Surprise! IT’S ME because I switched weeks with Siri. HaHA.
(I have not been sleeping well and I think it’s starting to catch up to me. Does it show?)
In the continuing saga of buying random crap in a sad and misguided attempt to improve my life, I have bought a new friend.
(Well, technically I used a gift card from my birthday to buy a new friend. Is shopping therapy more or less affective if it’s not actually your money you’re using?)
Anyway, here he is.
Aw, look at that! He’s so happy to see you!
OR NOT
Anyway.
I saw these advertised as tools to help neurodivergent children who might otherwise have difficulty properly displaying, communicating, or understanding their feelings. (They sell different expression combinations.) Now, I am not a neurodivergent child (that I am aware of) but they’re super cute and it also seemed like maybe I could use it as a writing tool.
Hear me out.
The project I’ve been working on has been a bit slow going, because I’ve been working on it forEVER and now it has emotional and mental baggage attached to it. And something that can help when you’re running into issues is designating a trigger object, whose basic use is to tell your brain that it is Writing Time and since the object is present it is time to Be Writing.
So, I thought to myself, here is a trigger object I can use. It’s cute, it’s small, it’s distinctive. ALSO I can flip it between expressions to, I don’t know, echo my state of mind, or to express emotions for a scene, or something along those lines. I didn’t really get that far.
Also I just got it so I haven’t put it to use yet.
Anyway, let me know how you feel about trigger objects, plush turtles, or whatever else catches your fancy!