(blots forehead)
WOW a lot has happened in the past week!
mostly I’ve been taking on GSM, which is a HUGE archival project/shrine of every chandi thing I’ve done sicne 2018, which is weird to think about. I had to nuke the old site since something was seriously broken and it was just not working out and so I’m starting from scratch. this site is shaping up as well, and i think my next project might be making a character card page to connect to a character portfolio or something like that, so I could collect character illustrations into one place.
Next thing: I may be creeping up onto an answer for my head spinning and terrible nausea! I went to an ENT and he listened to my symptoms, took down notes, broke it down in a way I would understand and said… I think you have vestibular migraines. And me, looking into it, finding out a bunch of stuff, finding out you can have migraine effects without the pain, or that my headaches could be not just headaches sometimes… well… crazy. I have to wait until my next attack, if or when it happens, for more testing, though.
Another thing: I have been delving into weight loss again in a light and hopefully healthy way and I want to address how I do food. I am aiming to get vegetables in more and meat in less, so I’m looking into some vegan/vegetarian cooking (I have a cookbook called Please Don’t Feed the Bears, which is a heavy-metal themed zine with no copyright so I might post a few recipes in here if I end up liking some) and cooking more Filipino dishes to get healthier things on the table. Less starches, more veg, more leftovers. One of the cookbooks I borrowed from the library said, “Leftovers are a feature, not a bug.” Absolutely true when cooking Filipino. Never have I ever cooked anything that was “just enough”. It’s always at least enough for tonight and another night at MINIMUM.
The cookbooks I borrowed are so good I am actually going to buy my own copies when I get my paycheck next week. :9
So far with just minimal work— walking on the weekdays, eating a regular breakfast and fruits for lunch, big dinners (not on purpose, I had to skip lunches for work)— I dropped five pounds since I started three weeks ago. That’s crazy for me.
I still have a lot of work to do on GSM and this site, but I’ve been having fun going back and seeing all the art I’ve done. It’s also been motivating me to draw a lot. I keep coming across things I need a picture for, or a new version of a picture, or something I left unfinished that needs me to fix up.
I guess I’ll probably be spending the rest of the year doing these things online. Reaching back and then using the past to look forward again. It’s nice.