omg HI guys it's been a minute. this year has been pretty insane so i'll try to get y'all up to speed:

• i started studying web development in earnest, so last semester i got a front end cert and i'm gonna go for a full stack one this semester.
• also did a fellowship to get like real webdev experience and i'm doing a new cohort/client with the same program and i got my friends to do it with me this time so i don't have to worry about teammates ghosting me LMAO
• i also started working this year finally! now i have two jobs (ta for the webdev cert program i did last semester and research assistant at a local uni). may pick up a third job (research assistant thru my actual uni) bc i'm insane and addicted to the grind
• also i was dealing with some really scary medical shit for the first third of this year (not my own medical shit lmao) but everythings okay now! now that that's over i'm trying to chip away at my own laundry list of health issues lmao
• i finally got the court order for my name/gender change! now i have to start Changing it which is gonna be a pain but i'm trying to be excited about it instead of dreading all the waiting at various government buildings
• all this to explain why i totally disappeared this year or2 i hope all my neocities mutuals are well i miss seeing everyones website updates ;~;

here's some nice stuff i did unrelated to the nitty gritty life stuff:

• this one is arguable but i started playing ff14 LMAOOO email me if u wanna add me but i'm still a sprout so be nice pls
• i started drawing/painting w posca markers and its really fun. if i make an art page i'll share it bc i haven't been posting on social media much tbh
• my sister gave me her whole monitor setup bc she doesn't use it so i have some nice stuff now. it's all white and i prefer black but i got it for free so it's ok
• saw machinegirl live they're my fav artist ever that shit hard reset my brain. oh and 100gecs was there too their music is pretty cool actually
• visited one of my best friends a couple states away and it was super fun
• saw danny elfman live, he's another one of my fav artists and that concert was insane
• was able to revenge everyone who attacked me on artfight this year!
• another one of my best friends visited here for two weeks...miss her so bad tbh
• my sister had her sweet 16/quinceañera and it was soooo fun. the hangover was insane tho lmao
• got a new desk and bookshelf for my birthday bc my old ones were literally falling apart and they look so nice actually. i'm really happy with them even though i was exploding while trying to build all that shit bc i'm not that handy tbh

FUNKYWEB RING UPDATE: also my email ran out of storage so i think people aren't allowed to submit to the funkyweb ring anymore? which is fine bc i'm super behind on it and honestly reconsidering what i want the future of that webring to look like moving forward. i find some really awesome sites through it personally so i don't want to disband it entirely but i also don't want it to be one of those webrings that literally everyone joins? like i think any site with a strong sense of aesthetic should be good to join bc i don't really feel comfortable vetting based on whether i personally think a site is visually appealing. idk if y'all have suggestions shoot me an email ig i'm making a new one for site related stuff only since my personal is full w google photos LMAO

anyway i wanna try to make more time for this site because i miss it so bad :( idk

i'll update this on my about too but if u wanna reach out to me outside of guestbook stuff my email is rocktype.net@gmail.com

i'll leave you all with this collage i made a few days ago:

man idk what to even say so much has happened i mean it makes sense bc it's been 7 months i just never know what to talk about in these bc i don't wanna get too personal. also a lot of bad stuff happened but i feel like it would be bad for me to focus on negative things so i will try to not focus on that. ok so:

• my laptop got "fixed" but tbh there isn't really a difference and idk what i should do about it at this point </3
• i finally got a new car this week and i'm super happy about it because i didn't have a car for months and it'll be so much easier for me to do stuff now
• i've been knitting and crocheting a lot! i made my own crochet pattern for dice bags and i learned how to knit strawberry bags
• i drew a lot at the start of the month but my wrist has been having a lot of bone issues (for mostly unrelated reasons) which i've been really sad about and i'm starting to get a wrist brace tan from it lmfao. anyway i need to speedrun my artfight revenges before the month ends because i got really cool attacks!
• one of my friends moved to where i live so things have been busy but also very cool and another one of my friends is visiting (same one as my first journal) next month so i'm excited for that!
• i got really nice birthday presents this year :) it makes me happy that my friends put a lot of effort into the things they made/got me especially since we were all super busy

anyway i went to the beach yesterday and then there was a sewage issue so we just went to the pool instead. also i got a mazapan milkshake and it slaps so hard because its like mazapan but without the dryness. also i've been watching my bf play ai the somnuim files and it's such a fun game. also date is so fine.

i'm thinking of making this a zonelets page so i can do blog posts about random shit i like without necessarily making a shrine for it but idk i'm lazy.

i haven't gone to the aquarium this year but i hope to go soon it's just expensy. enclosed in this entry is my latest strawberry bag. i've been thinking of selling them but just to get rid of all the extra dice bags i have lmfao.

heyyyyyyy besties its been a minute both since ive written smth in here and updated a part of my website that isnt for petaldive which is soooo crazy. petaldive is my baby btw im truly living from one session to the next. anyway a lot happened ig but also nothing has happened. lemme think. ok so i got more dice i will make a page for all the dice i have soon bc i think that would be epic.

my grandma visited during thanksgiving break and we went to the aquarium again AND THEY GOT A NEW JELLYFISH!!! photo of the egg yolk jellyfish enclosed below You Will Witness Him. we also visited family for christmas and that went about as badly as youd expect given...everything. im really happy to be home and safe tho.

OH ALSO i passed calc 2 finally suck my dick math. really crazy opinion ik but i think you dont have to like math to be a compsci major. i think i still wanna take a gap semester down the line so i can live with my friends for a bit before finishing Hell School.

Oh yeah my laptop def shat itself it still works but its on its last legs. ive been updating the website on my moms laptop and it cant do much but its very stable so im grateful for that. once i get a new one i am rawdogging yuppie psycho tho i wanna keep playing that game SO bad its such a fun game guys.

anyway besides all that 2021 was a super rough year for me mentally and school makes me evil so idk im truly expecting nothing out of 2022. i hope im happier though. and i hope my bf passes his driving test lol (update: HE PASSED <3) i love him so much btw he is my world!!!!! idc if thats corny ok im gonna eat breakfast now see you all l8er

i went to an aquarium on the 19th for the first time w my bf and one of my best friends who was visiting from really far away and it was so fun! they had 3 kinds of jellyfish: sea nettles, forgot the exact species but i think they were either chrysaora fuscescens or chrysaora achlyos; comb jellies, which I never thought i'd get the chance to see irl and we're way smaller than i expected, and moon jellies. They also had a giant pacific octopus (which i based one of my ocs off of but eventually changed her design a lot) and some weedy sea dragons (i wish they had leafy sea dragons too, though). we spent the rest of the day at the beach and the water was freezing but i still swam in it for a while.

i took some really nice pics (and have been spamming so many people with them LMAO), maybe i'll add a gallery down the line so i can post them here! for now you get 1 sea nettle pic (click for full res)