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Word of the day: いらいらする

iraira suru - irritation, being on edge

By Kayla McIntoshPublished 10 months ago 3 min read
Word of the day: いらいらする
Photo by Dorrell Tibbs on Unsplash

I was warned that Mercury retrograde in Aries was going to be an irritating day. I made the mistake earlier thinking that it was actually a pretty decent day and that perhaps I experienced the phenomena earlier yesterday ahead of time.

Today my subscriber's subscription lapsed and I keep telling them they have to renew their subscription if they want to work with me. They keep telling me what they want and I am like, I am not working on anything until you pay because that's how it works. They want me to answer questions but I am already done with them. I have another subscriber who is equally annoying but their subscription is still good so I keep working with them, but this person is trying to get away with not paying for the work I do and that's not cool.

Also the questions they are asking are irrelevant. They already know the speed at which I work on stuff so, them thinking a couple of months to do 50 assets is too much is ridiculous.

I am not worried about anything as long as I can update my Patreon and manage to keep that maintained. It is my portfolio and also the crowdfunding for my game.

I am trying to figure out how to properly categorize my posts using tags so I can give people my portfolio according to what they're asking for. It is nice because I can keep all my stuff in one place but organize it with a simple button for convenience. I am also scheduling at least one post a day. I had an issue with my previous external hard drive so a lot of my drawings got deleted so I am going through obscure files like my screenshots and such to find remnants of what I worked on. I am posting whatever I can in my portfolio.

I have decided to fast for a few days because I feel a bit miserable and I feel like for emotional/mental regulation, people really need to fast for that.

It has so many health benefits and allows you to some extra time in the day because you don't need to worry about cooking/cleaning up and the time eating can be spent working on something that you consider better spent.

I am not really fasting fasting, because I am still drinking bone broth and coffee but I guess I am giving solids a break and having a reduced calorie diet.

I remember there was a time when I was living alone in the apartment, I had like 2 days where I just laid in bed and fasted for a few days. I remember I didn't feel better or worse, it just like equalized everything for me.

Even though it wasn't a miraculous thing, I feel like I need to do that to get rid of the negativity and such. Perhaps during this fasting weekend, I will work on vocal and upload the rest of the Vocal entries for the Jail Journal.

I doubt I can because it takes me like all day to just do 4 of them and I think I have 35 left to do. But hey, I can make a dent in it at least and have some back up stuff for my Habitica so I don't have to worry it.

I don't know what I am going to do will all the paper stuff after I am done but I was advised by a tarot card reader to save them. I guess that is something I might need to do.

Other than that, I am probably just going to pamper myself in hermit mode.

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Kayla McIntosh

Personal tell-all pieces: Word of the Day and Jail Journal. Secret poet on the side. ( I don't use Ai to write any posts, everything is done manually. )

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