I very recently have gotten into a new Animal-Crossing-esque fishing game, Webfishing! ... just in time for hackers to begin botting multiplayer servers en-mass for the holidays 😅

very unfortunate... but I had a ton of fun while I could chat w/ other players unhindered, & (thankfully) there seems to be no trouble while playing the game solo/offline.

may a solution be found soon!! I enjoyed being in chatrooms w/ a bunch of pixel cats&dogs acting goofy :')'

here is a pic of my little guy holding my favorite glitchy fish in the game, The Creature 👻

I finished updating the film rec pages, & I am super happy w/ how they look now!!

I enjoy being able to see all the current 'picks' at a glance--& it's so much fun to search for interesting/alternate posters for each film, lol! I am much more confident that I'll be able to update my picks monthly (as I would like to) in this format.

in some personal life news: I got to visit my friend's alpaca family again yesterday! the two babies are already so big... they all were happy to receive pets this time, but I only wish they wouldn't be so interested in trying to nibble my ankles😅

tomorrow I drive out to The Woods™️ w/ another friend, & I am going to try my best to fight past the allergy woes & get a moderate amount of walking in w/ the animals. it's going to be so pretty outside! we shall also see if I can convince my friend to watch some more spooky movies... Halloween season is never over, only extended 😇

made some more progress on updating the layout for each page! 💪

still fiddling w/ the initial placement of containers (& will likely continue to do so, lol).

in futzing around experimenting w/ new things, I have:

1) figured out how to apply color filters to entire webpages! I'm currently obsessed w/ the sickly green-purple combo I've created, but it may prove to be too obnoxious... I will sit w/ it & see how I feel!

2) figured out how to create collapsible containers, used on this very page! very fun :o)

3) found some neat code to create a continuous, timer-based Beanie Baby Generator for the beanie page! this, paired w/ the video added to this page has made me absurdly happy for the past 24 hours, lol.

as for my very disorganized to-do:

→ I want to test this color-filter code on more pages (to see if it's something I actually want to stick with),

→ revamp my media page(s) entirely (& likely doing away w/ my personal blurbs concerning each film, short though they are—I'm thinking I might just do some monthly Tubi favs, separated by genre? that seems much easier for keeping up-to-date as far as active/broken links),

→ & then add some new pages & shrines! my goal is to have (almost) every image/container on the site link through to a new, fun little page o(*^▽^*)┛

I'm going to be spending this coming weekend in The Woods™️ (with a thankfully decent internet connection), so I should have plenty of time to continue playing around w/ the site 😋

I have a journal page now! wow!! (＠＾０＾)

I have, extremely lazily, reused my sitemap layout code for this page... except it's totally not lazy. I am simply very smart & reusing code that might not be seen very often regardless 👼

I don't want to make promises to myself that I might not be able to keep up w/ long-term, but my general idea for making this page was that

1) I could make personal plans/to-do lists concerning things to play around w/ on the site, and

2) possibly journal about nice things that happen in my life--maybe on a monthly basis? or maybe just as they occur to me, if something especially noteworthy happens. a digital positivity journal as it were :o)

I'm realizing that as I type this up, the spellcheck on the code-previewing site I usually use doesn't seem to be working... or maybe it never had spellcheck in the firstplace?? did I really never notice that? makes me think about how many typos may be laying out unnoticed all throughout my site...
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