Before I get too into this, I want to remind peoples of my year-end survey. 😀 I want to balance my special interest posts more and include some new kinds of posts. 💖

Just before writing this, I was:

Putting this off because uploading photos is a pain in the ass.

This past month:

• Shows: —
• Movies: Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Bad Moms, Mr. Brooks, Carol, Beastly, Storks
• Read: Day 21 (#2), Anne of Avonlea (#2), Anne of the Island (#3)
  
• Reading: The Day the Angels Fell, All She Left Behind
• Books gained: The Proving by Beverly Lewis, Many Sparrows by Lori Benton, When a Scoundrel Sins by Anna Harrington

With Grandmama’s help, I purchased a new laptop. It’s an old model, but not as dated as I was seeing for a while—and it should tide me over for now, or at least better than if I hadn’t one at all. I spent a lot of time reading over reviews for it with a careful eye. While, yes—millennials[1. A Nielson social media study shows it is older generations who have a harder time “living without” electronics such as cell phones, personal computers, and satellite/cable television.] can live without electronics—the world has adapted so much that living without them is not a wise option. I need a laptop so I can write and create things, and I’m not the sort of person who can tolerate any sensory environment when I do such. Anyone who says such things—that one needs to “go outside” or “live life” should get off their own electronics for an equally long duration; put your money where your mouth is or don’t talk at all. 👌

I do feel I’ve learned quite a lot over the last year without one, though, and I hope to use such wisdom in my life moving forward. It’s allowed me to learn better productivity methods and to stop thinking so technically in my writing. The most important thing in the early drafting stage is to get the idea down. Typing was easy because I’m fast, but my carpal tunnel syndrome makes handwriting harder, so I haven’t time to be a perfectionist if I want to get an idea down before it dissipates.

I also got in touch with reading, and I learned how to pass idle time in a way that doesn’t include creating my exes in Sims form and killing them off after my Sim self breaks their hearts. This isn’t to say, of course, that free time should always be spent productively—I’ve come to find the current trend in the world is to be productive as hell, regardless of whatever overwhelm it creates—because we need to give our brain a break and stop being so serious sometimes, lest we forget how to have fun and exchange our sense of humor for “growing up”.

This past month, I learned:

• How to do sponsored content better
  • This sounds so weird, but I’m excited because it sounds super fun.
    • I also know how to answer requests from companies to do a plethora of things. I have newfound confidence and can’t wait to use it.~
• I need to discipline myself again. I fell out of it because of stress and overwhelm.

This past month, I grew bored of:

My life.

I also grew bored of using Roboto for my Visual Editor font, so I switched it to Karla, and life is a lil’ less “blah AF” in terms of writing up in this joint.

But that’s OK, ’cause I enjoyed:

• Reading webcomics. More recently, I got into Seafoam Diaries and the heart-pulling backstory.
• Reading through old-old posts (“the archive”). I don’t know if I’ll bring them all back onto this blog, but because I now have the self-awareness to reflect and notice those times when I started getting depressed, my PTSD started setting in, and/or when my personality disorder and name dysphoria began getting out of control, I feel like these parts are integral to have on a blog that is the encyclopedia of me.

Today, something that made me happy:

I realized I’m not in as much pain as I have been since helping Charlise with towels on Tuesday. I can walk without feeling my bones interact with each other.

Tomorrow, I’m going to:

Clean up my room a bit, because I let it go because I was in too much pain to bend my knees.

In October, I’m going to make the positive change of:

I don’t even know right now…trying not to stay up so late?

One thing on my to-do list:

I need to finish two books ASAP. 😫

One pleasant photo from this past month:

After this post, I will:

Finish reading The Day the Angels Fell.

As a note, these prompts come from Georgie’s monthly review posts. I started doing them…last year? Idunno. Time isn’t so innate for me. I credited her the first time, then assumed it would be common knowledge that people would know. 😉 I am probz going to be switching it up to something else later on because I really enjoy lists.

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