A garden and houses have a light covering of snow. There are silhouetted trees against a grey sky and paw prints visible in the snow in the foreground.

It’s a cozy day! ❄️📷

A sleep tracking chart from a phone

My watch hallucinates. I had a brief nap around 8 last night. Then the tracking went screwy.

I was playing Fortnite between 11 and midnight. The watch thinks I was sleeping, with a high respiratory rate!

I slept around 2. This morning it congratulated me on hitting 8 hours! I had 6.5. 🤦‍♀️💩

It was a pretty good day today. I went into a depressive episode after my dental work yesterday. It was tough going. But I did manage to finish a post about cameras and I feel good for that. Today was getting back into a groove. Moving forward. And shitloads of intense paperwork

I helped someone out today who is trying to figure out how to begin blogging. I mentioned Micro.one and others. Finding the right platform is quite daunting and can take a bit of time trying different ones, especially when you’re looking for community alongside that.

I just watched my first Christmas film of 2025. 🎄

Dental appointment went well. I had some work done as a kind of stop gap until I can decide on either an extraction or a root canal. Hopefully this will stop the pain until I can arrange something one way or the other.

Rest of today is for self care and recovery.

A dramatic sky with orange clouds over residential houses and trees which are in darkness.

Red sky in the morning,
Dental warning 📷 🌅

The face pain dramatically improved last night. It was a miracle! I was in such a bad way and the sheer relief of having it all go away so quickly was mind blowing. I have arranged to see a dentist very soon. But I will have to pay :(

I got some fresh air and it’s been a pretty good day :)

New post incoming (well maybe in a few days) over on my aeryn.art blog (RSS) on Pika.

I will be linking from here tho :)

Please cross your fingers for me that I actually finish writing it 📝✏️

Today is a frosty, sunny day. It looks so pretty outside and I’m looking forward to getting out into it later.

Today has been extremely intense with tooth pain and kinda general face pain. I nearly went to hospital I was so completely overwhelmed and panicky with it. I was just at the end of what I could cope with. Luckily it’s all died down in the last few hours. I’ll be phoning dentists in the morning.

I’m listening to to an owl hooting outside nearby

I got some photography done on my computer tonight. Just a quiet night in dosed up with codeine, and Virgin River.

I’ve gone and hurt another tooth in the other side of my mouth. Not sure how. Maybe I’m compensating when I eat. But holy swearwords this hurts.

I have a dodgy tooth and it’s been playing up the last couple of days. It’s probably going to need to be extracted at some point fairly soon.

Last night the pain was pretty horrendous, blooming across my face, and I got very little sleep. Just dozing in and out of wakefulnesss over and over again. So many times.

One thing face pain does for me is it really sends me into a deep meditative presence at times. What else is there to do? Pain is pain. If the painkillers aren’t killing it, then I can only experience it. It’s kinda fascinating watching it shift and change, fade in and out. Not that it helps it go away or anything.

Anyway. This morning my watch announced a cheerful congratulations that I’d hit my sleep goal.

🤷‍♀️

I find the sleep tracking to be pretty bad on this thing. One time it tracked me as asleep when I was actually playing Fortnite. I guess I really am a chill gamer. 🎮

I need to find a dentist.

I cried quite a bit during the first three episodes of Arcane Season 2.

I feel like something’s building up for a purge. It’s been a rough year.

Aaah. Fresh air! My first time outside for 7 days.

I’ve been tinkering with the custom CSS on my aeryn.me site again. Last time I kinda fucked it a little, and then left it like that for a couple of months because 🤷‍♀️. But it seems like I got it mostly how I like it now. But I still want to change the colours and make them just right 👌.

Me: *pours boiling water into a glass jar and rests lid on top*
Fly: why thank you, time for a swi 🪦

I have a couple of these tiny, floaty flies in my kitchen. They’re like inquisitive toddlers I have to watch whilst carrying on with my very important kitchen business.

Two overlapping orange Micro.blog stickers on a green work mat. They are shaped like a speech symbol with white borders and yellow star shapes in the centre.

I received my Micro.blog stickers just before Christmas. Yay! They came all the way from Oregon, from @jean. Thank you 🤩

Victory Royales feel so good 🎮

I went through a period of maybe a decade where I pretty much hated Christmas. I gradually realised that it was the seasonal bullshit I actually hated.

Over time I learned to love it again and learn what it meant to me, the truth of it. Until I decided to choose it and claim it for myself.