IN:

• self-care and educational app streaks (finch, duolingo)
• an 'everything' journal
• the farmers markets (they STAY in)
• pokemon on the 3ds
• kimchi and sauerkraut
• anime
• holding myself close and listening to myself

OUT:

• ordering uber eats all the time
• tiktok and its vile henchmen (reels, shorts etc.)
• the scarcity mindset
• evening plans (I AM SO TIRED)
• red onions
• oversharing
• caving when my boundary is pushed, instead of staying firm

jan

• kimchi
• love & deepspace
• my new pochacco pet sticker roll alex got me for christmas
• fisk
• sweatpants

feb

• world of warcraft pet battles
• crocs
• joshua from seventeen
• strawberry protein up n gos

mar

• hello kitty island adventure
• bts solo albums
• homemade cookies
• concert films

apr

rafayel <3

• gem affection (5☆)
• your fragrance (5☆)
• daybreak's touch (4☆)
• rainbow strokes (4☆)
• hidden shadow (4☆)
• myths (4☆)
• radiant heart (4☆)
• entwined (4☆)
• when light falls (4☆)
• thinking (3☆)
• social occasion (3☆)
• perfect smile (3☆)
• invitation (3☆)
• troubled (3☆)
• quick sketch (3☆)
• whatcha doing (3☆)
• trump card (3☆)
• lame party (3☆)
• not angry (3☆)
• backlight (3☆)

started on 24/09/2023

native fruit: oranges

- villagers -

• iggly (penguin; jock)
• cherry (dog; sisterly)
• eunice (sheep; normal)
• merry(cat; peppy)
• norma (cow; normal)
• curlos (sheep; smug)
• o'hare (rabbit; smug)

• animal farm - george orwell (112 pages)
• ✔ the great gatsby - f scott fitzgerald (144 pages)
• ✔ narrative life of frederick douglass - frederick douglass (96 pages)
• frankenstein - mary shelley (166 pages)
• orlando: a biography - virginia woolf (134 pages)
• chronicle of a death foretold - gabriel garcia marquez (122 pages)
• the prince - niccolo machiavelli (164 pages)
• ✔ black beauty - anna sewell (118 pages)
• the souls of black folk - w.e.b. du bois (174 pages)
• twelve years a slave - solomon northup (199 pages)
• ✔ songs of innocence and experience - william blake (56 pages)
• ✔ the little prince - antoine de saint-exupery

WORD OF THE YEAR: embrace

• I embrace what I can do today
• I embrace what I am like over what I feel I 'should' be like
• I embrace my feelings
• I embrace change

• ✔ pokemon x (3ds) - finished 2025.02.09
• love & deepspace (phone app)
• world of warcraft: dragonflight
• wingspan (phone app)
• everdell (phone app)
• hello kitty island adventure (switch)
• cozy caravan (steam on pc)
• ✔ minami lane (nintendo switch) - finished 2025.03.09

• fisk season 3
• jujutsu kaisen season 2
• ted lasso season 1 (rewatch)

warband achievement points: 1195

solo

tavami (lvl 75)

• race: dracthyr
• class: hunter
  • specialisation: beast master
• professions: mining; jewelcrafting

ceriphia (lvl 65)

• race: draenei
• class: shaman
  • specialisation: elemental
• professions: herbalism; alchemy

ilixan (lvl 70)

• race: pandaren
• class: hunter
  • specialisation: beast master

• georgina
• georgie
• jordan
• julia
• sylvia
• judy
• patricia
• nicole
• sasha
• tasha
• bridget
• emma
• virginia
• jacinta

• bottle rocket
• rushmore
• the royal tenenbaums
• the life aquatic
• the darieeling limited
• ✔ fantastic mr fox
• ✔ moonrise kingdom
• ✔ the grand budapest hotel
• isle of dogs
• ✔ the french dispatch
• ✔ asteroid city
• ✔ the wonderful story of henry sugar and three others

• it's not about happiness, it's about serenity and curiosity
• it's not about doing the most or doing it perfect, it's just about doing it
• keep! shit! to! yourself! at! work!
• adults don't know better than you about everything. you literally are an adult now
• over-explaining just makes it harder for people to hear you
• showers always help with emotional overload
• you like working out and you like waking up early and staying up late is the fucking worst
• there's no objective measure of being too much or too little re personality, it varies depending on what other people feel like in the moment let alone in general
• find the ease a la yoga w adriene
• i have real agency and responsibility for...

friends i'd love to have come live on apricity

normal:

• fauna (deer)
• gala (pig)
• gladys (ostrich)
• goldie (dog)
• daisy (dog)
• ellie (elephant)
• maple (cub)
• savannah (horse)
• skye (wolf)
• sylvana (squirrel)
• tia (elephant)

cranky:

• gonzo (koala)
• bruce (deer)
• butch (dog)
• chief (wolf)
• lobo (wolf)

habits:

• duolingo
• finch app
• official app
• flossing
• journalling

goals:

• read 12 books
• lose 10kg
• improve my relationship with myself
• improve my physical health enough to return to full-time work

• caramel - puku okuyama
• adult children of emotionally immature parents - lindsay gibson
• running on empty - jonice webb
• picnic, lightning - billy collins (reread)

• nimona (2023)
• cunk on life (2024)
• wallace and gromit: vengeance most fowl (2024)
• scooby-doo (2002)
• megamind (2010) (rewatch)
• they cloned tyrone (2023)
• barbie and the magic of pegasus (2005)
• bts permission to dance on stage in LA (2022)
• seventeen follow again concert tour (2024)
• my neighbours the yamadas (1999)
• suga: road to d-day (2023)
• barbie: princess charm school (2011)
• a minecraft movie (2025)

• the knights radiant from the stormlight archive
• state of grace by taylor swift
• the strengths of the different enneagram types
• "and now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good" - east of eden, john steinbeck
• q: your most precious emotion? a: the yearning and will to become a better person, - kim namjoon
• "live life as a study in love and work" erich fromm

• ✔ tokyo skyline
• ✔ i.s.s.
• ✔ bonsai
• ✔ museum dinosaurs
• ✔ succulents
• ✔ orchid
• ✔ saturn v
• apollo lander

• avid reader, west end
• folio books, cbd
• archives fine books, cbd
• mary ryan's, new farm
• scrumptious reads, red hill
• ✔ riverbend, bulimba
• cystic fibrosis, nundah
• ✔ the book merchant jenkins, west end
• clarence corner bookshop, woolloongabba
• koorong books, woollongabba
• cumquat books, annerly
• lifeline book shop, toowong

• when marnie was there (hiromasa yonebayashi/et al)
• ocean waves (tomomi mochizuki / kaori nakamura)
• my neighbours the yamadas (isao takahata)
• ✔ only yesterday (isao takahata)
• ✔ from up on poppy hill (goro miyazaki/hayao miyazaki&keiko niwa)
• ✔ whisper of the heart (yoshifumi kondo/hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ spirited away (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ my neighbour totoro (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ princess mononoke (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ howl's moving castle (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ kiki's delivery service (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ the wind rises (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ ponyo (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ castle in the sky (hayao miyazaki)
• ✔ the tale of the princess kaguya (isao takahata)