#update tbd

All we have left to watch is Andor, but we have to wait for Spouse to get home before we can watch it. I am so obsessed with so many people but I think the clones, just in general, are my favorites. God I wish I had a Wolfpack series.

Anyway, I'm trying to wait on Andor before I update my muses, but while we wait for Spouse to get back we've been watching other random stuff of D+. I have, for the first time in my life, watched Over the Garden Wall. I had a great time with that one. I've also discovered my absolute favorite adaptation of Sherlock Holmes ever:

They're so cute. The stories are so cute. I love everything about it aaaaaaaaaa. Not me considering picking up Watson, too. Man he's just such a cutie. Everything here is such a delight!

In other news, we've finally gotten our cabinets done and our kitchen put back together:

The days are bleeding into each other lately. For the most part, that's what's been happening to me. I wake up, have my coffee, and then just wait until Sibling wakes up so I can be told what to do.

We've been watching a lot of Star Wars. At this point we have watched the Prequel Trilogy, the Original Trilogy, the Sequel Trilogy, The Mandalorian, and 3 seasons of The Clone Wars. And it has been a bit of an onslaught of content, only broken up by crochet and scrapbooking and planning our next Disney Trip.

Aside from that, I've been doing a ton of cooking, and this interrupts a good bit of the time we're meant to be watching movies, so I'm trying to watch more later than I usually go to bed to make up for that.

Despite the fact I haven't been online very much, I'm actually kind of tired. 😂

I've also been spending a lot of time on @mystical-strawberry-sheep , just waiting for something to happen. I know that's not a good way to handle it, but it's much easier to post a few memes and then just wait while I watch these series instead of trying to split my attention between those and a more active blog.

Though let me tell you the deep desire I have to jump back onto @museflocked ! I miss my old men already!

I just also miss my girl!

Today I was in the kitchen basically all day, lol. I made some things I've never attempted before and I had a great success all around!

First, I baked bread! :) My last attempt at using yeast went really really bad, but it actually worked this time and I made a beautifully lumpy little loaf of bread! Bread has always been the most intimidating thing in the world to me, so being able to do this has really brought me a tremendous confidence boost in the kitchen!

Then, I made these little snacks from my 1950's Mirro cookbook. They're called Scotch Kisses according to the recipe, and they're like little butterscotch candies that you roll in powdered sugar. They're soft and chewy and really delicious! And a soft butterscotch candy! From scratch! I was so proud they came out good. :)

As soon as I finished that I got right to work making supper for today, and I managed to use just stuff that we had tucked away from our first dinner of the week and whatever odds and ends were in our pantry and it just felt really nice to just look at what I had and whip something up without needing a recipe right in front of me. It makes me feel like I'm learning, you know? My grandmother would have been so proud of me, I know it.

And maybe it is also that I'm consuming so much media lately. I'm trying to watch stuff to inform me on some rp partners' muses, but also since we are considering a trip to Hollywood Studios, we have been trying to binge watch the Star Wars franchise. That with my work feels like maybe a lot of information all at once.

But by God, I cannot allow this to stop me forever because like. Idk how long this is gonna take.

I hope I get better soon and feel more writing energy. I am. So excited about all of my new partners and threads and ships. It's all been so fun since I got back from vacation and I want to keep that going.

On more exciting news, I got this pillow with Mickey and Minnie on it years ago and unstuffed it and cleaned it up, then forgot that I had it. Well, I started restuffing and sewing it back up recently, and literally like the day of or one day later, I found this awesome full sized Mickey blanket at the thrift store. It was just so cool to get these in a usable state at the same time!

I'm back from Vacation! Let me tell you about it!

We stayed at the Port Orleans French Quarter resort, which we had heard was a nice moderate resort but really boring. But frankly, I loved it! I thought the theming was really tasteful and I loved the pictures up in our room. I had a blast with this place and always felt like I was coming home to crash for the night. 😂

We did two days in Magic Kingdom, and honestly, we totally crushed it. We literally managed to ride and experience absolutely everything we set out to and then some. :) I think my favorite show was Enchanted Tiki Room and my favorite ride in Magic Kingdom was probably Pirates of the Caribbean. I still cannot get over the show scenes in that ride. I really loved Tomorrowland's visual aesthetic the most though, and I got to meet Chip and Dale in their Cosmic outfits!

Our third day was in Epcot and we were all so dog tired by the time we got there that we barely managed to make it around World Showcase. 😂 But I met a ton of characters and I got to ride Journey Into Imagination! I'm so glad I finally got to experience that ride so I can officially start obsessing over Dreamfinder and Figment, lol. I didn't ride as much in Epcot, but I loved Journey and Spaceship Earth, and I had a great time on Living with the Land after our dinner reservations. We went to Disney Springs on our checkout day, and then we had a long but peaceful ride home. :)

As soon as we got home I got right to work putting Dreamfinder on my muse roster, lol. I'm sad I got to miss out on him being in the parks, but I'm happy I can finally feel safe learning about and portraying him. :)

I'm trying to get my schedule back in line now, though that's difficult because Sibling is on their summer break. The saving grace is that they're working their PD right now, so they're still gone a lot during the day. It's been a struggle for my animals, too, who were all in boarding or being sat by someone that doesn't run on their usual schedules. Marbles keeps coming down in the middle of the day to get me to feed her. 😂 We're struggling a little, but we're slowly getting there.

Oh! Also! My new phone case came in while I was out, so now I have a little lamby case! :)

It's exactly my aesthetic and it makes me so happy. :) Little lamby for me~

So first of all, we are getting right down to the nitty gritty for our Disney trip, and our preparation and excitement for it is amping up considerably! It's admittedly keeping most of our attention as we get closer to the day. :)

I've done more artwork for my autograph book, and now I only have like 2 images left without ink and color. But I'm super proud of how these have been coming out!

I've also been busy helping Sibling get their band room clean for the end of the school year, and while it was super hard work, I did get to keep some of the kids' clothes that were left in the lost and found bin. 🤭 I only had to repair one and the rest were easy to clean.

Another very exciting thing is that we! Found this VCR at the thrift store! For $6!!! IT WORKS!!! I have never been quite so excited for a piece of tech before. I was even more excited about this thing than the next, which is...

New phone! I did lose some apps that I really cherished, but overall I'm really happy with it. I was carrying an S10 before now and while I desperately loved it it had started refusing to keep a charge. I couldn't quite charge it, either, because it wouldn't hold a charging cable all the way. The cable would just fall out of it. So, alas, I had to retire my S10 right before the trip.

On that note... Does anyone know a kaomoji app for Android that lets you paste and save kaomoji...? I can find plenty that will let you build kaomoji with pre-selected parts, but none of them seem to have a place where you can just input ones you find around on the Internet.

First thing's first: I've been doing lots and lots and lots of cleaning! I'm trying to get my room and my house spick and span for our visiting pet sitters when we're on our trip. I've just about got it all worked out at this point, I just have to be sure to maintain it for the next month and a half, and I also have some sweeping and mopping and waxing to do.

I have also been spending a lot of time just walking. Walking laps and laps around my backyard trying to push myself to walk more and prove to myself I am physically capable of walking a Disney day. And guess what!? I did it! Yesterday, I finally hit the 20k step mark, and I am so proud of myself~

Also in addition, we have been going out shopping a good bit here and there to try to slowly collect our essentials when we get the chance and have the extra money. It's been sporadic, but we've been working hard at it. :)

And in between all that, I've been spending time trying to set up my Autograph book!

I got a Sakura multimedia sketchbook and I decorated the outside of it:

The pop-up element on the front is to make sure the title tag can be there and not get in the way or the band that closes the book. I think it looks super cute, too. My autograph book isn't perfect and it's very eclectic and busy, but it's colorful and fun and I think that's what I want my Disney trip to embody. :)

Inside I've also started making up sketches. I started with characters I know I'm gonna meet and am now working on characters I hope I get to meet. Once I finish all of the sketches, I'll line and color them in various ways.

This is just a small selection of some of the ones I'm working on. Chip 'n' Dale share a page because I refuse to separate them. These are all in the corner and fairly out of the way to hopefully give the characters plenty of room to work with, and I think it'll be fun for them to see pictures I drew of them when they're signing for me.

Minnie is the first "not sure if I'll see her" character, and I'm still in the process of working on her sketch. I'm doing an 80s look because I just think all of her 80s outfits were so cute.