I am so exited that it’s February because I always book at least a week off work and this time I have two weeks 🎉

I mean birthdays are great and all but two weeks of doing my own thing aaaaaaaa

Starting the month with better vibes than I managed in January and also wearing my favourite sweater to work today

that is a gorg sweater

spiciest: thank you! It was sold out when I discovered it existed so I had to play the waiting game for someone to sell one and now I want to wear it always

omg that sweater is amazing and you look amazing in it!

manifesting good vibes for february

that is such a cute sweater waaaah

Thank you both!!! 🥰

I totally stole this idea from you, though not the birthday part, that was my own

Ahh, Whittys favorite sweater

samame: I mean our timezone overlap kinda means I stole your birthday anyway lmao
It’s the best sweater so Will had to have one while I was searching the whole internet to get one

Went out to eat for a friends birthday and this whole not drinking as much in my 30s things has turned my tolerance to absolute garbage

Me in my plotting plurk: I’m gonna do so much stuff on Friday
Today: woke up depressed, one of my games is going into endgame, tired all day

I just want to do hobby things, I just want my brain to let me do the things

stupidly went to bed at 1:30 last night and surprise surprise I haven't wanted to do anything today, so. FEEL U

metalheads: I’m trying to be gentle with myself because I haven’t had a day in my pjs on the couch in two weeks but UGH

Be gentle with yourself. pj days are needed sometimes. But I also feel that frustration. Why can't we tap into being able to write when we want it?

samame: it suuuuucks but tomorrow is a short day so maybe I won’t be so wiped after it

Another day off where I’ve done absolutely nothing
We’ve been curled up on the couch rewatching Hazbin Hotel again

Oh boy work was not fun today and Sleep Token tickets got botted so bad Bea couldn’t get them

But my friend got their leave approved so we’re gonna get to hang out more than we thought we would on my birthday trip and I get to go to see the National Galleries Van Gogh collection ✨

Van Gogh So jealous

samame: they have one of his Sunflowers paintings and I’m so excited to see it

I love his flowers

samame: same, I love that he also loved sunflowers because they’re wonderful

HAD A WEIRD LATE PRESALE EMAIL AND GOT FUCKIN SLEEP TOKEN TICKETS

Oh also I made breakfast food for dinner to try and cheer Bea up before I managed to get the tickets
(Didn’t dry the tofu enough before cooking but whatever it tasted good still)

Also I found another really good Running Up That Hill cover to add to the hour long list of them

todays dinner was spaghetti arrabbiata with vegetarian meatballs

Put more chilli in than usual but it was still real good

Who knew the cure for waking up to depression was to get up, leave the house, do two easy chores and shower..........

Anyway the laundry is on, the air fryer drawer is as clean as it’s gonna get before I’ve researched if it’s safe to use abrasive cleaners on it and I’m clean and moisturised

Going outside was to pick this up coz I got it for less than half price 🥰

omg I haven't done makeup in so long and yet I need this palette

metalheads: it’s so beautiful, it’s my fourth Naked palette because they’re my faves

yeah I've gone through 3 different naked palettes before, they're one of my faves

Oh man! Which ones?
I’ve got 1, cherry and ultraviolet

I think it was just 1, 2, and 3. oh, and heat as well

Oh heat is so nice!!! Bea had it and let me share

I loved heat, the coppery tones are perfection

Other good things today Noah Kahans final version of Stick Season dropped so I’ve been listening to that all day

oh i like the sparkly ones

rick bud and rustler especially

TwentyEightStabwounds: I’m considering getting up early enough to use some of them tomorrow for work instead of being lazy because I wanna try Cowboy Rick out

Amazing what standing in the sun can do for a bad mood, I don’t feel as shit as I have all week and all it took was a cig break in the sunshine

sunshine is a proven mood booster in most folks it's true

TwentyEightStabwounds: it worked for half a day and then the existential dread returned but thank god it wasn’t just dark and/or pissing it down all day

Decided tonight was a getting the paints out and seeing what happened night
Inspired by the set leaks we’ve had because Stranger Things is still rotting my brain

Not finished because it got to the “too many wet layers” point but eh it was nice to get my acrylics out and do something 🤷🏻‍♀️

love this!

samame: thank you! I have painty hands now but it was fun to mess about with paint again after uh... two years

Did the really pressing Koby tags today!

Also dyed my hair, cleaned the drains and washed my Kanken (it’s all very stained but at least it’s not gonna get on my clothes)

I keep wondering if I’m not being productive enough because I wanted to engage more with hobbies and I’ve just watched TV and messed about on my phone for a week but I probably needed that

And I did also paint and write fanfic so that’s doing something

That is so productive! Hobbies are for leisure time, but there are other ways to leisure about.

samame: yeah true! I think I just started feeling bad because I wasn’t doing my tags or the really pressing stuff (the drain in the bath was so blocked 💀) and I’d been trying to convince myself to fix my hair since last week and also read a book from my Christmas book pile but yeah, didn’t happen yet

Well, you did more in a week than I managed in a week, so bravo.

samame: you’ve been working!!

But I mean I did write a shitload of fic at least (and I feel less burnt out than I did this time last week)

I am admittedly super biased but time well spent

Real clothing!! Not pyjamas!!!

I was gonna take a picture of my cake because me and Bea went out for coffee and cake but I shoved it in my face too fast to think about it lmao

We decided to do something little because London trip tomorrow but I’ve had a good cake day so far

Happy Birthday!!! I hope you have an amazing time tomorrow.

samame: thank you 🥰