4/13/25

Today was a semi-emotional day. It was Palm Sunday and our day to do coffee and donuts. Palm Sunday was my favorite church holiday as a kid because it meant I got a "toy" during mass (the palm). Even as an adult I hold onto the palm the entire mass. Mskate and I got the donuts and set-up things before mass. Our church maintenance guy likes to help out I didn't recognize him at first after he got a major hair cut. After mass when we did the coffee and donuts it was super busy, we went through 2 pitchers of tang (normally we barely make it through 1), 2.5 pots of regular coffee (normally it's 1.5-1.75), and we went through almost all the donuts (normally there's half a dozen to one dozen left), and I had to do a lot of running around. I told our priest about how much I like Palm Sunday and why I like it, and he chuckled. After mass mskate and I went to Meijer to get a baby shirt for our "forever memory" build a bear to send with my grandma in her casket. We got a baby swim shirt and mskate made a cricut design for the shirt shirt like what my grandma would wear when I was a kid (it says "this grandma belongs to" on the front and then her 3 grandsons and the 2 wives on the back). Then I straightened my videogame room/storage room while also looking for some hair clips that mskate wants the bear to wear (which I did find). It's a very nice final gift now. Now I'm watching Animation Domination. Good Sunday. Later.

4/12/25, a special Easter day

Today was a very big day. I've talked about my grandma on hospice a lot, and today was our big Easter party for her. Originally we were going to do a party in one of the party rooms, but she can't leave her bed now, so we did the party in her studio apartment. We had my family, pepperBC's family, her best friends, and some old neighbors. We had pizza and accordion sing alongs. She can't really stay alert much anymore, spending most of her time with her eyes closed and head drifting over to the side, but today she held her head up a lot and/or opened her eyes, and said a couple of things to her best friend. After the party mskate and I went to the mall and we made a build a bear for her to take in her casket. We made a little message that plays when you press the paw, a modification of the same thing I said in the first build a bear I made for her over 20 years ago, but with mskate saying it with me. It's very meaningful for us since she really liked build a bear, always liking to dress it up in different outfits over the years. Making "the final build a bear" was very emotional, but it was a good thing. We also saw the Easter Bunny, and since mskate worked for Santa at Christmas and it's the same people who run Santa we were able to do it for a majorly discounted price (the manager said "this is [mskate], she can donate if she wants but we'll hook her up for free." Afterwards we got a free Rocky Mountain Chocolate cookie or Hagandas ice cream. I got the cookie and mskate got the ice cream. When I got home I saw a community post from yuriofwind (a creator I've followed for 10+ years and got some inspiration from in how I make videos) talking about his health problems and how it is probably the end, and so I made a tribute video to him. I didn't really realize how much influence he had on my videos until I saw that post. I tagged him on twitter and blue sky and hope he sees it. I was going to write a blog about the Easter party today, but it was too emotional and I was tired so I'll do it tomorrow. Later.

4/8-11/25

Things happened and didn't. Mskate stayed with her parents for some days while she watched my grandma and filled Easter eggs for a fundraiser she's doing, which meant that I was home alone. I made my cheapskate chili and had that Monday-Thursday. I went to Chuck E Cheese a couple of times and played the Halo arcade game they have. One night I played through 5 of the 6 levels and had a kid join in as player 2. Unfortunately I didn't get past the scarab in the final level before I ran out of credits on my card, so I had to go home afterwards. On another day I did "level select" and just played the final mission. One of the employees had a Freddy Fazbear pin on her lanyard, and I commented on how it's ironic to be wearing Freddy at Chuck E Cheese. I finally got my October blog done. I also found a new place to post to, subnano. They don't host videos, but the guy who made it set it up so I can embed videos, so I'm going to embed my rumble links. He posted about it on reddit and I found the post, and he said "I added the feature early because you asked for it." It's big thing is that you can do "pay per post," and I plan on using it as a way to tip my videos (video will always be free, but there will be an option to unlock a thank-you for the tip).

Tomorrow is going to be my grandma's last holiday since she's on serious hospice. We got some things packed up and prepared to have a good final celebration. I'll give details tomorrow. I also put smashed pennies in one of my penny books. Now I need to do a little extra cleaning. Later.

4/7/25

Well things are super busy in my world. This morning I started a pot of chili and had that for dinner. I got my Ann Arbor Big 10 Gymnastics blog written, which was quite a lot. I also started organizing my smashed pennies, and need to find my Disney 100 book to put the Disney 100 pennies in it. I also watched an episode of 7th Heaven with mskate since she watched it in her youth but I didn't, and it's available with paramount plus. I also watched an episode of The Rookie. Also, Stop Skeletons from Fighting finally put together and uploaded his 16 player Faceball 2000 video and investigation, and reminds me that I need to get a video I'm working on done with a similar "I have a question that no one seems to have answered, and after scowering the internet I found an answer with a pretty crazy journey." Later.

4/1/25

Happy April Fools Day I guess. If things weren't so crazy in my life I might have worn my morph suit to work for the morning meeting, but I didn't. Mskate made it back after being with her parents for a while. I cleaned out under the coffee table and that was a lot of stuff. I wrote a lot of my October blog, so I will get that done soon. I watched St. Denis Medical, The Neighborhood, Night Court, and Shifting Gears, as well as an episode of The Rookie and Ninja Kamui. Getting tired. Later.