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To my delight, lately my insta suggested posts lately have been full of procreate tips. One such video I watched yesterday was how to create wiggly text on a video by making two panel gifs. Animation in procreate still seems out of my reach, but gifs… I have it a try. After initial success, my iPad started exporting blank white squares instead of the gifs, and the gifs got all blocky. I still…

After a few weeks of self doubt and thinking that anything I bothered to draw would be horrible, I finally got myself to do some drawing last night. So I drew my self doubt.

Can’t get this bit of advice out of my mind. From an episode of “2 Non Doctors” podcast, where comedian Liz Miele told fellow comedian Maria Shehata to combat anxiety before sets she should “update your filing cabinet of experience.” By remembering the many times she’s done amazing on stage, rather than the few that it’s gone poorly, she might have less anxiety. Slowly working on incorporating…

“Have a plan, from which we will deviate.” I was listening to a podcast that I enjoy and found the delightful quote above. Myq Kaplan was interviewing Mollie West Duffy (on his podcast Broccoli and Ice Cream) about her new book Big Feelings. I haven’t yet read the book, though it sounds great. But listening in bed the other night I had to grab my notebook and write in the dark the above…

Already fallen off the spring resolutions quite a bit, but telling myself that that is okay and I can recommit. So here we go again. Main thing right now is I really feel the urge to return to (almost) daily walks. Both physically and mentally I’m missing it. So I’m telling myself it’s not too late. I’m telling myself it’s not all or nothing. I’m telling myself I can continue to try to improve…

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is such an amazing movie. We watched it this past weekend and hoooooleeeeey shiiiite, I loved it! But I forgot to write about it right away and now it’s drifting away and I want to hold it so tight and embrace every ounce of it, but it’s smoke. Will have to rewatch it many many times. It is a story about life and death. About meaninglessness and what we give…

Today was Day 1 of teaching myself python. It was super fun, like a puzzle in how it has me thinking differently. Taking an online course, we’ll see how it goes, but I’m certainly giving it a strong go.

Did a bunch of cat doodles recently. Enjoy this one, it has a bonus haiku.

Been having a lot of half thoughts and feelings this week that I’ve had a hard time deciphering. Can’t make sense of my brain. I have a hard time working through things in my head, but have recently realized that I’m better at working though thoughts by talking with someone super patient or journaling. While my boyfriend is extremely patient, I’m currently not even having coherent enough issues…

The fabulous SlyTQ (SlyTQ on Twitter, patreon and twitch; Slybovyu and TQdraws on Instagram) has started creating images to be colored, so I obliged! she drew a beautiful flower which I colored in TQ themed colors and had a ball doing. Working on “it doesn’t have to be perfect” this week (and always).

This is not a critical review into the quality of performances, or anything else, of RENT on Fox; this is about the memories it brought up and the feelings I feel watching it. This is about me, not the show; not a surprise to anyone who’s read anything on here before.

When Rent hit Broadway I was starting high school, about to be swept up in stage crew and discovering new friends who loved…

I’m setting some numbers on this personally, but really, I just want to do more than I’ve been doing (or less, when it comes to spending). In my management training at work we were told that our goals need numbers. Just because someone improves, we were told, they could still be shitty at the task if they’re not hitting the goal numbers.

I’m giving myself permission to still be shitty next year,…