📰 weekly reporter 10.01-10.18
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zoomieyo📰 weekly reporter
media recap
📚 reading: kerrang! waterparks interview, consumer reports on protein powders (none of mine were tested), assorted newsletters in my email.....📺 watching: entirely too many reels.
🎵 listening: I have a series of playlists called "hall of fame" for all my fave artists. I relistened to black pontiacs and waterparks, and then made one for jvb and hunny.
🎮 playing: lads, my ipad baby game,,,,, MINECRAFT!!!!
hu hu hu I need to do some real media consumption.... maybe I'll stop scrolling instagram if I do that. its not like my to be read/watch/played lists arent long..... gyahhhhhhhh
📥 editors recap
ok. did whatever i wanted to do and dove right into reporter. so anywya lets get into recap :)
starting to think about goals for next year, wrapping up goals for this year, doing things differently and how to better spend my time. what am I looking for? what am I wanting to do? you know, the same questions I feel like I ask myself every week. I don't have a good answer right now. but I feel pulled in the direction of creating a more concrete identity for zoomieyo studio as a brand, as a concept, as a project. I keep seeing all kinds of things encouraging me to take that leap. maybe if I stop talking about it here, it'll unfold naturally. idk.
really considering making a recommended reading list for the blog. I internally reference a lot of different articles, blog posts, newsletters, that I feel are foundational to my current train of though. oh... some kind of title play on train of thought? anyway. how to do you get people up to speed on your identity or whatever the fuck youre talking about. how the interconnectedness of your thoughts creates current worldview & output etc etc. maybe its all silly.
— reflecting
been getting a lot of compliments that "I'm smart" lately. and i was having a hard time with it because, I feel like a dumbass quite frequently. this was also prompted when I smacked my head into the barbell at the gym the other day because I wasn't paying any attention. ran my thoughts by my parents and my dad prompted back with "would your opinion change if they described you as intelligent instead?" and I'm not sure that it would? I suppose, I'm smart/intelligent, but I feel like theres 1) so many things that I don't know, 2) so many things for me still to learn, and 3) areas that I'm weak at, that I wonder if I am truly smart. I try my best to think about decisions, and weight them, rationalize them, etc etc.. maybe I shouldn't overthink it, and just take the compliment.
been wanting to get back into bass (due to my listening of hunny) and the challenge of learning something. explained the dream of the studio to a new friend recently, and wanted to actually develop its concept and create it a brand and a pitch. on the studio note, I saw a retail property that was so cute I wanted to turn it into the studio. Ideally, the studio would be both a physical space and a digital space, but I just know that I would have to go somewhere to actually get studio work done. I wouldn't really want it to be in my home... but close to it.
— enjoying
enjoying the weather MORE now that it's cooling off.
for the month of october, I've been chicken-sitting and it's convinced me that I could probably handle chickens if I wanted to. the house also has a garden with fresh veggies and I think in the spring (or late winter) I want to try my hand at growing some here at home. the chores arent that bad. its also kind of cool to watch the veggies grow, and then harvest them, and to collect the eggs everyday.
— playing
I Will Get Back Into HSR and ZZZ and LADS and MHYK !1!!!
i downloaded the updates for HSR and ZZZ... i want the new dan heng. maybe phainon will rerun too. i should also probably update genshin.... sigh....... i miss playing video games and being obsessed with them. I MISS BEING OBSESSED WITH LADS!!!!!!!
in true minecraft fashion, it has made it's quarterly resurgence. I need to get on and build out the idea for some treehouses. and probably look for some more building inspo too.
I've been skipping into work, and trying to smile at strangers, and make eye contact with people. i usually get to the parking deck at a time when no one else is coming in, so I usually sing a little and skip to the doors bc I have that Joy and Whimsy. if there's people around I don't sing though, mostly out of respect. I don't remember when I stopped looking people in the eye (I think it was while I was at the clothing retailer) but I kinda dislike not looking people in the eye? so in the same vein, I've also been trying to just look friendly as well by looking people in the eye and just having a smile on my face.
— obsessing
so the joey valence and brae concert was amazinggggggg. and now I'm actively planning waterparks in november. and potentially bbno$ in either dallas or st louis. i need all my weird strange artists to line up their shows better though. or please come closer,,,, i say that in reference to hunny, who I have decided to be obsessed with again after giving SPIRIT! a real listen. and black pontiac too.
i was gonna make a concert post but I am ridiculous and overthought it to death. maybe I'll still make it but tbh. theres not much to say. the setlist was amazing!!!!! i only wish they would have played RN, but that's off their first album but they surprisingly played a lot of punk tactics. the opener was good too. idk that they actually had a short concert, but it felt shorter?? maybe parx feels long because awsten talks a lot. anyway, jvb really puts on a show!!! they are just as good live, and man. the whole crowd gets amped its really great. I do wish I would have gotten a little closer to the front but that was not gonna be possible with the DRIVE GIRL. i got stuck in horrible traffic trying to get out there to fort worth and had like no time to get ready. but I was still cute so its FINE. all things considered, i would 1000000000% do it all over again. jvb will definitely be a band(? they arent't really a band but) i make an effort to see again.
— recommending
ive only had my moft magnetic tripod for 2 days but ITS SO GREAT AHAHAA. i got mine off amazon and im super happy with it. ive been using it to take seflies.
be self obsessed. idk that I've talked about it very much. but I am horribly vain and self obsessed. but I've worked hard to be this cool and good looking (muscle wise, style wise, as I was blessed with lovely genetics). cant help that I'm literally the coolest person around. #sorrynotsorry
— treating
NURRI PROTEIN MILKSHAKES MY BELOVED!!!! we finally went to sams and I got more shakes so now I will be making my nurri and matcha protein shakes before work.
went out for lunch on friday and had a lovely dumpling meal, then we went out to chuys for dinner and had tres leche cake. i also got a ridiculous shirt.
— encountering
I've been trying to dress up a little more at work. I am unhappy that my coworkers keep asking why I am so dressed up when I put on a little make-up and jewelry. first they say "wow you look really cute!" and then immediately "do you have a date?" of course, this is slightly a problem I created... in that I admit I do like to dress up for dates!!!! but that is not relevant!!! I can dress up whenever and for whatever I want. plus. most of the time, I'm in JEANS. literally on friday, I had jeans, a tank top bodysuit, and sneakers on. since its work, I had to dress it up with a blazer (to cover my shoulders), and jewelry (to hide from the low neckline and my ponytail). the makeup was just extra since I had the time. but man it was really hitting on friday, and I was feeling it BAHAHAHA. as I went out to lunch I got complimented TWICE on my walk, and then someone at the restaurant complimented my bag.
— restoring
SLEEP!!!!!!! I've been trying to get more sleep. there's been like two or three nights where I've gotten like 9 hours of sleep and wow. the difference it makes.
also been trying to be more gentle with myself so idk what productivity is anymore!!! i just wanna have fun!!!!!!!!!!!1
on writing
idk what i wanna write, i dunno how to incorporate writing into my routine... im just lost on writing. ig i should just try to start a string of writing again but bagsdjgkldfjsdlfsd
current musings: revamping reporter page 2
so I moved reporter around a bit yay!! i need to go through and trouble shoot test, and then I need to update the layout in obsidian... i also restructured this section to be a bit more like the reporter section html wise. I think it actually makes more sense for this to be one big chunk divided up as opposed to all the divs I had before. I think that eventually, reporter needs to be the first one again and then editors recap at the bottom with media recap next to it. idk. i think that page two still needs some tweaking media wise...
i should also probably restructure the section down below to match the columns like on page one but blagh. those gave me so much trouble for the longest all because I would forget semicolons.
PENDING: dating and modeling
thanks b. for the idea for this section LOL. idk if i'll actually turn it into a recurring entry on reporter, but it could be fun to have an ootw section since im a shopaholic. or just whatever current fashion obsessions I have. ig raw/selvedge denim is a trending topic rn because i keep seeing stuff about it. i saw a twitter post about how jeans used to wear out depending on the creasing or whatever and someone posted something from reddit about dick prints in jeans and i. in my strange brain was like. #needthat but in a more sexy and more nuanced way. i have no idea how to explain what look im going for with them but who cares.
📊 stats report
— 3 goals for the upcoming week
☐ homework
☐ costume for friday halloween party
☐ organize bathroom
—productivity.... i felt like this section was gonna look sad if i didnt include some kind of commentary here. idk maybe i should try to read a book this week too. im considering restarting the artists way... maybe i should read before bed. or get my library card. idk. i feel lost about stuff again. how to be cool... what do i want to do differently?
I'm sorry there's no links on the first posting of this. im too tired to wrangle everything up.
thinking about my toybox... all the gear i use... wanting to catalog all the stuff i have... wanting to make stuff on the wheel again... sigh
I now understand why newspapers have volumes vs numbers. in the new year... ill update it to reflect volume 3 (? however many years ive been doing this) and then number will reflect the number of reporters... or maybe the week its posted?
still a big gaping hole because I'm not creating. idk what the tension point is-maybe that I'm actually insanely busy??? grad school and a full time job and a social life too somehow. seasons for everything i guess???? but i still want to create more. was scrolling on pinterest last night and wanted to take a handbuilding class, missing wheel throwing, thinking about noodling on bass again... writing always on my mind.
something something about skills and challenges... wanna do so much in the gym. hit a pr on flat dumbbell presses today! i did 45 lbs in each hand for 5 reps. all clean too. im pretty consistently moving 40/45 lbs in big groups (chest, back, legs) and slowly creeping into the 30s on arms. i think my shoulders are also surprisingly in the 35/40 zone too. always feel torn on what to do fitness wise. need to do some more runs, or train for a 5k or something
I need to put some serious thought into what im doing, what im working on, how i want to do it. i probably gotta get a good system in place to get it all done.
- Current Mood:
busy
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Date: 2025-10-20 12:33 pm (UTC)Smartness is strange. It's hard to say where the line is between smart and not-smart. Then, you also have to distinguish it from being knowledgeable... I see myself as someone who is smart, but not necessarily knowledgeable, especially because I'm prone to forgetting things.
I had chickens when I was very young! Ah, it's one of those things that makes me remember that more happened in my childhood that it feels like lol. My mother grows some veggies in our garden — I particularly like having access to fresh spring onions ^-^
I'm just glad that the new Dan Heng is free for now, otherwise that would be a lot of Dan Heng versions to gamble for XD
Don't remember the last time I purposely smiled at someone as I walked past... but I either walk by nobody, or the entire uni/city populace, and I don't think I could keep up a smile that long aha.
The coolest person around ^o^ :cheer:
I like dressing up, but I dislike the idea that I could be recognisable in a sea of uni students wearing super comfy stuff... eh, won't stop me unless it bites me in the ass.
A good amount of sleep at a good time of day is life-changing, if only my brain didn't fight me on it :sigh:
Proud of ya on the PR :D