Earworm: Aaliyah – ‘Rock the Boat’
Now Playing: Sprain – ‘Privilege of Being’
Christmas break, not bad!
Didn’t really get in contact with my family (I didn’t receive any messages Christmas day? They all showed up at one in the morning??) but hung out with Aubrey’s family for the long morning. Actual children! That was nice, I can’t remember the last time I was around kids on Christmas.
I was able to chill out yesterday and just hang; up later than I’d intended playing Minecraft for the first time (big plans!!!), touching up my eyebrows, and listening through “Bring The War Home” on 1.4x speed. Hell of a combo but I’m not mad I blazed through the book in a couple of days; all that shit is so sickening, and I don’t need to be memorizing the specifics of various racists’ careers. I do feel like I understand my bizarre dumb-as-a-brick former neighbor in Kirkland who ran his household on a military hierarchy a bit more, and why he had Galveston, Texas on the white power road trip itinerary he walked me through that one time.
Aubrey got me, apparently, every makeup/beauty product dupe that I’d mentioned in the past six months or so… the best present I’ve been gifted in memory! All the cloud paints, new rice cleanser, something else I’m not remembering right now, plus silk sheets! Honestly it’s such a gamechanger – I brush my hair, go to sleep (no cap, no braids), and wake up with a hardly-need-to-brush-it head full of hair.
What’s on focus this week..? Hm. Well I’ll be skipping out halfway thru tomorrow to go thrifting with a pal who’s visiting in town, and there isn’t much left to be done before the new year at work. Our new year’s plans are now attending a murder mystery dinner party as NPCs, which’ll be good to get Aubrey back in front of some theater people and in a situation where she feels more comfortable than I do; it’s nice to balance that back every once in a while!
I have a very important laser appointment the day before, which I intend to be SOOOO GOOD for!!! I’m gonna stretch that skin so taught and they’re gonna zap all the hairs I hate the most. It’s kind of amazing how the specific hairs I’ve felt the worst with are still there, while 85% of the rest of the hair on my body has gone AND the one area I already felt pretty good about (upper arms, shoulders) has actually grown more hair since I’ve started. Not gonna read too hard into that (I’m reading into it appropriately).
IDK, other than practical goings-on, plus letting myself get a little into Minecraft for a bit… I guess I just want to tidy up my personal cloud for the time being. I’m wanting to make just a few things work (reaction pics, books, text writings) over Google Drive. That’s what I’ll be touching on I guess! Anyways, let’s see if I check in again this week.