Whats your life like? (Time Capsule Thread)

[galaxyd]

i just moved in to a new place halfway across the city with my partner, her sister, and our other roommate who is a really pleasant disabled woman who is about 15 years older than the rest of us. the house is really cute, but it has some MOLD problems in the bathroom, and i am always extreeemely paranoid about mold. so that's fun!! but the place is newer than the old place, as well as closer to a lot of public amenities such as a bus/train station, a mall with an attached grocery store, a library, and a leisure center! all of these are within a 5-15 minute walk, which is a huge deal for us :D

my partner's sister ate complete shit on a public electric scooter the other day. she chipped two teeth and completely lost another. she also is scraped up like craazy. her lip is swollen, her cheek and chin are scraped like crazy, her BRAND NEW GLASSES got scratched, and her eyelid even got scratched somehow??? we've been telling her off for using them for ages since both my partner and i have a lot of bad opinions about them, so hopefully this maybe scares her away from using it again?? but also she was apparently inebriated. so.

im taking summer classes, which all work into either one another or classes i have taken the past two semesters!! it's so fun, but each semester is half the length, being 6 weeks long instead of the regular 13. i am not a super disciplined person, so it is both SUPER FUN and also HELL ON EARTH! i hope that the fast speed helps me to not burn out in terms of attention. though i may or may not be typing this in my anthropology class. it isn't my fault that i am super good at feminism and it's baby's first feminism class today !!!!

[Noah_S]

My life?

To put it shortly, a mess.

I've moved back in with my dad because of the economy and my health issues. I've got something like half a dozen specialist doctors saying that I need to be medically retired because of a lot of stuff. I tried to count the things the other day and got to 10 before I realized that I was losing track of what I've already counted. But the government representatives here are all "[redacted] is able to move a plate from one room to another, so [redacted] should be working fulltime". Yes, that was their latest reasoning. Oh, and I'm nonbinary and I'm not allowed to use my preferred name officially. And according to my government nonbinary people don't exist. I'm also aroace and they decided that conversion therapy should stay legal. I just loooove it here. Oh, and they waited 2 years past when they were supposed to give me a social worker.

Thing got a bit better when my parents separated a few years ago. I had been wishing for that for decades. I'm not in contact with anyone on the other side of the family tree. But I do have a close friend who is my chosen family. A big improvement.

I liked drawing back in the day. And with the economy being what it is, I attempted to turn it into a side hustle a few years ago. That went about as well as can be expected based on what I wrote in the longer paragraph above. So for my own health, I've given up on that. Then I went through a time when I couldn't get myself to draw because I wasn't living up to the societal expectations about it. I was comparing myself to healthy people who can produce stuff a lot more regularly. And I wanted to create a webcomic, but when I looked up advice it seemed like everyone said that you have to have a regular update schedule. And I can't do that. It's physically impossible for me. So it felt pointless to do it if I can't even follow the advice that experienced people give to beginners.

Now I'm slowly getting back into it. I used to be a perfectionist, but I'm better now. I'm willing to try to take the windows of opportunity to do things that I enjoy. And creating things is coming back among those things.

[ainoumi]

nothing too terribly exciting! but its comfy, to me.

i live with my mom, my sister, and our three cats; Dusty, Rosie, and Ace. we live in a weird little apartment with two levels. i usually reside on the second level in my bedroom. i try to make an effort to come visit with my mom downstairs though, because i like talking to her. sometimes i forget unfortunately though :(

most days when i am in my room, i am typically working on some project. website, art, writing, streaming on twitch, etc. in addition to projects i also chat with my friends and lovers, surf the web, listen to my music library or the radio, play video games, etc. there are days though where either my mental illness, chronic illness, or both, act up. in which case, i am resting in bed.

my sister resides across the hall from me, in her room. sometimes, when i leave my door open, she'll come along and we'll yap at each other. my sister is someone i care greatly for, so i always like to hear what she has to say.

mom resides downstairs. this apartment only has two bedrooms, but my mom is a bit eccentric. she prefers to sleep on the couch, and it's been like this for as long as i can remember. when i come down, i usually plop myself into the chair by the couch and just chill with her.

and the cats, they come and go wherever lol. as cats do.

despite mostly being a homebody these days, only really going out to pick up stuff from the store or visit a doctor's appointment, each day is never an uninteresting one. i don't know if that means if my life is particularly weird or anything, or if i just generally have a positive outlook on life. maybe both. but i always find something interesting from each day, even if it was slow or quiet.

...i really should do more chores, tbh. although it seems all of us are in a sort of slump in that regard, lately. when i do chores though, im often sweeping/vacuuming, washing counters and surfaces, organizing items, etc. i find that chores that require more movement to be easier on my chronic pain.

like i said, nothing particularly interesting. but its comfortable. im happy to be here!

[mortaki]

I'm not happy with it, that's for certain. But besides from the occasional mental health crisis, I don't loathe it either. For now, my darkest days are behind me and I try to find joy in that.

My disorders are such that I can't work without reverting to panic attacks and a depression that goes all the way around and comes back as complete and total numbness. Despite that, I'm attempting to prepare for university, even if I'm shitting myself about it the entire time. "Do it scared", right? The goal is to get a degree in History, followed by a master's in Library Science because being a librarian is one job that I think won't send me back to the dark ages.

I live with my sickly grandmother and a brother about to enter his first year of highschool. I hate my grandmother because she actively makes my life harder with her ignorance and also refuses to correct her lack, despite many conversations about how she is hurting me. I love my brother, but he can be very cruel to me at times. He's shown himself to be capable of being very considerate, so I'm hoping he grows out of it.

My paternal grandmother recently passed and I, frankly, do not give a shit. She was a horrid woman and I will not pretend otherwise just because she is dead. My father has never been a parent to me, but he has been kind and patient and willing to learn, so I am trying to be understanding and supportive through the experience. Oddly, this is something I have more experience in, so he's been seeking my advice.

My days mostly consist of being on my computer either writing, coding, playing games, or reading/watching something. Otherwise, it is doctor's appointments, trying and failing to study, trying and failing to feed myself, trying and failing to do chores, or going out with friends or family. I don't have many friends, not many worthy of the title at least, but it's a lack that I'm trying to rectify and I think I'm doing a decent job.

Now, I've said many depressing things about my life, but there are good things too. I like my therapist. I went to the ocean for the first time this year. I, technically, now have partial ownership of a house. The new Tomodachi Life came out and it's a blast. My brother got into a fancy school and I'm proud of him. I've been journaling fairly consistently and it helps. I've found a lot of things that help, actually. I love my site and am very proud of it. I started posting my novel and am making slow and steady progress with it. I got an epic briefcase to put all my D&D stuff in and it makes me very happy. I'm finally wearing what I want. I got out of a romantic relationship that was bad for me. I no longer hate myself. I no longer hate waking up in the morning.

Like I said, not happy with it, but it's not a terribly vile life to live either. Which, at one point, it was.

[sunnyp4rk]

I'm getting ready to go to a different college in August, so that's something. Not much going on at the current time in my life. I'm just chilling out for the summer until classes start again.

[Dynaknights]

Life is a fuck.

I'm working on transferring to a different school in my awful-filthy-no good hometown because I basically lost my goddamn mind when I was out of town for university last year. Not sure if I'll actually transfer or just drop out for a while -- I'm gonna need to *gags* talk with my parents (and advisors) about it some more -- but I know I want to stick with being an engineering major. Adding an art minor on top of that though... Not so certain. University took one hell of a toll on me mentally, so I'm hoping this year will be better regardless of whatever path I choose. At least I can hit up the arcades after exams? But my friends aren't gonna be in my hometown... :(
Also blah blah blah student loans and ludicrous American higher education expenses or whatever. I scored four(?) scholarships and those bitches barely made a dent in cost. No wonder that university had a less than 50% graduation rate. Holy fuck. I hate this country.

I got hired part-time a few weeks ago for a run-of-the-mill job after throwing my resume at every business I could think of that was near me for a month. It was one of three job offers I had gotten for that entire month-long period and I couldn't tell you how many places never emailed me regarding my application status. Certainly better than my previous job in that I both make more money and don't have to deal with weird people every shift, but I'm hoping I don't stay longer than two years.


Anyway, been reading more books lately. I finished Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human along with Marissa Meyer's Renegades (which is surprisingly good?? I didn't think I'd like YA superhero romance at my big age). I've just been drawing, working on my website, and reading lately. Either chilling or panicking, pretty much. My hometown is a pretty lackluster place to be, so there's not much else to do.
I'd like to make friends, but I don't know where to go or how to do that... I find that physical proximity helps, which is kind of why I'm so hesitant to drop out of college. I dunno. This place is lonely and all my friends are in the city my university's in or far, far away... But what can you do beyond spending a hundred bucks USD on a 3DS off eBay and playing some games (while ignoring your backlog)?