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 I think I am experiencing some insane post-adrenaline exhaustion. My house and my partners house have had no power for four days, so we stayed at a friends house that somehow had power. It's been roughly 5-20 degrees F(-15 to -6 degree C) and we usually don't get much colder than 30F/-1C. That on top of city wide outages has been absolutely brutal. No classes or Volunteering all week, and I haven't heard anything from work. But I am just so so tired, I've maybe slept so much that it's making me exhausted or have been so stressed that now that I have returned home, with power!, the stress I was feeling is all coming out. A lot of people don't have power still, so I am very lucky to be warm and safe.

I received a lot less books this year, only two, which is probably good because it takes me a while to read them and I am still not done reading last years book gifts. I got Find The Work You're Wired To Do, by Ken Coleman. This one was from my Dad. He likes to get me books I have no interest in, but they are usually pretty good when I do read them. I like this one simply because it comes with a quiz and I love filling out quizzes.
The other one I received was Fashioning Japanese Subcultures(second edition), by Yuniya Kawamura. This one I asked for, from my Mother. I started it as soon as I could, and I plan to read it for a few hours on the plane/at the airport tomorrow. Subculture is a topic I am very interested in, and very probably why I end up doing things like wearing lolita fashion, and having a neocities website. Kawamura, who studied sociology, now works at FIT. She is the "de facto head of the schools Japanese department" according to a person in my local fashion community that was in one of her classes. But anyway, she has a great new and well researched perspective on subculture/neotribes and it is so so very interesting. I would recommend the book to anyone who likes academic writing or niche fashion.

I am not a great writer, and I have a hard time with words. I feel like that comes across in my posts here, but I want to be able to improve my speech and writing, so I will keep trying without becoming too word jumbled.

I hope everyone has a Happy new year and had a good holiday week!

 It's been a while since I found the time to sit down and write a post on here, mostly because I dropped my (now long gone) laptop on the floor and it broke in essentially unfixable ways, but also out of a burst of laziness in the past month.
I want to write some small life updates, and some upcoming events I look forward to.
First, I'll start with what I've been up to. As of just last week I have acquired the Karami JSK & head bow set in my preferred colorway (B x W)! I traded with a friend in the Old School Lolitas discord server, and I can't wait to receive it! I previously had the JSk&KC in sax and me being me I just can't stand pastels and especially not wearing them most of the time. 
  I also recently purchased my very first vintage yukata which I plan to wear to my cities upcoming cherry Blossom festival. The garment is from 1996 and is overall a blue-ish black color with prints of dragonflies and flowers in a neon-esque style. As for an obi I decided on a colorful floral hanhaba obi. I'm still not 100% set on it but it will do for now. In the future I think an obi with B x W polka-dots or diamonds would be very cute.
  As for other upcoming events, I soon will be attending an anime convention for the first time in nearly 3 years! With the intensity of covid in the US everything has been cancelled over and over and I can't wait to be back in the atmosphere of a convention. I plan to cosplay at least one day but other than that I will likely dress comfortably. My current cosplay plan is Space Channel 5 Hatsune Miku. I would have preferred to do a cosplay of Ulala, the main character of space channel five, but I already had a wig for Miku, so I settled on that for budget reasons.
  Anyways that's all from me for today, I hope everyone is having a good year as we approach the end of the first quarter of 2022 and remember to take good care of yourself!  -Catherine