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I have posted the replays from my birthday stream here, here, and here. The stream has been split into three parts because I was having connection issues. I posted the final results of that stream both on my community page here, and on Twitter here.

Since this summer started, and especially recently, I've been finding it increasingly difficult to moonlight after working hours at my day job. Just within this last year, I used to pull some crazy scheduling. At a previous job, I would have 12+ hour days that had me getting home sometime between 23:30 and midnight. From there, I would be working on things until 2:00 am. I progressively stayed up later, and later until it reached a point where I would be up until 5:00 or 6:00 am. I would go to bed, sleep until 11:00 am, and I would do it all again.

Looking back, I'm not sure how I managed to pull all that off. It's also been a year since then, which means that I am a year older too. Given how quickly my knee pain set in this year, and just how worn out I am by the end of every work day, it serves as another reminder that I am not as young as I used to be. As much as I want to push myself to create, and maximize the time that I have in a day, I have to start listening to my body when it says that I need to take a rest.

Adjusting from my mindset of being a workaholic has also been a challenge. This is because once you start working the equivalent of two full time jobs, your mind and body is used to working all the time. Then when you are taking an objectively, much needed and well deserved break, you feel guilty for doing that because you are still in the mindset that you should be working! The adjustment will take time, but I am confident that I will get there.

In my previous post, I talked about the 90s revival at my local AEON mall. This wasn't just limited to the Right-On store that I featured in that post. The revival was everywhere. The first stop I went to was GAP, and I was surprised to see overalls available in several colour ways. But I wasn't prepared to spend about 8,000 yen on them! It was a little bit of a sticker shock for me when I'm used to buying my clothes almost exclusively secondhand at bargain prices.

Other Japan limited stores include nico and..., American Holic, among others. One of these stores was even stocking pants in neon pink and purple colour ways! Bright and tacky seems to be on its way back in style! Just check out this early 90s Sears catalogue page that keeps getting reposted to the nostalgia based subreddits.



A lot of the things I saw on that shopping trip were so tempting, until I saw the price tags. As much as I appreciate that these styles are coming back this year, I don't think I will be buying new on a regular basis. It's hard to justify it due to the inflation alone, but they also just don't make clothes the way that they used to. Between fast fashion, and planned obsolescence in the electronics world, we are becoming a society of over consumption. If I can do my part to contribute to sustainability, and save money at the same time, that's a win-win.

On a separate note, this week Miss You Like Crazy has been coming along beautifully, and I think that I have mastered the song well enough to continue the practise at my local park again. Due to scheduling at my work, I have a three day weekend to get caught up on everything else that I missed, including those overdue email replies.