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Listening to: Utada Hikaru - "One Last Kiss"
Drinking: Sen cha from Fava Tea
Mood: Mellow-ish. Waking up
Working on: Adding Crew 11 to the ISS Wall interactive in Atlantis
Reading: Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (audiobook). About to pick up Matilda by Roald Dahl.

Remember when Livejournal used to have the tags at the end where you could add what you were listening to and what your mood was? Mine had little blue kitty icons that went with your mood and were very cute. I miss them. I particularly remember the 'productive' one, where the cat hat glasses on and was tapping on a keyboard. There was also one where it was snoozing and had little 'zzz's above its head.

On a different note, I had never heard this song by Utada Hikaru before (well, apparently I had because I had already "liked" it on Pandora, but I don't remember it), but I really like it. I'm actually repeating it again. It gives old school Utada vibes but apparently came out in 2021 and was the EP for a new Evangelion movie.

While I was researching the song, I came across this image, which gave me all sorts of home-sick nostalgia feels. It's the leafless trees and sunny, but kind of hazy day - the kind I know really well. Those are the kind that are cold but have a tinge of warm, so you go out for a walk and start taking layers off, but then you're cold, so you put them back on; but then you're hot again, so you them off again, and you're stuck with all these clothes you're carrying around. Scarves and hats and jackets and sweaters. And your hands are cold, and then they're hot. And your face is cold but also, so refreshed. And you feel so good to be outside. I love those days. I always went walking with Jamie or mom in Whitnall Park on those days.

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Boxing win!🥊

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