buttercup!

it doesn't have to be a big thing to be new. combine two ingredients for a snack you've never had before. open itch.io and play the first free game you see, or read the first free book. browse online radio stations. try a free demo on steam. catch up on a webcomic. follow an origami tutorial. take a different route on the way home. talk to someone you've been too shy to. watch a video on how to learn a skill you hadn't really thought about. identify one local bird. read a random page on wikipedia all the way through. listen to a local artist on bandcamp. play some new daily website game. read theory that you've been putting off. try a free art program and see what you can make in 15 minutes. experiment with a yoga pose. put your pillows on the foot of your bed and sleep like that for a night. stand on something you usually sit on.

started watching Dinotopia (2002) with friends

finally cracked open Sly Cooper and the Theivious Raccoonus

listened in full to some albums I'd only heard single songs off of

really enjoyed an album about worms

really enjoyed an album about cycling (there was a lot of music)

played the free steam demo of of the devil

and the demo of goodlands

learned how to make two kinds of balloon dog and learned a new respect for the balloon tying speed abilities of clowns

tried out the browser text game toby's nose

tried out the ellipsus writing program

moved a shelf unit to a different place because it felt better there

changed the color of my sheets when replacing them (cat induced Gaping Hole was irredeemable)

tried to memorize all the different meanings of different train horn signals

changed shampoo smells