Jolly's posts

Working on this sign~!
Currently designing the rest digitally to try out my cricut c:

wip

mmmmmm
maybe an atelier sign HMMMMMMM

@Totalanimefan:
Ohhh, so I guess those are separate in a normal case! That's good, cause logo making is insanely hard too. Trying to simplify a design so much takes some skill that I do not have in me XD

Are you actually thinking of starting a boba shop or is this all pretend for the class project too?

@Totalanimefan:
Are you going to design a logo and stuff like that?? I'd LOVE to see it <3

I had to create a pretend massage therapy business for a pretend shark tank thing in college. It was my final for business class. I realized just how hard it is to come up with good name and logo ideas XD
I ended up sitting for HOURS thinking about it and got up to get a snack, which ended up being a bowl of strawberries and kiwi that I chopped up. SO I ended up just naming it Kiwi LLC
asdffdsg

I wanna try out my new cricut! So I visited the dollar tree and got a few things. Starting with the first one~

I have a wooden sign and these basic vinyl colors (I also have one sheet of black vinyl)


I forgot to pick up wood stain, but I have paints. My paints colors are black/white, orange, some varieties of teals blues/greens, red and purple.
I'm sure I could pair colors easily, but moreso I can't think of a design yet!

I have some loose vague ideas but I wanna hear what you all might come up with <3 If this springs up any fun ideas based on your own interests, that could be a lot of fun to hear them out!! Maybe I'll choose one and this will end up hanging on my wall. Might make it more special even :D


I'm not selling this so ideas are not to be stolen for any weird motive, this is just for fun

CONGRATULATIONS!!
I thought I responded to this thread but apparently not
gosh that is so exciting!!

Also, Totally Boba is the most perfect ;v;
I love it
I love that things are going well for you!

:vanora_xd:
I hope the box didn't hurt you! Gosh I used to be so bad about falling out of bed. I still would if I still slept in a twin size, I bet.
When I was really small my parents would find me fallen off and rolled myself UNDER the bed as well. Gave them a panic a time or two

@MaxIsConfused:
Maybe so, I do tend to binge my projects cause I only have 1 day to work on them.
I'm trying to work on building up some realistic goals for how to cut down my work schedule so I have a little bit more free time to balance with things I want to do, without cramming them in. It doesn't help that I'm impatient by nature so I don't pace my crafting very well XD

Usually coffee if it's a work day (so most days)
but on my days off I like to be a rebel and go straight for the caffeinated sodas >:]
im gonna die young i swear

@MaxIsConfused:
Oh gotcha
it isn't that bad then, I might get this way for about 3 weeks but then I'll flip and be ok for a couple weeks. kinda just flips and flops

I just hate when it flops super hard 😪
that lethargic feeling
blech

@Totalanimefan:
I think it bothers me most because all of my energy is spent on doing things I don't like to do. So I can't do the things I like to do as much. ;;


@Clementine:
I thought about switching my schedule, but thats real hard to get behind D:
Getting up any earlier than 7am is a horrendous thought lmao


@MaxIsConfused:
I appreciate everyone validating the same reasoning ;;
I always forget its really just a major burnout rather than me not working hard enough. I definitely do not enjoy this executive dysfunction idea if that is what I deal with, cause it is so much more rewarding to get things done!


I gotta find a new balance I suppose! I'm so bad at set routines cause I'm like, naturally inconsistent XD
cant do the same thing at the same time every day/week or I go mad

One example like
Im home from work today because I got real sick from a sinus infection bordering on an acute bronchitis kind of thing (allergies, happened the same time last year too)
I decided to rest
so I lay on the sofa like, all day.
tried playing games and then decided ah this game might be too strenuous, so I watched things instead.
I'm not good at just sitting still doing nothing. Which is what you're supposed to do lol

I thought "this doesn't feel good, my brain is becoming mush. Even if my body is becoming more stable.
I should read my books that I've pushed off for so long"

This way my brain can feel better and my body still rests.


... I didn't do it tho
WHY DIDN'T I READ MY BOOKS
I just flat out immediately forgot as soon as I thought about it ????

I used to be real good at just telling myself "Do it and do it now or it wont get done" and that was enough! No matter how much I didnt wanna, I would just huff, get up, and do it. Whether thats drawing, working out, going on a walk, chores, cooking, ect. I used to be great at "just do it".
If there was an idea I had, a project I wanted to do, something like that. I'd just GO FOR IT.

WHAT HAPPENED

I realize how lazy I've become. I blame a lot of it on my job, since I do spend the majority of my time there, and there's a lot of sitting involved. I sit more than I've ever sat before, I swear. And I get so caught up in these depressive cycles from a lot of the stress from work and the corruption of the cult company that I work for. The 11+ hour shifts get to me more than anything, so by the time I get home my soul just feels so empty. Even if depression is due to a displeasure in my career, its not helped when I cant get off my arse when I'm at home either cause I couldn't shake off the work week. I've become a sloth! When I need to clean I just sit there and push it off. Thats never been me before, not to this extent where I seem to just sit there :vanora_upsidedown:
If I ever pushed something off in the past it was cause I was DOING something and I didn't wanna stop DOING. Now its just cause I can't motivate myself to get up.

I've been trying to find a different job all year, but there's really nothing out there for me that I could pay my bills with. That and after watching my husband's experience (particularly in this area) when he was job hunting, MOST interviews lied to him about hours, position and wage. He would be promised a livable wage at full time but end up being scheduled only 8-15 hours a week, getting paid in dirt. One actually tried to make him work during the interview, unpaid! If I try to switch careers and that happened to me, we'd lose our home.

I think the realization that I'm stuck in something that is consuming me so badly is really getting to me. I feel like I can't live. But I wanna do so much more outside this job!
I need to learn how to at least enjoy my weekends when I'm not at work! Or figure out how to use my 1-2 days of free time each week to be more productive towards either my hobbies or my future, or both.


Anyway, how to stop being a potato 101
lets talk about it :vanora_xd:

Also adding
as I start to make stuff, I'm 100% gonna be sharing some of it in my projects thread in my signature!
c: