Well, its been longer than I wanted it to be between entries. Again. All of June and half of July. Whoops. Sometimes life gets like that I guess. Lets see. Plague is still on. Whoops who saw that coming?
Funny enough today is the very end of the Cat Genie saga that started in my last post. *crossing fingers* That's been a fucking saga and a half. I spent a couple days, almost a week trying to fix it to no avail, which was frankly unsurprising since it just hit the 3 year mark and the warranty is 2 years. I think I went through the stages of grief with thing thing. Denial--trying to fix it. Anger--oh yeah I was pissed. bargaining-- let me tell you I spent days researching cat genie replacements. And acceptance. I bit the bullet and I bought a new cat genie.
Not before spending $100+ on a litter maid of course. You want my advice? Don't buy one of those. The whole place stank of piss for weeks. I have never, never appreciated my cat genie as much as I do right now. Its the difference between a flush toilet and an open sewage pit. And yes I was cleaning the litter maid the recommended amount. Spending a fortune in cat litter too. Oi. Ordered the new cat genie at the end of the week and it got here yesterday. It was especially easy to set up because I just used the cpu and cold water intake that I still hadn't manage to unhook from the first one. (we have some.... plumbing issues... that make taking it apart difficult. Planning to address those soon but I just couldn't deal with it while still dealing with the cat piss crisis.
Concurrent to the cat genie saga, some other things happened I guess. Serpent and I spent the entire month of June playing a 200 hour long video game so that was a trip. I'll detail more about that another time because it certainly deserves its own post.
I basically haven't touched animal crossing since May, on the other hand. I've logged in a couple of times here and there and I tried out the new diving mechanic, but for the most part I'm burnt out on it and I'm letting it, and myself rest. I'm really glad that you can't have villages move out when you're not playing or I'd certainly be neurotic about it.
While we were gaming over June we took a break from both Somnoma and Danganronpa 5, which we're both just starting to pick back up. We got some great art commissioned of the main characters of DR5 too, from a favorite artist.
I haven't drawn much in the past month or so-- almost at all really. Its been a confluence of things. Mostly deviantart launching eclipse. Not only does it look horrible but I get almost no response to any art I post any more. Data shows that site traffic is down at least 60%. Its really discouraging honestly.
I have done some writing though. I wrote an anthology fanfic for AO3 that I'm slowly adding chapters to. Its smut. *shrug* its easy to write without thinking about a plot and it gets clicks which are what I need right now.
I don't know if quarantine has been weighing on me as heavily as everyone else but it certainly feels like it. I've seen my best friend exactly once since March. I think its the longest we'd gone since seeing each other since our high school falling out. Maybe not really, but its felt like it.
Its fucked up because I also feel deeply antisocial and insular lately. I want passive positive attention but I don't want to have to expend any effort to interact. I know I've put some distance between myself and some online friends. In fact a former rp partner resurfaced out of the blue and all I want to do is hide.
Minute to minute I feel pretty good, but I guess when I put it all together I'm kind of emotionally rough at the moment.
Serpent and I have gotten into fishing in order to fill the void of going out that we usually have. Its been nice, a bit fruitless. But that's okay. The heat's been kind of getting in the way though. So far its been a hot HOT HOT summer. And I don't do well in the heat which is probably contributing.
Two weekends (weekend of July 4) ago they were opening up a little more in our area, and I couldn't take it any more. We drove an hour away to a state park, and we have our first fishing outing-- but we also went in the outdoor public pool they had. Its one of the safest things you can do right now, assuming you do stay away from other swimmers (which we did) but my anxiety has still been acting up over it. The next day we went to the Niagara Aquarium (tiny little place but fun), fully masked and disinfecting our hands every few minutes. Again, a lot of fun but I still feel anxious about it. SIGH.
Going to try (again) to update this more often. Have some pictures of our couple of times out.
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