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  PR #062025 Reported 5 July 2025 (Backlogged) Project 1: Writing     REVAMP!     Blog Posts Completed: 26/52     Novels Completed: 0/7 Planned Action: Write July Blog Posts Write 50 pages of 1st Novel Project 2: Weight Management     Current Weight: 234.6     Weight Loss/Gain: -0.6 lbs (+1.2 lbs total for 2025)     Planned Action: Limit Sugary Drinks and Snacks Monitor Calorie Intake Project 3: Crochet      COMPLETED!     Planned Action: Take Crochet Break during July Project 4: Job Hunt     Progress Made: 100%     Jobs Applied for: 0     Planned Action Apply for 1 job per week Plan Digital Content for After Digital Retreat

  Still The Animals Enter by Jane Hilberry   Reading poetry was always an off-and-on thing for me. I don't know if I have ever mentioned it before. Especially in middle and high school. I was often on the fence on whether or not I enjoyed reading it or not. High school almost tilted me totally off poetry, especially when it was time to analyze it. Personally, I won't ever fully analyze a poem. I will recognize some patterns or themes, and I will appreciate the choices of phrasing or words, but I won't go into truly dissecting it or trying to figure out if what kind of meter it has or if it has a specific flow. I just enjoy it for what it is.    This poetry collection is one that I would recommend to someone who needs something fun to read, but also something to pick up on the deeper aspects of poetry. All three sections of this collection follow a bigger flow, but also smaller flows by themselves. I am a fan of that kind of thing, only because it definitely makes a c...

 "Well, I bit the bullet. I left the Discords I was in for my tarot reading buddy. I am just so done with a lot of people who aren't friendly or friends of mine."   - Me, 14 June 2025, to a group chat of friends ~   Being a moderator online is not an easy task. It is not a difficult one either.    The ease comes naturally. You simply watch over the community gathering in this space, making sure everyone is civil enough to each other and following the guidelines set by the person who created the community in the first place.    The difficulty comes when you and the person who created the community come to a place where you no longer are on the same page. Where something has set you on different paths and perspectives that can be difficult to compromise or agree to disagree on.    Over the last few months, I have had this happen. I will not get into details because that would be unfair to my tarot reading buddy, his community, and the wond...

 Hey y'all.  Lots of stuff has been going on. Hence the lack of blog posts for the last couple of months.  Please give me a day or two (or more) to backtrack and update my blog. I promise I have stuff set up for those Sundays. I just need some time to get them going.  Thanks for hanging out with me. I may make a new post about what has been going on since April, or I may not. I'm not 100% sure yet.  In the meantime, feeling free to enjoy all of the previous blog posts and stuffs... and things.  See you all in the backlog. And hopefully this won't happen again.  Love and Strength,  Ani

   It is said that multiple queens can wear the same crown. History on every planet in every solar system has told us this. I can't think of too many planets, however, that bears the weight of the crowns that our queen wears.    Yes, crowns. You heard that correctly.    It was only something we discovered recently as we watched another planet boil and burn against its parasitic lifeforms. We noticed a lifeform in the menagerie that looked very similar to our queen. Nearly identical if we thought with any fewer cells in our bodies. We brought our queen to see this and she paled at the thought. She asked us to keep tabs on them. To look for others. A rather strange request, considering our queen never spoke directly to us or cared about our work. She was usually too busy keeping the government running to her liking. But now we felt off-put by her requests.   Nevertheless, we did as we were requested. And we found more. Many more. Almost half of the plane...

   I am so done with everything.    I don't know if it is just all the madness going into my brain, or all the madness coming out of it. Maybe both. I'm not 100%.    It doesn't help that I am on my current round of monthly cycles, dealing with migraines, and now having the distinct pleasure of dealing with changes at work that are making me want to rage quit. Couple that with general jackass behavior from the public.    This is the final flames of my personal burn out, I think. Fitting, for it being this day last year I was at a memorial gathering and a graduation party on the same day. I am sitting here, in front of my computer, feeling the last strands of my mental and social sanity burn apart. I can feel the embers and ashes gathering in the pit of my soul. Everything feels like pain and sadness.    But hey, this is what I've been asking for the last few months. I have been asking for the world to burn. It is only right that I am caug...