#Which is like- 5 to 2am 🥲

[hypocriticaltypwriter]

Back to the grind 💪

[nicistrying]

Sun 4th Feb

Got home at 1.45am from babysitting, got into bed at 2am. Had wild dreams all night. Woke up at 8 like this ❤️

Had a slow morning, went out with Mags and she walked so nicely next to me for a good chunk of the walk.. which she never does unless I ask her to and bribe her with treats... I was genuinely uneasy and unsure how to react 😂

Came home, stretched, got changed and went out for a run. It was raining when I went out but I'm glad I did bc it stopped within 10 mins so I still did my usual route. I only ran 5K though bc by 3K my legs were so heavy from working out on Friday night. I mostly enjoyed it anyway. But as soon as I hit 5K I walked the rest of the way home bc I was just so heavy and hot and tired. Not a great run but a run nonetheless, and all I'm aiming for atm is to improve my consistency which I am absolutely doing 😊

More stretching with Maggie to keep me company. She has to be VERY close when I'm stretching

Went to visit Nanna Mary this afternoon and we had a lovely catch up. I love her so much. Going to take her out for her birthday next week just for coffee bc she won't let me take her anywhere else but she did ask me to bake her a cake which I take as a huuuuge compliment 🥹🥹 I bake her one every year but it means a lot to be asked!

Had a lazy dinner of freezer food bc I was stressed after Nanna told me my mams have booked a fucking mini bus to my wedding register signing which I said was supposed to be super low key, only very close family because we are having our actual ceremony and reception a couple of days later but we have to do the legal bit separately bc we didn't want to get married in a church. And here she is bringing an actual busload of people I don't want there 🫠🫠🫠 Anyway ignoring that for now, I'll speak to her about it when I see her next.

Right now, I'm going to go to bed bc I have a horrible headache. It's 7.30 lmao but I need to get up by 5 to walk Maggie at 5.30 to get home at 6.30 to leave for work at 7 tomorrow and Tuesday bc Matt has exams. I cam do it 🥲

[a-whole-tempest-in-a-teacup]

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Last song: 2am by The Beths 😭 I started listening to their music recently and this song broke me, the nostalgia and yearning was programmed into it or something how did they DO that???

Currently Watching: I just started the Lessons In Chemistry tv show! I Finished the book a couple of weeks ago and loved it, plus Brie Larson is such a queen 😍 I'm only two episodes in and the end of the second episode was... Brutal ❤️‍🩹 oh and OF COURSE I've been watching the Percy Jackson show (which you might have seen once or twice on my blog lol) 🩵🔱🌊 please allow 3 to 5 business days while I recover after the finale airs 🥲

Three Ships: gotta be Percabeth (no surprises there), Jopper ofc (when will Stranger Things return from the war), and Locklyle (my sweet children, gone too soon 😭)

Favourite Colour: Blueeeeee 💙 though I am also enjoying a lovely forest green at the moment

Currently Consuming: I made burgers for dinner which were super yum, and had a Perky Nana as a little after dinner treat 😌

First Ship: Percabeth forever and ever baby! I remember going on the We Heart It website (is that still around?) to look at fanart and stuff asdfghjkl how time flies! And now here we are watching their story play out all over again on the show 🥹

Relationship Status: single pringle for 2 years now ✌️

Tagging: @legendofcutiepies @tvmilfs @love-thatfish @cupcakeblake and anyone else who feels like joining in 💕

[httpiastri]

Hiii Love!

Gosh, I haven't been here in a while! I hope your doing good!

I actually managed to watch the race last Sunday, which is the first race I have watched since the summer break. That's so crazy 🙈 but I am just trying to get the most of the nice weather before it just starts to rain all the time here.

I am so so happy about choosing to do the year abroad, and even though sometimes there are harder days (like when my au pair kids do the opposite of what I tell them to do) and it gets frustrating, I love this work and the country and the kids of course! One of them was all cuddly today and didn't wanna stop hugging me 🥰

But the race was so good! Even though I am very... unsure what to think about Carlos as a person, I love love love Carlando and the teamwork at the end of the race was everything!! Gosh, I was so nervous!

I was planning on watching the race on Sunday as well, because it's early in the morning before I could go out, but now it turns out I am going out the night before and won't be home till 3 am 🙈 I really don't think I'm gonna be able to keep my eyes open to watch or even get up. How did I do this back home??

I don't know if I missed anything because I haven't read all of the asks, but did you come to a decision about your University? Just if you wanna talk about it :)

Also, I read that you were struggling a bit about a writer's block and I just wanna say that just starting is the most important thing, even if it might be absolute bullshit! You can always improve it later! Hope it resolves itself soon and you have more time to write as well!!

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hello love! i’ve missed you!! i’ve been doing good, how about you? <33

aw im glad you got to watch the race, it was a good one!! not just the boring old “max verstappen wins by 64 seconds” race 🤭 i’ve been kinda unsure about my feelings about carlos recently too but i can’t say no to carlando, such an iconic and lovely pairing 🥰 just wish it had been swapped around so lando had the win!

but yes you’re right for enjoying the weather and spending time with the kids! i’m really glad you feel like going away to be an au pair is the right thing 🥺 since i work with kids too (they’re probably a bit older than yours, though?…) i really get you, it can be annoying at times but it’s also so much fun. and a cuddly child 🥺😭 that’s so sweet awwww i’m so happy for you about this whole thing 🫶

oh god if you’re up that late then it indeed would be hard to stay awake 😩 good thing you can always watch it later! and i hope you have a great night out 😁😁 idk how i’m gonna survive it either, i really wanna catch up on some sleep this weekend… why couldn’t this weekend be a later race 😔😔

about uni, i ended up not going and instead i’m taking a course in journalism at another university! it’s only once a week though, so i’ve been working these last few weeks. first time i’ve ever worked an actual 9-5 job for more than like two days 😵 i’ve done so many other types of work but this is new territory. it’s quite alright so far! the only problem being that i never fall asleep until 1am at the earliest, so i never get a lot of sleep :/ well well!

you’re very right, always when i get a block i just sit down and force myself to write either way. i have barely had any time at all to write these last few weeks tho so i haven’t gotten around to doing it. i did manage to sit down last night though and had a good writing moment! but it was at 2am so my work today is going to suffer from it 🥲 thank you love!

i hope you have a great weekend sweetheart 🥰🥰

[camuslittlesister]

I’m having an identity crisis. I’m sitting out the ranking for two events in a row 🥲

Tbh I’m going for the frame so I might sneak in the rank low as a result, but if I’m not trying for the ranking prize then I’m going to bed at a normal time, or trying because I pushed 2am last night thanks to pretty swords (yes, I am playing Touken Ranbu, although given my IRL Okita obession the sword voiced by nii-sama was not my starter and, at time of writing, it still isn’t one of mine). But Manjunari and the butterflies with Kenshin looking on is glorious and I kinda need that in my life even if I sweated blood and tears for the smutty Kageie and the sleepy shinobi 🤔 #firstworldproblems if ever there was one.

But yeah, random thoughts as I suffer through the wait for 2 of my top 5 SLBP men to drop. I’m currently skipping through the tanuki for the puppy, to be called Rei-chan.

I mean, am I wrong?

Basically this post will not be a complete review because I’m likely just nyooming through half of the event and re-reading Kenshin’s story on a loop for the first 5 or so days until Shingen and Hideyoshi are out.

SLBP story events be like:

LI I like: Watching paint dry? Great story!

LI I dislike: Your vassals are rebelling and there’s a lot of drama, boooo-riiiiing.

Look at that ambitious little face tho 🥺makes me so proud

It’s the 3rd day of the event (nii-sama’s sword came home in TR in the meantime) and I’ve so far skimmed through all the bits with the Hojo kid, since I disliked him ever since the time he was in Kai (or Shinano, it was a Yukimura story, of that I am sure...) a few events back (and they had Saizo to salvage the situation). So aside from almost dying laughing at the beginning with the Demon Daddy Show, and enjoying seeing the crazy-ninja-who-hates-Saizo’s face, I haven’t read anything until the ending (that CG is my next copy for my self-taught drawing course).

I have, however, read Manjunari (cue: 😱) and I have so many mixed feelings about it. It was nothing new, in fact it’s like an AU of his MS, but I both don’t like him and really want to like him.

Saturday morning, breakfast time, Utapri on Auto because I cba: Can’t Shingen hurry up and come out already

Sunday morning, oh my gosh, brace yourselves for the word vomit. *Very Ren Jinguji voice* Are you ready? 😏

Utapri ruined my life. I can never ever read those words without hearing Junichi Suwabe in my head.

I have so many questions. First of all, am I allowed multiple husbandos in one castle because Kansuke buhahhahah 😂 I want to put a ring on it because he is just too cute and funny.

Secondly, WTH? We know babe is so extra but this is a level of extra that is unreal. I mean, I have done it too, both my house bathroom and playing Mystic Messenger in a public one but the cleaning standards in the 21st century are kind of improved?! This sounds worse than a festival portaloo, and those have also improved over the years since my misspent youth having to be chaperoned at festivals because a music-obsessed minor (Side note: it surprises me too that my favourite Utapri boy is not Ranmaru given we are one and the same 🥲 I’m writing this as Spotify just started playing Memory by Sugarcult). And what makes it worse to me is that he hid away to read the Art of War. AGAIN.

Surely he knows it by heart by now? He is reading that book all.the.bloody.time.

At least he’s self-aware...

Oh, who am I kidding, with that face he can get away with murder as far as I’m concerned. Which he kinda did since I forgave the start of his route (it wasn’t literal murder in that case tho, but it was bad 👀)

*more story* Multiple levels of adorable 🥺

I for one was not surprised at his modern day job in the epilogue because that guy is painted as a workhaolic in every story. The guy couldn’t even stop the time he went on a holiday, although that wasn’t entirely his fault. Part of it was. Can we get a holiday story where he actually just lounges about reading a book or something? Pretty please.

But, of course, this story isn’t it. I do dig the tragic hero vibes tho. He’s so pretty in the rain and somehow so pretty as he is coughing up blood and nearly dying?! How did I only notice this on my 3rd replay of the story?

Also so dang satifsfying when the tiger goes full kitty omg the finaleeee. *Narrator: she died with a smile on her face and her morning coffee all over the bed*

Spoiler alert: I did not actually die, and I am back.

Fjshnfodosnsjkfnfnsna HIDEYOSHIIIIII. You naughty teasing little snakey fox. Although my favourite Hideyoshi bits were, in fact, from Toshiie’s story.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the playful banter and let me kiss you as a punishment for being adorable kind of scenarios (even tho they’ll never apply to me because I couldn’t be any more different from the average Voltage MC if I tried), but THIS was glorious.

And also I have so many thoughts about how MC seems to think he is better than he really is as a person, but also I can see the idealism and whole quest for equality are not necessarily mutually exclusive. You can be shrewd and ambitious for a goal higher than yourself. What can I say, I love him 🥺

Toshiie’s story was a bit meh but also the plot twist was nice. And now, after panicking that I couldn’t find my frame I was sure I had accepted, it’s time to press send and dive into the next event. No rest for the wicked and the SLBP event junkies, as they say...