Just a girl living on monthly bucket lists. Proving it happened, one post at a time.
ꕤ = Posts about an item in progress
☆ = Posts about an item completed
⚪️ - Not started
🟢 - Done
🟡 - In progress
🔴 - Not happening
🟣 - Pushed to next month
Moments
⚪️ - Spend time with my friend Sophie
⚪️ - Friday night movie ritual (except first friday because it's Dexter's finale)
⚪️ - Celebrate September birthdays on my mom's side
⚪️ - Celebrate September birthdays on my dad's side
Books
🟢 - Read Lore Olympus, book 4
⋆ ˚｡⋆୨ ʚ Completed post here ɞ ୧⋆ ˚｡⋆
🟡 - Finish A Stevie Bell Mystery, book 5
Movies and tv shows
🟡 - Continue watching The Big Bang Theory
⚪️ - Watch the Lilo & Stitch Live Action
Games
🟡 - Contiue Sticky Business
⋆ ˚｡⋆୨ ʚ Progress post here ɞ ୧⋆ ˚｡⋆
⚪️ - Continue Tiny Bookshop
🟡 - Finish Discounty
🟡 - Play Hello Kitty Island Adventure often
⚪️ - Buy and play the HKIA DLC on September 18
🟡 - Finish at least autumn in Story of Seasons : Grand Bazaar
⋆ ˚｡⋆୨ ʚ Progress post here ɞ ୧⋆ ˚｡⋆
⚪️ - Unlock all spirits in Spirit City : Lofi Session
⚪️ - Play DK Bananza with my partner from time to time
Other hobbies
🟡 - Continue my succulent diamond painting
🟡 - Finish organizing my Obsidian vault
⚪️ - Work on a Tama Pix guide / journal
Health
🟡 - Find the right ADHD meds and dosage for my needs
🟡 - Lose another 5 lbs
School
⚪️ - Spend ALL classes at my desk and not in bed or on the couch
I'm very well aware that I've overbooked for the first month I'll be back in school full time after 4 slower months. There's no way I can do all of this. But as I said previously, it's just a guideline to help me figure out how I want to spend my time / what I wanna do, live, accomplish, etc. The more I can tick off the better, but no pressure. It's just for fun. :)
ꕤ Finish at least autumn in Story of Seasons : Grand Bazaar ꕤ
(⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃━✿✿✿✿✿✿ September 2025 - Bucketlist
This is an old screenshot of the first spring event but I'm currently 2 days away from summer. If I don't achieve my other games goals this month, just know this game will be the culprit.
I've been a fan of HM/SoS since the GBA when I discovered Friends of Mineral Town and although I liked pretty much all of the games I played in the franchise, this one quickly climbed it's way to my top 3.
Now, except Hello Kitty from time to time, I don't feel like playing any other games. And although I was scared of going back to school full time after having loads of free time this summer, I was excited. But this game is now an hyperfocus, all I wanna do is play and I'm really hoping it won't negatively affect my semester or my mental health regarding school. WHYYYYY didn't came out late spring???
Anyway, we're only in the first week of september and the first season out of three (for this goal) is done. I'm pretty confident I'll manage to finish autumn by the end of the month. Not so confident about any other item on the list though lmao.
I first read this series on webtoon and was so sure I went super far into it. Turns out, I'm only at volume four and it was new to me. I'm enjoying more now that I don't actually know what to expect and the more volumes I read, the more into the story I get.
Even though I believe I have a good knowledge of the greek pantheon, I'm still confused about some of the characters. I know it's absolutely not accurate, that's not what I mean. More like, some of them look alike and I get confused which is which. But overall I'm enjoying the series so far and can't wait to read the fifth one. :)
I know the month only just started but look, if I don't start making posts right away, I end up having to make three posts a day at the end of the month haha.
Anyway, this one is just the "in progress" post. And I did play a little Sticky Business in the last few days. Not much, I'm gonna be honnest, I haven't been able to feel the same enjoyment I got when I played for hours while bingewatching tv. I don't know why. It's cute, it's fun, but it's really a pass-the-time kinda game, one you play when you have a short amount of free time between other stuff. But I do find it a tad too boring to play just like that and enjoy it more while watching something. But then, I have to make a conscious choice of giving it more time of my busy schedule, time I could allow to some other game I enjoy more. I think that's my problem with it.
I will continue to play here and there but I'm not sure I'll play enough to unlock everything like I initially planned.
🌸 - Continue our friday night movie ritual
It's not that we didn't want to or didn't take the time to watch things together, but Paramount+ was releasing a new Dexter Resurrection episode every friday and we couldn't wait. What we did instead was to watch some other tv show earlier in the evening and finish with Dexter when we were sure our son was asleep haha. There's one episode left so we'll go back to movies after that.
🌸 - Read Lore Olympus, book 4
Honnestly, August was a busy month between the preparations for my son's back to school (clothes trying and shopping, supplies shopping and identifying, haircut, etc) plus the end of my semesters (school work, exams, etc). I had to cut somewhere.
🌸 - Watch the Lilo & Stitch Live Action
To be honnest, I was hopping it would be on Disney+ somewhere in August but it's coming like mid September so, pushed to next month it is.
🌸 - Play Hello Kitty Island Adventure often
I ended up not playing that much. I'm not completely up to date, but there's not much content left and I focussed on other games. Next month the first DLC is coming out so it'll give me a reason to go back to it.
🌸 - Unlock all spirits in Spirit City : Lofi Session
My summer semester was part time only and I didn't spent that much time at my desk with all the changes we did to the appartment. It was a mess for a good chunk of the month. (I mostly worked on my laptop from the bed or the couch). On September 8, I'll be back at a full time semester and my desk is now done. Having 2 screens, will help to set up Spirit City on the side.
Not happening for now
🌸 - Play multiplayer Hello Kitty with my mom
There's what I said above and my mom also had a super busy month so it did not happen.
🌸 - Play Mario Kart World at least once a week with my son
We did play a few times here and there, but once a week, no we didn't. Sometimes I didn't feel like it, sometimes he didn't feel like it. Simple as that.
🌸 - Finish my reread of Nevermoor, book 1
The idea was to reread all first three books because the fourth one came out not long ago and I love this series. But I've been in a reading rut for a while now and rereads aren't helping this time around. I think I need to focus on exciting new books that surprises me.
🌸 - Finish Cruel Summer, season 2
My partner and I both LOVED the first season and we sad it was cancelled but decided to watch it anyway since each seasons is it's own contained story. We both couldn't get into the second season and realized why it had been cancelled haha. My partner ditched me after maybe three episodes. I had the intention of finishing the season by myself but the days and weeks pass and I have no interest in doing so. Maybe eventually, who knows.
🌸 - Play Tales of the Shire
Don't get me wrong, I really liked the few hours I played. Yes, it's ugly as hell on switch, but I liked the concept and everything enough to get passed it. I think I just had too many games running, some I was more in the mood for at the moment. I will play again eventually for sure!! But I'll give it some time, focus on the games I really feel like playing and maybe in the meantime they'll come out with a switch 2 upgrade.
🌸 - Continue Coffee Talk
I tried so many times to play this game. I love the idea, the characters are super interesting... I don't know why I never ever feel like opening the game afterward. Maybe it's just that I'm not really a visual novel type of gamer. I love to play video games, I love to read, but for some reason mixing both never does it for me. There's also the fact that I'm a mood reader and mood gamer. I cannot see myself playing this game at any other time than when the sun has set. And at this time of the day, I'm usually tired and in the mood for more passive hobbies.
🌸 - Finish learning Arrietty's song on the Kalimba
At this point, I had to make choices because I had too much on my plate. The kalimba was out. I miss playing but at this point I'm gonna have to revisit the songs I already know before learning a new one.
🌸 - Find a solution for my worsening endo pain
Because nothing's easy with the healthcare system here, my retiring GP send a request for me to see a specialist so said specialist could take me in and do my follow ups. I waited a good 3 months for an appointment and spent about 2 minutes in his office. "I don't know why she sent you here, I'm also retiring and your surgery reports aren't in your medical files. I'll send a request to the hospital where you had surgery to get an appointment with the specialist surgon you saw." It's freakin far, I don't drive, it'll be a big mess to go there once. She BETTER had the reports to my file and find me specialist close to where I live afterward. In any case, it's not happening any time soon.
🌸 - Continue to go for walks
I mean, technically, I did. But not as regularly as I wanted to initially. The weather has been up and down once again. Either it was pouring or the heat was inhuman.
☆ Go out to dinner for both my partner and I birthdays ☆
(⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃━✿✿✿✿✿✿ August 2025 - Bucketlist
I'm such a non influencer that I completely forgot to take a photo at the restaurant haha. BUT we did go out to dinner for our birthdays. We tried a new restaurant, we all liked it, food was good, ambiance was nice.
We ate so much we decided to take a walk as soon as we arrived home, which is why I'm posting this picture I did remember to take.
We rarely go out to restaurants with our son since he has multiple food allergies, but this was had a huge allergens chart and the staff was on point so we felt safe. It was really fun to eat out the three of us for a change.
I'm currently at 5.7 lbs lost which is not yet 6, but I officially weight myself on mondays (which will be in September) and I'm pretty confident I will manage to get to -6. Either way, even 5.7 is a win.
☆ Finish my summer semester class with good grades ☆
(⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃━✿✿✿✿✿✿ August 2025 - Bucketlist
I didn't think about the fact that the last school work deadline was yesterday and that the last exam being today, there was no way my grades would be up before the end of August haha.
BUT. I do have the feeling I did pass both at least with okay grades. Was it easy? Not at all. Am I incredibly scared for next semester? 100%. I don't know what I'm doing, I feel so beind, I don't understand half of it but I hang in there hoping it'll all click eventually.
In any case, passing the class and being able to go forward with the program is a win.
☆ Spend a day at my dad's with my siblings... kinda ☆
(⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃━✿✿✿✿✿✿ August 2025 - Bucketlist
Ok so this one's kind of a cheat. First, it was planned last month, but then between my school and social life, my sister's two week trip in Greece, my brother's job and school, my parent's weird job schedule and two family members having health crisis, you get why it didn't happen.
Second, I pushed it back to this month, but realizing it probably wouldn't happen either for similar reasons, removed it entirely.
But then, my brother invited me to tag along with my sister on a little day trip in Montreal. Is it spending a day at my dad's? No. But as much as I love my dad and step-mom, the main reason I wanted to do this was to spend time with my siblings.
My brother picked my sister up, then me and drove to the nearest metro station. We went to Mont-Royal and started at a cat café. I'd never been to one before and was super excited. Thing is, it was the last saturday of summer vacation so it was packed with families and the cats were all sleeping out of reach, but it was fun nonetheless and I had the BEST grilled cheese. Homemade bread, goat cheese, cheddar cheese, fig jam, honey and caramelized onions, yum!
Then we walk for a bit in the neighborhood, went for the best ramen I ever had in a tiny tiny half hidden restaurant and checked a few cute shops before going back home.
I had a really great time. I (33) talk to my brother (26) often, but my sister (16) and I never even lived under the same roof and with the age gap, we're not as close. I really wish we were though, so it was nice spending time with her in different circumstances and I hope it opened the door a little to more communication between us.
As you can see, start in this case means about 10 diamonds. Honnestly, I forgot how long it takes to store the extras from the finished one and prep for the new one. I didn't have much time to actually work on it.
But it's fine, I'll take some more time next week. Anyway, the idea was to start it, no matter how much time I spent on it because I wanted to get passed the difficulty of starting something new. Next time I'll want to work on it, it'll be easy.
I think we established by now that I love Ghibli movies. And after finishing my challenge of watching them all in the shortest time possible, I miss their vibe.
I've had the trilogy in my TBR for a while and thought it was the time to take the plunge. Now, don't come at me... but I did prefere the book to the movies. Howl's moving castle will always be in my Ghibli top tier, but I prefered how Michael, Martha and Lettie had a bigger role in the book, and also the complexity of the relationships, the substories, the worldbuilding, etc.
My only complain tbh is that for a book aiming at younger audience, it can be quite confusing. Or maybe that's just me who was confused about a few characters, what had happened to them prior to the begining of the story, what were their motives, etc. We also don't really get a backstory about Howl and I would've loved that. I really like that he comes from our world modern time, meaning Ingary is just a magical parallel world.
The cozy athmosphere really was there, I don't know if it can be attributed to the author or the fact that it was Ghibliesque in my mind, but I had a good time. I'll take a little break but will read the other two soonish.
☆ Play Sticky Business (Cozy Gaming Club pick of the month) ☆
(⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃━✿✿✿✿✿✿ August 2025 - Bucketlist
As I said in a previous post, I had played this game a little on PC when it came out but kinda forgot about it. It was voted as the game of the month in our Cozy Gaming Club so I bought it gack on switch simply because handheld is my favorite way to game in general.
My first thought was : How cute! I LOVE the art style and colors, totally my vibe.
My second thought was : It's so slow and repetitive, a bit boring.
Then I didn't have time to play for a little while and picked it back one day while bingewatching The Big Bang Theory and it just clicked! This game is SO fun! I played enough to start making decent money and upgrade a lots of stuff which made it more exciting, and in turn I wanted to play more. I had the hardest time puting it down to go make dinner.
I, unfortunatly, didn't have time to pick it up again, but now I can say I played enough to write a review for the club. I won't have much time til the end of the month, homeworks and exams for me, back to school for my son. I don't know if I will take the little free time I'll have to play this game since I'm focussing on a few at the moment, but I will keep it in my rotations until I pretty much unlocked everything that's for sure.
☆ Try a higher dose of adhd meds and check how I feel ☆
(⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃━✿✿✿✿✿✿ August 2025 - Bucketlist
This was not particularly a fun item lol but I wanted it on the list to remind me that I really want to go through the hard part of trial and error to get the help I need to function better in all aspect of my life.
I started with Concerta 27mg and it was fine. Not many side effects, but not helping enough. I then tried 36mg which was the plan all along and why I concider it done. But my anxiety was so extreme it was counterproductive.
So I switched to Vyvanse 20mg and it's pretty much the same as the low Concerta dose. No side effect, a little help, but not much. I have a week left at this dose before trying a higher one so we'll see.
No, you're not seeing double. The exact same item was on July 2025 list. As I said last month, I couldn't get into it when it first aired, but this time around I'm really enjoing it so it'll probably be the few next months lists until I finish it. And then there's the spinoffs to watch haha.
In my last post I said I was at the end of season 4 and now I'm approaching the end of season 6. The show was good from season 1, but I personnally enjoy it more now that Bernadette and Amy are part of the main cast. The jokes are less redundant since there's more characters, relationships, and all.
Howard being married now makes him a whole more likable. While, as for Sheldon, I don't know. I liked him so much in the first seasons, like a weird annoying child that grows on you. In the last season, I have the impression that they made him less childish, but more annoying. I'm curious to see how the character will evolve.
ꕤ Play with my Tamagotchi Paradise for the entire month ꕤ
(⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃━✿✿✿✿✿✿ August 2025 - Bucketlist
We're a little past the middle of August and so I can say this goal is going well. So far, I have a love hate relationship with the Paradise. I like that it's super easy to take care of, mostly due to it's forgiving schedule. You can wake your tama up anywhere from 7am to 10am, so even if I sleep in, I will never sleep later than it's waking time. Same goes for his bedtime. He can go to sleep as early as 7pm so if I have a busy day, I can simply wake him up, call the sitter, pick him up and put him straight to bed.
Now, it's not what I do most days, because I want to play with it, but having this possibilty removes any stress related to tamas. I also love that they're cute animals, I'm not the biggest fan of the humanoid ones to be honnest.
The thing is, when I do want to play with it (aka most days), I find it a bit lackluster. Apart from 2-3 egg hunts a day and playing a few mini games, there's not much to do. Ok sure, you can dress up Tama Planet and install toys and decorations in the fields. But you don't change them multiple times a day, hell not even multiple times a week. So what's the point of making a ton of Gochi Points?
I do like it, but it's not the device I was idealizing before it's release. Maybe my hopes were too high and that's a me problem.
I also received a Pix this month and have add it to the run last week. I find it a bit more stressfull because this one never sleeps lol, but there's a ton of stuff to do and I really like the collectathon aspect of this device. Which makes the lack of content in Paradise even more noticeable.
I'll keep using both til the end of the month and see how I feel. Maybe it'll change, who knows. That's why I like to give each device a fair chance.
I can't believe I never heard of this show before the end of last month (and that it got cancelled)!!!
I read it was good but didn't have any expections and WOW! The writting is extremely well done to make you second guess everything. There was so many twists and turns but never too far fetched and it kept you guessing til the very last second.
It's not the first time a show is on alternating timelines, but I like what they did with the concept. A little like Firefly Lane, each episodes focus on a special period (usually the same day or two in 1993, 1994 and 1995). They took it further and used a different filter to set the mood for each year so it was very easy to differenciate every timeline and make us feel what the characters were feeling. I though it was pretty cool!
My partner and I both had a great time watching this series. We're currently at the beginning of season 2 which is the same concept, but different story with different characters in 1998, 1999 and 2000.
☆ Receive our new furniture and reorganize the house ☆
(⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃━✿✿✿✿✿✿ August 2025 - Bucketlist
About a month ago, I was having trouble sleeping and that's when I do my best reorganizing work lmao. Both my partner and son were sound asleep (as well as my appartment neighbors) so I couldn't just get up, measure and plan at 2am, so I did in my head hoping I wouldn't have forgotten everything the next morning.
The thing is, we were forced to quickly move from our last appartment five years ago and we had to pick whichever appartment was available and affordable at the time. So we ended up here, in a smaller appartment, in another city. My partner being a bit on the hoarder and collector side (the line is blurry), his stuff has taken up a lot of our storage space and so we were left with too much furniture at the wrong place, and too much stuff everywhere.
Cluttered spaces makes me irritable because I feel overwhelmed, not the feeling you want to get at home you know. My bookshelves were delegated to the dining room, which didn't leave enough space to comfortably sit around the table so we started to eat seperatly. I also stopped reading for a while because I couldn't enjoy my bookshelves. I spent 90% of the time in our bedroom, the only place I could enjoy at least a little. Cleaning up the place was already a challenge due to adhd and clutter, not liking my home made it worse.
So that's when I decided it was time I do something so I could feel at home. The before pictures are cluttered because it was our reality.
Dining room before and during the process
Dining room after
Living room before
Living room after
Bedroom before
Bedroom after
It probably doesn't translate well in photos but in every room there's just so much more space! The result makes me so happy and it didn't cost me too much since I mostly moved things around. Sure I had to order a few things, but it wasn't that bad.
