🎮 If you told me in 2015 that I would be really psyched about getting farming sims by 2022, I would have laughed at you. Yet here we are.

Two video games: Friends of Mineral Town and Pioneers of Olive Town.

🖖🏻 I’ve been falling asleep to the TNG episode “Relics,” and every time Captain Picard says “Ensign Rager” it sounds like he’s saying “Ensign Raygun.”

🔖 Read Taking on the Feminine Labor of Creating Holiday Magic by Sarah Hunter Simanson (Catapult).

This year will be the first Christmas that my mom has leukemia, that she can’t walk. I hope we will have more Christmases with her. I think her household is in for an awakening about this form of labor. In our household, everyone is responsible for a little of the holiday magic - we decorate together and bake together. I’m hoping it builds a connection for our son while it also makes the labor visible and reduces my holiday stress.

Finished reading: The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo 📚

I love that Leigh Bardugo wrote this and The Language of Thorns to give us the immersion of reading the same stories that the characters in the Grishaverse read.

💬📚 “I don’t remember my own story… I remember only how I fell into books, never to rise from their pages, how I was never truly awake until I began to dream of other worlds.” Leigh Bardugo, The Lives of Saints ❤️ Saint of the Book

A white person with long curly, blonde hair sits in front of a red book, holding a quill pen.

Thanksgiving 1: Plain black leggings, gray sweater.
Thanksgiving 2: Floral dress.
Thanksgiving 3: PlayStation T-shirt, Star Wars leggings

Locking myself in the bathroom at my parents’ house to get a break from overstimulation, happy Thanksgiving 1996 everybody.