📰 weekly reporter 11.09-11.15

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📰 weekly reporter

vol 34 week of october 11/09-11/15

r.e.p.o.r.t.e.r — media recap — editors recap—

— reflecting

I used to really look forward to the reflecting section of weekly reporter. I would have ongoing considerations and conversations with myself regarding current life happenings and the different trains of thoughts I would muse over every week. Lately, I haven't felt that as much. I think there was some aspect of rumination about these ongoing thoughts. I would have problems I need to work out, or thoughts to untangle..... but lately I noticed I haven't had the same desire to think something to the nth degree. I have some things that carry over week to week.. currently its end of the year planning, reflecting on what I did... but I don't feel like I have the same patterns of thought that I once did. I guess it's a little hard to explain.. I used to do voice logs and work problems out to myself via the voice log.. or I'd write about the same thing over and over again in my journal to myself... which I guess I did talk about on last week's reporter: I feel like I keep asking myself the same questions over and over. I still frequently ask myself "what do I want to do?" "How do I want it to be different?"
I'm not sure I have the answers for it yet....but I do feel like I've gotten much closer to them. I suppose I have this idea of living in the present.. living meaningfully... hu hu more ideas to roll around in my head.
All this to say, I think I've moved from ruminating about things.. to just not thinking about things... and so I guess the next step is to think positively about things... to then be able to look and reflect fondly on things.

— enjoying

cooler weather means warm layers, so I've gotten out my sweatpants and pullovers coordinates while I lounge around the house. It gets warm in the afternoons, so I haven't gotten my sweaters out quite yet. Warm afternoons, however, mean I can still drive around with the windows down as I head to class or back home.

— playing

I spent a lot of time playing around with a code I plan to post soon-ish?? I got the idea to make a fake html ticket as a concert recap post haha. I worked on it for like two days... I need to do some tweaking to it to get it to work right on mobile; it looks great on the desktop though!
the same status on my gachas... still haven't pulled for the idol banner, hardly touched the storylines.. I really prefer to play LADS on my ipad at home, but I've been coming home exhausted so I just do the dailies and then go to bed. I'd like to get back into it... I think if I read more card stories and get back into the main story (I'm terribly behind on it), I'll probably feel more excited? relatedly, it's mahoyakus 6th anniversary!!!! I should probably redownload it too and get in on the free pulls they do... I also really want to play wuwa? and maybe zzz again? might as well add HSR to that list too... I want to spend my time differently and actually play games again

— obsessing

Been thinking a lot about vlogging, microblogging, and just... having fun posting things? I have a close friends story I post a lot to, mostly outfit pictures, random memes, whatever song I'm currently obsessed with, the occasional hottie thirst trap, etc etc.... but I'd really like to extend the comfort I have here with blogging into other areas.. documenting life, trying out new things, recording memories for the sake of it? I will admit that a certain level of fame tempts me.... but I just want to have fun most of all.
kind of a wishy washy thing here.... but it's inspired by a tweet about artists using social media for you know. microblogging... media that they want to share socially... idk. maybe I should ruminate and reflect on this to figure out how to say it better.

— recommending

I Think Everyone Should Lift Weights (At Least A Little). my dad went and collected a bunch of pictures from us working out together and man. my arms have gotten huge since I first started like two years ago. I started with Couch to Barbell by Casey at She's a Beast. I had a great workout today (did an insane legs and back combo) and I'm feeling pretty tired but also very satisfied. I also hit the last PR I needed for my weightlifting goal, so I can lift 135 pounds (for multiple sets and multiple reps!) on the big three: squat, bench, and deadlift. yay!!!!

— treating

had an amazing girls dinner with A. the other night- we had pizza and cheesy bread, and then we went to this random cover band show that an old coworker of mine invited us to. my parents and I visited my brother at his apartment yesterday, and we ate at a great italian place. I had a stomboli there (yes. I really like pizza.....) and they had great rolls too!! we were all super happy with our meals. I also got pulled along on an adventure earlier this week, and was treated to a milkshake and a pretzel.

— encountering

my to do list is super long this week T_T I want to get a lot of my schoolwork done before I go on vacation at the end of this week (hooray!!!!!!) it wasn't looking so bad at the start of the week but then both professors decided that we needed more work to do.... I'll have to really lock in and get focused so I can get it all done.

— restoring

this week was one of the most anti restorative weeks I've had in a while truthfully. I stayed up late every night for one reason or another, skipped the gym like twice, felt so exhausted and was so exhausted that 1) dad Made me not go to the gym and 2) all my coworkers asked me what was wrong. I was grumpy two or three times this week too. so maybe that's why I wasn't reflective at all... no bandwidth to even be reflective....

🚢 cruise countdown: 6 days

media recap

📚 reading: poked around on this blog for a bit.. I particularly like the idea of exploring and unlearning personal bottlenecks.
📺 watching: while I was working on my ticket coding project earlier this week, I binged like 3 or 4 Willjum Rust LPs. My brother introduced me to willjum and well. I really like watching him play Rust. I like his particular style of video making because I can turn it on, and he is descriptive enough that I can do other things (usually coding) while I listen. he also posts long videos, so I can get a lot done. I think I coded reporter with him in the background too. I've definitely also cleaned my room and done laundry while his videos were playing. unrelatedly, we finished bad monkey yesterday evening!
🎵 listening: ANY MINUTE NOW by waterparks got released!!!! I heard it live at the concert and gyah. awsten is so talented. I do wish I had this song about 6 month earlier because it probably would have wrecked me more then? some extra reading on it. when parx posted this I was like wow. all my faves are making music about growing up. hyperyouth was about growing up and dancing... now parx with any minute now....? it feels so good to know I'm not the only one... girl how many of my blog posts are about this.... also JVB ANNOUCED ANOTHER TOUR!!!!! so I'm coordinating to try and see the St. Louis show AAAAAAAA in the same vein as stl... I'm trying to see bbno$ there too... but I kinda wanna go to the dallas show since its at the same venue parx was at.... GYAHHHHHHHH
🎮 playing: nothing of note... lads dailies... wanting to play more games as usual -u- I wish I had a cool playing... like playing bass again.. playing around with some fashion or something... hu hu huuuu

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I should take the time to make a tbr list... post it here and see if I can actually cross some items off of it. I'm still trying to decide what book to take with me on the cruise too... orv or liu yao.... decisions decisions.....
it would probably be fun to also put like a coming soon section together maybe..?

📥 editors recap

feeling pretty tired... it's about 10:00 pm as I'm writing recap. I got a little distracted in the middle of writing reporter and played on my phone ahahaha. I don't really have a lot left to say- I think reporter got a lot of my current thoughts covered this time around? some days things don't fit neatly into the categories and other times they do... recap always looks a little weird if I don't write enough in here...

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on writing — current musings — stats report — cultivation, curation, creation —

🖉 on writing

been pushing myself to write a little bit every day. I've been enjoying physically journaling and writing at least 3 pages! which is it's own little joy. that itchy feeling of wanting to write more is creeping up on me.. it really is so easy to do actually. and I know I enjoy it. so why do I deny myself that pleasure? I don't know what story I want to explore right now.. but I need to do something.

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💭 current musings: end of the year

started to reflect on this year, and think about goals for next year.. and after today, I did achieve my weightlifting goal! some of my other goals were a little more vague/less goal completion focused.. but I'm overall happy with the year.. I'll want to do a proper recap post before the year ends.. maybe I'll also do a listening post BAHAHA. I think the recaps are so fun. and speaking of which! I rough drafted out a monthly recap addition for reporter, ripped from a layout I saw in a magazine. I actually need to write and test the code for it though...

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👛 dating and modeling

thinking a lot about fashion lately... I got a cute pair of jeans at the mall, and I'm thinking about outfits to pack for the cruise.. our girls date had a slight fanciness to it..
I really love to dress up. I love to get put together and dolled up- fresh hair, dainty jewelry, nice makeup. I want to get a new pair of glasses.. something a little more chic. I like having my nails and eyebrows done too..

📊 stats report

— last weeks goals
☇ waterparks scrapbook page
☑ advising for classes
☒ get some rest (bedtime before 10pm)
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I drafted the scrapbook page but didn't print out anything for it whoops. like I said in restoring I stayed up way late for various reasons... I did get my advising done because there was a friendsgiving event on thursday right before my class started and the advisor was there! It looks like I'll be graduating from the certificate part of this program, and I'll be taking 3 classes in the spring again...

— 3 goals for the upcoming week
☐ workout playlist
☐ homework
☐ drink more water

lots of work to do before I go on vacation.. in an ideal amazing world.. I get all homework done so I can just spend my vacation relaxing before I come back right into finals orz
I've been wanting to make a new workout playlist that has waterparks, jvb, and black pontiac. I want it to be both a shuffle and a listen in order kinda vibe? I'm thinking of leading with two black pontiac songs then into waterparks then into a couple jvb... IDK tho. its one of those that needs like careful selection, as silly as that sounds for a workout playlist.

curation
I've been looking at a lot of different journal ideas on pinterest.. journals and crafts and clay studios.. I want to make a new vision board for next year.. actually make some good goals and actually turn it into a cute vision board too.

creation
I really want to decorate my new hobonichis.. I want to make little spreads and use the stickers, washi tape, and other scraps I've been collecting to make something cute.. I also want to buy some more stickers.. I particularly really like the deco stickers.. and sticker sheets... there's also some hobonichi accessories I want to get too BAH

cultivation
saw this cute little idea on instagram where you send photo dumps on sunday as a recap of your week. so I got to send my first little sunday photo dump to A. today!! we found the video on tuesday, so we had just shy of a full week. A. had the CUTEST!!! photo dump. so I need to up my photo game this week so I can send back a cute one.

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