the hard candy (truths) of being an ambitious girlie⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🍪💕
ambitious girlies are really the best and there's so much that comes with it. you hold yourself to a different standard, you don't just hope for excellence but you expect it. and thats what makes us so great and that's what i wanted to talk about in this post...💬🎀
UNDERSTAND THAT EVERYTHING IS A CHOICE ;
everything, and yes i mean everything, in life is a choice. how you choose to spend ur time, the relationship ur in, the job that you have, the friendships you entertain. everything. remember that you have free will, you don't HAVE to stay in something that drains you. you don't have to stay in something that keeps you small.
you have free will to not robotically do the same thing that everybody else is doing. i heard someone say once that everyday you wake up ur casting a vote for the life that you wanna have, and this resonated SO much with me. look at ur actions and look at what kind of vote their casting. is that the life that u wanna live? if not, tighten up.
LIVE FOR YOURSELF ;
what is ur life centered on? it shouldn't be centered on men, or your parents, or the opinions of others, or your age, but rather it should be centered on YOU. only when ur life is centered on you do you start living for yourself.
but living for yourself comes with something really important that you have to develop which is honesty, be HONEST with yourself. what are your dreams? what do u want out of life? what do you see for yourself? those are really scary questions but you need to know the answers. journal about it, think deeply about it because it's not just something that u can answer off the rip.
❤︎ you're the only person who gets to experience YOUR life, so stop living for others. it's YOUR life.
be HONEST. am i happy right now? am i choosing x over myself? am i living up to the standard i set for myself? being honest with yourself doesn't equate to being mean to yourself, but it just means that you're choosing to face the truth even if it's a hard pill to swallow -> so that you can live the life of your dreams.
HOT TIP ; i know this can be daunting, especially for the girlies like me with big dreams and ambitions... but the sooner you're honest about what you want, the sooner you can go after it fearlessly...💬🎀
SPEND SOME TIME ALONE ;
alone time is so so important. don't get me wrong, im a super social girl. i love to hang out with people and i will talk to literally anybody... but im also by myself 90% of the time. and while im by myself im analyzing things about myself.
how i manage my time, perfecting my craft, pursuing excellence... how i can get that much better. not because im competing with anyone but because i aim to outdo myself little by little every single day. when you're constantly around people, subconsciouslly your thinking the way you do because they do as well.
you adopt the mindset of those around you if ur not careful. when you're by yourself you really learn yourself and understand yourself on a different level. it's important to remember that you are all you have. so build a relationship with yourself!
MAKE YOUR OWN RULES ;
listen as long as ur not hurting anyone and ur doing ur own thing, do what you want!! im not saying that for u to go and break the law... ambitious girlies aren't dumb...but make your own trends. move on ur own accord and not for anyone's amusement.
have you read all the Narnia books and if so did you have a favorite/one you came back to? (I reread Silver Chair/The Horse and His Boy/Dawn Treader a lot). If you remember them did you find any character in particular the most relatable? (and is it Shasta/Cor lol)
My family had strange whims on what was and was not allowed for reading/watching - no Harry Potter, etc. LotR was forbidden because Gollum was "a demon" but C.S. Lewis was heavy-handedly Protestant so I leaned crazy hard into Narnia. They'd get me commentary books on his work for Christmas and stuff. Still love Narnia for all kinds of reasons but man finding out what I was missing when I got around to LoTR as an adult was quite the experience
Read them all as a child.
My dad had a sort of weird reader's digest submission where he would get sent collections of books to "try before you buy". He received the complete collection of Narnia box set and I remember being amazed at how pretty it was and how many there were. He kindly bought it as a git to me and I worked my way through the lot.
It's been MANY years since I read them but I remember really liking them. Dawn Treader was a banger, but I kept returning to The Horse and His Boy. I just remember thinking the stakes felt higher for being more contained/intimate?
If we're talking cosy kid reading, I also read every Redwall book and practised his writing style.
I STILL recommend the Windsinger Trilogy and Bartimeous books to everyone I can and its my greatest ambition to direct them for film.
Discipline is the strongest form of self love. It’s ignoring current pleasures for bigger rewards to come. It’s loving yourself enough to do whatever you need to do, to give yourself everything you’ve ever wanted. It’s giving up the good for the great. It’s about being relentless and having tunnel vision. It’s about believing in the long game and knowing you will accomplish the things you want.
2025 has been a challenging year, but I'm proud that I released my Sims 3 save file Cosy Brook, I loved creating it and it has brought me so much joy to see that people have been playing in it 🥰 thanks everyone for your support this year it has meant a lot to me!
There are 6 different music boxes in TS3, and while the sound effects are great, they look really rough. The first time I saw the ballerina doll, it really gave me a fright. 😲
So, recently, whenever I have some free time, I've been trying to create my own music boxes.
Animal Crossing is my favorite game on the Switch. The villagers are just too adorable.
Even now, I still open the game during New Year's and on my birthday to celebrate with them. I think it would be amazing to see these characters in The Sims 3 too.
My favorite villager is Jacob (I call him "Fishcake" because of the Chinese pun on his name). He loves food, so I made his music box base a whole birthday cake. I also paired other lazy villagers with food. 🤣
Room Category：Nursery / Toys
Function Category：Kids / Kids Toys
Required Expansion：Ambitions
After installing these files, the original EA figures in the music boxes will disappear.
I wrote a novel over the last few years and I'm going to try and get it published (I'd prefer to go the traditional route over self-publishing).
I want to draw more, sfw and nsfw like.
I want to read more (I only knocked like two books off my 2025 reading list).
I want to start crafting; I want to make homemade models and miniatures, or weird little trinkets.
I want to start dressing loud and proud; I want to buy ugly shirts with garish patterns that clash with everything and walk around like the Great Gonzo or Weird Al in his Tacky music video.
I have a bad feeling that the internet is going to become hostile to the point of unusability very soon, so I'd like to wean myself off it (I will absolutely NOT upload my government ID to any social media, so if that day comes then I'm logging off for good).
Longtime followers may know that I want to start an offline newsletter, a physical zine I would mail out to readers; I need to buy a nice printer (preferably laser, not inkjet), and I want to rent a PO box so I can receive reader submissions. My zine will have different columns for all the random topics that interest me like astronomy, cartography, history, movies, cartoons, books, a section for short/serial fiction, jokes, games, puzzles, news, opinions, reviews, the whole shebang.
I don't imagine it'll have a very large readerbase so I wouldn't charge a subscription, I'd just mail it out for free. I'll post the PO box number here once I get it set up, and anyone who wants to read it just has to mail a letter asking to join. If by some miracle it did get big, the only real issue would be covering the cost of stamps (less than 80 cents per, at time of writing), but planning for that is putting the cart before the horse. I'm still in the pre-pre-production stage. We'll see how it goes.
A few years ago I floated an idea like this as an actual magazine or newspaper. I noted that a lot of publications have names like the Daily or Weekly Whatever, so I joked that mine would be called the Sporadically or Intermittently, Infrequently, Randomly, etc. I eventually settled on the name The Some Times, so I might use that for my newsletter now, but who knows, maybe I'll commit to a regular schedule. 13 is my lucky number, so let's say I mail out an issue on the 13th of each month (or maybe once every 4 weeks for a total of 13 issues per year). Again, still too early to set anything in stone.
What do you guys think? Would any of you be interested in joining an offline community like this? I go into more detail about my fears of the internet's collapse and my desire for real world networks in this post. I figure if older generations could publish fanzines and plan conventions via mail in the 60s and 70s then surely we can too!
