I've wanted to post more consistently than I have, but life has been busy. I've been more focused on enjoying myself and living in the moment than documenting my experiences. Though I did take a good number of polaroids and pictures, which I will be uploading to the site somewhere soon.
My husband has been continuing his treatment, we have more information now about when we'll be re-assessing his progress and need for further treatment. It has gotten easier to manage and have space for the appointments and stuff. I am obviously hoping for good news. I'm honestly not sure I'd be able to handle bad news, “bad” being relative. I think he'll be okay, he has a good prognosis, at least when he was diagnosed, before starting treatment, they were optimistic.
Both me and my husband have birthdays during the summer, 2 ish weeks from each other, and in celebration, we planned a trip to Chicago. I saw it as both a birthday trip and also kinda our honeymoon. We were up there for a few days. We went to midevil times and AJR in concert at Tinley Park, both are outside the city, and pretty much require a car to get there, but we had a hotel in the city, in chinatown, and we got metra/pace passes and we were able to take the L train and busses wherever we needed to go in the city.
I really love the city, I honestly want to move there. I think it would be a massive quality of life improvement for me.
I can't remember if I've mentioned it or not, but I started a garden. Its a container garden, and it hasn't done great this year, but this is my first try, and I'm learning a lot. I eventually want to make a page on this site explicitly dedicated to my garden and documenting it's progress and my learning process and everything.
I still have yet to finish this Foucault book, I have, like 3 pages left, but I just haven't read them, idk men, life has been busy, and I haven't had the energy, but I will finish it soon and write the post for it soon.
I have been less than consistent than I would like with my spanish, but whenever I come back to it I feel that I haven't lost much, and I'm practicing frequently enough still to at least maintain, if not gain still, so. Eventually I will get back into the groove, but rn my mp3 player has been commandeered for a greater purpose, so that makes it a bit harder to do my lessons and stuff.
I have recently gotten involved with a really cool group of folks that have the same values as me, that does community mutual aid and political action. I've been looking for a community like this for so long, and this group is, like, exactly what I've been looking for. I've already met with them, talked with individuals and groups and participated in events several times already, and I've only been in the group a month. I haven't had community like this since the church.
I really want to make a page or possibly a section on the billboard with a transition voice audio log, but I haven't taken an updated video/audio sample in months, so I guess I better get on that. I think it will be a fun challenge to make a multiple audio file audio player widget. It might end up being part of a larger overall transition page, idk.
I kinda really want to overhaul my site layout and theme now that I have accrued so many more skills, but that would take a lot of time and effort, plus I'd want to preserve my current one for archiving reasons. Idk, I have some ideas brewing, I'm excited to fidget around with stuff, so you might see that soon. If I do a theme overhaul I will make a page documenting previous themes and such, but I still won't do a full on change log, that's just too much work for me, that's what github is for. Anyways, yeah, may do a big update on the site soon, we'll see
I don't feel like doing all the formatting and minute detail work of posting this rn, so it may not get posted on the day it was written, but wtvr.