Rod Shark One

Moving Makes You Lose Control

If you forgot about this ear worm, you're welcome.

Skipping over the many highs and lows of the last few days, all I can say is that moving is ridiculous. The amount of forgetting that's been happening and money burning is totally balanced by how great I feel and how good the apartment is looking and feeling to live in. But this morning was another moment that reminded me that being an imperfect human being sucks. Because in my sleep deprived state, waking up to work I typed in what I remembered was my Mac's password and...it told me I was wrong. Fastforward 3 hours later, I got my CEO to help me get back in and we're all good. Now the boyfriend is anxiously trying to find his birth certificate for an upcoming DMV visit.

That's just how moving be. It's a necessary evil. An evil that will scramble your brain in the weirdest, most frustrating ways at exactly the time you didn't want it to happen.

Love my new bookshelves, though. Shoutouts to the boyfriend for working 3 hours straight in assembling them both!

Bookshelves

Todos

Work

Today I've learned that organizing is not something I can escape. Pantries need organizing and so do cabinets, toys, consoles, work schedules, and relevantly...important documents. Once I've gotten enough sleep, which I hope will be tonight, I'm going to put effort into organizing my important documents and also start backing up important data. I've done some of that lazily over the years, but I need to put more effort into it if my sanity is to last.

I still haven't gotten fully back into my work brain mode yet, but there's just too much going on in the apartment still to expect that of me. I just gotta do my best and not worry about how much better I could have done things, "If only I were..." yada yada. I'm tired of those thoughts, and they weren't really helping me get better anyway.

I am still excited to sink my teeth into information architecture, though. I'm giving myself a deadline of June to start the work of organizing the new support article help center at work. I'm thinking I can start it next week, though. Catastrophic anxiety attack not withstanding, that is. ...I think I used that term right... You know what, I'm not even going to check, lol.

Games

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As a house warming gift to ourselves the boyfriend bought us Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream. I had totally missed the boat on the previous one and screenshots of the game from social media made this new one look like a lot of fun for the creative person looking for a hands-off kind of game. I'm surprised by how much the game asks you to create off the bat as you're just having to make miis all the time to fill up your island. It feels like a strange middle ground of Animal Crossing and The Sims. Like a dollhouse simulator where your job is to make the dolls and the scenery, but the dolls are mostly autonomous. You can feed and pet the Miis like you would a basic virtual pet, but by far the most fun is seeing their reactions to how you set up their homes or when they meet their new neighbors. Being talked to like a god is also fun, but seeing the very human hand come up in game is always a little unsettling, lol. Obviously the boyfriend and I both made ourselves to put in the game, but we both decided to take different design ideas for each other so that we look a little distinct from one another's games. It'll be fun to see how different our islands become over time.

Tekken 8

A few days ago I streamed on Twitch for the first time in probably a year and had such a fantastic time. I don't think my community will stick around for all of the fighting game streams I plan to make, and that's a shame of course. But it's great to feel like I was able to find a level of fun I haven't felt in YEARS. The vod is up on my Twitch. All I can say is a big thank you to my friend Lennox and my boyfriend for helping me fix the stream issues I was having for an entire hour before I could make the stream possible. Lesson learned. Reset your routers, y'all!

If you want to watch the vod, I'll embed it here. But I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you start the link at 1 hour and 35 minutes in to avoid a lot of boring nothing.

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