words, games, and music oh my!

First things first, I posted my new youtube video and I’m so excited about it!

I walk you through all of my different journals and their purposes! I really enjoyed making this video and I hope you enjoy watching it. Maybe it will inspire you to keep your own journal! I also have an upcoming journal prompt video coming next week!

I am still going strong with my journals, it’s only been a few days since the video but I’m loving filling them out

here is a peek at my daily journals, my affirmations/gratitude and daily recap, both from yesterday!

I mentioned Animal Crossing New Horizons in both my gratitude and daily recap, because I have exciting news!!

My friend has gifted me the Sanrio Amiibos!

So OF COURSE I had to do what any sane person would do in this situation.

INVITE ETOILE AND CHAI TO MY ISLAND >:3

JUST LOOK AT THEM……

They’re saying hello to you!!! say it back!!!!

These little ladies are PERFECT additions to my island.

Not to brag but I will absolutely brag, my island is fucking stacked now.

Full of cuties. Not one bad villager.

Just take a look:

You see that???

Ione: CUTE. Agnes: CUTE. Cephalobot: CUTE. Judy: CUTE. Dom: CUTE. Marina: CUTE. Etoile: CUTE. Sasha: CUTE. Chai: CUTE. Julian: CUTE.

All winners baybee no losers here !!!!!!!!!!!

I also didn’t realize that I had so many new villagers until looking at this list.

Ione, Cephalobot, Judy, Dom, and Sasha are all new villagers introduced in New Horizons!

And in my opinion they are the best of the new villagers. I do also like Sherb, Megan, and Shino though. Plus Cyd and Tiansheng both look neat.

I also found all of them au naturale baybee !!! All through villager hunts!!!

Except of course Etoile and Chai. And Julian I got from a treasure island.

Marina and Julian I both had in New Leaf and they became favorite of mine so of course I had to get them again. I may even have had Agnes. What can I say, I’m nostalgic.

But yes, I have the most amazing island anyone has ever had because my villagers are my precious babies who are perfect angels in my eyes.

Before I got Etoile and Chai I was aiming for Kabuki and Tia. I am still disappointed I won’t have a cranky villager but it’s okay.

I was originally gonna get Groucho as my cranky because again, had him in New Leaf, but I decided to be brave and go for someone new and Kabuki has such a unique design.

And Tia I wanted because her porcelain design is perfect for what I wanted her for: a companion to my Mom’s Cafe!

What’s a Mom’s Cafe? Thanks for asking! I plan on having all 8 player houses occupied on my island.

I plan to make a witch, a mermaid, and other characters that add to the lore of my island. And one of those houses will be dedicated to Mom’s Cafe!

Simply put, I’m making a cozy little cafe made with all of the items you get from your in game mom. She makes the cutest things!

Can I say, I can finally read letters from mom without crying now? They were initially a punch in the gut after the passing of my own mother, who was also a kind and crafty lady. But now I’m okay! Hurrah! Grief really does evolve and come in waves. Such an interesting and delicate topic.

But yeah, I have lore for my island and the villagers and have a whole story for them.

I think it comes from my days of playing the Sims and me also being a fiction writer in days past.

I haven’t written a fictional story or poetry, my other artform of choice, in over 10 years.

Well that’s a lie, I broke the fast with poetry in recent years. I’m happy about that. But I’ve only crafted about 3 poems so far.

I still haven’t written fiction in over 10 years, and I feel like I need to become a reader again before I become a writer again. It just makes you a better writer in my opinion.

But I get the creative itch out in little ways, like crafting an entire backstory for an Animal Crossing island.

So yeah, all 8 player houses will eventually be occupied with various characters and facilities that I make up in my head. I kinda want a whole cabin that will go near the campsite as a kind of camping hotel type deal. Just fun stuff like that.

It may seem childish and I have no defense against that, I’m fine with it being childish lol. You can pry my sense of whimsy from my cold, dead hands. (And even then you can’t have it. It’s mine all mine!!!)

So that’s about what I’ve been up to. Before I got Chai and Etoile I was busy busy busy cruising through Happy Home Paradise.

For the uninitiated, Happy Home Paradise is ACNH DLC (downloadable content) where you work as a home designer for the patrons of the island! You can craft a home for every villager in the game!

Here are some of my old builds!

And now some of my more recent ones that I have bigger pictures for!

bonus content of me dancing in da club:

Bonus pic of Muffy on her throne:

Now speaking of HHP, Here’s Wardell, my bestie for the restie

We look like we’re holding hands in the second pic…….

Here’s some old pics of me and Judy:

And new pictures of Judy singing bc she’s my precious baby:

Bonus video of her singing:
(Tell her you love her voice. Now.)

And Daisy Mae is here today! Beautiful snot nosed babie

Hope you enjoyed my ACNH photodump!!!! I went through the trouble of upscaling every single one of these photos bc switch screenshots are dogshit quality.

Also, just a reminder to follow me on twitch if you like coworking streams!!!! I’ve been going live at 4:30 a.m. central time every day for the past 3 days and am loving it.

I’m going live tomorrow too but not fr long as I have to leave around 6 am to go to Chicago.

Speaking of, my concert is tomorrow! Crazy!

I’m seeing Tyler, The Creator for his CHROMAKOPIA tour.

I’m unhealthily obsessed with CHROMAKOPIA so I just had to make it to this tour in particular. I’m gonna ascend when I hear the songs live.

I’m in the absolute back of the venue but at least I’m lined up with the stage! I’ll see Tyler from up high lookin like a lil ant.

I’m also deathly afraid of heights so I’m terrified to have to climb up to the back. But I’ll survive. Hopefully.

When I get back from Chicago I’m trying something new.

I’m going to try and go at least 2 days completely tech free.

So no phone, no computer, no tv, no switch, and no ipad.

I can only use my kindle to read since I can’t access anything else on it.

I’m wondering how well or how poorly I’ll do.

Will I crack on the first day?

Will I love it and do it for even longer than 2 days?

Will I go crazy with nothing but the sound of my own thoughts driving me to the brink of madness?

We just won’t know until the 2nd when I’m home!

I won’t even be able to listen to music so I’m just really interested to see how it affects me.

This is also a challenge played on hard mode because

I’m home the entire day doing nothing important or distracting
I’m currently waking up at 4 am so that’s a LONG day of no stimulation

My guess is I’ll read a lot. Actually make time to meditate more. Take a bath or two. Journal a shitton. Maybe do a puzzle.

I just want to experience what it’s like when I don’t waste my life away on youtube or anything else.

Lately I’m trying to create more than I consume, so why not quit consumption cold turkey for two days and see what I can do lmao

I’m really excited for it.

I plan to vlog the whole thing for a youtube video too.

Idk how well I’ll do on that front but I’m gonna try! I think it would make a fun video.

So I will actually have to use my phone and maybe my computer, but I’ll film and do nothing else on them.

I am disappointed about this because I would love to avoid screens completely but I wanna document the process because I think it’s an interesting experiment and I think documenting it will help it go by faster.

But then again maybe I can just journal about it and document my feelings about it that way? And make a talking head video documenting the experience afterwards.

That’s kinda cute to me, documenting it all through journaling and staying completely analog.

I might do that! I just hate that all my videos are talking heads because they’re not visually interesting.

But maybe I can film b-roll of what I was doing after the fact???

Or just embrace the mundanity of the talking head. I think it would be cute to show me like reading my thoughts directly from my journal anyways.

I just have to make whatever I’m going to say compelling enough and not just “im bored lol”

So we’ll see if it even turns into a video or not. The video isn’t the main point anyways, it’s the experiment to see how it makes me feel.

I really do hope I enjoy it. I’m not trying to swear off technology forever either, I just want a lil break.

I generally have a pretty healthy relationship with social media and even youtube I mostly use for like self development, it’s just that I use youtube in particular too much.

And I just want a break from all games and tv and videos and social media just to see what I do in the absence of them.

If it doesn’t become a video I’ll at least come to you guys and make a blog post about it.

Well, that’s all from me today! I’m gonna go journal lol. Then I need to pack….. But journaling first.

See ya, take care of yourself !!!!!!!! <3333