#JAN 4

[shysheeperz]

[theosconfessions]

if shes got blue eyes i will surmise that youll probably date her

[fe-smashorpass]

Ike’s Resolution - Fire Emblem Path of Radiance

[vocalsynthbdays]

happy birthday Shuu Mawarine(utau) [jan 4] !!!!

Shuu Mawarine is a japanese synth released on 7 aug 2015, however his character birthday is jan 4. he is voiced by Shoohey and illustrated by Ree (mossamosa on twt)

(im very busy with school and things BUT i am still hoping to post, i might miss days more and i might write less, and i apologise for that but i love posting vocal synth birthdays and i love the excitement that people bring when i post their favs, so i am going to try my best to post this year too !! especially considering whats coming up on the 15th asjnjaksndkjasnk)

[dogperday]

mr scribbles

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: January 4th is the eleventh day of Christmas -- we're nearly through the most recursive carol! In today's #ANSIart calendar entry, AdeptApril has drawn one of the eleven pipers piping.

[cloudvisualspew07x]

[msbarrows]

Jan 4 - cleaned the toilet. Made a vat of chili. Supper was chili and rice.

[badideainaglass]

Happy Spaghetti Day to those who celebrate!

January 4 is National Spaghetti Day!

[dawndusk]

I talked to my dad for the first time in over two years today. We chatted for a good twenty minutes, talking about his new girlfriend, his truck that he's been fixing up, that he went to visit a good friend of his for New Years to support them after they had an amputation, how he got out of jail a few months ago and has been doing good and his life has been peaceful since then. It was nice to talk to him and hear about how he's been happy and healthy.

I told him about how I'm living in Connecticut now, talked about work & then casually mentioned my partner. Its the first time I ever talked to him about the fact that I'm queer, and I told him about her and her family and how good to me they are. He was actually supportive & said he wanted to get to meet her and her family sometime.

It really meant a lot to me. My dad is a former Christian preacher & said a lot of homophobic stuff to me when I was growing up. Ever since I was a young girl I've been emotionally distancing myself from him out of fear of being rejected. Now, it feels like a huge weight has been lifted off my heart. I really hope this is the start of a better relationship with him.

[fe-smashorpass]

Red Sun - Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

[catcrumb]

[vladdyissues]

that wet cat of a man needs to be put in more fem clothing

I couldn't agree more

[inkskinned]

it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.

yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.

it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.

how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.

chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?

how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.

"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.

i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.

[msbarrows]

Jan 4 - slept in, but not terribly late, and then spent most of the afternoon scanning, mostly working my way through a thick binder of photo insert pages. Many of them had writing on the back, so I was doing both front and back scans in order to capture the notes as well. They were a series of trips - mostly fishing trips - my BIL's parents (sometimes accompanied by the BIL) took to places like the NWT and BC back in the late 80s. Between getting the photos out of and back into their slots, and the doubled scanning (totalling almost 300 images), it took all day for just that one binder.

Was later looking over a cardboard box full of random albums of various age that I'll be starting in on tomorrow, and found a newspaper clipping that finally solved for me the mystery of exactly how Mrs Arbuckle of Kelowna, BC was related to the BIL - she was his maternal grandmother after all. The clipping referenced the BIL's mother being taken down the aisle by her step-father, so clearly the Arbuckle surname comes from him, while the bride herself had what must be her biological father's surname. I'll have to make sure a copy of that goes into the folder specifically set aside for scans of stuff that makes genealogy clearer.

I made a vat of meat stock today out of a big ziplock of assorted stuff accumulated in the freezer (some of it going back to while my sister was still alive), and then turned part of it into a pot of soup for supper, while most of the stock got frozen for the nephew to find use for in future.

Looks like I'm only here a few more days, brother has said he aims to come down to retrieve me early next week.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The remnants of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, at 155th Street, January 4, 1941.

Photo: Roy de Carava via Old NYC Facebook