Being too exhausted this past Wednesday to rant about anything, I gave myself some grace and decided to self-reflect on that exhaustion today instead. Here’s what I got:
Continue reading “Thoughts of a Introvert, Pt. 1”Playing Hooky
Happy and glorious Saturday! It’s cloudy and breezy, but the sun is shining and I am thriving. Part of the thriving came from a very impulsive decision I made on Tuesday that has echoed through the week in a very positive way: I played hooky. Muwahahahahaha!
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Hiya! So, this is going to be a short review, but my work bestie turned me on to this amazing app called Fantasy Hike, and it made my chaotic decision yesterday to work nomad-style all that much more enjoyable. More on that this coming Saturday.
Continue reading “The Start of A Sweet Adventure”A Review of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
An Apple TV Original series set in the same MonsterVerse of the recent Godzilla and King Kong films, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters follows two half-siblings on a journey to uncover the truth about their father’s disappearance and their ties to a secret organization called Monarch (spoilers ahead, there be ranting y’all!).
Continue reading “A Review of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”Brainstorming a poem
Happy Saturday! I mean, is the day almost over? Yes, but what is time anyway? Anyhow, this has been bouncing around my head, and poetry is how I process some things. So here’s She Tried…
Continue reading “Brainstorming a poem”Let’s Talk About America (Chavez)
The last month of books for me included a lot of re-reading, mostly fanfiction, but also America Chavez: Made in the USA which retconned basically all of America’s backstory from how she got her powers to who she was as a person. The bonus for focusing on Made in the USA is I can completely ignore MCU America because I don’t know her and I don’t want to. No hate to her actress, Xochitl Gomez, who did what she could with the role she was given regardless of my feelings on her going for it to begin with and I hated Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness anyhow so focusing on her only would be silly.
Continue reading “Let’s Talk About America (Chavez)”How Many Times Is This Already?
Oh, man! It has been a while. Since 2020, to be exact, and that makes sense because life was happening and it just kept happening.
Can you believe I wrote an outline for this post? I actually planned something out (sort of) instead of jumping head-first into it. I’m going to take a moment to be proud and pat myself on the back…and then we’re back! So for anyone finding this post now, five stars. Looking for a blog instead of a video is pretty awesome of you. My name is Erisel, I’m a random internet user for decades living on the East Coast. I’m a hermit, a wanna-be homesteader (the plans are still being made even with the mountain of set-backs, but more on that in a later post), a caretaker to a loud and sometimes proud Dominican American mother, a dog mom to an ancient and cantankerous blonde, and web admin for a national non-profit to name a few of my life roles/titles.
Continue reading “How Many Times Is This Already?”Hope in an Apocalypse
Smoke filled skies, White House lies.
Waters stopped receding, optimism’s being defeated by the illness of a nation; white supremacist manifestations infecting and rotting from Birth.
The idea of anyone being of any worth if they aren’t “the chosen few”
Continue reading “Hope in an Apocalypse”Am I Foolish?
The world currently feels stacked against me: Covid-19, crippling debt, my mother’s crippling debt, my mother’s mental and physical health are constantly fluctuating, I wonder every month if this is the month the banks foreclose on my house, my depression, my anxiety, my lack of a proper income, my lack of savings due numerous factors, the state of this ridiculous country I live in are just a few of the issues that bombard me at various times throughout the day.
Continue reading “Am I Foolish?”Toxic Work Environments
I have had the unfortunate experience of working in toxic work environments. InHerSight had a fantastic blog on the subject where they define a toxic work environment, which they called a toxic workplace, as “one that negatively affects your well-being, causing you stress, anxiety, worry.” The blog also gives some amazing statistics and points on how to identify if your workplace is toxic, so I definitely recommend it if you would like to read more on the subject.
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