19. Favourite snackfood / corvidology

Cheese! Cheese cubes (Gouda or Edam or Port Salut) and plum- or cherry tomatoes. You pop them in your mouth in turns. Eventually, the tomatoes will make your mouth sting, and you'll have to stop eating them, but until then it is pure bliss.

I'm also not averse to bell pepper or cucumber slices wrapped in cheese, but that requires slicing things which is not at all what I'm looking for when considering snack foods. I eat a lot of yoghurt as well. Too much? Probably. I probably eat too much yoghurt. Too much dairy, overall. I've switched to oat milk for most things, but oat yoghurt only works for me in smoothies. It's a work in progress.

I'm not big on crisps or popcorn or the like. For movie-watching munchies, I prefer the above-mentioned cheese combos, or something sweet.

( I started watching Punisher on Netflix )

Five days of missed prompts! This is going to get long. Behold! Cuts!

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( Day 15 )

I did it! Four in one! That took most of evening. I still wanted to write an entry about a tabletop game I had the other day, but that will have to wait, along with entry 16. Funny, how filling a box with text can make you feel accomplished, but it does!

I wish I could write something healthy and cozy here. You know, like "I take walks in nature and read a book with a cup of tea." And, mind you, I enjoy both of those things and I do find them relaxing, but they're not what I do every day for relaxation purposes, oh, no. Day-to-day, post-work unwinding isn't instagram material. 

I play mobile games and listen to the news. That's it. I also do it while twisting my body into some convoluted pretzel shape that messes up my shoulders and neck because I can't be assed to sit on a couch like an ordinary human. I can do it for literally hours on end if I have the time, but even when I'm in a rush, I'll do it for a few minutes during the day or before getting ready for bed. It's what I was doing before I started typing up this entry. I play game after game of something dumb like Clash Royale or Candy Crush or Sudoku, and I have a news stream or a documentary on in the background. Mostly it's Finnish news and the Young Turks podcast. 

Doing this puts my mind in some sort of stand-by mode. I can forget any anxiety and stress (and haunting sense of perpetual failure), and my whole focus is blissfully on the game and on whatever information is being fed into my ear. I've a bad habit of playing on my phone while I watch tv or movies as well because I find it so damn relaxing, but it means that I miss chunks of the story since 50% focus is never as good as 100%. 

I used to knit or crochet instead of play, but I've lost interest. I was never particularly good. (Why does one always have to knit two socks, anyway?)

I also love listening to audiobooks while I do my make up. I've got worse skin than most (adult acne, enlarged pores etc.), so my routine takes a fairly long time. I don't mind it, though. Applying make up is insanely relaxing. I like the process. I like the way I look when I'm done, and I like experimenting with different products. I've learned not to compare my work with that of any kind of beauty gurus. I focus on the things I think are fun, and skip everything else. I also paint my nails different colours and apply excessive amounts of glitter to them, again, while listening to audiobooks. I can spend an afternoon doing and re-doing my face. (Plus side to living in a country where darkness falls early - you can walk the dog while having painted your face in colours that would put Jem & the Holograms to shame, and literally no one will notice.)

Then, obviously, there's the run of the mill geek stuff. I play video games, and I cobble together storylines for various rpg campaigns. But I don't know if I can call it unwinding, as much as it is setting foot in a whirlpool that will suck you in for anything from 1 to 24 hours, during which time nothing else seems as important as the story you're immersed in. Fun? Absolutely. Relaxing? Not so much. 

 

I told myself "you can mess about with DW for exactly half an hour, and then it's off to bed", so this entry may not be entirely thought out. Please forgive typos and other nonsense. Here goes!

Top 5 travel destinations - falena

But, wait. Does this mean the top 5 I've been to, or top 5 I want to visit?

( These are just in the order that they occurred to me, there's no particular ranking. )

I didn't have a prompt for today's January journal, so I picked one from



( January journal: Day 5 - Promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. )

If anyone wants to help me fill in my January journal, feel free to leave a comment here. I've got a lot of dates left to fill out, and I think it'd be more fun to do those rather than just copy from a generic challenge.