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rants, rings and lines
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019 09:32 pmSo, my nephew had to do the Accident & Emergency dance yesterday…
( why is this even a thing? )
In other news, I've watched the first two Rocky movies and enjoyed them even more than I was expecting. I had no idea Sylvester Stallone wrote these movies himself? I don't indulge in sports movies very often, even though I love them as much as any other kind of movie -- they're usually amazing underdog stories! -- so I kind of forget that they can be so deeply character based.
I've also made some terrible impulse purchases lately. One was a fountain pen that I sadly decided was not for me and returned, or tried to -- ugh, I will spare you a rant about the fucking Post Office, it would be much less charitable than the one above -- but I also bought a Tombow Fudenosuke brush pen, and some Staedtler fineliners. I...didn't exactly have the intention of taking part in Inktober, except for some wistful hopes and way too many anxieties. Still, I've printed off a drill sheet that I'm really enjoying doing -- I'll do a couple of squares when I'm feeling upset or generally out of sorts, and it's pretty soothing. I've even started to get the hang of changing the pressure between thin and thick strokes!
Relatedly, I have finally discovered that you can follow tags on instagram? So now I get to look at lovely #botanicallinedrawings so that's an improved my experience of that terrible app.
And speaking of botanicals, we had a visitor in our garden last weekend! A squirrel came along and absolutely massacred one of our sunflowers for its seeds! Sat there for ages and left a mess behind! And then it even ran off with a whole flowerhead! It was amazing!
( why is this even a thing? )
In other news, I've watched the first two Rocky movies and enjoyed them even more than I was expecting. I had no idea Sylvester Stallone wrote these movies himself? I don't indulge in sports movies very often, even though I love them as much as any other kind of movie -- they're usually amazing underdog stories! -- so I kind of forget that they can be so deeply character based.
I've also made some terrible impulse purchases lately. One was a fountain pen that I sadly decided was not for me and returned, or tried to -- ugh, I will spare you a rant about the fucking Post Office, it would be much less charitable than the one above -- but I also bought a Tombow Fudenosuke brush pen, and some Staedtler fineliners. I...didn't exactly have the intention of taking part in Inktober, except for some wistful hopes and way too many anxieties. Still, I've printed off a drill sheet that I'm really enjoying doing -- I'll do a couple of squares when I'm feeling upset or generally out of sorts, and it's pretty soothing. I've even started to get the hang of changing the pressure between thin and thick strokes!
Relatedly, I have finally discovered that you can follow tags on instagram? So now I get to look at lovely #botanicallinedrawings so that's an improved my experience of that terrible app.
And speaking of botanicals, we had a visitor in our garden last weekend! A squirrel came along and absolutely massacred one of our sunflowers for its seeds! Sat there for ages and left a mess behind! And then it even ran off with a whole flowerhead! It was amazing!
