November 17 & 18 2025
Mood: 😎 | Ate: Cinnamon roll | Drank: Latte | Listening to: All We Know by Paramore
Last night I stayed up fairly late working on my current project. I wrapped my head with plastic wrap and duct tape to make a pattern for a balaclava. I made the pattern and cut the fabric and spent a couple hours sewing it together. It turned out really great! Earlier today I added some final touches and now that phase of the project is complete.
The next phase will be making the wire frame for the face shape. I started making one before I made the balaclava, but the proportions are all off so I have to start that over. Working with wire is very frustrating. Tonight after work I am hoping to tape the pattern pieces back together to make a dummy head so I have a solid base to work on. It will also be good to store the mask on it when I'm not wearing it so it won't lose its shape.
I didn't finish the entry so I'm just continuing it into the next day okay cool
Last night I successfully made the dummy head. I stuffed it with grocery bags and newspaper until it was firm and held its shape. Then I glued a couple pieces of cardboard to the base of the neck to make it stand upright. It worked out great! Now I need to get started on the wire frame. I'm so nervous about it ahahdhdhd
The fur I ordered got here yesterday and it's so soft. I'm so excited to eventually be able to wear the mask,, head,, hood. Y'know I'm not really sure what to call it. I'm not making a full fursuit, just the head and handpaws. I'm not really sure how I'm going to make the handpaws yet, but I'll figure that out later.
November 13 2025
Mood: Listless | Drank: Not enough water | Ate: Leftover mac & cheese with tuna | Listening to: The Resistance by MUSE
Woke up with another headache today -_- Probably didn't drink enough water yesterday or something. I'm feeling so burnt out from work right now, I cannot motivate myself to really do much. So I'm just doing about 20% effort today. I just really wish I could leave early, I wanna smoke weed and play Dredge.
I started a new playthrough in Dredge yesterday, I don't really remember when I last played it. Probably earlier this year over the summer. Dredge is one of my very favorite games right now, the art style is so cool and the music is so good. Fishing in the game is so peaceful. In my first play through, I didn't really pay too much attention to the fishing spots getting depleted,,, I would fish all of them until they were empty,,, This time I am trying to be much more careful. I did accidentally overfish a couple of spots because I wasn't paying enough attention,,, I love the exploration of just sailing around to the different islands. All of the characters are so interesting too, even the ones that only show up one time and then are never seen again. The way the music changes when you catch an aberrated fish is so chilling, it gets me almost every time. The way you can kind of experiment with the gameplay is also really interesting, like in my first play through I was curious about what would happen if I honked the fog horn at the flock of crows so I tried it and it scared them off!! It was so cool to discover that. Now whenever the birds show up, I honk the horn at them immediately and they don't even get a chance to steal my fish >:3
I don't remember the photographer from my first playthrough, did they add her later? I haven't done that side quest just yet though. Man,,, I really wanna just go home and keep playing.
November 11 2025
Mood:
| Eated: A piece of toast with buter| Drinked:Coffe with sugar & cream, water, fruit punch powerade, choccy milk| Listening to: Pale Horse by Chevelle|
I had a headache earlier today, but it seems like it's finally fucking off thanks to the multiple different painkillers I've taken. Feeling so bored with work today and really just wanting to go home and continue working on my project. I recently started working on fursuit head of my character Dia. Right now I'm working on the wire base, but I have to buy more wire and start over (actually maybe I have enough wire left over, I will have to look when I get home) because I made the proportions wrong. I need to drawover pictures of my face to get a better idea of the size and shape of the base. This is the very first time I've ever made something like this so I am very anxious about how it will turn out. I want it to turn out well because it's something I've wanted to make for a few years now.
The faux fur should hopefully be arriving in the next few days. Since the holidays are coming up and I will have a little more time off work, I should be able to make a bit of progress. I hope I can finish it in time to take some nice photos wearing it around in the pretty winter snow.
I'm trying to decide and figure out what I'll be doing next month over the holiday break off work. I really want to visit my brother and friends in Utah but I also really want to stay at the lodge that my partner and I stayed at last year. I gotta figure out what we'll be doing,,,, Since my partner got a new car a couple months ago, we could probably drive out to visit. Going on a long road trip in December kinda scares me though. I really wish the train wasn't so goddamn expensive now cause I really would prefer to go by train.
Since I woke up really late today with a headache, I had a rough time getting ready for work which means I didn't pack any food. I stopped at the store on the way to pick up some powerade, coffee, and a half gallon of chocolate milk. I've already drank most of the chocolate milk in leu of having food. Unsurprisingly I am really hungry and super irritable. I have two hours left of my shift and the backpack vacuum is putting me into a blind rage. I think the backpack vacuum might be the actual worst part of my job, I hate that thing so fucking much. It's heavy, it hurts my shoulders, it sucks, and the power cable tangles and snags on EVERYTHING it touches. I cannot wait for work to be over so I can go home and work on my project, it is all I want to do right now.
I recently started playing Hypnospace Outlaw again. I played it a little bit a couple years ago, but didn't get very far. This time around I'm getting more into it and definitely getting inspiration for my site. I love the look and the sound design of Hypnospace a lot, it's so nostalgic even though I was not really online at all in the 90s. I was just barely born in the late 90s so I didn't go online until probably 2003. I missed out on Geocities and personal sites, but I am really glad I get to experience Neocities now. I want to keep working on my site forever pretty much. I have a lot of ideas for what I want to do here, I want to share the music I like, publish my comic here, and talk about all my rapidly changing interests. So stick around if you're curious.