Blue Moon 2026
Did you know that a blue moon is the second full moon in a month? 🌝 Now you know!
Adventures
A lotta firsts this month ☝️
- 🆓 Free Comic Book Day 🔖 May started strong with Free Comic Book Day and this year, for the first time, I actually read all my picks the same day!
- 🪷 Museum visit 🖼️ My first museum visit in a while (definitely this year), to go see the Keerat Kaur exhibit. This woman paints, sings, embroiders, makes ceramics and it’s all on display in a little hallway. I was very glad for the introduction and hope she gets more room in the future! The colours were so dreamy. 🧜🏾♀️
froggo!
- 🎤 Porchfest 🎵 It was a delight to experience Porchfest for the first time! We saw acts from a porch (with a window as a stage for accompanying puppetry), a street corner, and a sidewalk (as we sat in the grass of the median). I liked the softness of a low-key event, the random passers-by, and how organic it all felt.
Johnny Turbo
- 🛼 Roller Derby ⭐ I finally caught a roller derby event! There’s only a few here each year, on weekends during peak summer months, so while I’ve been interested for a while, it never worked out. For my first time, four friends came along and we got to figure out the rules, gestures, and penalties together. It seemed like super supportive sport and I’d be down to see some more (and I possibly can, given that it’s the start of the season).
Reading
- The Compound by Aisling Rawle 🇮🇪 I binged this in a (very late) night, which is a testament to how thrilling I found it! The part that made the experience for me is that I was taking notes as I went along and made predictions of what I thought might happen. Pleeeeease read this, I want friends to talk to about it.
- You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian 🇺🇸 This book was given to me by a dear friend PLUS we found a bookshop hosting a book club on it! While we weren’t enthused by the (lack of guided) discussion, it was so great to be able to go through each of our sets of notes on the book. I love buddy reads.
- Beck Sisters trilogy by Trish Doller 🇺🇸 I was looking for romance set in Ireland, which was only in the third book, so yes, I did read the whole series just for that. In the end, I liked the first book Float Plan the best, because of how descriptive the sailing scenes were! A great example of “write what you know”.
- For comic book club, I read Absolute Wonder Woman, Vol. 1: The Last Amazon, which was way witchier and better than I expected. 🇺🇸
- I learned a bit about Adlerian theory from The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga, which was fun to read through a Japanese lens. 🗾
- To continue my art exploration, I read The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint by Philipp Deines 🇩🇪
Watching & Listening
This month, I tried a new format of a media tracker, where I note down what I read, watch, listen to, play, and go see. It’s been super fun! I started with something only textual which I could not see myself wanting to look back on, so I’m very excited to have landed on something more visual.
shoutout to my traveler's notebook ♥
- 🎬I revisited the movie Flushed Away with friends, and it aged way better than expected. Plus, the DVD extras unexpectedly upped the nostalgia factor!
- 🃏 Completely hooked on The Best in Jest Guess the Character episodes. I like how they make each other laugh, and in turn, makes me laugh.
- 🍡 Jumped back into Japanese women’s wrestling by watching the All Star Grand Queendom PPV (though I couldn’t quite stomach the match with the staple gun & roses… 🥀)
- …plus lot more YouTube than TV these days!
Playing
- 😻 In Hello Kitty, I unlocked the yoga instructor - PROTEEEEEEIN!
- ⚗️ I dabbled in PotionCraft and am looking forward to exploring it more.
- 📦 Wrapped up unpacking, which ended in a cute queer twist I wasn’t expecting. And yes, I collected all the sticker achievements, including the one where you have to flush all the toilets 😂
- 🌏 Way too much GeoQuiz - my best score is 147!
Eats
All my food highlights this month are Japan-related 🗾
me, as captured by my bestie
Japan Week savoury
Japan Week sweets
made with friends!
Delights
- Thrifting: I found an great vintage leather coat for only $23!!! Plus a couple pole outfits 👙
- Running: It’s been getting me outside and I got to appreciate all the spring flowers in full bloom 🌸
- Purse: I’ve made a ton of progress on the purse kit that I (regrettably) impulsively bought in the fall, so at least it’s delighting me now!
- Knitting: My friend got me knitting legwarmers and it’s slowwwwwww going but in a way that I don’t mind 🧶
on borrowed needles 😬