I just got back from a 4-day stint in Canada to visit charming and fantabulous Nyar and It is kind of insane how going on vacation will make me come back suddenly filled with Resolve like "I AM GOING TO LEARN PIANO" and "ALSO I AM GOING TO START PAINTING WITH REAL PAINT" and also "I AM GOING TO WORK OUT AND GET FUCKIN RIIIIIIPPED" I think this is a sign that I need to go on Grand Adventures more often and not just save it all for Big Vacations because this Resolve is a good and fun thing to have in life and I would like to have more of it indeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed

My fucking calves hurt like a bitch though because I am your standard model car brained american and I don't fucking walk usually...I love and adore the public transit in Toronto but all the walking kills and murders my untrained leg muscles. I mean we also went to a rave on Friday and they played actually good music so I lost my shit harder than I have in like 8 years probably, thus murdering and killing my untrained leg muscles even harder. But I had FUN so fuck my legs 8] (this is what filled me with Resolve to get more exercise)

We also went to an art galleryy and it was very fun and cool (this is what filled me with Resolve to paint with real paint). I was particularly enamored with the use of color in the shadows (especially on the white dresses) in Picking Flowers by Helen McNicoll (pictured below)

In all styles and mediums, I am always a sucker for blue shadows... They had postcards in the gift shop of various gallery pieces so I nabbed one of this painting so I could study its colors... (The gift shop sadly did not have a postcard of another wonderful piece Nyar was especially fond of, the title of which escapes me but we have colloquially dubbed "Fat Fucking Owl".)

There is MORE exciting stuff I did in Canada that I will probably write about later but it is getting late ("late") so this will mark the conclusion of this blag post. Stay tuned for part II. Maybe.

I have had an extremely busy week despite taking some time off of work, because I have MANY THINGS I WISH TO ACCOMPLISH OUTSIDE OF WORK...it seems as though work is always getting in the way of me doing what I want, but also I want to have money to live, so work I must.

Anyways DRAWING!! CHARACTER DESIGN YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I will not elaborate at this time.

I recently started playing Skyrim again (I will often go on a Skyrim bender where I play every day for weeks only to put it down and not touch it for months, repeat forever) and perhaps due to my heightened attention span thanks to Vyvanse ( thank you stimulants💜) I have been paying a lot more attention to the small details this time around than I did like 13 years ago when I first played this game.

Part of the small details that I pay a lot more attention to now, is books. I actually read the books. Do most people read the books? They should because there are interesting details in there. On the topic of books; I was in Whiterun, running through the streets and into every house, casting Pacify on everyone I saw because I was trying to level up my Illusion stat. Many of the cityfolk did not like that, but they were Pacified so what were they going to do about it?

Feeling bold, I went to the castle (or whatever the Jarl's house is called??) and cast Pacify on him, his servants, his son, everyone I could find. I cast Pacify on Farendar (I am writing his name out from memory so I might have fucked it up), the Royal Mage or whatever he is. He also did not like this. I think he needs to lighten up. It was then that I noticed a book on his desk with a title I have never seen before; (and this is where I would type the title but I straight up do not remember it, it was something to do with the Jarl's Holdings) Said book mentioned a town called Granite Hill, "just north of Falkreath" that apparently holds a weekly market. And I was like DUDE WHAT I have never seen such a place. I want to hit up the weekly market! I need more places to sell my 500 potions and 300 poisons. (I dabble in a bit of Alchemy).

So off I went in search of Granite Hill. Some of you may already know where this is going. But in case you don't: There IS NO FUCKING GRANITE HILL!!!!!! I was doomed from the beginning, because apparently it was planned but cut in development. As are many things in Skyrim. The original province of Skyrim in Arena (the first Elder Scrolls game) had quite a few cities and settlements that didn't ultimately make an appearance in TES V: Skyrim, and I only know this from looking at the map from Arena online and going HOLY FUCK that is a huge fucking map.

It makes me ponder upon the idea of playing one of the really old Elder Scrolls games eventually. I played both Morrowind and Oblivion when I was too young to really know what I was doing, so it would probably be fun to replay one of those at least too. Daggerfall and Arena both seem intriguing but there is a non-zero chance that they are just uh...too retro to handle, yannow. As it is I would probably need to set up a dos emulator to even run Arena.

It's fucked up how many people seem to have misunderstood "Don't cite Wikipedia as a source" to mean "nothing on Wikipedia is true". Anyone can edit and add whatever bullshit they want but literally just check if there is a source and follow that. And if it's a reliable source you can even cite that lmao. But that would also require understanding the concept of a source which is another thing many people seem to struggle with.

I randomly had to urge to listen to a bunch of Dougal & Gammer tracks because I have always really enjoyed their particular flavor of UK Hardcore, and I realized I haven't sat down and gone through their discography since like 2017 at least probably? Is that almost ten years ago already? Fuck me dude. Sheezus fucking Christ.

Anyways, a lot of their music has this delightful blend of frantic/goofy/cool going on (I guess you could describe it as "playful") without going full shitpost memecore. I enjoy it very much.

Personal Recommendations:

The Tunnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcXcUcLe6Fw

Happy Hardhouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTa2zRjT-Tg

(I was going to add more song recommendations but I got distracted and forgot but if you like that you should google them and hear more it's fun stuff 👁 > 👁 )

This is entry number #1!!!!!!!!! It will serve as a test entry! Actually never mind I lied, there is a previous "entry" I made before I even started trying to set up 11ty to make my blag page. Well anyways.

I bought one of those massage gun things and this thing is awesome. I beat the everloving fuck out of my feet with it and I feel rejuvenated and revived. Pro tip though don't use it on your neck (bad idea) I also went to the grocery store and there was already easter candy on sale....is easter actually soon? I never remember what month it actually is supposed to happen in.

I saw a gif of CUTE BABY DUCKS while getting distracted from working on this and it made me want to find a duck pond nearby. I should go to a duck pond...

I went grocery shopping yesterday and found these ROOT BEER POWDERED DRINK MIXES...and I love root beer. But like. You are supposed to just mix these with water? That shit is going to be flat. What the fuck is the point of flat root beer. It was then that I realized...I could purchase CLUB SODA (plain carbonated water) and then mix the powder with the club soda thus making REAL CARBONATED ROOT BEER... And I just tried some and it's pretty good. YIPPEEEE (it's a bit flatter than root beer from a can or bottle though but I'll live)

Holy fuck it's happening. The ultimate nesting microblog. I have the power to shit up a whole timeline but it's my shitted up timeline. This is awesome. This is sick. I am discovering new frontiers in oversharing online. (Or am I simply re-discovering them? I dunno man)

CAN'T STOP CAN'T-C-CAN'T STOP (WHUT)

I KERP CLOGGING THE FUCKING WORK TOILET

YIPPEE!!!! 🌟