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I do not like this trend of storms occurring the night before my birthday. Last year, I slept so badly, I spent most of my birthday in tears, convinced that everyone hated me. I do not want to do that again, thank you very much.

(I'm hoping because I'm so far inland, it won't be as bad as predicted, but I guess we will just have to wait and see).

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So thanks to work, I now have a huge pile of card/paper. I had a huge pile of card (and paper) at home anyway, because of my stuff plus mum's, but now I have even more. So, I thought, maybe I can make some paper/card cut pictures, as that's something I've been wanting to do this year anyway and now I have plenty of stuff to do it with!

Except.

I watched one of Kasey Golden's videos the other evening, where she was making a paper cutout picture from some fanmail she'd been sent, as well as some patterned paper she bought, and now I want to buy a huge stack of patterned paper, don't I.

(I pretty much always want the patterned papers. If I don't, you can bet I am probably ill).

I've never actually seen a thick book of papers like the one she has in the video, but I guess that's what I get for not living in Canada/nearer a massive craft store. (The nearest I could get is that book of 100(?) origami papers I kept seeing in The Works at one point, but they were only five by five inch squares).

But anyway, yeah! Cutout paper pictures! It's something I've toyed with on and off for years now, but something about the combo of that video and the stuff from work really fired me up to actually do something for once instead of sitting on my arse and twiddling my thumbs.

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So I finished The Broken Earth trilogy!

I enjoyed all three books. I read them in a week, which is a hecking record for me of late, and probably could've read them all in two days flat if I hadn't had anything else to do.

I liked reading a set of books that weren't about white people*. I liked reading about a character who was almost the same age as me (Essun is older than me, though not by much). I liked how oregeny works (or doesn't). I liked the way the story is told, and I didn't find the second person narration annoying (I think it worked really well - better than in another book I've read within the last few years that had parts in second person).

And now I don't know what to read next! (I suppose I could finish the linguistics book I started, but I'm kind of finding it boring, because for the most part, I already know what it's talking about).

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*I have read books with POC in before, but almost never where the majority of the cast is not white.