#leni thoughts

Dear diary, Today I restarted my terrarium with a bio-active substrate, live plants and isopods! I'm so excited. Maybe I'll add a little land snail down the line too! I had mostly given up on trying again, but petco had a wonderful display and a very knowledgeable manager on staff and I'm optimistic! I also gardened with my mom, we planted the tomatoes, strawberries and the lemon cucumber in containers. We have a very dilapidated raised bed area on the property but I will need to rake out and deweed the gravel patio there, reline the raised bed, and cut back some forest growth... and I don't know if I'll have a free weekend for that before summer growing season is over. So we may not get that going until the cool fall plants need to be sown. We are mostly unpacked finally and we've built all the new furniture and shelving. My office is still a bit cluttered and we need to figure out how to cram a few more books some where, but the situation is very livable and confy. I cannot get over how cramped and unhappy we were at the old place! this place is big enough I often don't hear when I am called! I think we are at the point where we can start hanging up art!!

I had a dream that trigun had a bad live action movie adaption in the 90s and I've been thinking about it all day because it had the same aesthetic as the tankgirl movie. But Vash was played by young Cris Evans circa the Losers and he absolutely had the range in my dream but it made me laugh so hard when I woke up. (I am not a cris evans enjoyer this is crucial to the dream's potency) Behold: