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Month: January 2026
13 Moons Reading Challenge, Update #1
I love to read. It has been a fantastic, well-honed coping mechanism for the last three and a half decades plus for me. thankfully, I did eventually wrench out from the works of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Edgar Allan Poe.
So what is the 13 Moons Reading Challenge? Read on, dear friends!
Continue reading “13 Moons Reading Challenge, Update #1”Of Laundry and Loving an Idiot
14,808 Days Alive
1 Closet Now 2/3rds of the Way Cleaned Up
The photo you see is me taking a step back from my closet. I haven’t really been able to bring myself to actually start this project until pretty much earlier this evening. I’m going to keep working after this and my initial discussion board post for school this week. After that, who the heck knows what’s gonna happen.
Take your meds, folks.
Of Mount Clean Clothes and a Manic Upswing
14,807 Days Alive
1 Closet in Desperate Need of a Clean Up
The photo you see is me taking a step back, looking at the monster hellscape that has become my closet, and nearly crying.
I’m going to tackle it today. Pray for me.
And take your meds, folks!
Of Buttered Popcorn and Bold Choices
14,806 Days Alive
$23.87 Spent at the Movie Theater
As I mentioned last night, Lucian and I went to the movies this evening. Yes I am absolutely exhausted. I am also in a wonderful mood even though my left hip is screaming in pain from the stupid bursitis and sitting still for too long.
Continue reading “Of Buttered Popcorn and Bold Choices”Of Dance Magic Dance and Damn
14,805 Days Alive
102 Minutes of Labyrinth Enjoyed with Rose
$23.87 For a Large Popcorn, a Large Drink, and a Pack of Twizzlers
Okay, first things first: seeing Labyrinth in an actual movie theater with Rose was awesome! I made Rose absolutely lose her mind with laughter at the noise I made when I saw the price of a movie snack combo. Like, that’s maybe a dollar less than what it cost to feed Lucian, Brian, and I on a Taco Bell run.
Continue reading “Of Dance Magic Dance and Damn”Of Moon-Days and Movie Theaters
14,804 Days Alive
40th Anniversary of Labyrinth Being Released in Theaters
5 Quarts of Water Had Today
2 Books Chosen for the 13 Moons Reading Challenge
So. Tomorrow after work, Rose and I will be going to see the 1986 puppet-riddled masterpiece of cinema that is Labyrinth. Fun fact: it premiered in the UK a day before I turned one year old. Still love it, though.
Continue reading “Of Moon-Days and Movie Theaters”Of TheraIce Masks and Thorough Exhaustion
14,803 Days Alive
56 Days Until I’ve Been Alive for 15,000 Days
0 Books Chosen for the 13 Moons Reading Challenge
Well, I know this is going to be late to post because I am currently hiding in a dark room with the “ice hat” on. (Edit: called it! I slept till 1030 Wednesday morning.) I also call the thing our “hawk hat”. Whatever you call it, it is helping. Between the TheraIce frozen hat thingie, my usual cocktail of migraine meds, a full-sugar Coca-Cola (for the first time I don’t even know how long), a zero-sugar Gatorade, and a bit of drive-thru food, I hope I can get over this quickly.
I had to leave work early because of my stupid, pain-riddled body. Ugh. Just the lovely, ever-continuing adventures of the malfunctioning meatbag, I guess. I’m going to try and get some rest after I drink more water.
Take your meds, folks.
2026 Reading Challenge #1: The 13 Moons Reading Challenge
I want to read a LOT more in 2026. Why? Because I do.
Look, I get my escapism from the flaming dumpster that is the current reality in a few ways. The most prominent is absolutely the consumption of media, be it the written word, music, making or enjoying art, podcasts, and visual media (aka the television). I am chronically ill. Currently, I am carefully juggling three part-time jobs, schooling full-time as well, am writing both a queer, magical realism fiction novel and a nonfiction treatise regarding homelessness. Admittedly, I have an absolutely terrible sleep schedule and often need to meditate, breathe through waves of pain, and/or read for a few minutes to an hour waiting for medication to kick in well enough for me to sleep. Also, I just genuinely enjoy reading.
So what is the 13 Moons Reading Challenge? Read on, dear friends!
Continue reading “2026 Reading Challenge #1: The 13 Moons Reading Challenge”Prompt Answer: Biggest Challenges
What are your biggest challenges?
Sadly, most of my challenges are either financial or mental health related.
Of Starlight and Stretching
14,800 Days Alive
2,236 Days Straight on Duolingo
It’s a super moon today, the first full moon of 2026. There is also some kind of meteor shower thing that I haven’t bothered to go outside and look at. I’m so, so tired of being in discomfort, and pain, and unable to focus. I am doing my best to keep going. I’m doing yoga as often as I am physically capable of doing so. Sleep is elusive due to pain and discomfort; I fell asleep after 4 AM this morning and I assume that Sunday will be more of the same.
Take your meds, folks
Of Trims and Tacos
14,799 Days Alive
I have not had the best start to the new year. We aren’t even three days into 2026 and I’m already feeling emotionally concussed, mentally exhausted, and physically over-wrung. The haircut I tried to get it was completely unsatisfactory. The drive home even worse. It’ll get better, right?
Take your meds, folks.
Prompt Answer: Positive Impact
What relationships have a positive impact on you?
The people that have had the most positive impact on my life have been my chosen family members. That also occasionally does include genetically related individuals that have not fallen far off the family tree. But mostly it is a chosen family village across the continental US and across a couple country borders.
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