Just as a test, here I am, spending today’s 30 minute lunch break trying to answer a writing prompt.
What are your favorite brands and why?
It should go without saying, but: what follows will contain spoilers for the most recent Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
For starters, the movie is great. I enjoyed many parts of it. There’s a lot of fun to be had with these characters, and honestly, if I could include needle drops throughout all aspects of my life, I absolutely would. The diagetic aspect of music in all of these movies has been one of my favorite things, especially as someone who grew up with a fondness for movie soundtracks.
However.
The end of January is staring me in the face, and I’ve got one blog post to show for the month, so this is my effort to disrupt that narrative
After several abbreviated trips around our apartment complex, we finally took our snowshoes out for a more extensive walk. Everyone who I’ve spoken with about snowshoeing has recommended Beltrami County’s Three Island Park, we’d never been there, so it was a pleasant discovery for the both of us. We had some surprisingly nice weekends in January, and it was a gorgeous day to walk beside a running river while there was still a bunch of snow on the ground. It also helped that we didn’t have to cut a trail, or worry about getting lost since we kept running into people no matter where we were.
I had such grand intentions when I originally wrote this post… back in July of 2022. And then I got all paranoid and just didn’t come back to finish it. So, here’s this thing that I wrote, almost 6 months ago. And I’m hoping to make a more concerted effort to post here going forward, now that Twitter has lost so much of its appeal. I still don’t know what this place will be for me, but I know I do better when I’m writing, even if it’s a dead-end blog no one else will bother to interact with.
I finally finished Portal on July 16, 2022.
After looking back through my emails I found the receipt from the day I first ordered it on Steam: June 29, 2018.
To trace the origins of this purchase, I blame someone on Reddit, who suggested Portal as the best game a person could play to learn how to use a video game controller; specifically for those who had done a majority of keyboard gaming, and wanted to make the switch. Why did I think I needed to learn how to do this? Because, I happened to be watching someone play games on Twitch, and it looked like they were having fun. Why was I watching this random person on Twitch? Because at some point, I listened to their podcast, and started following them on Twitter, where they regularly posted about streaming, to the point I finally decided to check it out for myself. (I could continue further down the rabbit hole of how I wound up with this game, but it gets convoluted with references to True Crime and V.C. Andrews)
When we moved upstairs and gained a balcony, I’m pretty sure Ivory’s first plan was to figure out how to turn it into a garden. My hope was to attract birds, at some point, because everyone (cats very much included) in our apartment would enjoy watching them.
Spring/summer of 2020, we went full-out container gardening, with limited success.
03/03/2004 – 05/20/2022
I’ve had something of a tradition of writing to get through grief. It’s been a while since I last did it, literally 2006, so, 16 years I guess? The last time, it was in the midst of an ending and saying goodbye to someone. This time, it’s after the fact, and the grief feels partly raw and unmanageable, and somehow old and ingrained within me in a way I won’t ever shake.
