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What Are You Happy About Today?

I got a haircut! It's been over two years since my last haircut thanks to COVID, but I finally got it done. I like it long so I only trimmed about 6 inches off. It's still down past my shoulder blades, but it looks so much healthier now and it won't get in my way as much.
Nice @LadyDestani ! I'm in the process of looking for a new salon (my last cut pre-lockdown was Nov 2020 so things are dire) but I was turned away last week after my forehead temp scan showed 37C. Which was normal ffs!!! After freaking out I double checked w/ my pharmacist who assured me 37Celsius was a normal temp & not a fever and no need to rush out to get tested for Covid if I don't have any symptoms lol. My temp went down after an hour to 36.5 but there's no way the salon will let me in if 37 is my average temp during the hot summer weather!

But I'm grateful cuz my stylist is no longer there anyway so I'm taking it as a def sign it's time to switch to a new salon :)

Another thing I'm grateful for is deciding to create an account here. I'm active on another ac forum but in recent months it's been a dumpster fire w/ ppl name-calling each other & hurling insults...all over the issue of time travel. I mean, it's a feature on a video game, why be so hateful over it?

So I'm happy for the more chill vibes here, I'm still learning abt TBT at Tortimer's speed lol but it's been such a nice change!
 
I'm particularly happy for several reasons 💕
  • Got a 3 day weekend to look forward to. Cya suckers! (aka my coworkers 😋)
  • The weather has been very agreeable as of late. Not overly hot with a pleasant feel in the air
  • Our young nephew is visiting for the day!
  • I got to draw. Always happy about that 💞
  • I'm spending less time on my Switch and more time on my New 3DS XL, as it has gone neglected for a long time. Currently playing Pokémon Crystal Virtual Console and Yoshi and Poochy's Woolly World!
  • We'll be dining on Domino's Pizza tomorrow~ yum!
  • I'm extremely happy for my best friend ☺💕
 
I got to play some more Okami. Having stronger items carried over from the first playthrough and better knowledge is making the game a breeze, but still fun despite that. I'm aiming to 100% it as I wasn't able to do so from my first playthrough.

I finally returned the library books I borrowed from a couple of weeks ago. Now I won't end up facing late charges! I even took the time to go for a walk that lasted for around an hour during clear summer skies once again. This time around, I was all by myself meaning I got to walk wherever I wanted and had my mind occupied by the scenery as I go by (while still being aware of my surroundings of course!).

I looked up a tutorial on how to do foreshortening so I could draw hands a little better. Right off the bat, I already understood the process (at least the basic stuff), especially since I've done a few one-point perspective drawings from the past. Can't wait to get started!

I cooked spaghetti for my family. It's pretty tasty. Yum!

This next one sounds a little ridiculous, but a youtube channel that uploaded Animal Crossing relaxing music videos a few years ago (though sadly got taken down due to Nintendo being Nintendo) got around to uploading a video of relaxing music from the Gran Turismo series! And it's fairly recent too as it was uploaded just over a month ago at the time of this post. I looked at the comments and I saw a few saying that while they have never touched the games before, they really like the music which is nice to see. Music can be really powerful in some ways. In New Leaf, Bones has a cute computer in his house. Why did I bring this up you ask? Because the youtube channel that uploaded the relaxing music video has Bones as their profile picture, so I'd like to think he's the one doing this to make someone's day. :) Here's the video I was talking about. If you're looking for relaxing music, I suggest that you give it a listen. You're welcome!

Speaking of New Leaf, I turned on the game again after leaving it in the dust for a month or so. Even after all this time, no one moved out from the village thanks to a trick to prevent random move-outs during a long absence from the game. Anyway, I booted up the Desert Island Escape game and had a lot of fun with it, despite landing on bad spaces almost half of the time when spinning the roulette lol. Okay, Tangy. You may have a specialty in catching fish, but you still fail half of the time. Man, this brought back memories from high school where I'd play it during lunch and thinking wisely about what to do.

I was able to get some more parking practice. I've noticed that I'm not getting any aches from my neck when checking my blindspots. I've also spotted a few rabbits again as one of them sat on the grass like a statue while my sister calls them Judy from Zootopia lol. If you're wondering about any interesting cars I spotted, the only one worth mentioning is the Chevrolet Corvette C7 Stingray.

If you somehow read all of this, I'd like to say thank you for taking a couple of minutes to do so. 💙
 
I sat outside in the sun and read for half an hour a little while ago 🌞

I also have a package coming today. Which has my official Nintendo Switch anker portable charger so I can finally get more hours play time without having to leave my Switch on it’s main charger every couple hours.

and I have some Christmas themed scented wax cubes coming for my Scentsy wax warmer, the scents are called Christmas Hearth, Mistletoe, and Christmas splendor. They’re soy based. I’ve had them before and they smell amazing! 😃

I’m going to watch a few episodes of this wonderful anime I started watching on Netflix called Toradora! I highly recommend it. It’s really cute and funny. ❤️
 
I'm ecstatic that Canada's women's soccer team beat Sweden in a penalty shootout to win the gold medal! Definitely a tense 120 minutes and a nerve-wracking shootout, but they managed to pull it out in the end! I'm happy with how Canada has done at the Olympics in general, but this, this is the medal I coveted the most, and it's just unbelievable to know that they actually managed to win it after all. I'm happy for all the players, but especially for Christine Sinclair, since she's easily been one of the best women's soccer players of all time and carried this team for so long and deserved to finally win a major international tournament in the twilight of her career.
 
Today has been okay.

-I refreshed my resume this morning which was a little bittersweet. I do really miss my old job so it was sad updating my resume to say that I'm no longer working there. I found a few jobs to apply to (so I had to write a cover letter as well) and while I'm not really expecting any interviews, it would be nice if something works out.

-I picked out some makeup I want to use for August/going into September! I like picking out products at the start of each month or so that I want to get more use out of. I think there's a few products I might even finish up which will be exciting!

-I actually went around and picked all the weeds in Animal Crossing. 😅 It's been a minute since I've properly played and there were so many weeds so I'm definitely happy that they're gone!

-I'm looking forward to the camp event that's starting this weekend. 🥰
 
Today was still an decent day despite me feeling a little depressed.

- I didn't have to work today. (But it's the last true day of my vacation since the weekend is starting, so that's got me feeling a bit sad.)

- The weather was nice again today.

- My husband got to go out this evening to play Magic, which meant that I got a quiet evening at home alone.


- I've been thinking a lot about my novel lately, which is only about halfway completed, and I'm coming closer to making some decisions on the direction I want to go so I can starting working on it properly again.
 
This week is ending a bit more depressing than the beginning of the week, but I’m still happy about a few things.

- I got to go to Aikido and practice Randori tonight (the Aikido form of sparring).

- I‘ve saved up a ton of primogems and Mora in Genshin Impact, and now I feel like I’m ready for the next character release.

- New episode of MHA tomorrow.
 
unsurprisingly, i fell behind in posting again, but other than fighting off a depressive episode, my week’s been pretty good so far. 🥰

tuesday (08/03)
🎨 slept well.
🧚🏻‍♀️ managed to tidy up my room a bit.
🌿 @Dunquixote left a really sweet compliment about my latest island journal entry on my profile! i appreciate their friendship and kindness so much, and receiving feedback on my island journal always makes me happy. ^_^
🌈 discovered some more favourite edits of some of my favourite fictional characters!
🎨 my kitty was pretty vocal with me, and we cuddled for the first time in a while! <3

wednesday (08/04)
🧚🏻‍♀️ went and got mcdonald’s with my mom in the middle of the night,,,, again. we also took a longer route to go get it than we usually do, which i enjoyed; i love car drives so much. :’)
🌿 read 2 new fanfics and enjoyed them!
🌈 did 2 animal crossing trades.
🎨 tidied up my room a bit again; i’m trying to tidy up a bit each day, rather than trying to do it all at once aha.
🧚🏻‍♀️ received merengue’s and del’s photos in acnh!!! <3
🌿 my kitty was vocal with me again, and we cuddled again as well! i also took a cute photo of her. ^_^
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thursday (08/05)
🌈 had a yummy breakfast.
🎨 my depression was at its worst, but i still managed to drag myself into the shower, which definitely made me feel a bit better. :’)
🧚🏻‍♀️ a new chapter of 2 fanfics i’ve been reading were published! they were both awesome. ^_^
🌿 cuddled with my kitty again today!! she also meowed at me quite a bit. <3

today (08/06)
🌈 i’m actually in the car omw to get food while i’m posting this, but i FINALLY saw the suicide squad! i wasn’t expecting to get to see it on opening day, but it was so good!! the radio station in the car is also playing some pretty good music rn, and i picked up a new friend at the movie theatre as well. :’)
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-There's been lots of upcoming English otome announcements!! I definitely won't be getting all of them, but given how little attention the genre gets over here, any releases sound like good news to me. c:
-Also on the subject of otome—after some thinking, I decided to pre-order Dairoku: Agents of Sakuratani! I'm not 100% sold on any of the love interests yet from what I've read in reviews, but I some of what I read about it sounded promising, so I'm hopeful that I'll like it!
 
Because my country has, as of two days ago, managed to get 65.7% of the population fully vaccinated and 77.7% with at least one dose, restrictions will finally be eased! I'm so happy with this news and announcement. From next Tuesday, fully vaccinated people can meet in groups of 5 and dine in at restaurants. I'm really looking forward to eating out with my family again. Life will feel a little more normal again. 😃
 
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