Today’s deck is the Indomitable Spirit Tarot.
Fun fact: One of the Jungian archetypes is The Horse. It’s supposed to represent freedom but also the wildness that comes from said freedom.
The deck is fine, but I’ll admit I thought the name of the author was Tick Tack and I was ready to scream.
Today’s reading comments that in moments of indecision, I should fall back onto trusting my gut feeling about what’s best for everyone.
I woke up right into needing to put out a fire.
Something I like doing is checking the stats of the Uma Musume blog. Not even to do any analysis, I just find it fun to see the topics ebb and flow, especially since I don’t play on the english servers so I can see who got implemented by a sudden spike in a specific girl I wrote about.
Yesterday before sleeping I did notice the stats page didn’t load, but my internet can get capricious with very specific things sometimes so I didn’t think much about… at least until I woke up to someone sending me an email that the posts were 404ing.
So I log into the server provider, get to customer support… it was all pleasant and even swift until they tried to sell me an SEO booster plugin.
Ma’am, I write that shit to NOT think about SEO and reach, thank you. Not to mention the reach is just fine as-is.
After that was done I moved onto doing other stuff and almost died.
…okay, I’m being hyperbolic, but it’s still an “I almost died” feeling like when a car drives a little bit too close to you or a knife falls and you avoid it just in time.
What happened was that I continued to move stuff from one room to the next, and as the containers piled up I had to use a step ladder, always going up just to the second step.
The pile of containers grows and I need to use the third step. Everything is fine until in a fraction of a moment of distraction I step down thinking I’m still in the second step and trip.
Thankfully I held onto one of the shelves and also thankfully they’re made to withstand a quake so they withstood my clumsy ass.
What would’ve happened if I didn’t hold onto it? I’ve learned to stop thinking about what ifs in those situations and just prevent it from happening again.
I did move onto clearing the area that would’ve been in the path to my fall, though. I’m not foolish enough to ignore a sign when it comes.
After that whole episode I decided to move onto sorting things for the trip. I was checking which outfits I could bring for which girl and the more fits I found the more it felt like I should bring one of the big girls, but I still want to have a photo of Luna and Sol in the snow so I considered my plan of going to Rokko Snow Park.
After those considerations I definitely had an outfit for Luna but not one for Sol so I figured fuck it, let’s go to Nipponbashi to the doll shops.
I found some, got recommended some more, and suddenly the idea of bringing Luna and Sol with me to the trip was back on the menu.
The main thing is the math of the days I’m gonna stay.
Nominally I’m gonna be out for 7 days, in practice since the ferry leaves almost at midnight it’s more like 6 since I can have a regular day and then leave. Then of those 6 days 2 are spent entirely inside the ship so I’ll be spending 4 days in Hokkaido.
On principle I like to pack as many outfits as the amount of days I’m staying. Even if I don’t use them all that leaves me extras for the next trip already prepped and such. So for this one the minimum is 2 per girl which I met after going back home.
Speaking of which, I wasn’t done for the day because on the way to the shop I got the wildest bout of hyperfocus I’ve gotten in a while.
I wanna make pickled veggies.
Not eat them, make them.
I blame the audiobook on salt I’ve been going through for washing my brain. I was in the train and without really making any correlation to the audiobook I was like “you know, I’m gonna be out for like a week, it’d be super rad to just leave a bunch of pickles in the fridge and they’re ready when I get back”.
So I bought some veggies and extra jars and while confirming some detail or another I saw a rescipe for one with carrots and daikon and oh man I gotta try that one also.
I’m no stranger to pickling, I have two favorites in fact.
The first is a bunch of boiled veggies from cauliflower and broccoli to carrot and bell pepper pickled in the broth they produced while boiling. It’s shelf life is shorter but it never really gets to last that long.
The second is a bit of a me thing where I pickle garbanzos in a mix of vinegar, cumin, and garlic. That one is basically my replacement of a different legume whose official name I don’t know but I always saw as “chochos”. Even back in Venezuela it became tricky to find them and after experimenting with things like beans, garbanzos were the closes approximation.
But yeah, this time I’m basically just experimenting around, chopping in different ways, adding different garnishes and such.
I also just like the idea of a treat other than bills waiting for me when I get back.