HOW DOES SHE HAVE THE ENERGY. SHE WENT TO THREE PLACES AFTER LANDING IN SEATTLE?? then helped me set up for con and decided to wake up at 5 Am to climb a mountain.

Shoutout to the powerhouse that is Mama Xu. She accompanied me on this trip to see Seattle and directed how to set up my art by going around the con and coming back and critiquing my setup until it drove me nuts. It worked tho I’m making double in sales. Now she’s climbing mt rainier. 60 years old.

Ty mel!!!

Literally me two seconds ago: wow I feel my back hurting more than it did last year 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼💯🙏🙏

Ty des!!!

THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

YESSSSSSS

I turn 30 today………………. *withers away like a tree*……………….. finally fucking free from my 20s. I’m FREE!!!!!! YES BITCH!!!!!! I LIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAIT MEL ARE YOU AT SAKURA CON?? Bc I swear I ate at the same restaurant dhskdhsksh (I’m tabling at 2623!!)

Me at my table at Sakura Con, table 2623

My art display: Sakura Con, table 2623

My art at Sakura Con, table 2623

Hello again all I AM AT SAKURA CON TABLE 2623!!!!!!!!!! Its also my bday weekend ^___^ if you’re in Seattle and going to this convention, I hope to see you!

It was exactly how it played out!!!!

Me at 7-11: hey is there a stopper you can give me for my coffee cup

7-11 employee: sorry we stopped giving those out years ago

Me: ok *uses a tape on my food container to tape up the top of my coffee

7-11 employee: *eyes widen, taps his head to indicate that I am a genius of problem solving*

I stopped going on bsky for a bit because being on social media makes me take psychic damage btw.

Me and my C2E2 booth

My booth, C2E2 Artist Alley R-23

My booth, closeup

Hello everybody it’s been a while. I’ve come back to announce I am at C2E2!!! ARTIST ALLEY TABLE R-23!!!! If you’re in Chicago and attending this convention, feel free to stop by.

Thank you!

saaaame. I can’t even fill out DnD sheets without being overwhelmed..

You have no idea how many of these I’ve seen in my recent delve into the planner community. ITS EVERYWHERE!! (Also I downloaded one to see myself. It was actually 2,000 pages)

those AI “brain music” apps… “proven my science to enhance focus”…. Where is it? please give me the scientific research + credentials..

“download this adhd planner, scientifically backed to work”… and its a 2,000 page pdf planner filled with a billion things to fill out on every page.. (I’m guessing this actually might work for many people, definitely not me tho. I think this makes my neuroticms worse, actually)

Saw this productivity app that had this tagline “adhd and autism relief” … what do you mean relief..

a big pet peeve.. adhd being used as a marketing tactic by brands to market their new tools/planners/etc.. without the understanding of what adhd is..

And we don’t think enough about what we actually need on an individual level. IMO the only way to know what really works for us is to put everything aside and be like “what do I really need right now to get this thing done” - sometimes it’s a simple to do list, other times it’s a more complex system

My newest experiment Im gonna do next week is to lock away all my tools/planner/tablets and see what I *actually* need to get things done (by going about my day and writing lists if I think I need something). Because I think for us adhd-ers we get influenced by shiny new systems other ppl talk about

This has been the golden question I’ve also been asking myself 😔 (audhd person who is constantly looking for new planning and management systems).. I’ve been on a “try this and see if it works” kick over the past few weeks/months bc I got really fed up with dropping everything all the time!

The covers all looked different but the layouts inside were pretty much exactly the same! I actually gotta dig deeper because I was so amused by all of this.. I will report back on further findings 🫡

What was so funny is that all the planners were obviously marketed towards different demographics. One of them had a very manifestation/spirituality cover meant for the spiritual ppl, another is more simple/gender neutral, and another is marketed as a ~women’s planner~ with the girl boss fonts 💀

AH sorry I did not explain well! So basically these two planner companies have different names so ppl thought they were owned by different ppl. But they looked suspiciously similar and when ppl went digging they realized it was one company behind 3-4 different planner “companies”!! 😭😭😭

Same! They’re so pretty and if I see one on sale I might bite the bullet myself~ I love how simple and light they are with the design too.. I’ve realized I’m someone who just needs plenty of blank space instead of pages of prompts/questions on goals/reflections (which I see many planners do)

Currently, the Japanese hobonichi style planner is all the rage worldwide. Many people are familiar with this and you might even use one yourself! They are smaller planners with a lot of extra pages for notes. They're quite expensive but well known for their quality.

the "dashboard" layout, which all days of the week are laid out in one page and the opposite one is a space for notes/goals/misc. Personally, this works so much better for my own purposes (jotting down weekly schedules in a condensed format).

I also learned some things about planning that I will implement into my own life. For example, did you know that the most common type of planner sold in stores is one with a weekly horizontal layout? I've used those + vertical layouts before, but none of them ever worked for me. I found out about