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Sidequests Week 44

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The sidequests for this week included setting an early bedtime for more sleep, lighting a candle, and to go stargazing and learn something new about constellations.

Sitting outside at night and looking up at the stars is always nice, and I do it on occasion, though I rarely seek out any constellations except for the most commonly known ones. I did look up some information for the constellation based on my zodiac (Libra) but didn’t really locate it. I did learn that there are only 88 constellations that are recognized by Western astronomers while I was reading about Libra, and thought that was interesting.

Setting an early bedtime wasn’t too hard, I’ve been going to bed fairly early most of the week. I used to stay up regularly until 2 am, and it seems I’ve been heading to bed before midnight most nights lately. I kind of dislike that though.

And lighting a candle is simple enough. Sometimes after cleaning I’ll light a candle to help improve the smell in the house, so that was almost a normal task for me. I’ve got a few candles with fun sayings on them, as well as a Bath and Body works candle that is mostly used up. I also have a recent candle from Fragrant Jewels – I’ve always liked their products because you can get a random ring with them.

Also it kind of occurs to me that I intended to take a lot more pictures throughout this sidequest thing but haven’t because I am awful at taking pictures. Oops.

Sidequests Week 43

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The sidequests for this past week included calling someone I haven’t spoken to in a while, baking something, and putting together a playlist to boost my mood.

Some friends and I had a combination pumpking carving/tie dye event, so I baked cinnamon rolls to take to that. I was planning to take 2 trays, but then was afraid that I had killed the yeast in one again so I made a third, that was actually unnecessary because the first two baked just fine. Then it turned out only 1 tray was touched, so that left plenty of cinnamon rolls to eat at home (fine by me). However, the baking debacle did result in me having to initially put off the phone call I had planned with my childhood bestie. We didn’t officially reschedule, but I called her the next day and we had a brief chat about random things.

The last sidequest was to put together a new playlist to boost my mood. That worked with the cinnamon rolls because I usually play music while kneading to time how long I’ve been kneading for. This time I went with a lot of stuff that had Bustah Rhymes and Eminem (Calm Down, Look At Me Now, and Berzerk).

And despite finishing most of that through the weekend, I almost forgot to post about it! I’ve been staying quite busy and preoccupied in general, so it almost slipped my mind.

Sidequests Week 42

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The sidequests for this week were pretty simple: take a luxurious bath or shower, text a friend just because, and memorize a new quote.

I indulged in a couple of luxurious baths using bath salts and scrubbing down really good and then giving myself a mild spa treatment afterward. I randomly text my friends memes or other random things on a semi-regular basis, so that wasn’t too hard either.

Memorizing a new quote is harder because I can work at memorizing a quote, but I also know I am likely to forget it quickly. Also what quote to even work at memorizing? The bright side is, the Sidequest cards feature quotes directy on the cards themselves, so I chose the bathing one’s quote to memorize. “The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all,” from the Emperor in Mulan.

Will I actually remember that next week though?

I’ll be honest. Probably no. Alas.

Sidequests Week 41

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The sidequests for this past week were to make my bed, create a meal or snack using only the ingredients in my fridge and pantry, and watch a video of someone painting or creating something.

One of the times I cleaned the house, I opted for washing all the blankets in the house, including the bed’s blankets and sheets and pillowcases. Once they were all washed, the bed was nicely made. Doesn’t really last long, of couse.

I also really badly wanted cinnamon rolls. A few weeks ago I had decided to make some but unfortunately I must have killed the yeast, so it didn’t rise at all and they were inedible. I had one last packet of yeast though, and really wanted good cinnamon rolls, so I tried again this past week, and they came out as they more usually do – delicious. It was nice after the disappointing batch.

During the summer, a coworker of my boyfriend’s offloaded a whole bunch of paint supplies to us. It looked like she was really into the flow/spin art thing for awhile and has a lot of partially remaining bottles of acrylics and some floetrol left over. I’ve been watching the occasional video of those because it seems like it might be interesting to mess with a bit. We’ll see though.

Sidequest Week 40

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The sidequests for this week included drawing or painting something that reminds me of my favorite person, washing all the towels in my home, and singing my favorite song out loud.

Coincidentally, at the beginning of the week one of my favorite people asked for a painting. I typically don’t do requests, but because I had just drawn the sidequest, I figured I could make an exception. The post from yesterday of the smoking cat was his request.

I didn’t want to wash all of the towels in the house, because most of them had literally just been washed by someone else and I didn’t want to make it seem like I was somehow weirdly particular about it. I did however decide to do a deep clean of the kitchen (which would have been perfect for the previous week’s sidequest, but eh). So I did wash all of the kitchen towels, which mostly haven’t been touched in awhile and probably could use the freshening up.

The song was a little harder to decide – as I mentioned before, my favorite song is usually shifting. I don’t have a current stand out favorite that I could belt out at the top of my lungs. So I semi-cheated on this too by singing a lot with a variety of songs that came up on shuffle while I cleaned.

I liked them enough to put them on my phone, after all.

As a funny little coincidence while I post this: I turn 40 this week, and have hit week 40 in my sidequests.

Yay?