Today’s deck is Cardamom Dreams.
Lots of decks being added to regular rotation lately. No complaints though. I love the Luna Factory ones, but for regular use I prefer more flexible card stock, so having that on a deck full of cute girls is nice.
Today’s reading kinda feels like it’s reflecting on the same tinges of self-doubt when it comes to skill and work that I’ve felt recently. Essentially telling me I’ve been overthinking it.
A while ago I finished Steve-O’s second book and there’s this part where he talks about “abundance mindset” vs “scarcity mindset” when it comes to entertainment fields. Of say… stand-up comedians that become very judgemental and anal about newcomers or whoever’s making the rounds instead of helping them with their craft because they think in terms of there being a finite amount of audiences or whatever.
it’s not really related to the main thing I’ve had in mind (it’s a bit too nebulous still to tell you all WHAT exactly I’ve been thinking about) but it IS something I’ve thought about a lot, especially when I see people get really annoying about someone copying VA-11 Hall-A for whatever reason.
Anyway, onto my day. I had plans from the get-go today. There were gonna be new doll clothing releases today and I was gonna be there.
The main focus was some swimsuits, but also more importantly:
I don’t know yet which girl this fits best but I need NEEDED it on principle alone.
The next hing is that… you see that sign to the left? Some dolls on display have that and you can basically buy the display model, clothes and all. Though they come in two varieties, one where they’re like “you can go to the custom doll counter and get this exact same look” and “you can get this specific doll”.
There was exactly one with the body I had been looking for and I figured hey, I’ll get her and the face is cute so I’ll put her in another body.
When paying the cashier told me that he was happy because that specific doll had been on display for so long without picking her.
Well damn, this is meant to be, huh?
On the way back home I saw a shelf I liked, it was the exact kind I was thinking about for the bookshelf room I’ve been remodeling, so I make notes, buy toilet paper and kitchen tissues, and go back home to take measurements.
It was the exact fit after I built the other bookshelf that had been cooking in front of my house for like two months now.
I go back to buy it and make the space to build the things, and being that deep in I figured let’s be done with the bookshelf also, why not?
The measurement wasn’t as exact as I thought because I forgot to account for the plastic border on the floor, but it wasn’t a big deal, that just meant that a nearby closet was opening a door 90% instead of 100%.
Something that helped was that while I was doing that I was listening to Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald, a dramatization of the Enron scandal from beginning to end. And it was funny that the time it took me to finish building both things was the time it took the book to go from the Distressingly Fucking Around part of the tale to the Industrial Amounts of Finding Out of it all.
I’ve stopped watching those youtube channels that profile Reprehensible People You’ve Never Heard Of because honestly any biographical book about any industry is just That but I don’t get interrupted by promoting sports gambling websites or VPNs.
The book was good! Though it killed me that any time the audiobook narrator wanted to be dramatic, his “OH MY GOD!” sounded EXACTLY like Mike Stoklasa.
After a while I was done and now I had to dispose of a LOT of cardboard and that’s where one convenience I discovered a while ago comes into place.
Behold!
You might be wondering what the hell this is.
Simple! It’s a metal spike that you unfasten from its safety/holder and pierce the cardboard into it.
This has saved me so much time and sanity, you have no idea. It’s such a simple device too.
By the end of it I collapsed on my bed because with hyperfocus gone I became aware of my body again and my feet and legs were KILLING ME.