I FOUND A SHIT TON OF MY OLD MUSIC!!!! APPARENTLY I WAS SMART ENOUGH TO BACK UP MY ITUNES LIBRARY IN 2008, SO I HAVE MOST OF MY OLD MUSIC AND PLAYLISTS FROM HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! IT'S SO GOOD!!!!!

Other good news: we're going to fucking Otakon!!!!!!! It's not really fiscally responsible, but we wanna go to the Studio Orange panel and see other Trigun fans and experience anime for a weekend. And then Liz's new job starts next Monday, so we'll be okay.

Other other good news: I'm using Otakon as an excuse to start stretching every day, so that I can be in better shape for a weekend of running around an anime convention. I know that I can't fix a decade of fucking it up in ~2 weeks, but I'm gonna do what I can!! I'm already feeling better :D I'm also feeling better mentally, and not just because I'm on my meds again. I think exercise is legit helping, which I fucking haaaaaaaate because it always works this way but still!!! How dare doing the right thing work?? XD

ALSO!!!!!!! We've been on top of updating our 2000s/LJ Trigun AU, as in we updated it twice this month. However, in finding old playlists, I had to discover that a huge chunk of one of the ones we made for the fic is basically the same as a playlist I made Pat in high school XD How could I have fucking known that the fanfic I'm writing to revisit only the best parts of my youth could possibly accidentally recreate things I made then? XD

Someone please shoot me though; why was I Hate Everything About You on nearly every fucking playlist I made back then? And why did I have Knives listening to it in the most recent chapter???? BECAUSE IT WAS POSTED BEFORE I FOUND ALL THIS MUSIC AND SOMETIMES BLORBO IS TOO REAL, OKAY, MY LIFE IS HARD!!!!!!

Life is going a lot better than it was even a month ago, though. So that's good!!!!! :D

I'm still without mental health meds, but at least I'm done with school for the semester...it didn't turn out great and I'm not really ready to dive into talking about it, but it's done.

This past week has been really productive around the house though!!!!!!! I've cleaned up so much!! It started because Pat found a FREE lovesac couch on craigslist, we drove halfway across the city to pick it up, and it revolutionized my bedroom. It's the size of our big couch in the living room, but since their couches are all sectionals, we split it into two small ones: one for the library and one of my bedroom.

AND IT IS LIFE CHANGING

Because of my shitty back problems, I have very few places I can sit. I can't stand around for long and I don't want to have to lay in bed to hang out in my own bedroom. But lovesac's couches are so fucking comfortable, I can sit on them for hours without being in pain. And now we have a small one under our window! And because of that, I was able to sit on it and, with the help of Pat, Liz, and Chi, go through ALLLLLL of our laundry that's been on the floor for months. OUR ROOM IS CLEAN. WE CAN ACCESS ALL OUR CLOTHES AGAIN!!!! IT'S SO NICE TO BE IN!!!!!

I also finally unpacked all my jewelry from when we moved in last spring and I feel so fanciful. I feel like I can actually accessorize what I'm wearing again ;w;

ALSO VERY COOL: Liz's birth father gave us a projector a few months back and now we can use it to watch anime on our bedroom wall :D




uhhhhh I'm on DW because 1) I haven't updated in weeks and 2) I'm procrastinating taking a break from writing/coding for the next chapter of Finding Hope Like Bleeding Cowboys at Destiny's Crossroads, aka "Gunsmoke High" aka the Trigun LJ AU. I have to make so many icons and I never want to code a playlist again and I know I will XD

Like I mentioned, I got my ADHD meds back but that doesn't necessarily help me with doing the things I had to do and instead helps me with...

well

Look, I got out of class early on Monday and decided that my time was best spent working an AO3 skin for an upcoming fanfic that Liz, Pat, and I are writing. tl;dr, it's a high school AU set in the mid-00s, aka when we were in high school, and it's going to be a multimedia experience. It's going to be told through a mix of LJ entries & comments, AIM chats, playlists, and prose.

But no one's made a good LJ work skin on AO3. Okay, look, someone made something that they called a LJ skin but it doesn't look anything like LJ.

So. I made my own.

AND IT LOOKS PERFECT!!!!

( some example images )

I even whipped up a tutorial so I could properly share it with everyone on AO3!!! I did no homework but I spent like 5 hours on this!!! XD I only have entries shared for now, even though I DID finish the comments. I just haven't written the tutorial part yet.

Oh, all the hovertext for images works, too. It's all based on LJ from 2005-2007 (ish) from wayback machine backups, old screencaps I have, and my hazy memories of high school. I'm just very please with it and oh my god someone please save me from myself. plz.

Currently working on an AIM work skin as well, but it's taking longer. It's just finicky :TTTT