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We're coming to the time of year when

goodbyebird posted an interest check post in the community to see if folks were interested in doing it and what their plans might be for it.

I will be posting an updated list of my community recs post. The last time I posted it was in January for

snowflake_challenge, but I've stealth added a few more since then. I'm ALWAYS on the lookout for good communities, so if you know of any and want to see it added to the list, let me know!

I also am giving some thoughts to posting daily during the duration, but I'd need something to post about. I'm considering the following:

1. one creative thing I did today
2. one thing I'm proud of today
3. video game progress? I play video games daily, so that would be something easy I could do

It's the time of night when I turn into a sack of goo, so I have no brain for anything else at the moment. Guess I'd better brush my teeth and go to bed.

Current Mood: tired

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The Finch App is doing a challenge this month where you check in with your friends. The latest check-in is to ask what's bringing your friend(s) joy right now. So, let me know! What is bring you joy these days?

My current joy is Final Fantasy XI. I'm working on my former main character (who I want to make main again eventually) so I got some good gear for her, and started farming telepoints and Survival Guides, both of which make it a lot easier and quicker to get around the world.

I have plans to do Rhapsodies of Vana'diel on her, and if I'm doing *that* then I might as well work on documenting it for my Neocities site. I went back through my logs to find the ones for previous Rhapsodies missions, but I must've played some without using Windower (the third party tool that captures the logs for me, along with doing other neat things). This means I don't have the cutscenes for some of the early missions. What to do? Why, play them on another character!

So I reactivated Valara, my Tarutaru alt. She's adorable! But I forgot that she was pretty much just a mule - her highest job is Red Mage at level 30, and she hasn't unlocked subjobs yet (which you can do at level 18, oops). That's fine, I don't mind playing on her a bit to get her up to scratch.

I also figured that if I'm doing Rhapsodies on her, I should do the Rank 1-5 missions. I've already got Bastok missions documented, and I streamed San d'Oria missions, which leaves Windurst. So I set about last night moving her from Bastok to Windurst. I had to teleport to her home point in Jeuno and then rent a chocobo to ride there. It occurred to me I should have done the raptor mount quest, but too late now - I'll do it later.

Finally made it to Windurst, went to Walls to change my allegiance - nope, wouldn't allow me to do so because I'm on a Bastok mission currently. Oops? At least the Bastok mission takes you to Windurst. I'll knock that out and then switch allegiances.

But that was all I did last night because I was tired from family time. Still, I had fun! Looking forward to more messing around on alts and mains.

althea_valara

As threatened, here are pics of the yarn I scored from Stitch Club:

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Current Mood: excited

althea_valara

Someone at Stitch Club today (who I think was a visitor? not sure, but I got the impression it wasn't one of the regulars) brought yarn to destash. GOOD yarn. EXPENSIVE yarn. I have a bunch of new yummies!

1 skein Brushed Suri by Blue Sky fibers (142 yards / 50 grams, 67% baby suri / 22% merino / 11% bamboo) in color 901 (a rust color)

1 skein Neighborhood Fiber Co. Studio DK (275 yards / 4 oz, 100% Superwash Merino) in color Park Heights

1 skein Misti Alpaca Hand Paint Chunky (108 yards / 100 grams, 100% Baby Alpaca) in color CP21 Winter Queen

1 skein Plymouth Yarn Baby Alpaca Grande (110 yards / 100 grams, 100% Baby Alpaca) in color 403 (a deep gray, almost black)

2 skeins Shibui Knits Maai (DK, 175 yards / 50 grams each, 70% Superbaby Alpaca / 30% Fine Merino) in color Cove (a deep green)

3 skeins Blue Sky Fibers Eco Cashmere DK (164 yards / 50 grams, 50% Recycled Cashmere / 50% Virgin Cashmere) in color Gold Rush. CASHMERE!! (a goldish yellow)

1 skein Julie Asselin hand dyed yarns Fino (400 yards / 115g or 4oz, 75% Merino / 15% Cashmere / 10% Silk) in color Olea (hard to tell the color at night, but I'd say it's a yellowish olive)

Some of the colors aren't ones I would gravitate to, but the fiber content was too good to pass up. And the yarns that had prices on them? were $18-$26 a skein. It is RARE that I can splurge for yarn that expensive! Normally I just use big box acrylics. So I'm, like, drooling some now, lol.

If you wanna see photos, I'll get them during daylight tomorrow. Too dark now.

I was pleased to get some more Misti Alpaca. I have a hat/cowl made out of that yarn that I really, really like. I haven't been wearing them this winter because my new coat is green and the hat/cowl are predominately red, and I didn't want to look like a Christmas tree. The color of this one is creamy white, which would look good with the coat, so probably a new hat?

Man, am I gonna have fun looking for patterns!

althea_valara

[Image Description: A pivot table, showing I did almost 43 hours of creative work in March 2026.]

I still can't yet show you the Fan Fest entry. I believe finalists will be announced this month? I promise to share photos as soon as finalists are announced.

I'm less certain of being a finalist this year. While I do think what I produced is AWESOME, the actual qualities of the photos are not great, because I finished working on it about 2.5 hours before deadline, so it was nighttime when I was taking photos and I just did them in my room. Still, I'm hoping they'll overlook the technical quality of the photos and focus on the item itself.

I feel I had a good month writing-wise. I worked four days this month, which is still below the GYWO goal, but each day I wrote for at least an hour, adding about 1k words per day. This is by far the longest piece I have written that *isn't* utter crap. I mean, at least I don't think it is? I'll admit the plot is pretty weak, but I'm having fun with the fic, and that's all that matters.

But enough about that - you want to see what I crafted, yes? HERE WE GO!

[Image Description: Knitted bunnies, one gray and one white, sitting on a white crocheted doily.]

These are samples for my first knitting class. I'm pretty pleased with how they came out, and the pic looks great.

[Image Description: A mosaic knit coaster in pink and white yarn, featuring a geometric design.]

This is also a sample for a potential class project. I've made this pattern as a washcloth and a bag before, so it was fun to revisit it and do the coaster.

[Image Description: A round lacy coaster in Coral yarn, but the pic makes it look bright orange.]

Also a potential class project. I'm less pleased with this one. I need to knit another with some mods I have planned and see if it turns out better.

Also worked on but not finished:

Cabled Chapeau - this is a knit cabled hat with a visor-style brim. It's very cute! I'm about two inches into the body, so still a ways to go.

Cozy Lace Knit Cup Holder - Also a potential class project, but I'm hating the way it's coming out. Might be the yarn, so I will try again in different yarn.

Central Park Hoodie - I noticed a miscrossed cable in it back in January, so this month I set about fixing it. I've dropped down half the cable to the offending crossing and started knitting back up, but not finished with it yet.

Knit a Felted Bag - I did not actually knit on this, just tweaked my pattern instructions, but I counted it as creative work because it's knitting-related AND I brought a printout of the pattern to my knitting instructor interview.

Walking Middle Earth

gearing up for 3W4DW

JOY

pics of the pretties!

SCORE!

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