J'avais des astres dans les yeux

Earlier this month I was so into writing my silly little fics. Got really into using Ellipsus. I like the drafting system, but it's mostly because I can log in very easily at work, teehee (nothing in there is explicit, it's all gen fic for now.). I even finished one! It's gonna get one last breathing room pass before it goes up on the website. My website that I did not forget about. Pssh.

Yeah, and then I totally didn't sideline fic to start playing Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (yes I did, and it's pretty fun). Then my friend got me into Love and Deepspace and I have no idea where all my time has gone. Life is a blur of sexy pixel men and little red diamonds.

I watched Grand Theft Hamlet with my friend and we went out to lunch after at a Vietnamese place I hadn't been to since 2017. It was still good! The movie/documentary was also interesting. I thought it would just be funny watching them get killed in GTA Online, but I rather liked their production of Hamlet in the game that we got to see. And I was very glad that it made my friend interested in Hamlet!

I have 15 books out from the library, but I cannot bring myself to start reading a single one (RIP). I did finish reading Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence in early April. Quite fun, I really enjoyed it.
I was doing the audiobook/text combo of A Court of Thorns and Roses in French, but Rogue Trader ended that too before it got blowed away itself. I ended up catching up on some comics I have bookmarked though. And just binged a really good one called Dead Man's Switch.

Even when my internet conked out for 3 days, what did I do? Lounged around with my phone's wifi (reading those comics lmao). There aren't enough hours in the day and I cannot get a grip on how easily distracted I am. I have half a crocheted blanket next to me right now. It's absolutely wild how I cannot remember anything I've done if I'm not journalling about it. Am I a goldfish??

Work has been a little stressful because one of the volunteers I am in charge of has suddenly started doing a real dog shit job and I'm like—I don't want to kick you to the curb, but come on bruh. I feel like there's very little I can do. And it makes me not want to take on more volunteers because look—I'm already having trouble managing this many! I wish I wasn't the sole person in charge of them, but I can't seem to work out any communication channels that will get everyone else on board. They see it as "not my department" yet are very eager to tell me when it's going wrong, thanks!!!!!! My best friend told me I need to be more of a bitch lmao. Other than that area though I've been having fun with the events and my other program, I love getting to let my theatrical nature shine.

Anyway, I was writing this to remember what the heck I've been up to all month. I really need to get back into journalling regularly.

A little update since it's been a month.

( The Three Rs. Readin', Writin' and Rvideogames )

Does anyone have any Spanish language media they'd recommend?

It doesn't have to be beginner friendly. I think it's time I finally start studying Spanish as seriously as French and Japanese (maybe even more seriously considering where I live). I can't keep blaming my Spanish speaking parents for not teaching me anything when I'm over here watching movies in French. I got to thinking about this because I shared that French song that I've been listening to for years and I never listen to Spanish music even though I've been dabbling in learning it :^\ So please share if you have any recs!

I caught a cold (yes, just a cold) so I've mostly been sleeping.

I wanted to get started on some New Year stuff already (starting resolutions in December as "practice" is a well-known thing right (⊙v⊙;) ). But I still have time to rest and mull over them in dreams.

In good news: I finished my GYWO goal earlier this month! Hit 240 days of writing on December 1st, yay! Now I must sign up again! I think I'm going to try a word count goal this time. The lowest one (75k) since, uh, I don't think I can actually make the jump to 150k (°ー°〃)

There's some other posts I want to make in my quest to use DW more and I want to figure out a new tagging system _〆(´Д｀ )
but they'll have to wait until I can breath through my nose again.
(I did already write a little post abt ME2 tho, so that went up.)

I finally really really ran out of bookshelf space. Even with all my books squished together and on top of each other. Even with a couple of vanity shelves on the wall with manga lining them. I have too many books for the amount of shelf space.

In 2018 I started reading Kindle books because I was running out of physical space. Started really utilizing my local library soon after that too. And yet, here I am two years later with no more space.
I even have a stack of books in the closet 😭

The last time I cleaned out my collection was March 2019 I think. I remember donating a brand new book that sucked to the library and I sold all my Vampire Knight volumes ✌ I have another bundle of books to give away, but world things happened. So that pile has been in a bankers box in the corner of my room since April :^\

I still need to buy a few more volumes of Kuroko's Basketball and I am absolutely buying the Blue Wraith omnibus in September. So I went out today and bought another bookshelf. Another bookshelf I am going to stuff FULL of books lmao. But this means I need to clean and sort through what I have once more. The donation pile may get larger. Out of all the books I physically own only about 30 are unread though so I think I'm doing really good on that front 👍

I worked my ass off to get my best friend the best birthday present this year ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

I bought her a Switch Lite, a year online, and pre-ordered her a copy of Animal Crossing! Her birthday was on the 4th and I was going to wait until the 20th to give her everything. Practiced my best shipment-is-late-I'm-so-annoyed story. BUT I just couldn't wait that long! I already planned this gift back before Christmas. So I gave it to her a few days before her birthday and she was speechless. Exactly the reaction I expected hehe. She had to stop herself from crying too, she is so cute and I'm so happy she loves her Switch (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

I let her borrow Pokémon Shield (she absolutely hates Fire Emblem and I only have those 2 games lol) and she's enjoying that too. I have no idea what that does to my save file, but I'm guessing nothing since it didn't prompt a one-save-only window like the older games. I guess save data is stored in the Switch? I don't mind if it goes either because that game was real fun and I'd play it again honestly lol. I only EV trained like 2 pokemon and had 0 shinys (ಥ _ ಥ) I think it's fine though tbh.

Anyway, I'm so excited for Animal Crossing aaaaaahhhhh!!!I'm 90% sure I can pick it up at ye olde gamestoppe where I pre-ordered them at 9pm on the 19th. I usually pick my brother up from his job around 8:40 too and it's really close to the store. If not I have the 20th off and I will be there when the store opens I tell you what. I'm so excited to play and glad I'll be able to play it with my BFF （＾∀＾●）

I've been waiting for December to be over since it started. Mostly because I'm looking forward to so much in early 2020.

( Jan )

( Feb )

( Mar )

That's all the stuff I've been excited for, for months! Since at least November. I wanna fast forward to the good bits, but alas I am not Adam Sandler in Click 😔

Whoah, I almost forgot to write today's post. Let's see, I applied for another job, got up to 3,600 something words in Camp Nanowrimo, went to the mall, aaaaaand played a lot of TS4 lol. Oh I was looking around the DA Reddit page too and thought up some new stories ideas. There's actually a lot of Dragon Age stuff I want to write I just need to get around to it lol.
As for the challenge itself, tomorrow's the last day. I don't think I'll continue to wake up at 5am everyday, it's actually a pain. I like being up in the morning, but 5am is sooo early. 8 or 9 would be better.

Whoah, we're halfway there, whoah-oh, living on a

I got sick as hell last night. So, I couldn't fall asleep and the I didn't want to get up because I still felt sick. I ended up just getting up at 10am which is still early compared to when I used to get up.

I tried to write today, but I wasn't feeling it. Maybe it was the prompt. I'm starting to feel like my writing is shit again, but ah. July's Camp Nanowrimo starts tomorrow though and I'm participating for once. I really should have had my outline for my story done already, but of course I procrastinated. I'll probably do one of those midnight writing things tonight since I slept extra. I'm only trying for 20,000 words so that's about 650 words a day which I think is actually manageable. Looking forward to it.

Day one went surprisingly well for having stood up for 24 hours.... I finally organized all my notebooks and videogames and read a little. ^{just remembered that I need to return my library books soon}
Washed and folded my clothes, did some squats, took a shower. I went and bought pizza for the family too. Check, check, check. Everything on the list.

As for the second day, I've already learned something valuable. You have to know what you are going to do at 5am. Or else you will lie in bed for about two hours reading twitter and manga. Tomorrow I should work on my outline for my camp nanowrimo project I want to do. ^{my writing tracker has been abysmally blank for a few days already}
What you do right in the morning really sets the tone for the rest of the day. In other words, I haven't done anything productive yet, wooh!