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Sorry we haven't been active. Busy end of the school year and everything.

We're in summer school now. Depression kind of kicked our ass in the second semester, and we failed a couple classes. No worries though. Our summer school program is really just sitting and staring at a computer and "watching" videos with an occasional quiz. It's tedious, sure, but it's easy work. Only part that sucks is having 12 days of our summer taken away. We'd rather have that than repeat a grade or something though.
I had one of those "baby dreams" last night. 0/10. Woke up in despair.
Only other new thing: we've been really into making pickles lately, and I don't know why. Tried our first batch yesterday; Very vinegar-heavy, and a little too sweet for my liking, but overall a success. Played around with different ratios for our second batch, and used a little bit of a pre-existing brine. Hopefully they'll turn out even better.

We went to the mall with our partner system yesterday. They were home alone all weekend in a big, window-y house with 8 animals, so they were (understandably) falling into madness.Hot topic was doing inventory, so the entire store was buy one, get one 30% off. Not a bad deal! But hot topic is expensive. Because of coupons we got a shirt and a blindbag for a little less money than it would've been without the coupon. The shirt is cute. It's got little jesters on it and text that reads, "I should've been born a court jester". Sums us up pretty well. Also, the cashier was super cool, and they complimented my TMBG shirt!
We went to the Popmart that just opened, but they didn't take cash, which was all I had. So I didn't get anything. By then we were both starving, so we decided to go to Cheesecake Factory. I've never been there, so we went into Barnes & Noble while I looked up the menu online. I found a limited edition Trigun Funko pop! Almost completed the collection! We have Vash, Wolfwood, Legato, and now, Meryl.
Went to Cheesecake Factory. It was nice; especially because we could go out together without the parents. It was raining while we waited to get picked up, so we went back into B&N just to walk around and escape the rain. Ended up finding some really pretty (but really expensive) journals, but our partner system was very sweet and got us one. It's purple with gold details on it, and we've decided to use it as a Book of Shadows.
Speaking of which, we've been getting back into our practice a bit, particularly with Aphrodite, and a bit with Hermes. We really needed Aphrodite right about now. And last night we had this realization; how can we be a devotee to Aphrodite, and not try to love ourselves, our body, and our collective? We've let ourselves get so negative and self-conscious. But we're fantastic! Why don't we realize that more often?!

That's all for now. We'll try to post more often.
-Enoch

Hey Dreamwidth. Sorry we havent been active.

Anyway, updates and stuff. uhhhh

We attend our schools GSA (gender-sexuality-alliance club), and after the last meeting, somebody from it invited us to a DND club meeting! We've been wanting to play DND for YEARS. Our character is a Tabaxi bard, I think they're pretty cool. Anyway, we also listened to They Might Be Playing They Might Be Giants for that entire day. It's a 6AM-6PM event on KMSU radio where they play nothing but They Might Be Giants the entire time. It was great! But one of the last songs they played was our request (Kiss Me, Son of God) and we weren't listening when they played it. Bummer. But its okay, there's always next year, right?

We also finished act 2 of Arcane season 2. Obviously I wont spoil anything but it DESTROYED us. It's kinda bittersweet that Arcane is ending soon, we've been a fan since season 1 first released.

That's all I think. bye bye

-Dave

Hi DreamWidth. Not much has gone on this week.

We've been getting really bad headaches every day, usually a couple times a day, which sucks but we're getting through it. When we can, we pop an acetamenophen and hope for the best.

We've been cooking very often recently! Mostly ramen noodles, wontons, and pasta, but it's better than nothing! Plus those are pretty good safe foods for most of us. we have a DELICIOUS ramen recipe to share, but I'll post that separately.

Our grandfather's girlfriend got us this book from an art exhibit she went to see recently. It's very pretty, we haven't gotten a chance to read it yet but we will soon! She also sent us a $25.00 gift card to buy henna, because we shared with her that we've really been into henna for a while now. It'll be here on Sunday, we're very excited!!

I think that's all the updates for now. Gonna post that recipe!!

Hello DreamWidth!

Apologies for not posting. We got the flu, then started winter break, and just... eh. But we're back (albeit we might leave again until school starts back up.)

So, updates time!
Got the flu, as previously mentioned. (Missed most of our finals. Taking them when we get back to school in January.)
The other night was Yalda Night! Iranian holiday. My children and I celebrated, my wife/our partner system even got a pomegranate for us to have out here since our festivities were happening in-headspace. Popee came, since she's dating my daughter, Ruby, though Popee didn't stay for the entire celebration because she had family things to attend to. Oh, and Nilou showed up! Great dancer. Wonderful at parties, too. She brought Tighnari along as well. Lesser Lord Kusanali wanted to come but I don't think she's in a place where she'd like to be around me; not in my home, at least. That's alright though. Would have been nice to have her over, though.

Today we did our Christmas cookie decoration stuff at Max's relatives' house. It was fun! Got some presents (a couple gift cards, and the Heartstopper book.) We didn't decorate any cookies though, because the table was surrounded by a bunch of small children and we didn't want to have to squeeze in there. It was still fun nonetheless.

Tomorrow's the Christmas party at Max's relatives' house, but it's the other side of the family. Real fun crowd, just a bit old-fashioned. And mostly Republican. They don't usually bring politics into the conversations though, so it's not the biggest issue.

I made some stir-fry noodles for dinner. Wasn't great, I kept having to help max's siblings so they turned out sort of overcooked. I still ate most of it anyway though. Tasted fine, just.. Texture. Bleuughh.

I think that's all for now.

-Dottore, he/her/xem