I am so excited for this Thanksgiving and the following weeks afterwards. Only working 8 weekdays in December (didn’t take a vacation all year) and devoting it all to video stuff. FUCK. YES.

The eternal ADHD battle of doing the laundry, including the finale of folding and putting it all away, and the threat of more laundry looming on the horizon

I love micro.blog because I can post the most mundane, boring shit alongside other people’s mundane, boring shit and because you can’t see “likes,” you can just post, smile, and walk away.

It fucking rules. Mentally healthy boring posting is seriously underrated.

Hell yeah, Earthworks replied super fast and my mic is still covered by their warranty. In the meantime, I am gonna set my old Elgato back up. Also may have discovered why my channels were messed up (everything going out the same channel on OBS). Hoping for a test stream this week.

Spent my Monday evening setting my streaming stuff up and discovered my beloved Earthworks Icon Pro mic basically died. Perhaps I should have stored it while I waited for the temps to change so I could stream again. Perhaps it was just bad luck.

However, the Fates winked at me after basically slapping me in the face. The Rode wireless mic I bought for my teleprompter works flawlessly with my Rode preamp and sounds pretty decent. If the repairs to my Icon Pro take longer than expected, a Rode mic I use as a boom mic can act as a nicer streaming mic that I can attach to my wireless mics or I can pull out my old Elgato Wave, which was a fine USB mic.

Come hell or high water, I will stream on Twitch again.

Spent my Sunday evening finally setting up my OBS with a new cat cam (and minus cat cam) layout. I wanted to make it possible to not be as reliant on a green screen (as bright lights required to light a green screen can be headache inducing), while keeping my layout 1970s-tastic.

At CVS currently getting my meds (which I am lucky to be able to get due to the continued shortage), and despite how understandably problematic he is, I still think of this Louis CK bit every time I gotta make my monthly CVS pickup.

You know, I hate CVS. But sometimes you gotta go in there. That should be their slogan, CVS. Sometimes you gotta come in here.

Got my new mics and they work with the teleprompter app 😁 While I have most of this long monologue scene memorized, it’s good to have a backup to cut down on takes (particularly since I don’t have a crew).

This also helps suss out what parts I need to rehearse more (or fix pacing).

That moment when you finally upload your script to a teleprompter iPad app, and you realize that iPad Pros don’t have 3.5mm ports, meaning your long ass lav mic you bought last year for your old iPad no longer works and you have to buy a wireless mic.

Hope everyone had a good Halloween. I celebrated by dusting off the makeup rust and doing another round of makeup for my ancient nun and realizing how out of practice I am. 😱😭

Tonight, I’m finally taking a page from The Anti-Planner by Dani Donovan (which I preordered months ago then promptly put it aside) and doing a time limit exercise: I do one task for 15 minutes then stop and work on another task. I am hoping it will stop with my perfectionism and how I freeze up when I think about my projects. My goal is to get my stream up and running again and a video posted by end of November.

Trying to minimize distractions (and mean people) while also letting people know I’m not dead. Oh social media, what a weird web you weave

Whenever I get a pang to redownload something like bsky, just “to cross post,” I go back on Twitter (I know it’s X but whatever) and then see an animation of a huge wolf deepthroating a Dalmatian Furry and I remember how bsky was a million times worse.

Taking my meds and vitamins can be a chore that I often forget to do, which is why everyone always suggests for me to get a pill container. Problem is I typically never fill them because they haven’t changed design in 30 years and they immediately remind me of my parents’ vitamin containers.

Because Amazon knows me so well (unfortunately), I saw this 1970s/Reese’s Pieces styled pill container and, because I love all things orange and tan, I impulse bought it (despite knowing that it would be relegated to a junk drawer). I am happy to report that I have been using it and I’d even go so far as to state that I look forward to using it, if only because I love opening those autumnal colored boxes.

Making things easy and enjoyable are key for getting any ADHD brain to do anything, and this silly little 1970s-tastic container worked for me.

After work, I’m gonna try this whole “do a tiny bit of creative work that’s been gnawing at you and then, reward yourself (but not with two hours of Baldur’s Gate 3)” thing that I’ve heard is supposed to help ADHD people with getting shit done. Wish me luck.

Working out doesn’t replace ADHD medication, but damn, I can’t deny that it does help when used along side it.

I’ve been experiencing better overall mental health and mental clarity these past couple of months while using the CoPilot App, which was recommended via How to ADHD on YouTube. Usually, I am skeptical of “sponsored content,” but having a customized workout with a personal trainer without going to a gym sounded perfect and honestly, it has worked out really well for me.

Also, I took the plunge and bought an adjustable (and collapsable) weight bench from GRIND Fitness, a well reviewed home gym supply company. We’ll see how well it holds up.

My health has always been fairly important, but this recent push for better fitness overall is in response to what I’ve seen (and experienced) from other creatives, particularly those with ADHD. We tend to push ourselves to burnout and then either take a long time to recover, or we never truly recover and inevitably burnout completely.

The older I get, the more I realize that I can’t abuse my body with video editing marathons and shrugging off sleep during late night filming sessions — the latter is what I am planning on working on improving next.

Hi, I’m Pine. I wanted to try out microblogging as a replacement for traditional social media while also sharing things that inspire me as a small video creator and this platform seems promising.

I wanted to share a little about a genre that has interested for a while known commonly as analog horror. As Wikipedia puts it, “analog horror” is:

A subgenre of horror fiction and offshoot of the found footage film technique, often cited as originating online during the late 2000s and early 2010s.

Gooseworx’s Thalasin is by far the best analog horror I’ve seen on YouTube and an inspiration to me as a video creator. It evokes the familiar (even comforting) feeling when watching old commercials and infomercials on VHS tape while also playing on the eeriness of the VHS’s gradual decay. Is what we are viewing in the Thalasin commercial what was actually recorded from nighttime cable TV or is the tape showing us the darker side of the pharmaceutical company’s intention?

It’s so well done and stands out to me within the genre.