#i also want to check out the towns museums and get home for dnd so i have an early train back. thus super early start to the day

[borealopelta]

setting my alarm for 5:45 so i can go on a hike i was gently peer pressured into. life is so beautiful

[petalpetal]

tips for how you can use the library for other things than books.

don't own any streaming services or tv show/movie not on your streaming servie?? go see if you local library has the movie/tv show and even if they don't they can see if any branches within you county has it and then have it shipped to them for you to pick up

want to host a private event like a dnd group, magic the gathering gaming, local small club, small organization or just need a quiet place to do work/study/take a test (this only applies if your local libarary doesn't have study rooms) Book the meeting room.

Depending on where you are your local library might have other things to check out that isn't books or digital media. For example my library has museum passes and board games you can check out. A library my coworker used to work at in Arizona has seeds you could check out. So don't be afraid to ask what other option you have.

HAVE A KID??? but can't really afford to take them to fun/nice things because of this econmeny look at what events you library offers (sure you might have to drive to a different city/town BUT ITS FREE) (also the usually have really fun things during the summer for example I think this summer we had some people from NASA talk with the kids and give a presentation at our main branch)

Speaking of events they aren't only for kids. All departments has events including YA and Adults. Yes adults has events examples can be decorate your own wine glass (you get a free wine glass), or make your own key chain???

speaking of making your stuff most libraries usually have activities you can take home for example right now at my library we have a macrame hanging plant holder kit for adults to take home..

ALSO BACK TO KIDS because kiddos and their education is important. Libraries have this neat little thing called playviews and Launchpads. Playviews is basically portable tv screen that is loaded with education tv shows that is based on a theme (like pbs) and Luanchpads is tablet that is preloaded with educational games and they are usually themed by subject. They are a great way to enterain your kid and educate them. And honestly if you are going to public event where you have to bring your kid but you know your kids is gonna be board just check out one of these badboys.

this is sorta breaking the rules but I am adding it anyway if You are parent on here maybe or maybe not your might be a new parent. The library has a section in the kids section called Parents books that you can read to your children. They are basically picture books but they adress touchy topics or topics that require an explaintion. such as race, bullying, dealing with emotions, LGBTQ(becuae we live in a hetronormtive socity), Gender Idity (again hetronormtive socity) Loss of a loved one, moving to a new place, ectra. These are great tools if you and your child are going through something and you don't want keep your out of the dark but also don't know how explain to them on a level they would understand.

WE HAVE PRINTERS AND SCANNERS!!!! usealy you have up a certain number of prints you have until you have to pay.

WE ALSO HAVE COMPUTERS WITH THE INTERNET!!!

TLDR

LIBRARIES ARE HERE FOR PEOPLE OF ALL ECONICMIAL STATIS BUT ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE TIGHT ON MONEY. so eiher call or go check out your local library system and see what services they can offer you.

ALSO LIBRARIANS OF TUMBLR IF I MISSED ANYTHING FEEL FREE TO ADD

[pbandjesse]

Today was a really nice day. My hand continues to feel better. It was way to hot much our ac worked well. And even when I was outside I was able to ignore the heat for most of the day.

I slept alright last night. Waking up at 630 was not fun but it was mostly my own fault because I didn't go to sleep when I should last night, instead just scrolled on my phone for to long. I did eventually sleep and it wasn't bad sleep. Just waking up early was hard.

I also had a pain low in my abdomen for like the first half hour I was awake and I could feel myself being very inward. Like I wasn't communicating or anything. But once the pain stopped I felt better. And was able to be more present with James.

James got me to the museum at 7 and helped me unload the car and get the cart from inside the museum before they went to get me breakfast because they are the best. And it was already hot but it was alright. I was in the shade and that helped a ton.

I was a little stressed. I got my table set up and decided to have musuem brochures out on the cart. And I would hand out stickers for the farmers market to all the little kids. But I was in charge in charge. And that made me nervous!! But everything would work out great. We did have an extra vendor but a few people didn't show up so it was fine in the end. I would check in on every one and chitchat. It was a good day.

And I made a lot of sales to beautiful people. Kids. Adults. Even a dog?? Someone asked if I would be upset and I was like nah! And so the dog stuck his nose in the bears and chose his own. So cute.

I would get a smoothie from the nice Mexican ladies. They tried to give it to me for free so later I snuck $5 in their tip jar. I tried to just be helpful and happy. And I stood almost the entire time which always makes people engage with me more. So that was a good plan even if it hurt my feet to stand so much.

I told some people about my nonsense week and all the stuff that's happened. And chatted with new in town people about things to do, like the jazz concert tomorrow at the museum.

I even sold a bear to a lovely woman who would email me later in the day to tell me how powerful my bears were in bringing joy and that she was gifting it to her adult daughter who has cancer and that it will bring her comfort. And I was just. Blown away. Like all I want is for people to find comfort and joy in my plushies and that she felt like she had to confirm that for me was so powerful in its own way. Thank you for that.

And really it was a great morning. Even if it was very hot. I did my best to keep it together and not think about how got it was.

We would finish up the market at 1 and got packed up pretty fast. Once I was done putting my stuff away, struggling in the heat of the parking lot, I went in the musuem to sit with James for a few minutes. Return their counter to them that I used to count the guests of the market. Which was weirdly hard. We average about 100 people an hour so that's pretty neat. Not as wildly busy as the first week but still.

After I cooled off and everyone was cleared out from the market I would head home.

I was so happy to be back here. I held Sweetp and got all the ACs on and the fans I the specific spaces. I know our electric bill is going to be wild this month but I'd rather be comfortable. I'd rather Sweetp be comfortable.

I had a late lunch. Opened the mail. James got me another little pendant. Because I can never had enough little pendants. And eventually I decided to go lay down until James got home.

I love sleeping in the day time. I fall asleep so easy. And I would wake up when James got home but they would leave soon after to go play DND with some friends. And I slept another half hour.

When I got up for real I decided to try the hair glaze I got. It's called Glaze and I got it in their licorice color And hoenslty my hair looks great after using it. I did not take a picture but it seems like healthy shiney and I am very happy. But the bottle it came in is such a bad design and made it so hard to get the product out that I sent an email to the company. Basically say as an accessibility issue this product is a problem. I will still probably buy again but something to think about.

While my hair was processing I had some cereal. And after my shower I decided I would make a totebag. I had an idea about making a square tote and so I attempted that and had a lot of fun.

I used to make bags when I was all in my feelings. Made a lot in grad school. But I haven't for a while. This wasn't be sure I was sad but I have been dealing with a lot so this was nice and cathartic. I did almost finish the body of the bag before I decided it was wrong and cut it in half. But I am really pleased with the shape. It's just a little goofy being a square. And I made the straps which is something I used to hate doing but I think this strap came out so good?? I still would like to make a liner but I am so thrilled with the bag itself. It was a fun project. Especially since I'm going to be doing sewing with the kids this week, it was nice to jump into this type of sewing.

I would play Stardew valley for a little. And lay on the couch watching videos until James got home. They were so cute when they came in.

And now we are in bed. I am looking forward to resting more.

I hope you all sleep good. Take care of yourself. Try and stay cool!! Goodnight!

[defunctblogtobedeleted]

3/21/2020 12:15am - Quarantined (pt 2)

So January. January January January.

Feels like so long ago now, let’s see what did I do.

January was when I was going on some dates with this girl Beth, that I had met at emo karaoke. I got her number and didn’t really follow up on it much, she came out to regular karaoke once and had to split early. But then I bumped into her outside of Parkside when I was on a date with Kits. I was waiting outside while she was going to the bathroom and Beth bumped into me and we were like hey, we need to hang out sometime!

So we finally did that. We had a nice little date at the science museum and played with her dogs and went to trivia and a comedy show, then made out to Kishi Bashi. Pretty sweet, but she didn’t want to hook up, I accidentally left some hickies (same old story), went home to Jill, she left some Mean hickies on me, and then her roommate saw me at karaoke covered in hickies and asked if it was from my date with Beth and I had to laugh and tell her no, no they weren’t.  Beth ended up needing to go out of town for a cruise and Idk if it was partly because of that but we didn’t really hang out again. We’ve texted once since, but things are weird with quarantine now. Also the craziest thing, we realized while we were in the science museum that we had the same birthday! And a weird lot in common. Maybe I should hit her up, actually? Idk.

Let’s seeeee. First weekend was recovering from travel and new years I think. Second weekend I spent with chris and stef, so much fun. And it was that weekend with kits on sunday that ended in emo karaoke and sex, and then monday was the date with beth because DnD was cancelled.

Still doing DnD every monday. It’s amazing.

Was doing karaoke every tuesday, too, but this quarantine has me fucked up. Feels so wrong not going out on tuesday.

But third weekend I got to see Jstu for the first time in forever!! Love ya, bud. Glad the wedding went well and we got to hang.  Got to chill with Maya and Jill and Kits at the bison. I don’t know why I thought that was a good idea, but it worked out actually lol. I’ve chilled with them together a few times and they both know about each other because I’m open and communicative and it hasn’t managed to blow up in my face Yet. lmao. I think I’m doing something right if I’m surrounded by such tolerant beautiful people lol.

That following tuesday was the first of like 5 weeks in a row that I spent $100 at neptune’s for karaoke. It was nic’s birthday and so I bought everyone shots and they all wanted vodka bombs and holy shit are they expensive. And we did the same the next week because I owed Skylar some money (not THAT much money though goddamn), and again for my pre birthday. and then Again on my birthday week. it was a mess lmfao.

I was actually hanging with kits a bunch that month. We went to a fet party together the next weekend, and I got 283 birthday spankings from everyone there (like 10 a piece). Felt really nice :3 need to do something like that again soon but I cannnn’t 😭 Fuck this quarantine forreal.

Oh yeah there was one night where I did a bunch of shrooms and acid with the gang, then about 8 hours later we did The Box, where we smoke consecutive blunts/bongs in a hotboxed car. You’re not allowed to break box. But at the end of doing all that shit I bitched out after a while. Someone had to get out of the car and let some air in and it tasted so fucking good compared to the smoke that I got nauseous. Weird night. Fun though. Was one hell of a way to jump back into smoking again.

Idk if I mentioned my DUI but it still isn’t resolved. I’m so glad that I blew under and they couldn’t take my license, still waiting on the trial means that I’d be out of my license without hope for this entire like 7 months. would’ve been ass.

Hmm back on track, after my birthday spankings night I took jill out the next night to celebrate that she finally got a job. Unfortunately she also got her car impounded so I’ve still been kinda having to help take care of her the tiniest bit, but a lot less so now that I don’t have to buy her drinks and stuff. Just bought her animal crossing though. It’s nice feeling like I don’t care about money and actually do nice things for people. Wish I had done that more for Andi without bitching about it, but so it goes. Was a different time in my life. 

The last week of January I started playing Dark Souls and it’s been plaguing my life. I fucking suck at that game, but it’s a lot of fun. Very masochistic lmao. End of January is also when I qualified as top 1200 to make the tournament in Feb. So I was playing a bunch of magic. And a new set came out that I was in love with. 

However, Jill did distract me during the night I was supposed to do competitive metagame challenge, so I’ve been playing without a lot of cards the past few months. Kinda frustrating, but I’m still kicking ass. Feels kinda cool that I’m back on my free to play grind. Even though now I’m mostly grinding to afford cosmetics instead of the actual cards 😹 I’m like the fanciest most accomplished F2P player ever now I think.

January was cool, but then FEBRUARY. hoo baby, I really did my birthday month right this year check this out.

I mean first lemme take a breather from writing and play some magic. But I’ll follow up eventually.

[thedappleddragon]

Day 126 (Friday July 17)

I woke up and played animal crossing for a while. My friends reminded me that we were going to have a dnd session over discord, and I had completely forgotten lol. I worked on the second fish plush for a little bit until we were scheduled to start. We played for over 2 hours I think, and discord crashed on us like twice. It was a ton of fun, even tho I’m ass at rollplaying and improv. A quick synopsis of our session;

We left 42069 blazin street and went to the mechanic robot repair shop. I had my little robot from the beginning of the game upgraded with laser eyes and LEDS, borrowing money from Elwin, and we checked the security tapes to look for signs of the princess. The tapes showed her being led out of the store by a shadowy figure with a ponytail and feminine frame and we smashed the security system so Elwin could steal. Realizing we didn’t know enough about where to go next, we went to the mcdevils next door to order food and check their security tapes. We saw that the kidnapper had red tattoos and drove an orange Lamborghini, driving east. We walked all the way to New Ork, stopping by to see Toni’s parent figure/mentor Papa Pastorelli at her roller skate pizza joint job. We got pizza and checked the tapes, seeing the Lamborghini park across the street and the princess and kidnapper enter the sewers. It was at this point Sam pointed out that the princess wasn’t struggling against her kidnapper, so theories started flying. We broke into their car and stole the princesses phone and a baggie of PCP, heading to the UnderDark, and illegal marketplace thingy in the sewers. We traded the pcp for info from Joe Biden the 600lb changeling drug dealer, who turned us to Barbra Streisand the knife seller to read the notes written in sylvan. It was a shopping list for a dark cloak, pcp, a knife, and white hair dye. At this point we all theorized that Sahara and the princess were running away to be gay lovers. We searched through the phone some more and called Sahara at the castle and the king Venmoed us some money. The session ended on a cliffhanger with the phone ringing.

After the session, I finished the fish plush, but I don’t remember much else about the day lol.

Day 127 (Saturday July 18th)

I played a LOT of animal crossing, and spent like 5 hours making custom clothing designs, mostly sweaters. I didn’t know you could store custom designs!! Now I’m gonna make so many that I’ll never buy clothes again >:) or not because I’m not very good at anything that’s not a sweater. I’ll probably upload the at codes tomorrow. I can’t now because the able sisters shop is closed, and I can’t time travel because of turnips. I don’t like time traveling anyway. I thought I was going to have an open house this day, but it turned out to be he next day. I don’t really remember much of yesterday other than animal crossing and feeling really cute for no reason. Is it wierd that I feel the best about myself when I’m in a baggy shirt with semi-messy hair? I feel best like that and with a normal t shirt and black high waisted jeans and when I tie my shoes really tight. Anyway I remember before I went to sleep that I wanted to make a teddy bear backpack. Also my guts hurt for no reason. OH WAIT NOW I REMEMBER! I stayed up until 4 am making dumb tiktoks lol

Day 128 (Sunday July 19th)

I instinctively woke up early today because I didn’t want to sleep in too late and risk missing the open house. I felt like shit and my guts hurt in the morning, so I was worried about if I should go or not, but I felt fine after a little while. I played animal crossing and debated on weither or not I should play the stalk market, and ended up buying an inventory full of turnips last second. In a rush of selling things to empty my inventory, I accidentally sold my silver net :( I know I can buy another from the museum, but I have to wait for it to show up which might take a while :/. I showed my friends the tiktoks I made, and one of them reached out to me asking if I could draw some of her characters from her story. I said yes, and I wasn’t planning on drawing them today but I read the outfit description for one and got really inspired. I ended up drawing 3 full bodies of 3 very pretty ladies and 2 headshots of someone’s parents because at that point I was tired and running out of space on the page but wanted to sketch out my thoughts. But then I had to get ready for the open house, so I took a super quick shower and got dressed, stressing out over my dad taking so long to get ready and what time I should arrive and blah. It turned out fine tho, and I had a nice time just sitting and talking with friends. Now we’re mutuals on tungle.hell :) hi steph. I came home and drew some more and spent way too long on TikTok. I played a little more animal crossing and saw that retail was offering extra for perfect peaches, so I sent out a post on amino offering to let people come sell their peaches in my cherry town for the most profit possible in game for fruit. No one accepted in time tho. My guts started hurting again for no reason. But when I passed by my reflection in the mirror I felt cute as hell and punched the air and did a little dance I was so happy. I was wearing my one pair of short shorts too, since I wore them under my dress at the open house and just kept them on, and they boost my confidence 500% for no reason when I’m home alone. If I wore them in public I would cry, but for some reason I feel like a god at home. Then I laid in bed and almost fell asleep watching a compilation of those scale mail gauntlet videos, spent too much time on TikTok and YouTube.

[pbandjesse]

It's my birthday!!! I am real sleepy but it's that good kind. Like i feel fulfilled. But also just sleepy. 

Today was great though. I was glad it was our last night in the hotel. Because even though it was a really nice room i missed my blankets and pillows. But I still slept alright.

I got up at 8 and got washed up and dressed and we punished packing and soon we were on our way down to breakfast. 

Which was much better today. Eggs and potatoes! Excellent. 

But soon we were checked out and on the road. 

Today we were celebrating with the duck decoy museum. And this place was amazing. Like i was picturing a one room small town museum. This was not that. The building was beautiful and there were so many different types of sculpture and they were so realistic. It was beautiful and i now want to carve my own duck. 

We watched a few videos. Learned about the men who's name sake the museum was. It was lovely. And i really really loved it there and I'm so glad he thought to bring me to this weird place. It was excellent. 

We stopped in the gift store. Got Kimberly and Nick a little duck soap and a pin for myself. 

We went out to the lake to see some live ducks. Enjoyed the beautiful weather. But it was time to get some lunch. 

We headed closer to the college in this college town. I got saladworks and James got a sandwich. And then we were off to the next thing. 

Which was an antique mall. Which was so excellent. I got a couple little pieces of jewelry and a glass paperweight. Which is something that I've been trying to find for a long time. It is clear with one piece of red inside. It's so close to perfect. I'm excited. 

I really just liked looking around. James found a bunch of stuff for his Philly friends. But it was time to head out. It was time to go home. 

I was sleepy. But i never actually napped in the long drive. It took us a really long time because of bridge traffic. But we made it over the bridge and stopped for tacos before finally finally making it home. 

I was so glad to be back. I missed my cat so much. 

Kimberly came down to give me my keys. And i worked on unpacking. James went over to the store to get milk and eggs. And he got to work making me a birthday cake. 

I finished putting things away. Got a shower. Played animal crossing. Talked to my parents. And now dnd friends are here. And soon we will have cake. And i will go to sleep. 

I am excited to be 29. I like odd numbers better and this is going to be a really good year. 

Goodnight everyone.