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It's been some busy months but we've finally finished our repairs...of the living room haha There's still a lot to do in other places but we'll wait until winter is over since we don't want to risk the paint causing problems due to the cold. In any case, we've learned a lot from this first experience, so the rest should go smoothly. Or at least we'll be able to avoid the paint peeling and the ceiling looking patchy due to the old layer falling down. The decor is still a WIP, but it's looking great and the cats spend the days in the living room, so I guess the like it too (priorities!).

The past week was super slow, with most of my time spent in watching One Piece (how does it have so many episodes!?) while playing Hello Kitty Island Adventure. Super cute game and I really needed some low-effort hobbies for a while. Looking forward to continuing the stuff I left open in the site. I have restarted the migration of my Animal Crossing code so I can add more stuff to it. Hopefully that works well, because it's the main reason I haven't been adding more content lately.

Gee, I thought repainting our house would only be about renewing the old layer with a newer one of a similar tone. As soon as we started, the paint started to peel off. Not just the new layer, but the old one as well. We're not sure if it's because of some paint-type incompatibility or because of how old the first layer was but...now we need to peel off all the walls. The house hasn't been painted in 20+ years, so maybe it was just too much time. One of us painted her room around 10 years ago and she had no problems, but couldn't get it to work this time. So either we got unlucky with the living room or the extra decade makes a huge difference.

At least we didn't use too much paint. It peeled-off so quickly that we didn't even cover 1/3 of the living room before realizing it wasn't working regardless of who tried it and how. Now we'll spend the next weeks peeling off paint, preparing the walls, applying a primer and THEN painting. But we'll do a little test first before getting to that. No point in peeling the whole thing only to realize it's not the right approach again. We didn't expect it to go so wrong haha

We're learning a lot though. After this experience, we'll probably be able to fix pretty much any issues with the walls and paint. Not to mention that once we have it peeled off, it should be way faster, since everything else is ready for painting (furniture covered, no lamps, etc.). So it's more of an annoying thing than a negative one.

It's been a while since I wrote anything here, but this month was such a busy one that I barely had time to update the site. At least it's for a good reason. We could finally start fixing/furnishing our home, so my days consist now on working and then doing repairs in the afternoon. We decided to do it by ourselves and see how it goes. It's all small fixes and painting, so worst that can happen is that we need to hire a professional in a few years. Still, we will have learned something from the experience if that's the case. We've also been carrying furniture between different family members' houses, getting new ones...exhausting, but very rewarding. I just wish I had already recovered from my anxiety (if that's really my problem), because it gets in the way quite a bit, but oh well. I want to believe it'll get better once everything is done and I can just relax in a tidy, comfy place.

I hope we have the base floor ready within the next month. Or at least the living room. It's sad to see our cats wandering there, looking at its emptiness now that there's no couch, no table... We moved some of their beds in there so they have a place to sit, but it's just not the same. They enter, walk around and then give a blank stare to the area like "this place used to be cool, what happened". We plan on setting up some climbing shelves or similar once it's furnished, besides their usual napping spots.

What a great day it's been! I've spent the afternoon with my boyfriend, his mother and his sister installing lamps on her new apartment. It doesn't sound like fun, but we have been waiting for her house to be built for a whole year, so it's very exciting for us! Such a long delay...it must have been quite disappointing for her, but at least it's ready now.

Once everything is set up in her place, she'll move out and we will do the same in our house when she starts living there. We already bought some of the repair materials and a new couch that feels super comfy. Also super expensive. But I guess that's normal for couches.

We came back home at night. I planned on playing Cassette Beasts, which I bought yesterday during a sale (got a pack, not just the base game). But instead, I fell into a rabbit hole of cliques, buttons and stuff on the web. So I guess I'm updating my Toys page instead

Oh, how I wish I had more free time to update the site! I have so many ideas and not nearly enough time to do them. It's still a joy to see it grow little by little

Some busy days are coming with birthdays, a wedding, house repairs...but hey all of them are positive things, so I'm not complaining! What I need is less working hours or something haha

I've finally collected all the variants in my Tamagotchi Uni, yay!! Well, at least the ones that can be obtained without a second device, because I'm not going to meet up with random people just to marry my tamas lol One of these days I'll write a review about it, even though it's not exactly a game. I want to share the things I liked/disliked in it, since it's my first modern device.

Also, I've started to paint summer-vibes "mandalas". No idea why ice creams count as mandalas but ok. I'm hoping they help me relax? At least they nice to paint. Especial mention for another book that had winter-vibes mandalas... with polar bears. For painting. Sure you can use any color, but white bears in a coloring book is certainly a choice. Oh, also, my breathing is almost back to normal. Not really because of painting, but it was 100% anxiety.

I'm starting to recover from my breathing issues. It seems they get better when laying down in bed fully stretched and while talking. I've done a lot of reading out loud because, as silly as it sounds, it forces my breathing to be normal. And it's one of the few things I can do in that position. I don't have that much to do on my phone and laying on my side doesn't help. On the other hand, it gets worse every time I sit down. It's like my body rejects anything related to my work, even if it's just sitting. So I could barely add any content here.

Anyways, at least I've had time for reading and got very inspired. I want to start a little world building project, but not sure how well it'll go. I already had bits of lore here and there, just never put them together. Maybe I'll try it and, if I do, I'll post some of it somewhere in this site. Got ideas for a first version of my Animal Crossing game, new pages I want to write, also want to draw...just right when I can't do any of that lol