Author name: jade

This was Sunday in AU and Saturday in CA so I had no work as diversion from the very long day that stretches out during quarantine. I buckled down and tried a stop-gap animation by using only Adobe products. Spoiler: this took 6+ hours for an 8-second video. No background, no lighting, no tripod These […]

Something you probably don’t know about me: I love hair braiding and nail polish videos. Around 2016, I was totally obsessed and followed various Facebook pages that had these types of videos. There’s an ASMR quality to them that is calming yet exciting. Weird, I know. I had to ween myself away only allowing an

This was a pretty good day considering I’m in a closed environment. It’s been raining on and off so the sound of rain against the window is a nice diversion. When BF was motivated to do the 30-day abs challenge exercises, we discovered it was a rest day. Why? He still wanted to do something

I have a new appreciation for my pets’ behavior around being fed. They’re hungry, they know where the food comes from, and they alter their behavior in anticipation for food. I now have anticipation around food delivery. Food delivery is during 2-hour windows: breakfast between 7:30-9:30am, lunch between 12:30-2:30pm, dinner between 5:30-7:30pm. They knock at

Physical and mental health are taken seriously in this quarantine business. Besides needing a covid test 72 hours before the flight, all the travel safety precautions, and having a mandatory 2 week quarantine, we have regular covid tests. We got a call to inform us that a nurse would knock at the door and we