It Hasn't Been Long Since I've Come Around And Started Appreciating What I'm Surrounded With In The Moment

in my (f)unemployment season (so far), which is both by choice and not by choice because i chose to resign, but i also got rejected in all of the job applications i’ve applied for so far (so far, because we still be looking, and it’s only been two weeks since my last day at work) so unemployed not by choice, but by circumstance (?). anyway, this did allow me to catch up on some stuff (besides cleaning my room since i was 15 so that i can sleep soundly and not wake up with a bad case of allergies), and by stuff, i meant the regular rotation of the games i play:

here are updates no one asked for but i will update anyway!

rushed the month-long animal crossing new horizons’ museum event to celebrate the museum and galleries month. we also have our national cultural heritage month on may so that’s another reason to go back and visit my acnh museum since i wasn’t able to do so in real life ƈ ͡ (ुŏ̥̥̥̥ ‸ ŏ̥̥̥̥) ु not even blaming work since part of my last responsibility as a resignee is to finsih and submit all the necessary paperworks and other requirements for clearance (or i won’t get the last of my salary, and the Lord knows i need those funds to sustain me while i go looking for work), but i digress. anyway, usually i do drop by galleries and museums when i can during may since most museums and galleries do have their entrance fees revoked the entire month as a way to encourage more people to drop by so i’ll just do that next year irl.

i’ve been playing acnh since the year it was released, and if there’s one place in my island that i still love going around when i’m done with the intended tasks for the day, it’s the kemeroot museum (my island’s name is kemeroot, btw). ofc i took screenshots on my switch. here’s my character as she crams the stamp rally on the last day.

i remember how i used to play this religiously on the year of its release, that i was able to amass around 2k hours of running around kemeroot, terraforming, planting, landscaping, renovating, and decorating but i’m still not yet done with the ✨final form✨ of kemeroot. i’ve yet to check the number of hours i have alloted for this game now that i’ve been playing it again frequently.

june and july are months of hydrangeas in acnh, too, so i intend to do a lot of photoshoots and redecorating in my island because i love hydrangeas irl and in games.

another favourite in-game activity for me is visiting the cafe inside the museum, too. it’s only in-character for my acnh character to enjoy coffee the same amount as i do.

i totally forgot about the 10-photo limit tumblr imposes on mobile so there’ll be another entry that centers on unsolicited updates about genshin and star rail. and here i am thinking i could type them all down in one entry 😭

writing this under a cut because i might spoil it for those who haven’t finished the genshin summer event main story.

this whole limited story quest was a riot, and i find it so endearing (nerdy kind of endearing) that kaveh annotates when he reads even if it’s only for leisure (and i say i’m endeared because i do that sometimes, too, when something in the story or the page resonated with me greatly).

of course i like this quest a lot because once again, my best husband is the highlight of the story hihihi (ृ ´͈ ᵕ `͈ ृ )ु kaveh was my favourite in the quest, but my favourite scene in the entire side event is this:

i love chaotic tighnari a lot ¡¡¡( •̀ ᴗ •́ )و!!! just look at that smug smile.

today marks my second month in my new workplace and all i am is glad that i am where i am now in this season. ( ᵕ̤ ‧̫̮ ᵕ̤ )

in two days, i’ll be officially a month in, in my new workplace, and though this was supposed to be the last resort of all the last resorts (since i told myself i’d like to take a break in teaching), i’m glad that it turned out this way.

i’m proud of how i’m holding up so far considering i still have unprocessed emotions and trauma from my previous workplace (counselling sessions were put on a halt because i ran out of funds to pay my counsellor, and i have to find a definite time i could talk to her once more because i’m back to working again). perhaps it’s the reasonable workload that allows me to actually have a brief moment of centering myself and reassuring that i’m not in the same workplace anymore, and that my bosses are not my previous bosses anymore when i feel a trigger start. i’m also proud that i haven’t really super embarrassed myself, and i hope not to in the coming days, of course. moreover, i’m really proud of my students this term because i can see them do their best to perform as expected, but are also aware and open to receiving feedback. if only we can show the works of our students, but data privacy, ofc.

i still don’t know how to describe my relationship with teaching since i was burnt out for the most part, but i’m approaching all of this with an open mind, and open heart, and an open spirit. anyway, among the recurring themes in my life is restoration, so let’s see how things will go from here. o (◡‿◡✿)

Daily Gratitude

August 26, 2024

What are you grateful for today?

Welcome to my gratitude support group! All are welcome to be a part of the gratitude crew. Re-blog, write a note or send an ask as often as makes sense for you (just once, every day, twice a year, a few times a month— doesn’t matter!)

I tag parts of the crew almost every day. If you’d like to be on the tag list let me know.

All posts will be tagged ‘resiliencewithin’s daily gratitude group’.

Prompt (if you want): Something you are proud of (big or small).

i actually have a fanfic that i’ve been writing (and editing) where kaveh decides to explore teyvat after a massive change in his life happened. i just love the idea of kaveh getting to travel across teyvat so he can also see the various architecture styles and art practices that people outside of sumeru, and maybe learn a thing or two about himself along the way.

so here's a picture of kaveh looking towards sumeru city.

yk part of why i did go back to tumblr was so i could have another platform to talk about the games i obsess with (animal crossing new horizons and genshin impact then) instead of posting about it on my ig stories since not all of my friends are into those kinds of content and as much as i use instagram more than i do facebook, it's not really suited for long posts 😅

so yes, i guess i should really talk more about the current games i play, and it's not a lot.

i'll tag it under farts to keep up with art, fart, heart.

i loved linkin park in high school, and i love them even more with their new vocalist (ㅇㅅㅇ❀) i am and might probably always be a sucker for rock bands with female vocalists especially because it’s a high school dream to be part of one but my singing voice is not of the rock kind.

crammed this year's may day tour because i almost forgot about it until i was in the middle of finishing my tasks for the day at work earlier (⌯⊙⍛⊙)

i've been playing animal crossing new horizons since the year it was launched and though i don't religiously open it as much as i did (until genshin ate me completely), i still enjoy running around my island, talking to my villagers, and "working" on my happy home paradise island when i'm energized enough to design a rest house. plus i still want to finish decorating my island - something i promised myself i would three years ago hehehehehehe

changed kemeroot’s island flag from usagyun pixel art to kaveh’s friendship namecard earlier, and i realized i wanted to make more of these when time permits me (i’m already thinking about making one of thoma’s and wriothesley’s because next best husbands also deserve slots in my custom designs!). anyway, i’m happy with the way it turned out.

maybe i’ll change my island tune, too, when i’m feeling a little hardworking with the changes in kemeroot. something sumeru music related or klee’s character demo song, whatever i’m in the mood for.

in my animal crossing era but genshin teapot edition

i really have no idea what came over me suddenly—maybe it’s the amount of serenitea teapot showcases i’ve been seeing at hoyolab every time i do my daily check-ins and companionship things, and my recent moving back to my parents’ hoouse that caused me to clean, organize, and rearrange me and my sister’s room—but last night and up until about half of today, i had the urge to start things over with my longforsaken teapot that i told myself i’ll turn to a husband realm of sorts. however, this time i decided to work on the interior of my mansion first.

i really wish hyv could also do something about the watermark of the game’s title when taking photographs just like they did with star rail’s remove the game logo option because it can look tacky at times. but i also need to work on my angles when taking photos in-game hehe. anyway, i have some cat furniture like this one positioned around the mansion for mr. pouncealot! ♡ॢ₍⸍⸌̣ʷ̣̫⸍̣⸌₎ but this’ll do for now for documentation. i do have a library behind the large cat bed, but i’ve yet to learn how to document it properly with the angles and all, so i’ll just place here a medium close shot of my favourite corner; those diona mini-soafs are really cute that it’s a pity we can’t sit on them. (~n~ )

the receiving area also holds the dining and drinking area (tea drinking for wriothesley my beloved, and okay for kaveh’s use, too). i was going to put thoma here originally, but because the teapot has a weird loading system (that i’m still trying to figure out myself since 2021), it won’t let me place him in there, though that’s another problem to solve for another teapot session.

(every time i see neuvillette’s handmade ladle, i can’t help but gush in the sheer cuteness of the ladle, and neuvillette, too. he’s the kind that can be both cute and badass, and i love him for it.)

besides the main hall in the first floor, i was also able to start working on the individual rooms of kaveh, thoma, and wriothesley (nothing is too tedious if it’s for my 2D husbands), but i’ll finish the entire room first before i take the photos. i know it’s also ridiculous that i’m thinking about their bathroom situation, but really: why do some game developers neglect this biological aspect? it’s probably not going to contribute anything major or even useful in the plot of the game or better gamer experience, but if we’re including furniture arrangement in games why is there neglect for bathrooms and bodily functions (i can’t allow my husbands to pee or poop in the wild even though nobody in the game does that actually, i know)? so anyway, i plan to make a makeshift washroom then since genshin won’t be doing that anytime soon or ever. at least they created baths when the inazuma teapot realm was released.

i did manage to start with the facade and the surrounding area of my mansion, as well as kaveh’s outdoor workshop and wriothesley’s outdoor pankration ring-slash-training ground, but i’ll do the documentation some other day, when i’ve figured out the angles to showcase the outdoor build.

someday i’ll join the ranks of those awesome teapot mains, but for now, i’ll finish redesigning and redecorating the first of my husband realms. ( ᵕ̤ ‧̫̮ ᵕ̤ )

anyway, have some adorably nerdy conversation screencaps with kaveh inside the teapot:

he is so cute gushing over architecture and design like the kshahrewar nerd that he is. ू(ʚ̴̶̷́ .̠ ʚ̴̶̷̥̀ ू) truly my best husband ( ๑॔˃ ॢ‧̫˂)ॢ♡̷˚๐