusting adults if you know what I mean]. It's good an all using the 'devs are humans too' argument, but failing to abide by that reasoning when speaking to the other user gets you nowhere and it leads to them not only disliking you; but going out of their way to prove you wrong. It makes it harder to take any of you seriously when you're making passive aggressive comments aimed towards specific people and how they reacted; but in reality you're insulting a larger group of people. It's not okay. We're all meant to be 16+ on this game, the majority are over 18 and need to start acting like it. if you're under 16, act like a 16 year old and be mature please; but this isn't super relevant to the point I'm trying to make.  By being polite and showing users where they went wrong they're much more likely to calm down and listen and go 'hey, you know what? maybe I was being a bit mean there. I'll correct myself'. I have been an ass in the past, I have acted immaturely but to be correcting grown ass adults over the age of 25, possibly older, is baffling to me as a 16 year old. I should not be correcting adults' behaviour and be making them rethink how they've approached a situation - you're all human, I'm human too, but that's just wrong when it's a consistent issue of rudeness whether you're an adult, or a minor. The issue with the Developers of Lioden at the moment is that they are inconsistent with their communication. An example of this is that a base pack was meant to be released in Autumn last year; they cancelled it and did not release this information in a news post at all. A user who commented asking about it got an anonymous admin response stating it was cancelled due to 'negative feedback' [which it certainly did not receive enough of to cancel a project people spoke about positively for months]. Sure, they then corrected themselves and apologised for the misunderstanding and aimed to release a BO base pack in 2024; but it's not acceptable. Users pay actual money to keep them in their job, and to support the game; we have a right to know when something is cancelled. We have a right to know when something is planned - even if it's not in big detail (take the jaglions for example, we didn't know what exactly would happen, only that it would involve a storyline and when it was going to be hopefully released).

There's a difference between the users complaining about a blatant lack of communication, and the users complaining about an item in a shop that we were lead to believe would be there, not being there. The majority were complaining about the first option. I adore the idea of rotating themes within treasure hunting; It's unique and different compared to LD events currently. My problem was the fact we were led to believe the event would remain the same, with the same items, as we decided via the poll back in January. I wouldn't have an issue with ochre powder prices raising, 150DB when you can get 2-3 powders a day isn't a lot; but at the same time, usually users could easily get 2-3 ochre gnawrocks in the september event - this year they're struggling. The developers have amazing ideas, truly, but their execution is poor and they need to be more in-sync with their own community. As a final thought, just remember everyone you are talking to is a human, they have feelings and you shouldn't be getting corrected by anyone on your behaviour. Your personal struggles are not an excuse to treat another person poorly, neither are your frustrations or annoyance with how someone else has approached a situation; if they want to be rude, that's their choice and ultimately you need to think about whether or not you want more people to listen to you when you're being nice, polite and reasonable; or whether you want more people to not want to listen or validate your opinion/beliefs because you were rude. Be better, we are a community and we need to start acting like it.

[notebookmusical]

Hi Cossette! Happy (belated) Pride Month and I hope you're having a wonderful first half of 2024 💖 This year has been keeping me busy (it was nevertheless eventful in a good way), hence the belated message following up from January.

I feel you! I also need to comb through my favourite albums & books to think about how I'd pair books / albums. After relistening & checking out different music releases I would go with the following:

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern: Bewitched by Laufey - this album dazzles just like the magic in the book 🤩 The tracks from Bewitch also radiate this vintage quality that I personally associate with the book's setting!

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon: If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power by Halsey! Just like the book, Halsey's 4th studio album has this expansive quality that features empowering female narratives.

Circe by Madeline Miller: The Loneliest Time by Carly Rae Jepsen & Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain by Raveena. Recurring theme from the book is about loss/grief and self-discovery/healing - something that both music albums also explore!

Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley: OUT OF THE BLUE by Brynn Cartelli & In The End It Always Does by The Japanese House - Brynn's debut album has this wintry feel to me that reminds me of the book's setting. Sofi's character arc is very much "returning to her muse" which is reminiscent of Amber when she was working on her sophomore album!

Heartstopper comic series: a mix of You Signed Up For This by Maisie Peters, Quarter-Life Crisis by Baby Queen, and Sour by Olivia Rodrigo!

Ahh this is a totally valid take regarding fantasy books! I can imagine that listening to someone narrating fantasy books being a more immersive experience. While I prefer reading in silence with a hardcopy I also feel that I sometimes need more time to process fancier writing style - though usually the effort will pay off later on!

P.S. Ahh thank you so much! I really enjoy finding parallels between different media - the realisation that many themes explored in my favourite pieces of media are universal & a shared experience 💖

jennifer!! hi friend! i hope you're well 🤍 happy belated pride month, happy june! i'm glad the first half of the year kept you busy in a good way! what were some highlights? you had your eras show already, right? i think you said you were going to london but i can't remember if it was the june dates or august!! how was it! how was it? 🤍

i am very :/// to say that i have not read a whole lot this year! i finally read lessons in chemistry and that was a new favorite, and finally read s. which i've been putting off for ages, but aside from that i feel like all i've been doing is audiobooking classics (my local library got hacked and took everything offline and somehow i got locked out of libby for like a month so the only audiobooks i could listen to were classics 💔). i'm currently making my way through the hunchback of the notre dame though! i'm hoping to finish that one soon!!

have you been reading anything good lately? i definitely want to get back into reading more soon! i've been very busy (and dealing with some stuff) and i feel like i haven't read a fantasy in a hot minute so i'll take any recs if you have them! i have technically been "annotating the starless sea" for ... over a year now (i stopped at page like, seven and never got back to it — which is a trend i think with some of my "annotation projects" for books i love, i get too overwhelmed and never finish it) but i do want to go back to it soon... maybe that's my "homework" for the rest of the year — to finish the annotation projects i've started (gatsby, normal people, the starless sea).

i think that pairing bewitched with the night circus is perfect!! and i really do like the if i can't have love i want power + priory combination! i still haven't read circe (it's been on my tbr cart for about two years now... if not longer... maybe i will get to it soon (unlikely)). and i still haven't read adrienne tooley! i think i meant to read sweet & bitter magic ages ago and never did 😭 definitely agree with heartstopper + baby queen + YSUFT + sour too!!

so lovely to hear from you as always <3333 i hope you're doing well and staying safe!

[a-year-of-sakuraco]

My February Box has arrived!

I initially thought that my box had shipped on the 20th as that was when I received the email from Sakuraco, however, when I actually looked at the shipping information I few days later I learnt that it had actually started shipping on the 16th

I received the shipping info from a different site this time and I was kept informed of where my box was every step of the way - including where it was in Australia. Last time, I had no idea where my box was once it reached Australia but this time I was kept informed and I even got a message from Australian Post the morning that the box was arriving. The box arrived at 10:20 am on the 27th. As you can see, my box was delivered to Australia very quickly, it had cleared customs on the 19th. So just like last time the process through Japan was very efficient while the postal service in Australia was a lot slower. I am definitely glad that I wasn't left in the dark once my box reached Australia this time. On a less positive note is the condition my box arrived in.

I mentioned last time that I was worried the box would arrive unprotected. Well, it did :(

The box arrived completely uncovered - not even with a thin layer of plastic - with the shipping info stuck directly to the box. Naturally, the box was damaged somewhere during its long journey.

Its not as visible in the photo but there is a long mark going across the top of the box which almost looks like a tread mark from a tire. The box is indented here as whatever that caused the mark has put too much pressure on the cardboard. I don't know what could have possibly left that kind of a mark without also being heavy enough to completely squash the box. It doesn't really matter what it was anyway. That is the biggest point of damage and it is right on the top of the box over the main point of the design. There is also various little dents around the sides and some of the corners are pretty banged up. I don't really want to leave the shipping info stuck to the box but I also don't want to risk removing it and damaging the box more than it already is.

When I was looking in to Sakuraco I really liked how the boxes all represented the theme of the month. I thought they looked really beautiful and I wanted to keep mine to remember the month and what I ate and everything I learnt. Bokksu doesn't do this. They usually always (I think there's been a few exceptions in the past) have the same orange box with their logo on it. For me personally, this was another reason that I chose Sakuraco. So I cannot overstate how absolutely bummed I am that they wouldn't protect their boxes in any way. If you're going to have gorgeous boxes that perfectly fit the theme you are trying to establish then why would you let them get banged up while their travelling around the world? It doesn't make any sense to me. A lot of work has been put into these boxes both designing and implementing that design. Its an absolute shame that they wouldn't even try to protect them. I was so careful every time I handled my January box as I was scared to damage it and I wanted to keep it in perfect condition so for the February one to arrive like this is like a slap in the face. I'm so disappointed.

Anyway, I'll put the full review for the February box up when I've finished going through all the snacks - I'm currently aiming for before the 15th of March. Prior to this I will put up what information I can find about where else the snacks can be found for the January box (if anywhere) online. Unfortunately, I won't have a chance to look in store at this point in time but maybe in a few months I'll get there.

[sixstepsaway]

So, uh, you regularly use your bullet journal, huh? If you don't mind me asking, any tips on keeping up with one? Asking for a friend of course. -dd anon

Not so much tips, but I'll tell you what works for me:

I don't use one of those Leuchtturm notebook type things? I use a binder. I have an A5 (5.83 x 8.27 in, since I know the US doesn't use As for their papers, I don't think) leather binder and I have a set of blue plastic A5 file type binders on my shelf.

I use a binder because my brain does not like the rigidity of the notebook style. If I fuck it up, I'm just...stuck with it? If I want to add a habit tracker before my weekly spread, if I've already done my weekly spread I can't. If I want to have a certain note section (like my RegEx reference sheet) close at hand, it can only be where I put it.

I bought a 3 - 3 hole punch and a box of A5 paper that's lasted me since 2018 so far, and I put pages in and out as I want.

I put stickers/designs on my binder to personalize it.

I enjoy art, a lot, so I treat my bujo as a pretty good way of doing some art and enjoying myself. So, towards the middle of every month (usually; I totally fucked this up in April and ended up doing my May spread literally on the fly week-to-week) I open my Pinterest board and I scroll through my sections and decide what kind of design I want to do for the next month. This month (June) is watermelon. It came out real cute. Last month I did a ship/nautical theme, but as it was such a rush I didn't really do a lot of it. I did the main cover page and the weeklies were all black with no real embellishments. I try to do a pretty spread for weeklies and a nice cover every month. I also do a dividing section of a nice "Welcome, [Season]" page to help remind my brain where we are in the year, a little.

I have some tabbed dividers I put in my bujo. Behind the first is my year-round stuff, so I have things like what I've watched, what I've achieved, subs on my currently abandoned Sims yt channel (see: internet being 500kb/s), plans and intentions for the year, year at a glance etc. I did all of my 2022 yearly pages last December. Behind the second divider is the month I'm currently in. If I do the next month soon enough, it goes right after. Behind the third divider is all the other months. So right now my bujo goes: 2022 | June | January | February | March | April | May | Notes Section. This way the current month is always at the front and easily accessible, and my year round is on hand too.

I have a three-surface set-up in my shoebox room. My main desk, with my monitor and keyboard etc, is front, then to the left I have my art desk I can turn around and work at. Behind me I have a trolley I built a couple of months ago. Because I have spare surface room and a spot I spend the majority of my time, my bujo lives, open to today/this week, beside my keyboard, permanently. Specifically, mine is directly to the right (as I use my mouse left-handed), always where I can see it, in front of whatever tea I am currently drinking and my water bottle. It's always there. No out-of-sight-out-of-mind allowed. I used a ring-bound notebook briefly last year before I bust my bujo back out properly and any day I moved it, I forgot it existed. So, my bujo lives right here. I don't go out so it doesn't go anywhere. Sometimes it gets moved to my bed so I can make a note I need to make, but it always goes back where it came from immediately. I think this is the most important point for me tbh.

Because my binder can't hold endless amounts of paper, when a 6-month period ends I take those six months out and put them in one of the plastic binders on my shelf. The second six months go after it, along with the year pages, and that binder becomes the year binder. I haven't fully done this yet, as I've only really perfected managing to keep my bujo up this year (but I've kept it up since January 1st, and since November if you include my using my notepad briefly), but I have my old pages in one of them. It works for me.

I start the next month/year early, so my brain can't trick me by going, "Oh, you can't use your bujo, you didn't finish it." And if I fail at that like I did in April for May, I just bully my brain into letting me manage for a month. It's not the end of the world.

There is apparently a text block limit so, here's a break to see some of my pages/designs etc:

The nautical one for May was somewhat hastily done (I colored it in later, but I don't have a photo rn) and I'm sad about that. Might do another nautical one later this year, who knows.

I experiment every month. Different colors, different theme, different style, different hand-written fonts, different vibes, different experimentation. Keeps it fresh and makes me look forward to the next month. I don't do it in bulk for the whole year because idk what I'll be into by August, and because I'll be bored of whatever I did by then.

Every month I do a cover and my weekly spread. Those are my only requirements, but I can do more if I want to.

I experimented with the best way to do weekly spreads early this year. January I did boxes but no dutch door, February (up there) I did dutch door with no boxes. I hated the no boxes, I really like having things tidily put together? But I loved dutch door because I could put a little calendar on one side and notes/goals/to-dos/whatever where I could see them week to week without having to turn pages! Once I figured that out, my weekly spreads were easier to draw out and easier to use, and I could still experiment with the design (sometimes I cut out the side, sometimes the bottom, maybe next month I'll do the top! Who knows?) and have fun with it. The only month since February I haven't done dutch-door is last month and that was because I was literally doing each week on the fly in panic. I was doing the week I was on as I was on it the one week, it was a disaster lmao

I bought a snazzy rainbow bookmark and hole punched it and I use that to keep my page in my bujo, so I can get back to it easy when I have to close it (my ducks throw water everywhere when they're up here with me)

I have a simple key for my goals etc. Circles for things I need to do, circles with a clockface for things that are on a time-limit, circles with a > for things I'm bumping to another day, crossed out circles for things I no longer have to do for whatever reason. I fill in the circles when I've done the thing, which is great for my brain, and because my bujo and pens are right next to me, I can do it easily on the go.

Squares (with the same basic pattern) are for things I'd quite like to do but they're not pressing to-dos, just a good idea.

I added some other simple keys for things I use sometimes. I have a little pill capsule for logging any meds I take beside my normal (so the last 5 weeks I've been adding a little "💊 Elvanse [x]mg, #/7" so I know which day of my titration I'm on and which level I'm on. If I take a nytol or a melatonin or ibuprofen, I can write that down if I feel I should). A little bell is an event. An exclamation with a heart for its dot is a note. I had other ones but I've never used them.

This month I added a little side piece to my daily boxes. I put a ☀ and a 🌙 and under each I put, with my tiny little 0.05 fineliner (which I use for any writing I do in my bujo, to-dos etc) little daily to-dos of brushing my teeth, doing my skincare, taking my meds morning and night. It was a fun experiment and it's working for me, so I'll continue it next month! If it didn't work and I didn't use it, that's okay, it was just an experiment!

When the end of the month comes, at the end of the last day of the month I write out how the month went, either on a sheet I set up in advance all pretty, or just a normal plain sheet I add. I say what worked (dutch door, little suns and moon sections), what didn't work (no boxes, leaving it until the last moment) and what I want to change next month (add a mood tracker to my dutch door? not write week when I meant month?), then I move that entire month to the back of the second section, where I can get to it if I need to, and write out my to-dos for the next day.

I write tomorrow's to-dos before bed every night when I'm ticking off my meds, and add anything I might forget to them during the day.

I also added a "PRIORITY" top section to my boxes, usually in a complimentary color (this month's colors are green, yellowgreen and pink for watermelon, so the PRIORITY is in a nice green), and I got sick of writing "PRIORITY:" repeatedly, so this month it's a cute "!:" instead, which is the same thing.

welp ran out of space again. MORE BULLETS:

I love habit trackers but they do not work for me if I have to turn a page to get to them, which is why the sun/moon is working so nicely. I might expand it next month.

If I can't see something, it just doesn't exist, so anything important has to stay within my line of vision, hence dutch door and keeping my bujo right next to me.

I don't beat myself up if I don't do all my goals, I just focus on what I did do and use it as a way of managing my working memory rather than scolding myself. Monday my goals were to work on my sewing, start July, reply to my titration nurse, write, work on the ores for my modpack, shower, and post some metas on AO3. I did 5/7 of those things and showering was a square not a circle, so it doesn't even count. I did well, and having it written down reminds me to try again tomorrow, if applicable.

If I have ^ all those on my to-do list, and then I realize I need to, idk, clean my desk, I will add cleaning my desk to the list, so I can tick it off as done when I've done it, even if I'm already halfway through.

I've talked around this a few times but I'mma say it plainly: if something isn't working for me I discard it and try something else. Habit tracker? Gone and incorporated into the dailies. Mood tracker? Put it on my dutch door this month and have forgotten it most of the time, so I might put it on the left side (closest) instead of the right side next month and see if that helps? Too tired to do anything complex? Simple spread to get me through the month. Not enough energy to do a proper cover? Slap the name of the month down, color it, shove it in. Solved.

I might enjoy making pretty bujos and enjoying the artistic side of it, but it's my bujo, and aside from my parents seeing my designs when they stand by my desk, it doesn't have to be for anyone except me. All that matters is what works for me and what I enjoy.

So, the tl;dr and the tips I extrapolated from this ramble:

Experimentation with colors/designs/themes to keep it feeling new and fresh. Incorporate any hyperfixations in, if it helps (nautical theme lmao).

Discard anything that doesn't work, try new things every month until something sticks, then change its design rather than its function.

Please yourself and no one else, it's your bujo. Use it for what you need help with (working memory, in my case, rather than motivation or intense tracking of what I'm doing. I'm more likely to forget I wanted to do something to begin with, than I am to just not do it).

If you have problems like I do where you mess it up and you don't want to be stuck with it, swap to a binder you can move pages in and out of.

Keep it close and within your line of vision, open if possible.

Write down doing your bujo things on your bujo. Sounds stupid but if I write down "Start July" I have more of a chance of actually starting July than if I just imagine I'll get it done eventually.

Bookmark so you don't have to sift through pages.

Hope this maybe helps a little!

[jivingcryingboy]

Selvacava 8/11/20 (1/2) I go in and out of writing blogs about music. I've kind of skipped out the whole pandemic. No gigs, no meeting up for a while, stay in the house etc. Instead of writing a blog. I decided to do an album. An album, something I've always wanted to do. I've done an album in a band before but to be honest they were some of the first songs I'd written. But this album. This is the debut really. I guess this is the first time I've done what I really really wanted. And more importantly, it's the first time I think I'm capable enough to do what I wanna do. Listen, you can always be more capable but I guess I felt at that particular moment, it was time. And also, let's be honest. It was lockdown. I had a lot of free time, no distractions, no excuses. Just short of 5 1/2 months later, I have a double album which I am in process of working on. The blueprint is done, the parts are nearly all recorded (bar a sax part, a percussion part and just a few guitar parts), I need to the vocals and finish the lyrics, mix and master but bar all of that (it is a lot don't get me wrong) it's really getting there. And it is a double album. It's a big fucking album. It's very long, probably too long really, very indulgent but it's probably the first time I've put me a on a record. It's got a whole story, not quite a concept, but it's got a flow to it, a theme is probably the better word. Very metephorical I supposed. Allegorical. The Sopranos. Anyway, I'll get into the album in another post. I didn't really wanna do a blog catalouging the whole process, couldn't be bothered to do a blog maybe? Only because to be honest, a very significant chunk of it was just doing it. Not analysing it, just doing it. And to be honest I have been at it. Anyway, like I said, I'll get into what I'm writing about later. But I've decided on this night to write this post because I am currently in the middle of working on/organising/fixing up/shaping the midi parts, takes (bass, guitars, sax, piano). But it is the fucking string parts that need work. The parts are kind of there. All it is, is humanising the strings. And that takes fuckin hours. Hours. Hours, hours, hours. I've given myself until the end of the month to finish these songs. Sky On The Roof, Selvacava (which isn't that far off (still hours), the end is in sight) & Goodbye, Josephine. Also the drums in Monte Cassino, needs humanising too. These drum parts & string parts need work basically. I'm giving myself till the end of the month but fucking hell, it's gonna be a tough fucking ask. So here's the plan * September > October Strings, Midi, Instr. Parts, Drums Basically Midi, November Vocals December > January Mixing Done * I've given myself until the end of October to finish these midi parts. Strings are gonna take me the longest. Fuckin gives me a headache thinking about them. Like always I need to just shut up and get on with it. And to be fair the more I do, the better the parts sound. Even if it's so fuckin slow. I'm expecting it to take all of September & October but hopefully it will be done slightly earlier than that. I need to look at more tutorials online on this string software. I'm getting the hang of it but think there could be stuff online I could learn that might speed up my process. I also need to break stuff down into little goals, fragment the project area and go by little section by little section. It's all maths. While this is happening, I'm gonna keep going on my lyrics which I write/think of spontaneously everyday. What makes this difficult is work. Coming home after a long day and keeping that focus. And not only that, I for some reason have decided to keep fit and I am continuing to do so. So that gets in the way too. But to be fair, keeping fit isn't such a bad thing to keep up and now i've got myself to this level I don't really wanna go back to feeling like shit. But it does take up time. Anyway, excuses over. I just have to make it work. That's about it really. In between, the midi parts for the next couple of months or so there's