may gratitude

Time is sliding sideways. May's already over! Only a month until Artfight! Get hyped!

1. ringing in the new month by getting back to drawing. sup bunnyboys
2. making a new batch of navajo flatbread, v satisfying
3. ART, what a bro
4. thanks to my roommate for putting my lunch in the oven while I napped before raid. corn dog + chicken bites, classic raid food
5. Hades EX defeated! o7 Emet-Selch we will Remember
6. UPS guy came with my insurance documentation WHILE hgr was doing the survival card on his winning run of the Irisu fight. it's raining good things
7. woke up early and played some rabi-ribi. used SECRET MOVEMENT TECH to get into an area I wasn't supposed to be in and beat a boss I wasn't supposed to meet. I am one of the cool kids now
8. hit arena rank 427 with Seida/Leoniaz/King (my previous record was in the 800s). Leoniaz OHKOing the enemy Neun never gets old
9. brownies!
10. woop finished a preliminary draft of Kinney. prog son
11. melanie WENT TO THE OFFICE and got my draft of devlin thanks!!
12. EMMEL GET
13. perfect day: sunny, blue skies, crisp and cool and windy
14. chocolate cinnamon pancakes!
15. oh cool we have levels now. my journal is level 10
16. another load of groceries from Mom and Dad! highlights: Korean BBQ sauce, Mom’s homemade ribs, chocolate cake, an industrial-sized tin of hot chocolate (Dad: "it was on sale"), and ofc lots of meat/fruits
17. also I was wearing my mask wrong and Mom showed me how to fix it (there's a wireframe at the top you can mold to your face so it doesn't slip off your nose)
18. RAID DAY ruby weapon EX defeated
19. a chill but productive day. played a bunch of rabi-ribi (miriam is destroying me), finished the statement of facts, cooked a burger for lunch and potato blob for dinner, journaled, did orbonne with newbie
20. Miriam defeated!! took HGR's advice and used an ATTACK build. defeated her at the end of her ougi while Miru was still out
21. finished my work project (shortest project ever, nothing to see here) and we have no new ones so VACATION
22. so I was writing up a long goodreads post. by habit, I hit ctrl-a-c before I hit post, and then the page crashed. it's okay! I had the whole post saved on my clipboard! habits pay off
23. lucky friends! that's a lucky Psystrike Mewtwo for me and a lucky red Gyarados for my alt
24. (it ended up being a one-and-a-half-day vacation, but hey! I'll take it! weekend tomorrow)
25. let's appreciate just how fed my pogo alt is. in normal times, he spins two pokestops each weekday, at the mall with wi-fi on the way to work. he rations those pokeballs and makes them last. now he's rolling in resources from home
26. shiny ziggy for my pogo alt!
27. AND a wild scraggy for the alt. this boy on a roll
28. taking a walk at 9 pm. (this is a quarantine novelty. normally I wouldn't go out after dark, my neighborhood isn't great. but I can go on my balcony anytime.) it rained all day and is still dripping now and the air feels so fresh.
29. beat hgr's score in 1wall6targets lol
30. also beat Rabi-Ribi on normal. blobs do it every day
31. woke up at 9:30 am, rolled out of bed, and immediately CALL FROM BOSS. glad I was awake! (I should probably start sleeping/waking earlier haha)
32. and she says I did a great job on Kinney woo
33. finished my first real ISOMETRIC pixel art. cute pink corner shop
34. it happened again: someone paid for a washing machine and then left it for the next person to come along (me). thanks bro
35. also let's appreciate how much less laundry I have to do these days
36. memento banner discount ticket: got Rebecca's swimsuit and Alma
37. also my arena loss streak is OVER, Regulus Zain went five-for-five today
38. kicking back on a Friday afternoon, drinking a hard root beer while working on the statement of facts. can't do this in the office
39. KCF gave me hiveswap act 1 woo
40. freshly baked chocolate chip cookies!
41. einkorn's so hyper today, that's the fourth batch of berries he's brought me
42. attack on titan, great stuff. just started season 2. [redacted] in the walls??
43. seedot community day (lol): caught shinies on my alt and main within the first 10 minutes. well, great community day!
44. (ok more seriously I caught six shinies on my main within 90 minutes so I stopped. also I got a shiftry to pair up with baelsar's wall for little league matches)
45. memorial day!
46. reached battle rank 4, finally got my Stunfisk. Bael doing good work out there
47. Einkorn evolved into Conkeldurr! thanks to Niantic for a week of double buddy candy, plus remote raid passes for Timburr farming
48. lmao these m3 mercs "captain scott mitchell" "mattias nilson" "captain price" (and they REALLY do the alphabet soup thing, like captain price can bring the M4A1 SOPMOD or the SCAR-H with the ACOG scope)
49. night walk on my balcony with a torrential downpour outside. sticking out my hand to feel the rain
50. slept early and woke up early and took a shower. I'm SO refreshed
51. this Thai red curry ("blue elephant") is SO GOOD. I got it by coincidence (the curry paste I ordered was out of stock, so Wal-Mart substituted it) but I'm definitely getting it again
52. productive day, felt good to be making progress even if it was mostly boilerplate
53. yay the pogo quarantine bonuses got extended another month
54. also OOF made it to rank 5 in little league!
55. spent over an hour walking on the balcony today. super nice out and not too hot
56. finished The Diviners today, which makes three books read this past week! good to be out of my reading slump