Kirsten M

Okay, put away computer AND phone, and read one of these books you bought yourself today or draw or something.

How many years until the queasiness goes away? Never? Great.

Does it come daily to eat your liver?

Jauntily wandering through my neighborhood with a basket of knives. :)

Do cat ghost fires have eyes?

Taking deep breaths to calm down. I need to leave the house, and not look like a mess. Why does maintaining the appearance of being put together keep getting harder and harder?

Dealing with the health insurance marketplace is making me feel like I’m going to throw up.

This seems to be a sort of common thing in Japanese anime art too? I don’t understand it either.

I pre-ordered it, because I’m a huge sucker for them. I don’t usually go for swag, but I will buy every book. It’s so SUBSTANTIAL.

I’m still learning how to draw fog. Next I need to learn to draw rain. Looking to manga and floating world to teach me how to draw rain. I’m going to have to sleep with these books under my pillow. That works, right? RIGHT?

This is my version of a “thumbnail sketch.” I can’t work out technique without doing everything correctly.

Working on a “quick” 8 x 8 piece that I’m 19 hours in, and maybe 2/3rds done (realistically half done).

and hemming skirts is connect the dots.

Fact: if you knit faster, you won’t run out of yarn. Applies to binding now too.

I accidentally sent a text to my dead grandfather’s landline on Tuesday. He didn’t reply, though.

Crawled through this day with zero short term memory. Not sure how I not only managed to got through the day, but made it home with *almost* everything on my grocery list. Also yesterday and today: I mended 36 holes on one sweater. 36! That’s a $159 repair.

My brown almost black Burmese mix cat laying half buried in a brown almost black Icelandic sheep pelt on an orange chair with a textured yellow pillow behind her. She has her eyes open, so it’s easier to spot her.

She is also back to being a master of camoflauge.

I also have a variety of cat themed grocery store children’s readers that I read to the cat. I think she enjoys it. She listens to me stumble along, but doesn’t seem to care to look at the pictures.

Relating foreign language to singing is my way of learning pronunciation. There is rhythm and cadence to learn along with the vowels and consonants. I’ve immersed myself in Japanese music since I started attempting to learn it.

I have a whole music degree, and hundreds of hours of practicing breath control.. this song is hard for me for some reason. Harder than the Japanese.

YouTube video by Fujii Kaze Fujii Kaze - Shinunoga E-Wa (Not a MV)

A couple of 3-4 word passages and a couple of breathing phrases away from being able to sing shinunoga e-wa. You have to be well prepared to sing karaoke.

youtu.be/dawrQnvwMTY?...

I love reading everything you write. For all you’ve been through, thank you for continuing to share it. xx

Cats are the best.

My kingdom for a travel tote that can keep my snacks well organised. Keep cold snacks cold, and fragile snacks from getting crushed. Extra points for it keeping me so occupied with arranging my snacks that I leave my phone at home.

Today I stepped on a pin.

Bunny

I know it’s obvious, but drawing and inking in an 8 x 8 v. a 12 x 16 is kind of a relief knowing it’ll be finished in a couple of days rather than a couple of months.

I’ve done my absolute best not to post about anything political here. I feel like I’m succeeding for the most part. Now is testing me (breaking me if I’m being honest), but I just can’t scream about it. I can’t afford the energy I need to hold it together.

No, totally. It’s just awful that it seems to come up so often when despicable person does horrible thing, and these means of attack are so often the go to rather than focusing on their actions. That being fat or disabled inevitably gets thrown at them EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

There are so many despicable words and actions from this person, that there is zero reason to make disparaging remarks about disabilities nor body shaming or any of that garbage. I hate that I am defending this person who deserves nothing but the absolute worst of what he has forced upon us.