Yeah, I'm all in favor of excuses to buy kilts, but mushroom hats with swish stoles are better.     Yes, I'm down for the cicada. Cicadas should go to Ren fairs this year. And I'm also liking the firefly gear. The LED tape on the legs works. I think all three of those are leveling up your grasshopper design.     I've been pondering non-showgirl solutions, and I wonder if a very structured cape wouldn't do it... off each shoulder, a "wing" of draped fabric, meeting slightly lower than yer classical hoods, over a longer "tail" of fabric.   The closest I can come to pictures of what I'm thinking is the stylized doctoral hood on academic robes, descended from the medieval academic robes. Only, like, without the arms and stuff, just as a cape. Could be a hood, could be a decorative swag. As a decorative swag, it could probably be optionally tugged forward over the front of the shoulders as a little capelet to keep warm but not full cape warm, not that this will be a big issue in August.     Only in white, navy, and light blue stripes, obviously.

I wanted to post a cute photo but apparently it's now my bedtime??!!  

Energy   #1 Sleep - Well. I sort of realized I might have made a slight miscalculation. I based my goal bed time on the time I want to go to bed, completely neglecting to take into account that I keep waking up at a stupid 5-6 am because of the light. Traitor body. I admit defeat and will set a new goal to be in bed by 11 pm. It's still not enough but it's a semi-acceptable compromise for now. #2 Hydrate - My average was up by almost 400 ml from last month! But then I ruined it by running out of coffee, evidently a significant contributor to my hydration strategy. #3 Don’t wreck myself in the gym - This is getting ridiculous, but I still haven't been. I followed up last week's needle stabbing incident with a mysterious ankle pain. Gym restart must happen tomorrow!   Environment   #1 Web blockers - I've been experimenting with different strategies and in the end I settled for Cold Turkey on my laptop and Taskfulness on my phone/iPad. Taskfulness is really cool, wish it would work on laptops too. It's not aggressive at all, in fact it doesn't even block anything. Instead it makes you go back to the app and state a reason for wanting to go on distracting platform of choice. If it's a good reason it gives you a green light, if it doesn't like your reasoning it might suggest doing something else. I almost never get to that part though, the question alone is enough most of the time. #2 Use music - It's surprisingly difficult to remember considering how often I listen to music. #3 Go outside - I'm still getting reactions when I go outside for too long so I've been less keen on this strategy.   Emotions   Energy management and emotions really go hand in hand. I've been very tired and unmotivated, but as soon as I got a good night's sleep I'd want to do things again. But then I do things in the wrong order. When I have high mental energy I go and do physical things and then run out of steam. Or spend it in planning tasks or research until I run out of time. Or I use up creative energy on my parents' website instead of using it for myself. This shouldn't be as much of a problem as it is, but when I'm either low on energy or I get interrupted and have to reset all the time it makes it hard. Once I get into it it's not a problem, starting is the hard part.   Things I’ve done A lot of social media marketing research Watched the climbing olympic qualifiers Played a bunch of Hades (feel more or less done now) Sorted through more of grandma's stuff. I'm going to call it done now. That's about it? Feels lame. I've been very tired.

Hello, police? This lady tried to murder me with her joke. No, yeah, she straight up killed.     This. Bullshit beach cotton tunic and utility kilt or cotton capris was my look every year until I had a crafting fit and made the Mushroom guy costume below with some thrifted curtains wrapped around amazon boxes and bubble wrap. Also thrifted fabric paint. Turns out low income area charity shops tend to have great craft supplies. 🤷‍♂️ Anyway, no, never going back to straight guy basic renn faire costumes.         Okay okay okay, things just got interesting. My region is having a record double-brood hatching this year in cicadas, and a possible costume for the local cicadas inclue:   Then we have the lighting bug, and the readily available battery pack fairy lights possibilities:    

I'm so grateful that you're seeing a therapist who is genuinely helpful with all of this. What a hard conversation. So much love to you, Harriet. *hugs*

I've no clue. I feel so lost, I'm just avoiding the question altogether now. My best plan is to, umm, panic when my money runs out? I not only don't know what I want to do when I grow up, but I also have a huge confidence issue because I fail or quit everything after a month or two...   It turned out he was only there for a short moment and I missed him anyway. I don't mind. I don't remember him at all. All I know is that I very occasionally played with his daughter when I was a kid, and I don't even remember that. 🤷‍♀️   Nope, it really isn't. Then I feel guilty about it.   Huh, must be remembering wrong. It appears I have homework to do. 😄 Do you have a favourite album?

It probably is a good exercise for rock climbing. And sigh, just for life skills, but I'm horrible at them so I hate them.

This week I started a slow ramp up out of my deficit. I'm at a 400 calorie a day deficit. I wanted to go one week longer at the 500 calorie deficit, but I could tell I was getting burned out. I wanted to stop while I still had the  will power to do the slow ramp up. edit to add: I lost about 3 lbs and an inch around my belly, so I'm pretty happy . Nothing huge and dramatic, but I do fit better in my clothes. I'm not sure how long I will stay in maintenance before I try another cut. Some things about summer make a cut easier, some things harder. We have no big summer vacation plans, so it might be easier to do a cut then in the summer

Fuck. Glad you're ok!   Wish I had something useful to say. This is heartbreaking.

Im going to dump cicadas i to the suggestion box. They come in all the funky colour mixes (i am only deopping 2 in here or it will be picture city). Also have very cool wings that could be made with some clear plastic and paint.