yesterday i woke up around 11am as has become my routine, and i decided to start my day by finishing tell me why! i successfully finished it around 2pm and decided to eat lunch, i had spicy nuggets with ranch :3
i'm going to spoil tell me why so if you don't want spoilers... skip this paragraph x3 i really liked this game a lot, more than i expected to. i went with tom's version of the event because it seemed like the more plausible truth considering everything like the barn loft and how mary-ann did everything she could for tyler and alyson. she clearly cared for both of them and i think her harming tyler wouldn't make any sense, even if she was struggling with mental illness / substance abuse and the fear of losing her children. of course, i felt really bad about how that choice affected alyson, who already felt guilt over mary-ann's death and now believes she killed her mother for no reason. it's all just very sad and emotional ;3; i also chose not to tell eddy the truth about alyson killing mary-ann, so i got tyler's epilogue. oh, and obviously i had no choice but to kiss michael :p i have 10/30 achievements i missed, i'll probably have to replay most if not all of the game for those unfortunately, but i think i'll do that another time instead of worrying about doing it before i play something else. hopefully a replay won't take quite as long though since i can just skip cutscenes and don't have to obsessively interact with everything x3
pausing to spin the wheel and see what i'll be playing next... a date with death! this game seems to be more similar to our life than other dating games i've played, aka you have one specific love interest rather than a pool of different routes to choose from. it also has a pretty nice amount of character customization features from what i can see on the store page and it lets you play as any gender, which is always nice when dating games typically lock you into being a woman (i'm looking at you, mystic messenger). i think the game that does this best that i've played is definitely our life, not only can you choose your character's appearance, name, and pronouns, but there's also scenes where you can explicitly choose whether your character is cis, transgender, or intersex, and where you can choose what their body looks like. i believe the clothing options are also not affected by what gender and pronouns you choose, which is very cool :3
honestly, i'd really like to replay our life eventually, i loved it so much when i played it and even got hyperfixated on it and would spend hours and hours playing it every day x3 cove is one of my f/os as well, i may have gotten a little attached to him... that game is also pretty cool because while it is pretty romance heavy if you choose to go that route, you can also choose to be just friends or even be completely indifferent toward cove the entire time, which i think is interesting. i unsurprisingly went all in on romance, so i'm curious to replay and see what changes when you choose to be friends or indifferent. the game is fairly long though for a free game, i played it once and have over 15 hours of playtime, so we'll see when i end up feeling up to a replay.
after lunch i have zero idea where most of the next few hours went? i finally cleaned off my desk, it's had a giant mountain of trash and random stuff on it for ages but it's finally clean! hopefully it stays that way and i don't end up piling a bunch of stuff up again T^T here's what it looks like now, so much nicer :3 i took a shower when i was done and then it was somehow 5pm... i decided to get in bed and attempt to take a short nap before church because i was absolutely exhausted for some reason.

church was... oh boy. i was already tired and had a headache before we even got there, but i really think those kids were wilder than they have ever been. we had five kids and it felt more like a full classroom of 30. granted, four of them had went back to school yesterday, so that probably explains it, but i really thought class would never end... when we got home, i ate dinner (leftover Pepper Slop) and then went straight to bed.
today i've just woken up a little before noon. okay so i wrote that singular sentence and it is now 1:30pm x3 i had pepper slop yet again for lunch, then went digging through my old main account tweets looking for something specific that i didn't find and just retweeted a bunch of random stuff instead >_< i don't really feel like playing a video game today, though i might still play a date with death in the evening if i feel up to it. right now i'm not really sure what to do instead... i've spent so much time the past few weeks playing video games i've forgotten all my other hobbies x3
i ended up digging through my clothes and found a couple skirts i haven't worn in ages, i need to wear them before summer is over and it gets cold again! they're kinda short though >_< one is a pleated jean skirt i honestly don't know if i've ever worn, it's really cute... maybe i'll wear it when we go out for my birthday or something :3 i also have a pair of jeans that i'm pretty sure are from last christmas and have never been worn because they're way too long T^T we should be going to my grandparents' for dinner tonight so i'll probably take them over and ask if my grandma can shorten them so i can finally wear them.
it's currently 3:30pm and i feel like i've done a whole lot of nothing today T^T but... i'm so tired i think i'm going to lay in bed and stare at my phone for a while... i don't really feel like doing anything else right now ;3;
8pm update :3 i ended up sitting around until my mom got home, and then we went to my grandparents' for dinner. i took the jeans for my grandma to shorten, i can't wait to be able to finally wear them ^-^ for dinner i had mac and cheese (with hot sauce) and sauteed veggies, and a grape gatorade zero to drink. i'm usually not a grape flavor kind of person, but this gatorade is actually really good. something else i did before going over was burned my fiji white sands candle for probably two or three hours, i was hoping it would fix the tunneling but it didn't ;3; the wick was too short so i poured out the melted wax when i was done burning it, hopefully now the tunneled part will melt? i don't know, i'm not a very good candle user >_< i think i'm actually going to try burning it for a while right now to see if that fixes it, and i'm going to start playing a date with death! i'd honestly really like to get a new candle, i'd especially love a woodwick one but those are so expensive and i don't think i've ever seen a small one, which i would need because my desk is so small. maybe next time we go to walmart or somewhere i'll try and find one :3
oh, something i realized while i was looking at my unplayed steam games earlier, pokedate is a horror game! i really thought this whole time that it was just a regular dating sim, but no... now i'm eager to play it, i really liked doki doki literature club and this seems pretty similar in the horror visual novel sense ^-^
update, i played the first two days of a date with death, i didn't think i was going to like it at first but it's already growing on me! the grim reaper is actually pretty cute... he even has an axolotl plushie x3 it'll probably be very easy for me to fall in love with him, it usually is when i play dating games :p i think i'm going to go to bed now, it's 10pm and i'm getting very tired. goodnight!
i'm going to spoil tell me why so if you don't want spoilers... skip this paragraph x3 i really liked this game a lot, more than i expected to. i went with tom's version of the event because it seemed like the more plausible truth considering everything like the barn loft and how mary-ann did everything she could for tyler and alyson. she clearly cared for both of them and i think her harming tyler wouldn't make any sense, even if she was struggling with mental illness / substance abuse and the fear of losing her children. of course, i felt really bad about how that choice affected alyson, who already felt guilt over mary-ann's death and now believes she killed her mother for no reason. it's all just very sad and emotional ;3; i also chose not to tell eddy the truth about alyson killing mary-ann, so i got tyler's epilogue. oh, and obviously i had no choice but to kiss michael :p i have 10/30 achievements i missed, i'll probably have to replay most if not all of the game for those unfortunately, but i think i'll do that another time instead of worrying about doing it before i play something else. hopefully a replay won't take quite as long though since i can just skip cutscenes and don't have to obsessively interact with everything x3
pausing to spin the wheel and see what i'll be playing next... a date with death! this game seems to be more similar to our life than other dating games i've played, aka you have one specific love interest rather than a pool of different routes to choose from. it also has a pretty nice amount of character customization features from what i can see on the store page and it lets you play as any gender, which is always nice when dating games typically lock you into being a woman (i'm looking at you, mystic messenger). i think the game that does this best that i've played is definitely our life, not only can you choose your character's appearance, name, and pronouns, but there's also scenes where you can explicitly choose whether your character is cis, transgender, or intersex, and where you can choose what their body looks like. i believe the clothing options are also not affected by what gender and pronouns you choose, which is very cool :3
honestly, i'd really like to replay our life eventually, i loved it so much when i played it and even got hyperfixated on it and would spend hours and hours playing it every day x3 cove is one of my f/os as well, i may have gotten a little attached to him... that game is also pretty cool because while it is pretty romance heavy if you choose to go that route, you can also choose to be just friends or even be completely indifferent toward cove the entire time, which i think is interesting. i unsurprisingly went all in on romance, so i'm curious to replay and see what changes when you choose to be friends or indifferent. the game is fairly long though for a free game, i played it once and have over 15 hours of playtime, so we'll see when i end up feeling up to a replay.
after lunch i have zero idea where most of the next few hours went? i finally cleaned off my desk, it's had a giant mountain of trash and random stuff on it for ages but it's finally clean! hopefully it stays that way and i don't end up piling a bunch of stuff up again T^T here's what it looks like now, so much nicer :3 i took a shower when i was done and then it was somehow 5pm... i decided to get in bed and attempt to take a short nap before church because i was absolutely exhausted for some reason.

church was... oh boy. i was already tired and had a headache before we even got there, but i really think those kids were wilder than they have ever been. we had five kids and it felt more like a full classroom of 30. granted, four of them had went back to school yesterday, so that probably explains it, but i really thought class would never end... when we got home, i ate dinner (leftover Pepper Slop) and then went straight to bed.
today i've just woken up a little before noon. okay so i wrote that singular sentence and it is now 1:30pm x3 i had pepper slop yet again for lunch, then went digging through my old main account tweets looking for something specific that i didn't find and just retweeted a bunch of random stuff instead >_< i don't really feel like playing a video game today, though i might still play a date with death in the evening if i feel up to it. right now i'm not really sure what to do instead... i've spent so much time the past few weeks playing video games i've forgotten all my other hobbies x3
i ended up digging through my clothes and found a couple skirts i haven't worn in ages, i need to wear them before summer is over and it gets cold again! they're kinda short though >_< one is a pleated jean skirt i honestly don't know if i've ever worn, it's really cute... maybe i'll wear it when we go out for my birthday or something :3 i also have a pair of jeans that i'm pretty sure are from last christmas and have never been worn because they're way too long T^T we should be going to my grandparents' for dinner tonight so i'll probably take them over and ask if my grandma can shorten them so i can finally wear them.
it's currently 3:30pm and i feel like i've done a whole lot of nothing today T^T but... i'm so tired i think i'm going to lay in bed and stare at my phone for a while... i don't really feel like doing anything else right now ;3;
8pm update :3 i ended up sitting around until my mom got home, and then we went to my grandparents' for dinner. i took the jeans for my grandma to shorten, i can't wait to be able to finally wear them ^-^ for dinner i had mac and cheese (with hot sauce) and sauteed veggies, and a grape gatorade zero to drink. i'm usually not a grape flavor kind of person, but this gatorade is actually really good. something else i did before going over was burned my fiji white sands candle for probably two or three hours, i was hoping it would fix the tunneling but it didn't ;3; the wick was too short so i poured out the melted wax when i was done burning it, hopefully now the tunneled part will melt? i don't know, i'm not a very good candle user >_< i think i'm actually going to try burning it for a while right now to see if that fixes it, and i'm going to start playing a date with death! i'd honestly really like to get a new candle, i'd especially love a woodwick one but those are so expensive and i don't think i've ever seen a small one, which i would need because my desk is so small. maybe next time we go to walmart or somewhere i'll try and find one :3
oh, something i realized while i was looking at my unplayed steam games earlier, pokedate is a horror game! i really thought this whole time that it was just a regular dating sim, but no... now i'm eager to play it, i really liked doki doki literature club and this seems pretty similar in the horror visual novel sense ^-^
update, i played the first two days of a date with death, i didn't think i was going to like it at first but it's already growing on me! the grim reaper is actually pretty cute... he even has an axolotl plushie x3 it'll probably be very easy for me to fall in love with him, it usually is when i play dating games :p i think i'm going to go to bed now, it's 10pm and i'm getting very tired. goodnight!