pianogavin

I'm finally graduating to an adult bed. I am a twin bed man no more. Gone are the days where women come over and they laugh at me and then have to sleep on the couch. I've been wanting to upgrade to a full for years now but have dragged my feet, but with. you know. current politics I figured it was gonna get a whole lot more expensive very soon so I'm finally biting the bullet.
( shopping adventures )

( fun non mattress thing )

anyway if I never have to buy another bed (I will :/) it'll be too soon

It was my birthday yesterday! I had a lovely day- spent some time at the ocean, had dinner with my parents, and then played video games with my friend until she went to bed. Nice and chill. The existential dread of being in (or at the very least, quite close to) my late twenties while still being directionless is looming but that's a problem for, like, next week.

This last year has been pretty good! Here's some stuff that I did since last April.

( beach visits )

( writing! )

( minor complaining + writer/reader engagement (can't figure out how to nest cuts) )

( misc )

( what's next: mostly music )


If I do this again next year hopefully there will be more (positive) significant things to look back on. also hopefully I won't start writing it at four in the morning bc good god

hi guess what account I remembered I had

Two weeks ago I drove down to LA to visit some friends for a week! I've been meaning to ever since a bunch of my housemates moved down there at once after we all graduated, but it's pretty far away and I hate flying (and paying for plane tickets, yikes.) For those of you unfamiliar with the layout of California/my general whereabouts it's somewhere between a 300 and 375 mile drive down to LA county and the surrounding areas, so I think my dallying in actually going is at least a little justified. But my best friend of 12 years just moved down there with her girlfriend a few months ago and I told her I would visit for her birthday, so it was time to make the trek for real and then visit everybody at once. I was able to time the trip so I could see the housemate who moved to Chicago instead of LA but was back visiting for something like two days so that was really nice too. I even fully reset my extremely fucked up sleep schedule for the trip, which was not easy considering that I'm incapable of going to bed early so I had to loop all the way around. But I did it :)

I like details and having documentation to look back on, so this is gonna be wordy and pretty rambly. sorry. discussion under the cuts

( first stop )

( second stop )

( last stop )

In all it was a lovely trip. I live by myself in the town where I went to college and most of my friends moved away after they graduated, so it's been a little lonely. I certainly don't miss sharing space with six or seven friends (something like 15 different people. there was a lot of rotation) the way I did for our three years of cohabitation, but it is rough not having easy access to them the way I used to. It was nice to have a week surrounded by people I love and remembering that they love me too. My dad keeps making jokes about me packing up and moving down there too and I don't think I'm going to because I hate cities and temperatures above 70 but like. The thought is tempting sometimes.

Two days after I got back I got to go to the Avatar the Last Airbender concert in San Francisco, which was incredible.

( concert discussion and san francisco slander )

My parents were catsitting for me which I appreciate. I only planned on staying at their place long enough to see the concert, but then they had a surprise event in LA too that they had to go to. Now it's my turn to catsit for them, which is fine except I left my switch and guitar at my apartment. I could hypothetically use this extra time to write but I just got done with a long-term project and I haven't found a way back into the groove for any of my current stuff. I'll get there but it hasn't happened yet. My cat is making the most of her time here, though- she's discovered the joys of climbing on the kitchen table thirty seconds after I shoo her off. I think she's up there literally thirty times an hour. There are two other cats here who like her or at worst tolerate her but I'm the one she chooses to annoy. I love her so much but like. come on.

Anyway this has been the busiest two weeks I've had in literal years and they were fun but I'm ready to go back to my apartment and do nothing again.