cherry's room

bitching session + anti-bitching session

weather: ☀️ perfect
critters: cabbage butterfly, sulfurs, monarchs, big swallowtail

bitching about inconsequential annoyances is one of my favorite forms of stress relief w/r/t the absolute state of the climatic and geopolitical realities over which i have no personal control. but there's no reason i can't add something positive afterward to reduce the anxiety-nausea. i mentioned in my new year's post that i want to stop thinking of myself as a monad, and this might be a good exercise to that end

the 1s are bitching and the 2s are anti-bitching

  1. when my top coat gets stringy and i have to add thinner, and wonder how long i can keep that up before it becomes more thinner than top coat
  2. the polish by starrily called "persistent realm." love her so much
  1. dusty walls. how are you dusty? you are walls?
  2. when the bathroom sink and counter look so nice after i'm done cleaning them
  1. eating canned peaches or pineapple and biting into a weird tough woody bit
  2. taking a shot of the canned peach syrup after i'm done with the peaches
  1. when the lip balm tastes way too good so i lick it off and make the peeling worse
  2. lip balms in cute containers
  1. fucking wigeons. i have heard infinitely more wigeons than i have ever seen. and since i have heard several and seen zero, it really is infinite
  2. i did finally see a cassin's kingbird on a chain-link fence the other day
  1. when excavating, hitting a rock too hard with my pick and the vibration traveling violently up my arm like i'm animated by the fleischer brothers
  2. finding a piece of ceramic with a clear pattern that can be dated with certainty
  1. uncredited unidentifiable fragments of bumpin music in shortform videos. song name? artist name? please...i am dying...
  2. when you show the song fragment to somebody and they can identify it
  1. when cats use my sleeping body as a parkour surface. there's a reason i lock those assholes out at night
  2. the endearing way one of these beasts lies on her back like a person when she is comfortable
  1. opening a new book for the first time and instantly getting a papercut
  2. opening a used book for the first time and finding someone else's handwriting
  1. when the contents of a zine are nowhere as cool as the cover
  2. when the contents of a zine are exactly as cool as the cover
  1. the tenchi muyo franchise--i have sat through what felt like dozens of episodes of unfunny unsexy timeslot-clogging badly-dubbed supernatural(?) harem porridge to get to the anime i actually wanted to watch on toonami, and i still retained nothing but the dry-aged contempt i express to you now
  2. CLAMP manga still holds up. CLAMP manga still fucks