It's self care Saturday! What're you doing to stay remotely sane?

Fantasizing about the collapse of the united states.
I spent time with wife, we had our yearly crawfish outing. The kids saw their grandparents on both sides. I watched anime. Reading books, trying to at least, but i keep getting distracted.

I have the day off after a 69 (nice) hour work week. Im getting a haircut, taking my kids to the beach, and we are going to get Chinese takeout for dinner. Ill spend some indeterminate part of my day shitposting here while my kids are playing at the beach because even though i am outside at the beach i cannot touch grass. Same reason i shitpost on camping trips, i suppose.
But first, coffee and toast w jelly.
- Are you sure you can't relax at the beach without us? That sounds like precious time with your family where even a nap, admiring the waves, or people watching would make it more restful/enriching
  
  It was a just a joke conrad.

I played Magic the Gathering with a small pod I found here in Chengdu. I've only been playing for about a month now, but I'm already getting a little obsessed.

Rotting. I could play video games but I l’d rather hang out with someone. Doesn’t look like I have that option today though :/ at least I did chores after work yesterday

Makes me think though, how much of it is me and how much of it is where I live + a combo of the time period I exist in? Been thinking a lot lately about how we truly have no control over our circumstances, but we do have options based on a chain of causality. Kind of a harrowing realization tbh how self control is an illusion

Today's my date night, making myself a nice dinner and even got a candle and some juice packets I like

Had a sorta "whoopsie daisy" opiate relapse this week, so making sure that shit is out of my system. Gonna go play pool with my partner and the dogs sometime today (we're watching Evil Dead 2 and 3 rn as we make breakfast), then play guitar and do riff work with my bandmate later tonight.
Spring is more or less officially here where I'm at now, so that's been flooding me with big feelings.

I have a bit of work to do, but otherwise it's a full self-care day. Going to do some cleaning and cooking, epilate, do my E injection, and then get some makeup practice and try out some clothes that I've purchased but haven't got a good feel for.

Went running and said “free palestine” to a bunch of white liberal hufflepuff joggers.

Going on the first hike of the year with my wife and her sibling that just came out as trans and has started hormone treatment. I'm so happy for them and am excited to hear all about it! I think we are the only ones they are really open with about that stuff.

My plan for today is to visit a local park, play some volleyball or basketball, then play a bunch of Hades II.
Hopefully it will help slightly

Grocery shopping, which also doubled as a work out because I had to haul it all on foot.

Today I'm going to a garden work party, we grow a whole pile of seedlings to share with the community here. It's a nice day too
Edit: we crushed it. Our zucchinis will blot out the sun

Slept in, with Baby Beaver's cooperation. Played some Super Mario World, trying to beat it for the first time (it's a good game to play when you have a newborn, you can pick up and play a stage easily).

I have to work for awhile... I slept one morning instead of working, so I owe the orphan grinder more time turning the crank.
After that though I'm gonna work on pomegranate sorbet! My daughter wants some for her birthday tomorrow, and I'm kind of excited to make her something we can't buy.

biked to the park for a calisthenics and sprint section, weather was pretty nice, was decent to see people out and about, passed by my neighbor on the way home in the middle of a water gun fight with their kids, only to enter the house and immediately be faced with dysfunctional septic people, very skillfully souring my entire bright morning and now struggling to prevent it from souring the rest..
wish i had friends to hang out with but instead i will probably just work on something creatively, play a couple rounds of noita, and maybe watch the holy mountain

Working. Fuck.
But in good news this Igbo Highlife playlist on Soundcloud is pretty sweet.

Im working on some Tyranid Models for my 40k games next week. Warriors and Zoanthropes are almost build. Lictor is next.

Today is Pathfinder day, more Curse of the Crimson Throne. These early adventure paths are so clunky, but it feels good to kill devil fascists with my friends.

Walked dog to coffee, grocery shop, get high, yardwork/gardening, maybe bike to dinner