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Cats & Ladies Crafts of the Week

September 8th, 2024

I'm still spacy today, but having a decently productive morning regardless. It required a lot of work last night, since I'd managed my time badly during the week, but I did finish another round of cat-crafts and girl-crafts for last week! The cat was a surprisingly tricky (for me at least!) origami model, from instructions at this link on Instructables. I kept having to bounce between the written instructions and the video, but I'm pleased that I finally got it!

The cross stitch is of Miwa from Jujutsu Kaisen, which I remain too zoomed in on. The pattern is by DiscoveringArdna on Etsy, and after loading up last week, I still have a lot of her little anime patterns to make!

As for games, I scored a Wii balance board yesterday, which is good in that it allows me to exercise in increasingly outdated and dumb ways! It actually worked a lot better than I thought, though. Walk It Out! is the only game I have for it so far, and once I figured out that the balance board prefers the tile part of my floor to the carpeted part, it worked extremely well. I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes with more traditional fitness games.

I kept flailing at the event that's running in Magical Circle Guru-Guru: Stardust Adventure, too. I do not believe for a second that I am going to get the event-exclusive character, but I am getting a better grip on the game's systems and how they match up to pieces of the G123 games that make more sense to me. Leveling up just seems so much slower than this one in the others, and I can't figure out if it's just nastier about its pay to win bits or just scaled differently.

I also played two extremely bad runs of Balatro. It wasn't bad luck. I was just tired.

September 1st, 2024

I'm starting September with big allergies, but equally notable cheer! My first thing for today, I went back and forth about posting, but ultimately decided it would be fun. Right now, I'm trying to make use of the many, many craft supplies I have gathered, so I decided that I wanted to do at least two crafts a week- a cat themed craft and a girl themed craft for ease of sorting. To start, I just did two tiny cross stitches from an Osamu Tezuka pattern book yesterday, making the first cat of the week Jungle Emperor Leo/Kimba the White Lion and the first girl of the week Pinoko from Black Jack! They're little quickie projects for sure, but I'm still really happy with them. It'll be fun to do more!

I didn't play a ton of games yesterday, since I wasn't at home. I played Space Battleship Yamato: Voyagers of Tomorrow on my phone for a little bit, which was a good chance to shut my brain off.

I also did another of the 15-minute exercises in Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star in an effort to wake myself up. It didn't work, but I gave it a shot!