these are not good but they're fun

"why are you walking six miles in the sun" thanks for asking

I've got an old special research in Pokemon Go that requires me to have TEN BEST BUDDIES which is so difficult to do already

but THEN I looked up the next several steps and it wants me to do a lucky trade which is even MORE difficult bc I don't live near my Pokemon Go friends. HOWEVER I will see some of them in October, and one of them is currently a *Lucky Friend* which means the trade is guaranteed to be a lucky trade

so basically I'm trying to maximize the number of hearts I can get with my buddies in a day in the hopes that I can get through this step and the next step before October so that the remaining pieces of this research don't have to linger FOREVER

update I've gotten through the 10 best buddies task, AND the next task which was to catch 10 Kecleon (which was SO difficult, I had to find a local Pokemon Go discord and ask people to help me find them), so now I will be able to successfully finish this task in October!

final update on this, the Pokemon I traded at the wedding ended up being a SHINY LUCKY 100% (HUNDO) DRATINI which is a big deal, I've never gotten a pokemon that special before.

Also I've been walking too much and now my doctor wants me to stop walking everywhere for two weeks, which is kind of a struggle because I do love walking and also I don't have a car, but it's only two weeks

StoryGraph my beloved <3

It’s an awesome book tracker and isn’t owned by Amazon like goodreads is

I like that and I like the stats

For me, I'm very good at taking in data like this or like a fitness tracker in a fairly detached "this is good to know" way, more than in a competitive way if that makes sense?

like it's been useful to notice things like "oh, my all-time stats show about 20% nonfiction, but for 2024 it's only at 10%. Maybe I've been in a slump because I haven't been reading any nonfiction and I need to bring that up for this year"

I think I'd stop using it if I felt like it was pushing me to finish books just for the sake of being able to say I'd read them

officially have read more in 2024 than I did in 2023! Really proud that I've been able to regain so much of my attention span and happy that I'm continuing to do better and get further out of the brain fog that I was in during the worst of my Hashimoto's.

also I know I keep singing her praises but T Kingfisher officially my top author of the year, and I don't think it will be possible to lose that title unless I read like 15 books by one author in the next two months

the thing is that I adore T. Kingfisher books because most of them feature aggressively practical women, but as an aggressively practical woman I also feel sooooo fucking called out sometimes

it's refreshing though because even when I figure out a mystery before the protagonists do, I'm never like "how the fuck did you not figure this out," I'm always like "that's a rational conclusion to come to considering the information available to you"

and now I'm reading one where the aggressively practical woman has a thyroid problem. this feels pointed.

"why are you walking six miles in the sun" thanks for asking

I've got an old special research in Pokemon Go that requires me to have TEN BEST BUDDIES which is so difficult to do already

but THEN I looked up the next several steps and it wants me to do a lucky trade which is even MORE difficult bc I don't live near my Pokemon Go friends. HOWEVER I will see some of them in October, and one of them is currently a *Lucky Friend* which means the trade is guaranteed to be a lucky trade

so basically I'm trying to maximize the number of hearts I can get with my buddies in a day in the hopes that I can get through this step and the next step before October so that the remaining pieces of this research don't have to linger FOREVER

update I've gotten through the 10 best buddies task, AND the next task which was to catch 10 Kecleon (which was SO difficult, I had to find a local Pokemon Go discord and ask people to help me find them), so now I will be able to successfully finish this task in October!

Dex seems like the kind of person who hates hearing people chew

back in 2021 you could post whatever the fuck you wanted and people would reblog it