Promiseland

[Fetian]

I'm a few pages into the toki pona lesson plan I'm using (apparently I'm on page 5) -- enough to be able to construct simple sentences like 'I'm asleep' (mi lape) and 'you're funny' (sina musi) and 'they're eating an apple' (ona li moku e kili loje), and then I decided that I wanted to swap to focusing just on vocabulary. I've whizzed through that (I have ₇₀ words/symbols memorised, I expect to be done with the game I'm using to study it within the next couple days -- I don't think this has all words currently in active use but it'll give me the core 120-130 or so). The grammar was a little frustrating to have to keep stopping reading to go remind myself which word means what while doing the exercises, so swapping back when I'm done with the vocab will let it go a bit smoother, I think. I am enjoying myself, though!

 
Also for anyone wondering, '[sina] o moku e palisa unpa' is 'eat a dick'

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Pretty good day! Up early to go to the store with ash, where I stocked up on some things I've been needing. They were out of my usual taquitos so I had to get chicken instead, and while they had blood oranges and cara cara oranges again, when I got home I discovered the blood oranges were not particularly ripe, which is disappointing. Also they keep being very low on or entirely out of the beef baby food, which is kind of weird. But yeah

I also did, as predicted, finish off the game I was using to learn the toki pona core lexicon, so now I have a pretty good grasp of 121 words and should be able to move on back to the grammar lessons. I will probably be able to add any other words through exposure

ash and I watched Sandman: Death: The High Cost of Living, which means we are officially done with Sandman. Official final verdict: Season 2 is bad, High Cost of Living is good.

We also finished off the video series we've been watching very very slowly of a Japanese man reacting to Ludwig (youtuber/streamer) vlogging himself (and Michael Reeves, also youtuber/streamer) travelling across the entirety of Japan on a motorcycle with no map and very little Japanese between them. I'd watched Ludwig's series ages ago but the reaction series abridges it nicely and it's fun seeing the reactions

There was some drama on our street for a bit while we were watching Sandman, unsure exactly what happened but my best guess is a mild car collision that resulted in a lot of yelling and one of the drivers trying to prevent the other driver from leaving. No cops or anything showed up at any point that I saw, but I believe the people involved are direct houses-next-to-each-other neighbours so it's possible the situation escalates at some point.

It also started raining around then, shortly after everyone had either driven away or gone inside, and has been raining since. Forecast doesn't predict it stopping any time soon, which on the one hand is good for the plants and on the other, I would like to go places (eg dad's) some time this week and I also would love to be able to do something with ash next weekend. Fingers crossed there's a little sun somewhere in all this

But yeah, went to bed and played ESO for the rest of the evening -- there's a valentine's event happening that Erika clued me in has a cute little stuffed cat reward that's easy to get, and I did indeed obtain it during my not-very-focused play. I wrapped that up around time for Oz's pill and then sat myself down to eat some more dinner before bed, and now I'm going to listen to a podcast and go to sleep

Oh also I got a disability review letter from social security that I'm going to need to fill out, so that's fun. They'd stopped sending those during COVID and I guess have just gotten around to restarting that red tape.

Alright, getting ready for bed. mi tawa li lape, pimeja pona a