uh-oh.

so i definitely feel like this bit where is spend the last half of every year posting gobs of wiffle-wafflery about "will-i-or-won't-i-beat-my-record" is getting kinda old. and i had that post about should i or shouldn't i do a new year's resolution ...

and just now i thought, you know, if i post every day of 2025, that will be it, right? i'll get right over the will-i/won't-i stuff because there won't be any room to beat that number.

of course, immediately i realized that was dumb, because duh, i could always post more than one post a day, so 365 is not in any way an airtight lid.

but it would still be a feat, right? and it would overshoot my previous records so much, the idea of breaking the record every year would seem pretty moot, right?

man, i wish i hadn't thought of that.

xoxo,
claire

should i try to come up with a new year's resolution?

i think i know an easy one, which would be making sure i remind the whole worthy yamily to get off our patooties about gaming. man, we slacked crazy-time the last part of this year, rpg-wise.

does a super-easy resolution really count, though?

i'm going to say, "you betcha!"

like, what's the point of making one, you know? to be ambitious just for its own sake? to leave you style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; text-size-adjust: auto;">i think any new year's resolution worth its weight in pixels ought to be designed to make you feel better about how you're doing. and i really mean the feeling part. it's way more about feeling than about the doing.

you shouldn't reach the end of the year and think, "yeah! i feel good about myself because i knocked it out of the park on my new year's resolution!"

you should think, "i feel good about myself because i did what i needed to do to make myself feel that way."

and honestly, doesn't an easy resolution that you mostly keep do a better job of that than a hard resolution that you're always stressing about whether you're keeping it?

anyway, we'll see if i come up with anything on top of my "more roleplaying!" one.

merry christmas!

xoxo,
claire

well, folks, we're getting really close!

this is post number 44 for the year! just two more posts and this will be the sixth year in a row i've broken my previous record for number of posts in a year.

should i be extra ambitious and see if i can post every day for the rest of the year and get to ... wow, that would be 52 posts for the year!

on the one hand, that sounds pretty awesome. or maybe just even getting to 50 posts, which is more of a milestone-y number than 52. (although i guess 52 is an average of one a week ... but, hmm, that actually sounds kind of lame, because one post a week, jeez, who thinks that's impressive? making it to 50 posts for some reason sounds more impressive to me than just scratching out a whole one post every seven days.)

on the other hand, the more posts i write this year, the harder it will be for me to break my record again next year ...

yeesh. the dilemma!

xoxo,
claire

we made ... a terrible mistake ...

everybody here at worthy acres has been riding a crazy manga wave the last month or so because msg keeps finding and buying these series. (i'm gonna say he's kinda sorta addicted, in fact. in a cute way.) mostly it has been a super-great time -- we've read a couple dozen manga volumes and only 2 of them have been lame.

but then msg found "the summer you were there."

and now we're all sobbing.

only 5 of the 6 books are out in english, but we read one a few days ago and then read the other 4 that are available today, and it's just ... well, it's so good the whole household is now emotionally crippled.

do not read this series without tissues.

and definitely don't read it before the sixth book is out and you can binge the whole thing if you end up liking it -- we're going to have to wait almost two months before it's published and we know how the story plays out.

agony.

whew.

oh, dang.

i really, really, really like to write thanksgiving posts on this blog, but somehow i end up forgetting to do it maybe more often than i remember.

this year ... totally forgot. like, even heading into thanksgiving, knowing i had decided to go for another record-breaking number-of-posts year, it didn't even tiptoe through the next room over from my brain. absolutely zero plan to write a thanksgiving post, and now here it is a couple of days later and i'm just now realizing i blew it.

but instead of beating myself up too much for it, here's my belated thanksgiving post, okay?

i am more thankful than i could possibly express for the six unbelievably wonderful people i share my life with: msg, elle, sasha, ariel, hettie, and akane. you can look in my blog link list on the left if you want a taste of what a delightful crew we've got around here ... hopefully it will inspire you to be equally wonderful for whoever is in your life, as opposed to making you writhe on hot coals of jealousy.

i'm also thankful for all kinds of great shows and anime and manga and music we've been deep-diving into lately: arcane and silo and frieren: beyond journey's end and bocchi the rock and my wife has no emotion and entirely too much yuri manga and band-maid and mutant monster and hanabie and on and on and on. (that last bit isn't the name of anything. probably there's no real worry someone's going to think "on and on and on" is the title of a show or manga or band, but i'd sure hate for someone to google search each one of the other parts of that list and recognize the total genius in every one of them, then google "on and on and on" and be super-frustrated that they can't find any shows or bands by that name. hmm. although i guess i should probably google "on and on and on" just in case it turns out there is a show or band by that name and it totally sucks. okay, going to do that now ... whew! the first few hits were just about lyrics for "we didn't start the fire" by billy joel and a wikipedia article about an abba song. not a big fan of that billy joel tune, but abba is cool, so i guess no harm no foul if someone googles it.)

i'm also thankful for ... you, whoever you are, reading this. (i mean, odds are you're just one of my yams reading this in the future, because hardly anybody else even knows about this blog, i think, but if you're not one of my yams, this paragraph is more specifically for you!) i really enjoy the idea that people might read things i have to say and find some entertainment or ideas or humor in them, so thanks gobs for stopping in and reading through this. you're the best. seriously!

lastly, i'm thankful for having a large, comfy bed, and people to share it with, because it's getting late here and i'm kinda pooped and there's nothing cozier and happier than snuggling up under the covers with someone (or several someones!) you adore.

xoxo,
claire

navy blue silk pajamas

i really need to get a set of these.

damn, you know what? i think that says all i need to say right now!

(chime in in the comments if you have an opinion on whether the buttons and trims should be pink, white, or teal, please!)

the return of ambition!

okay, guys, so ... some stuff happened this past week that i can't do anything about, and it's crummy, but the fact that i can't do anything about it doesn't mean i can't do anything.

i can put my head on my boyfriend's shoulder. i can hold him and whisper in his ear. i can give every one of my girlfriends a great big hug and a kiss (lots of them, actually!), i can nudge our whole gang of yams into playing games, watching shows or movies together, taking walks and getting exercise and having long, loving, laughing conversations ...

and i by dang can beat my blogging record for the year. jeepers, there's only six posts left to get it done, and that includes this one!

so how about if you do the same, everyone out there? buck up, grab hold of the things that are still there to smile about, and do the things you can do, all right?

we got this!