I’m still not feeling great. Because of that, there will be no actual post today. Instead, enjoy this video:
I’m still not feeling great. Because of that, there will be no actual post today. Instead, enjoy this video:
I have a massive headache so I’m skipping today’s post. Here’s a SNL video instead. Bowen Yang dragging it up as the iceberg the Titanic hit. Bowen Yang, by the way, who was just the first SNL actor nominated for an Emmy. And the first Chinese American nominated as well. This skit caused the internet to lose its collective mind. I didn’t think it was funny the first time I watched it, but it’s a slow burner. Now, I think it’s hilarious.
It’s a new year and thank the gods for that. 2020 was a trash heap dumpster fire of a year that we never need to talk about again. I’m thinking about what I want to do this year. Not in the way of setting resolutions because I’m not about that. Or goals, either. The problem is that I have an all or nothing mentality so if I make a small misstep, then I decide I might as well give up completely. It’s not a healthy mentality, but I know myself well enough to realize it’s the way I work.
But, that doesn’t mean that I don’t have ideas. I always have ideas so I might as well share them. One. For NanoWriMo, I set the goal of writing 100,000 words, which I met. That meant writing roughly 3,000 words a day, which I’ve been doing for the most part since then. (Like a few days off over the holidays ‘most part’.) As for the blog, I’ve decided that I’m going to open it up this year. In the past year, I mostly wrote certain topics on certain days, but this year, I’m trying something less rigid. I’m normally a follow-the-rules kind of gal, but not this time. Or rather, I’m mostly a rules kind of gal unless I decide a rule is useless. Then, I don’t care. But it’s after I put in a lot of work.
I’m going for open in this case because I’m tired of trying to shove posts into predetermined categories. I’d rather write about whatever I want whenever I want. It may end up being the same in the end, but there’s more freedom this way.
I am taking a break. Have a D&D Oxventure video. My favorite thus far.
I am back home. I had a great time with my BFF, and I miss her already. I had my first Lyft ride and a very interesting conversation, good Chinese and great Indian, got cultured, and so much more. Now, I’m back home with Shadow snuggled on my chest. He told me off quite soundly for being gone. Now, however, I am forgiven. I will write more later. For now, a video.
Hello, Philly! I am in you. I had a fairly uneventful nonstop trip, and now I’m cozy in the house of my bestie, her hubby, their teenager, two cats, and a a dog. I’m like Dr. Doolittle up in here with the animals all over me. My BFF was a bit surprised because two of the three animals were usually reticent with new people, but they both took to me right away (along with the more gregarious cat).
Being with my bestie is like time has stopped and we’ve never been away from each other. This is a gift she gives me–and I appreciate it so much. With that said, I will not be doing much writing while I’m here, so have a video to enjoy instead.
General Housekeeping: I will be flying out to visit Ian today, and I’ll be there for roughly a week. In that time, my writing will be as I feel like it, not day to day. I’m tired as I did not sleep well last night (I never do the night before a flight), so I’m hoping to catch up on the planes. That’s my preferred way to fly, by the way, asleep.
Healthwise–I feel as if I’m catching something, which would not be ideal, obviously. Here’s hoping that I don’t get sick on my trip!
My webmaster was switching servers this weekend, so my site was down. That is why there is no real post today. Everything is fixed, and the schedule for the rest of the week will be as usual.
Now that Thanksgiving is done and in the bank, of course the whole nation turns its attention to Christmas.
*sigh*
Before I get to that, however, I want to rave about how adding twenty minutes of stretching to my taiji routine when I first get up and sprinkling more stretches throughout the day has really helped my back and my leg by extension. I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s amazing how my back pain has nearly disappeared, and the numbness in my right thigh changed into fiery hot pain in the upper thigh, then fiery hot pain just above the knee, and then back to numbness but to a much less degree. Then, after class yesterday, it was back to fiery hot pain, but only for a few seconds. In addition, we did the whole Solo Form (Medium) yesterday, and for the first time ever, I was able to do the whole form without my back hurting like hell by the third section.
However, my sleep is all over the map, which means I’m probably getting sick again. Which, you know, sucks. I’m so fucking tired from the minute I wake up until the minute I drop off to sleep. I also have this thing where if I miss the window for falling asleep, I’m up for a good long time. I was up for nearly twenty hours yesterday, not for any good reason, but just because I couldn’t fall asleep.
Now, let’s talk about NaNoWriMo. I said before it started that I was going to set my own goal because writing 50,000 words a month for me is not a problem. I was already writing 2,000 words a day for months before that, so yeah, I wasn’t worried about 50,000 words. I said I wanted to look into marketing and publishing, but that didn’t happen. I’ve decided I will set aside a different month to do it in. In that month, I’ll lift the 2,000 words a day requirement and focus on editing, marketing, and publishing. I’ve decided which novels I want to publish (one which is on my other website), but I need to do a little updating.
So, what have I been doing this month? Starting four different novels. I worked on the first one for a few weeks, then decided to shelve it. The second one lasted a few days, I think, and the same with the third. Then, I had a conversation with a Twitter friend, @NotSoSilentMajo, who inspired me to start something completely different. I don’t want to talk about it right now because I prefer to wait until I’m done with a novel before talking about it, but I can say it’s urban fantasy. I’ve never attempted fantasy before (though I love reading it), so I’m excited about it in a way that I haven’t been in quite some time. Thank you, @NotSoSilentMajo for giving me the kick in the (not-so-flat yellow) ass that I needed to get out of my rut!
Now. On to Christmas. Me when thinking about it (apropos because I dressed up as Yoko Ono for Halloween one year):
Hello. I am still sick with sinus issues, so I will not be posting anything of substance today. In addition, I was between phones late last week, which is why I didn’t post anything on Friday*. I’m thinking of doing an overhaul to my website in general, but it’s in the very nascent stages.
Just briefly: I made it to High Rank in Monster Hunter: World (finally!), and things have really opened up. I’m kind of overwhelmed by how much there is to do, and I wished I hadn’t wasted so much time in Low Rank. I fear I’m reaching burnout, and I’m only a third through the game.
That said, I really have to get out of the Dark Souls mindset of thinking that every monster I face is a boss. It’s not. I didn’t get carted once until Anjanath (Anjy), and I’ve only failed a quest by fainting three times twice. Once on Diablos (whom I call Derbler) and once on Kirin. The latter was horrid my first time because I brought the wrong Switch Axe to the fight. I mistakenly thought because he’s an Elder Dragon, he would be weak to dragon. He is not. Also, I glitched once at the precise time he was kicking me and got carted. If it weren’t for those two things, I would have had him.
After I failed the quest, I went back and maxed out my armor (yes, I had Level 3 Thunder Resistance already) and grabbed the proper Switch Axe (the one that does fire damage) and kicked some unicorn ass. That’s it. Actually, I bombed his ass into oblivion, and it felt good. I then watched someone else fight Kirin with a group of four, and I felt bad for Kirin. He’s a beast to fight, though, and he reminds me of the motherfucking ice area of DS II (DLC).
I’m up to tracking the old Rathian, and I’m not looking forward to it. I also still have to do the Power Couple (Rathian and Rathalos) and two other Rathians. That’s a shit-ton of Rathians, and I’m not sure I want to do it. I know the old Rathian turns into Pink Rathian, which is a higher level of Rathian. I probably should fight one or both of the other HR Rathians before taking her on, but, eh. I don’t know. I thought the HR Anjanath was going to be orders of magnitude harder, but she wasn’t.
Oh! Also, I’ve done almost everything solo so far, but I know I’m reaching the point where I probably won’t be able to do it any longer. I’ve been watching videos of people fighting the Elder Dragons (the real ones, not Kirin), and, yeah. Each fight is going to be epic. Also, I’ve come across Beetlejuice (real name Bazelgeuse) once, and he’s a dick. The Angry Pickle (Deviljho) was recently added in a patch, and I cannot wait to run into him (I can wait a very long time, thank you very much).