managed to catch a katakana error in a translation of something at work because I've been a nerd for this kind of thing since high school and happen to keep a kana book from back then by my desk. to all the little high school weebs out there, never give up!!! it's all worth it!!!!!

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

only recently found out that time management problems are an effect of dyscalculia, the more I read about it the more about my entire goddamn life clicks into place

fun new thing my new iTunes likes to do is automatically try to find album art, even for albums that already have perfectly good ones I put there. It'll throw up an error message like "iTunes couldn't find album art for Too Cool )))):" and i'm like yeah man that's cuz it was a mix tape from the 90s

Alysa Liu's gold medal performance keeps making me cry?? like every time I watch I start sobbing, tears rolling down my cheeks, not even entirely certain why, it's just so so good

pretty sure I lost access to my clip studio paint account, may just have to wait for a sale, suck it up, and buy it again :'3

finally worked up the courage to sync the iPod to the new computer, and yeppp most of my playlists were thrown into disarray. (⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠෴⁠ ⁠༎ຶ⁠)

Realizing why people get cameras to monitor their pets all day, I'm currently talking myself down from a panic spiral about one of the cats based on very little other than my brain going "wouldn't it be awful if he got into the string toys and hurt himself???"

So insulting how many times I see Adobe attempt to claim that Adobe Express, their Canva knockoff, can do even a fraction of what full art programs they're killing off can do. Like come /on./

There are a few cabinets and rooms we're not letting the cats into, but Pumpkin is especially good at diving in when we have to open them, and then once extracted will go wild for a few minutes scrabbling at the door to get back in. We like to say he's trying to have an adventure in Narnia.

now more than ever i call upon americans to please specify which Portland you're talking about

caught myself about to google "tarot cards" for a reference when I literally have a collection of them across the room from me

They both love sitting on this heater, but Pumpkin has the most extravagently sprawled limbs when he does

We adopted two cats last week! Meet Pumpkin and Zucchini:

i have the beginnings of a pluribus papercraft idea percolating. i think i need a bunch of smiley face stickers, hmmm

finished Pluribus! carol. carol you've SEEN the matrix. carol getcher head in the game.

mannnn i gotta get back to papercrafting

we adopted two cats today! bringing them home later this week, no good photos just yet. the anxiety is already setting in but I'm trying to push past that to how nice it'll be to have two lil guys hangin out with us

finished episode 6 of pluribus. aaaaaaa.

3 episodes into Pluribus and wow Carol is the most American person in the world

also: started watching Pluribus, spookyooky and thrilling and funny so far! I'd been well spoiled to the premise but my partner went in blind, I'm so envious

Tried Heated Rivalry but bounced off a couple eps in because, well... I expected more hockey? And I'm not a sports fan in any way but my dad loooves hockey so I guess a little of that rubbed off on me. The boys were pretty! I'm glad everyone's having fun! Not for me, I guess!

i keep having stress dreams about tight travel deadlines??? my next trip isn't for months, calm down, brain

jokes for myself only: I've been transferring files from my old computer to the new one using a flash drive. I like to give electronics ancient greek names. My first idea for the flash drive was Alexandria, as in Library Of, but that felt too basic. So I named it Boukephalas.

slipped on an icy sidewalk and went down hard on my palm and knee. then when i got home i accidentally kicked my other ankle trying to pry my boots off, then while cleaning my knee i bent down to figure out why the bandage wasn't sticking and cracked my head against the corner of a cabinet. ))):

not great to be averaging multiple "man, what are we even doing here"s per day this week

#Heraldecember2025 31 | Cold This design was actually suggested by my partner for "Apart" but I'd already drawn a lion I really liked, so I saved it for this! And with that, I'm finished with another #Heraldecember! I'm getting better at doing these on-schedule! I had a lot of fun :) #heraldry

#Heraldecember2025 30 | Garden Based on Rebecca Sugar's story about finding a stuffed animal lost in the yard which had gotten faded. It struck them that things change even when staying put. Because it's a childhood story, I made the helm a little felt kid's costume. #heraldry #heraldecember

Based my outfit around a pair of This Is Fine socks and Fool tarot card earrings, like I'm grump-bounding or something.

Tried to move my iTunes library over to the new computer and pretty much every step failed AND it kept me up later than I should have been awake, yaaaay

After a nice long holiday break I've reverted to my true sleep schedule and started consistently waking up at a nice cozy 8:30am. Tomorrow my alarm will wake me at 6. haha, i'm in danger ...

#Heraldecember2025 29 | Gold Referencing the phrase "selling shovels in a gold rush," a rather morally dubious but certainly lucrative way to actually profit from one. #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 28 | Road I'm fascinated by medieval pilgrimage imagery, I find it charming how they would collect badges along the way. These aren't based on any actual holy sites, though. #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 27 | Leopard The Latin says "Don't Play With Fire." #heraldry #heraldecember

accomplishments this year... made it through a Mystery Disease! never did figure out what happened, but at least my immune system calmed down about it. also went to Nova Scotia for the first time in almost 20 years, despite the political climate and my own body trying to stop me! ha!!

#Heraldecember2025 26 | Apart More ludicrous quartering! More!! This one really laid bare why you shouldn't have colors on colors, I filled out the braid on the torse in dim lighting and could barely tell the difference between the blue and green! #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 25 | Room Hey buddy, gonna put anything else on there? No? Alright... #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 | Talent A talent is an ancient unit of weight (it varied culture to culture, though) that eventually became a monetary unit as well. #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 | Ring Bellchoir handbells and gloves! #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 22 | Mandarin I wound up down a rabbithole reading about citrus breeds, which reminds me of quartered crests for royal family trees. So this is the lemon's lineage: a pomelo and a mandarin orange make a bitter orange, which is then crossed with a citron. #heraldry #heraldecember

love to spiral into a latenight rabbithole replotting travel plans the night before leaving, it's really great and fun (i think it'll be ok, one way at least. gggh.) officially making this tomorrow's problem.

lol they did the same thing on tumblr as on Halloween, where posts tagged with that holiday had a little jack-o'-lantern pop up when Liked. I assume anything tagged Christmas is supposed to bring up something xmas-themed, but uh it's. it's still a jack-o'-lantern...

the furnace company finally replaced the motor that was causing half the house to vibrate and was keeping me up at night making the baseboards buzz... but the new motor has a droning noise of its own and after only a few days that's driving me crazy too

#Heraldecember2025 21 | Yesterday When Paul McCartney was writing the song Yesterday, he didn't have the lyrics down for a while. Until he had it figured out, he would sing "scrambled eggs" instead. All I could think of when drawing this one. :'D #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 20 | Question hi one quastion hi i need to be loved AND i can't fuckin see in this helmet #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 19 | Exercise Even a triskele must keep fit! The Latin approximates "no pain, no gain." #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 18 | Alley A little bit inspired by Stray Cat Strut by the Stray Cats. #heraldry #heraldecember

#Heraldecember2025 17 | Man Man. Very amused that this is the only nonhuman helm so far but it was too funny a concept to pass up. #heraldry #heraldecember

The only time I watched A Christmas Story as a kid was at a YMCA winter break daycamp. We were all gathered on the rug watching when suddenly the counselor paused the vhs and announced it was swim time!! Ok kids let's go!!! The movie was left paused, Ralphie forever flinging the lug nuts in the air.

Took some time in the past few days to transfer my paper collection to the new ✨flat file✨ It'll take some getting used to, I used to store all my papers vertically so I could see everything at once, but horizontal is much better for them in the long run.