• mood: sick
• listening: myself sniffling

this is some literal Friday the 13th ass shit right here. it's not exactly every year that Friday the 13th and Valentine's Day fall on the same weekend; in fact, this hasn't been the case since I want to say 2020? (nope, it was 2015. I forgot to account that 2020 was a leap year. clearly my brain isn't working right!) we had hella plans this weekend and naturally I managed to get sick. who the hell works from home and gets sick? nobody I live with has been sick. my coparents haven't been sick. I guess The Country Brat has been going to school with lots of sick kids; I figure she brought me something she just didn't have symptoms from or beat entirely quickly.

anyway, no plans for me. I'm sitting here with cough drops, a sore throat, and a frown. but I'm tryna keep a good attitude. I bought myself a cute li'l cozy game called Little Witch in the Woods. it has those pixelated aesthetics reminiscent of 90s-era handheld games (think: Harvest Moon), but it's all pastels. so far I have unlocked exploring, gathering, drawing things and putting them into my encyclopedia, making potions, and socializing with villagers, but my dumb ass didn't know how to save and so I lost a bunch of progress. I'll be restarting whenever I'm done on here. I just wanted to make some progress on my personal site while I had downtime. I have also been making me and The Country Brat some hella cute legwarmers using this tutorial. they are unbelievably so cute.

on a sad note, my friend's neighbor has been taken into ICE custody and we are trying to raise a retainer for her to have an attorney. she is in the US seeking asylum from a domestic violence situation. she has been a single mother living in Chicago for years and has not done anything to merit this treatment. her children need her. please consider donating to her GoFundMe or sharing the link if you can't.