I also struggle with my energy levels. I try to have the mindset that my partner's mom has where rest itself is productive especially when it's healing and recovering. Productivity itself is a scam. Humans aren't meant to hustle even at home.

Are you taking a staycation this week too??? I feel a lot of that—too much to do, much of it self-imposed. Going at my own pace this week.

Totally understand- I hope you can get some restful rest!

A very relatable read! I constantly worry about time, to the point where i feel bad if I spend time watching TV or playing games because that is time I could have spent on projects

I too find myself opting out of many enriching activities if it isn't also a friend hangout OR also leading to some tangible result or thing "of value" that I can share around online. I cannot remember the last time I played a single-player video game alone, comfortable with using time like that

I tell my wife I need ISS this weekend. Pretend we're on the International Space Station, nothing gets in or out except for possibly a fast food delivery orbital capsule.

@garfriend I try to tell myself that, but it doesn’t always get through. I used to try to “hustle” all the time. I think it permanently altered my brain, lol.

@skep I am! I’m trying not to have a to-do list, though that never usually works.

@tabf5 Yep, whenever I do things just for me, I feel guilty for needing to do that. Working on just being OK with the fact that I need a lot of alone time.

@p7uen I like that idea!

I also found this post very relatable. I always feel a bit like that guy from the Twilight Zone episode who just wants time enough to read (and also to do all my other hobbies), but hopefully without that episode's ending. I hope you enjoy your staycation. Maybe squeeze in some walks through the cemetary.

I hope you enjoy this time off! I am a firm believer in the power of a staycation to reset. Especially what I call a "buffet" style one. Like before I start I set out possible things I might enjoy so I don't even have to THINK when the glorious PTO arrives ^_^

Correcting typos. Also, the furbish phrase of the week is Dah-toh-toh boh-dah tee. Viva la vida.

Is it true that the long furby is the feral form of furbies?

Few studies have been done on Furby evolution. It's possible Long Furbys are a hybrid form after reproduction with an Earth animal. I'll have to look into it. Thank you for the research topic.

i think long furbies are the result of very intentional selective breeding. their long fragile spines make them struggle to survive and find food in the wild. so like a corgi or a dachshund they rely on humans to feed and take care of the resulting health complications. source i used to be a long furby breeder in 2019.

I believe long furbies are actually not related to furbys at all, and that they exemplify convergent evolution. According to some theories, long furbies belong to the Mustelidae species and they share a common ancestor with ferrets

tune in next time for 800 words about the first thing I ever bought on amazon

I searched my email for in the aeroplane over the sea and I found the cover my high school boyfriend recorded for me as part of an album of love song covers. looked him up and he's out winning awards at the cool film festivals. I guess he was cooler than me then and also now. (I am also old.)

I'm 57 and I *also* feel like a perpetual 17 year old. I keep waiting for some kind of magical enlightenment where I don't feel like I'm just faking being an adult.

Gawd, I remember being 6 and looking at teens as if they were the sages of all wisdom. Now I'm in my 40s, and the folk in their 30s inspire in me a bit of a protective mom feeling. That being said, I consider many people younger than me to be wiser than I ever was at their age. I mean, I remember putting oil on my skin ON PURPOSE to get a tan, and reading cruddy relationship advice in Seventeen!

@skullhouse Damn, that IS cool. Sadly listening to NMH did not result in long-term coolness for me

@divergentrays It is sort of comforting that it seems to be like that for everyone. @dicjournal Agree! I have a 12-year-old niece who is very smart about stuff that I was totally naive to at her age. I remember fully believing that an "alien autopsy" photo I saw on the internet was 100% real, lmfao. But my niece is out here lecturing her grandparents to not believe everything they see online 😂

I'm in my mid 20's. I feel ancient when I'm in the internet

just some aspirational travel content for you

ah London, like a New York with a different accent

idk whats better, neopets or travel

but if we don't leave all that trash out, what will the foxes eat?

@babywormcore Neopets has made me cry less

I've never been. I had no idea.

not even the only trashy city in this corner of the world! seen some other surprisingly littery city centres in my event traversals...

To be fair, I only noticed trash dunes in one small part of London. Everywhere else had normal amounts of litter

Rubbish, Primark and Love Island... truly you have fully experienced our culture

It was the first time I'd ever heard of Love Island... I was transfixed. and confused. so confused.

My name is Hammy Birthday Cake

These are always fun but the quotes from the kids are hilarious. The middle name is very powerful.

I really love your horoscopes

I'm taking my horoscope to heart. It just seems true.

me: you're the goat of the sea! my wife: you're goddamned right I am

thank you i have been very sleepy so i will take this advice to keep napping

I like my horoscope. I'm claiming it hardcore. There ARE a lot of murders here.

as a taurus with a summer bucket list that only has a few more items left to cross off, i'm really feeling this!!

My favorite pencil memory is when I lent a stub of a pencil to a friend in high school. He sharpened it real good and gave it back to me the next day. During the handoff, though, it stabbed me in the palm and stuck there. I remember staring at it for a moment before realizing that I should panic; then I shook it out. I still have a gray mark there. Pencil tattooed me.

wow, hardcore Skep out here with an edgy pencil tattoo

here's a poem about a pencil: https://worldwideshen.neocities.org/writing/pencil and here's my bit list of answers: https://worldwideshen.neocities.org/about/100webmaster#other

neigh!

lol that reminds me of a time when i dropped a pencil on the floor in my room but my hands were full of whatever else i was carrying so i didnt stop to pick it up. ended up totally forgetting about it but was rudely reminded of it when my bare foot found it. it jabbed right into the side knuckle part of my big toe and i had to pull it out. it hurt for a few days but i had the pencil mark for several years

oh my lil brother also has a pencil tattoo! when we were little, doing homework together, i was tapping my pencil (tip down) on the table and he was tapping his palm on top of the end of the pencil. i turned the pencil around, thinking it was funny but also he was tapping much slower and i thought he would surely have time to stop. well he didnt see it and got stabbed......

Personally I come to your website specifically for the pencil content. Never change.

You're in luck. It's all pencils all the time from here on out

I have a pencil palm tattoo, too. I was trying to get a pencil out of my desk in second grade and it must have been jammed in a spot because it suddenly yanked free and stabbed me right in the middle of the palm. I don't think I even told my parents, for whatever reason. Should we start some kind of gang?

Pencil nostalgia is good nostalgia. Nothing beats a perfectly sharp Ticonderoga.