Because of the government shut down I’ve been having to drive hours to all of my doctor’s appointments since telehealth isn’t an option anymore, but I lucked out today because this one put me right next to the beach! I would never have gone in this direction otherwise, but I’m so happy that I finally got to have my beach day after being stuck inside the whole summer.

my lilac bunny jellycat "lily" has been my go to travel buddy since they're so easy to throw in my bag. I also picked up a chamomile tea from Dunkin's, and that helped to fend off the cold for a while. (And also helped settle my stomach after being jostled around in the car for ages)

A seagull came over to say hello, but I did not have any snacks for them, Only the tea. Although I doubt you're supposed to feed them at places like this anyway.

found some carved pumpkins, They were kind of rotting away at this point but still a fun find

I was mostly digging around in the sand by the water like a gremlin for shells, But I found this very meticulously placed pile, and I don't know how it got here, but there were a lot of cool shells in it. Most of which were sun bleached, and totally picked clean by the seagulls.

got this awesome huge welch shell, It does have a big hole in it, but it looks fine from the other way. I'm kind of wondering if I can use the hole to hang it on my wall in some way.

these are all the shells that I picked up, I think one of them is a strawberry conch, which doesn't really make sense for the location, but it's super cool, I can't identify a number of them because they seem to have some kind of calcium deposits on them. but I think I have a couple Conch shells, The most scalloped scallop I've ever seen, that huge knobbed whelk, and a chestnut turban snail.

we also stopped by a local thrift store and I found these two puzzles for $2 each which I'm super excited to build, I just hope they have all the pieces because that's always a possibility with thrifted puzzles.

i've been hyper fixating on the website lately. Just added a robot page to the collection section, I still have to decide what theme I'm going to use for other items and how much I want to do with that. I have so many stuffed animals and I think listing every single one would take a century. I also need to figure out what I want to do for music and if I want that to be its own separate page or if I wanna connect it to the art page. Still a lot of decisions to be made!I wound up canceling and rescheduling my dentist appointment because I couldn't do that many appointments in a row, I feel like I'm starting to get sick and my appointment on Monday is more important. But since I can't do telehealth right now, I've been going to all these hospitals, which increases my risk for catching something.I'm debating bringing my own disc drive on Monday so they can read the disc that has x-rays on them, But there's probably some kind of policy about not plugging in external devices. But I don't know why the doctors office would give me a disc if nobody can read it. (My last appointment the doctor didn't have a drive) Although to be fair, I don't think they read these things anyway. And I would like the disk for my own personal records, considering they lose stuff all the time. Also, it's just cool to have. Once I figure out how to get those images off of it, I want to use my x-rays for art related purposes. I think that would be neat.

I've been building a lot of puzzles lately. I still need to tape up the Bunny one and I'm not sure where I'm gonna hang it yet, these things are taking over my apartment.

First post! gonna attempt to put some blabbering here/ updates, misc projects etc.