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I'm having a kawaii Halloween this year. =^_^= I've been doing jigsaw puzzles with that theme over on Jigsaw Planet while listening to YouTube podcasts like J Nightmares, Kowabana, Papa Scare and Mortis Media. I haven't watched as many scary movies or let's plays as I've wanted to but I'm sure they'll still be there for me when I'm ready. Let's plays can take a long time split between multiple videos and the movies I bookmarked are on YouTube so they cost money to rent and I'm usually always broke. XP

For the Halloween party on Friday at my siblings' place, I'm gonna dress up as a ghost! WoOoOoO~! Spoookyyy! X3

It's a pretty simple costume, actually, just a white, billowy kinda cloak or sheet with some white makeup and the like. I don't have the stuff for it yet so am hoping sis can take me to the op shop or somewhere to get what we need. I'd dress up as something cuter but I'm too fat to look cute in the other ideas I wanna do. I am going to buy a swimsuit when mum visits in a couple of weekends to support me for my second, follow up colonoscopy (noooo I don't wannaaaaa!), and she said she'd pay for one for me so I can get into swimming like I was back in my previous city. There's a pool near me that I can get an Uber to and from.

I have to book in my cat, Possy, for the vet for her teeth to be cleaned and one tooth extraction, along with some general check-up procedures like a blood test and scan. She's getting up there in years now so we want to make sure to catch anything before it gets away on us. She's okay but she has stinky breath so she is overdue for having her teeth scrubbed. It's too bad I can't brush her teeth, as she's too skittsh for me to pick up and put a toothbrush in her mouth.

My brother visited yesterday and we chatted for a couple of hours. His and sis' rented house was being cleaned for mould issues and they weren't allowed back into the property till after 6pm so he came here after he finished work and we hung out. I showed him my friend's pictures he's been taking from his trip in Japan and we enjoyed looking at the places and foods! We had fun trying to guess what some obscure looking foods were and how you would eat them (hands, chopsticks, a certain method), or if certain things were edible (like the leaf some food came on).

He has been to Japan a couple of times now, with sis and him on their first trip and then taking mum with them earlier this year. I think they're eager to go back and see more things and different areas and have more experiences. They're respectful in Japan and do their proper research before going over. But mum did struggle a bit because it was LOTS of walking and there were almost no public seating to sit down on. She had a heavy suitcase which was difficult to pull along. And those guys try to pack as much into each day over there as they can, so it's a bit of a hectic pace to get from and to places in a set time and squeeze in as much as humanly possible. I'd be exhausted! Lol. I can't go over yet because my health issues are too bad but once I sort out my IBS and my fitness, I'm looking forward to visiting as well.

I didn't buy any candy for Halloween, so I might have to get some to bring to the party. Along with foods I can eat as well. Gluten free, dairy free etc.

Anyway, I've decided that I'm going to stop procrastinating and start drawing again for real. I'd love to improve my skills to where I can do digital art and do commissions for people, like I've seen other artists do. Plus I still have that dream of making my own GMFC inspired breedable/changing 'pets' shop where you rp to raise magical and fantastical babies of your OCs. It's not gonna be set in Gaia but it will be connected TO Gaia and multiple other worlds. It'd have a main base world or location though.

Hmm, I kind of wish I could revive all my favourite dead b/c shops like D-Corp, the ICRS, The Curio Shop and Cabbage Patch as well as Double Trouble and some of the older ones I never got to explore. I don't think I'd be able to handle running more than one though. But I could perhaps persuade or ask other people to do so. Maybe change the original ideas enough to make it a fresh take or even come up with something new inspired by and based on those stores.

I still want to get a pae'il too. I haven't been able to fit everything in. And I'm STILL freakin' trying to finish the place descriptions and my OCs for Liquid Life. I was working on rp posts today and have one to do tomorrow. But plan to hoe in and really get it done, banged out, written up and ready to use.