Happy Thanksgiving, everyone · 9:41am Nov 25th, 2021
I suppose it'd be in-character to steal culturally appropriate open my horizons by celebrating a holiday so many of my fellow writers and readers celebrate. You know, again.
What am I thankful for this year? Mostly the same as last year, I guess.
First and foremost, I'm thankful for my job. It's been hard work at times, especially recently, and I'll probably have to spend some of the holiday working, but I am glad to have the job in the first place. My employer's happy with me so far, the feeling's been mutual.
I'm thankful that I can now help pay the bills for my parents, especially when it comes to food.
I'm thankful that I can help my neighbours and family when they need something moved, or when something needs fixing that they don't understand. It's a big deal for someone with low confidence to be trusted with some things.
I'm thankful for the new stuff I got this year. My room is clean...er, than before, still a bit of a dust problem that requires more of a habit in vacuum cleaning but mostly it's been getting way better compared to other years. And no, this is not a Jordan Peterson-inspired resolution, I just want to be careful with my things after all the trouble I've had with hardware and dust.
What else is there to say? Work's gonna be rough for a few days, but hopefully it'll get better around December. Story-wise, the furry stuff has been the subject of a few thought-dumps, I might be able to start on that properly next year. Bastion trilogy story 2 is now almost finished, just needs two more chapters before the draft is done and I can start the consistency editing. I will try to final-edit and publish story 1 over the weekend, like I said earlier. I'm dumping the whole thing in one go, with comments disabled as before because... dang, I really do not want spoilers in the comments for this one, or any of the three stories, in hindsight. Did a tiny bit of Blender recently, environment modelling instead of character. Still got a lot on my list of things to do and not enough motivation or insight on how to do them all. Same with the physical and mental exercise: too much background noise of various descriptions to do either at the moment.
But yeah. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Sounds like you're doing a lot better, you should be proud