April 20, 2025

18:33
Nothing crazy to update here, really. I've just been having a good time coding again, which I'm pretty happy about.

Actually, I do have something to update, I'm graduating next week... and my last day of class is Tuesday. I have to admit, I'm nervous. I'm entering the "real world." I'm already a full-grown adult, but I'm still not prepared. I'm aware that no one really has everything together, but I still feel like I should know more than I do right now.

April 8, 2025

10:34
I've recently been in a really productive mood!! Well... not for schoolwork but totally for everything else! (lol) I recently started putting a lot of work into my self insert Limbus Company story. I've never had such a burst of creativity in such a long time—it felt great!

Of course, since I was doing a lot of creative stuff and a whole lot of typing, it'd only be natural that I'd think about this place again. I just love how making a site your own feels. Same thing with my recently created SpaceHey account. I never got to experience MySpace, and I was feeling really constrained by how boringly sleek social media is, so I thought why not check it out.

I haven't really used it much, all I do is blog the occasional movie review, but I actually really like it! Getting to be social and add friends and talk to people while still being able to show off who you are. It's like decorating your home. People who come over can infer some things about you just from how you organize things or present what you have. I think it's wonderful. I wish the internet was like this again.

None of my hand-coded sites have been mobile-friendly, and admittedly I don't really care all too much about that. I think about the simpler days when the only way to access the world wide web was at a desk. I understand optimizing for mobile, but that's just not feasible with the kind of customization I want to achieve. So, wonky layouts on phones it is then.

Of course, what is likely most obvious currently is the total site overhaul! I've said it several times over on this thing already but I'm really happy with it. I cleaned up a lot of spaghetti code and made it more streamlined on the back end so I can actually see what I'm doing now. On top of that I think it just looks nicer in general. The last shrine I made was particularly challenging for a beginner, I think. But I liked how it came out, so that gave me some confidence to finally sit down and work on making this thing closer to what I wanted it to look like in the first place. I also bought a custom domain (floraltriptych.space) for super cheap which I may or may not keep. I wanted .garden to keep with the floral theme but .space was on sale for a little over a dollar and also I like space. I'm not sure if I'll keep paying for a custom domain in the future, but if I do I probably will have to update all my webring info... It totally wrecked everything. I probably should've thought about that possibility beforehand...

I hope you like the new site layout as well!!

March 24, 2025

21:44
So it's been a little while now... I lost a bit of steam for keeping up a website, but I started getting a little nostalgic over it recently. It's nice, isn't it? Having a space on the internet that's your own, I mean. I'll sound so old saying this, but I think we've just gotten too used to social media. It's nice and convenient, yeah, but it's so restricting. Especially when you think about how early social media let you use CSS on your own pages. I dunno. Maybe I'm just a bit attached to something I made by hand, even if it is a bit of a mess.

Something that happened recently is that my internship ended about five weeks early... I'm pretty bummed about it, to be honest. I was having a really good time there. They didn't have that much for me to do, really, especially considering there was a bit of a time crunch for me to get my hours in to graduate. But sometimes I can't help but feel like maybe they just didn't want me to stay around. I wasn't the best intern, I'll admit. I try not to think too hard into it, but a lot of things happened in an order that made me feel like maybe they wanted to let me down gently.

I'm graduating in May... that's scary to think about. I'll be 24 this year, and yet I don't feel like I'm ready for the "real world" at all. It'd be nice to be a student forever.

January 14, 2025

18:34
I know this is totally late but happy new year everyone! I hope things started off strong and that there's nowhere to go but up from now on. I sure know that I'd like some good fortune...

What's been happening lately? Well, both school and my internship started. This is my last semester! Luckily I don't have much left to do, as I've passed all of the classes for my major except for a professional experience credit (and one last elective for my forensic science minor). But that's where my internship comes in!!

I completed orientation yesterday and I really enjoyed it. The atmosphere was significantly more casual than I expected, and I think I'll really like my experience there. Although, I am a bit nervous. New environment and all. But I do have my hopes up. I think I might fit in. Which is something that I very rarely feel. I'm not entirely sure what I'll be doing, but hopefully I'll prove myself! Also no sneak peeks or any details about it for any of you! Top secret... hehe...

Something in my personal life that was both good and bad is that my car loan got fully paid off in December! But... because I don't have debt to pay off anymore a whole 72 points got eaten off my credit score... That's crazy! 72 points!!! Each payment was on time and in full but that seems to have not been a sign of reliability for debt repayment! The concept of credit is very... sigh- everything to do with money is weird and complicated.

December 15, 2024

01:47
I'm gonna be honest that facial has my face feeling so clean. My pores are actually cleared this is amazing. Everyone should try a spa day one day if they can or want to.

01:21
Sigh... I'm already considering doing an overhaul of the site. I'm pretty proud of it as it is currently considering the speed at which I slapped it together despite not knowing html very well, but I can't help but see other people's beautiful sites and feel a little bad about mine, yknow? But then again, I know that when I started coding the site, I wanted something relatively minimal. "Minimal" in the sense that it had a small footprint and looked clean-ish, since I absolutely adore visual clutter. I'm one of those people that likes covering any empty space with some poster or knick knack in person, so of course I'd want to do it to my site too!

Today (well, yesterday, as of writing this) I went to the spa for the first time in a long while. I don't remember the last time I went, but this time was pretty nice. The masseuse was pretty strong, it was kind of funny. Not even ten minutes in she made my spine crack like ten times. That sounds a bit concerning but it honestly felt great. The hot towels they give you are just unmatched. I got my first facial too. They blasted a bunch of steam at my face and used some machine that sucked gunk out of my pores. It felt satisfying but I do feel a little bad for the tech, since I probably looked kinda awful. The dark circles under my eyes have always been very dark. She even told me to go to sleep earlier lol Ironically I actually fell asleep while she was still working. That tends to happen to me, as I've noticed. Got some boba afterward and went home to relax. I'm pretty happy.

December 11, 2024

01:50
Just finished my last final exam yesterday morning! I'm glad it's over, I was feeling pretty burnt out. Luckily I only need two classes to graduate, and one is technically just an internship that I get college credit for. Next semester I'm only taking two classes (one's virtual, so I only have one in-person class the entire semester) and I'll be dedicating twenty hours each week to my internship. I'm pretty excited! I'm really lucky to have gotten in. Although, I sometimes feel like I got in because they took pity on me... I made a terrible first impression... But I suppose that's alright. Hopefully I'll be able to salvage my image by working hard.

Aside from school and work related stuff, I've gotten into Pokemon again! It's kind of nice. I missed it. It was in part because I got kind of addicted to PokeFarm, so naturally I wanted to try a mainline game again. I had Let's Go Eevee for several years but haven't completed it for so long because I wasn't the biggest fan of the Pokemon Go catching mechanic. I did beat it recently though, and I did a living dex for the first time! Although I can't get Mew since it only comes with the Poke Ball Plus controller... Which totally sucks. I also haven't been able to get Pokemon that evolve through trading but oh well... I'm considering the dex done. I got Meltan and everything so I think that makes up for it. I'm going to just transfer the missing pokemon over from Pokemon Go just to make it easier for myself. I also recently bought Pokemon Sword! The last game I played aside from Let's Go Eevee was Pokemon Black, so I'm glad to experience a modern title. I'm enjoying it for the most part.

December 7, 2024

18:52
Finally on the last stretch to freedom from this semester! Well... I guess it is also another step toward freedom from school as a whole. That's really scary to think about, really. Being 23 physically makes me feel like I should be more mature and prepared than I am—and I think that might be scarier than maturing and getting prepared in the first place.

So what's been going on the past few days? I took my final exam for Language and Culture. I did surprisingly well! Languages have always been a passion of mine so I'm glad I was able to take a formal course on them. I didn't finish a few of the last short answer questions but that's on me since I started the exam pretty late in the day. Three of my five classes are done for good now! All I have left is Analyzing Style and Plant Life. My essay for ENG 426 is coming along well, I feel pretty good about that one. And then all I have left for PB 200 is the final exam! I surprised myself each exam with how well I scored so I have high hopes!

On a nicer note, today I went to the mall. The mall near me recently opened a Miniso (exciting!) and I looked around and bought some stuff. I got a Cinnamoroll macaron lip balm and a Hello Kitty blush balm. I'll admit it's definitely the packaging that got me. But I'm happy with the purchases anyways!! I'm really happy with the Hello Kitty blush balm specifically, since it's actually a compact with a little mirror inside it! I hope compacts for some reason. I love their form factor. (And also I don't know if it's just me or if using your phone as a mirror is genuinely embarrassing.)

December 2, 2024

18:04
So... You know how I slapped this site together in the span of about two-three days...? Well that's because I was hyperfocusing and procrastinating. Well now I'm facing the consequences of my actions by trying to burn through an assignment due tonight and then pretend like I studied for an exam tomorrow. And then two more assignments due tomorrow. Don't be like me!!

November 28, 2024

22:18
UNBELIEVABLY large thank you to Kermit from electric-tenshi for helping me with some of the code on this site. I could finally get that evil cat cake to sit still.

17:20
html is killing me to death

11:28
Going down a clique and webring rabbit hole. I love this stuff.

07:51
I really never thought I'd actually make my own site from scratch let alone get so into it. I'm actually very happy right now.

04:57
html can be such a pain sometimes...

04:44
Seems like I'll have to find a new background for the site... I really like this one but I can see how it's an accessibility issue. I'm not sure what else would suffice though. I haven't been able to really find something I like... I'll find something...

03:29
I've been sorting through pokemon cards for the Pokemon TCG card claim... Apparently there are over 200,000 cards. This might take a while...

03:00
Started adding cliques! I was born before Web 2.0 "technically" started, so I'm really happy to get to experience this part of the internet. I feel like a lot of people are yearning for a simpler time like this.
Yknow... it's a bit odd to think about how people used to code and type entries like this before "what you see is what you get" blog sites and web creators became more of a thing. It's just really weird. Either I'm doing things wrong or it's just odd thinking of blog entries written in the page's html itself.