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weekly retro: blog birthdays, blood and buds

i'm coming to you and this retro with one vial less of blood and having been up since the crack of dawn to have said vial taken. this kicks off the bi-annual celebration of seeing if my thyroid has finally joined me on the quest to be hotter and smarter or not.

photo of the rear bumper of a car that has a sticker saying "CAUTION Little Bitch"

over the weekend was the 5-year anniversary of this blog. i spent quite a bit of time updating the look of the site and migrating it over to d'ocean. that's a referral link, by the way, as i've been a customer since october of 2013. i also moved over jennschiffer.com and bugs rock. i spent a lot of hours on the computer last week is what i'm trying to say.

photo of my candle making space showing red blocks of wax, green tops with fake pixel leaves on them, the mold for the leaf pixels, a solder iron i use to melt stuff, and other tools.

time on the computer means less time in the chandlery. fortunately, i have the first collection complete for launch and all that's left is finishing up building the store site. if my bloodwork comes back with favorable results and no more surprised are dropped on my lap, i'll be able to start selling my small wax children next week.

photo of me in the gym bathroom giving the middle finger

i made it to the gym for a treadmill walk twice this week, and also started going to the mixed level aerial yoga class that had often conflicted with my schedule. the instructor is jacked and her class is very plank and push-up heavy, which i love to hate. my body was sore and i can't wait to go back.

photo of some chickens on the side of a neighbor's house, behind a cast iron gate

the sun came out finally so i got to walk around a lot off the treadmill. i call these chickens "my sisters in christ" and i was told they have an instagram but searching just leads me to restaurants nearby that have chicken on the menu. i did find this very charming video of them from a couple years ago, though. anyway, i definitely need to buy new walking shoes as the ones i've been wearing are past their expiration date.

photo of roses that are a mix of pink and white and a little orange.

i know a lot more about computers than i do athletic sneakers - in soccer and field hockey we wore cleats. i probably know more about flowers than i do athletic sneakers. i believe the ones above are french roses and they live behind our favorite coffee shop.

photo of a bunch of little purple flowers that i think are lobelias and a couple hot pink flowers that i think are petunias

and i think these are lobelia and...petunias? am i becoming a plant watcher, which is like a bird watcher but instead of birds i'm watching plants?

things i enjoyed this week

plant watching, which is like bird watching but instead of birds i'm watching plants
omg so i knew potch was doing this developer game show but i didn't know it was vs. tru. they are both so funny, and the production is really good!
my bud jim has 54 watch dioramas on display in case you happen to be in the brentwood, maryland area through mid-august. if you won't be, peruse his wonderful, artsy blog.

by the way, i'm streaming on youtube again, mostly going over my glitch dashboard right now, but i've been enjoying going through old projects and shootin' the shit with everyone in the chat. today i go on at 3pm eastern, yee-haw.

xoxo jenn

this was published June 2, 2025 under living laughing working weekly-retro jersey-city candle-making flowers chickens gym aerial-yoga blood

five years of living, laughing and blogging

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weekly retro: one of those winding road kinda weeks

it's a new week, although the "holiday weekend" still if you're in the states. during my workaholic corporate era, these holidays were more like a working vacation where i still logged on to get stuff done, but didn't have to talk to or answer to anyone (ie. no zoom calls). well, here i am technically working by writing this and planning to do candle work after. it's a good thing i only left corporate, not therapy as well.

on 'important changes coming to glitch'

today the news is out that [glitch is basically shutting down](https://blog.glitch.com/post/changes-are-coming-to-glitch/). i knew this was coming in some form because gossip has always been fastly’s greatest export, with speedy and non-vague communication usually coming in at, generously, 10th place.

weekly retro: spider feet have hydraulics

i just got back from a dentist appointment where i found out, unfortunately but not surprisingly, that i'm going to have to spend about 5 billion dollars to take care of a tooth infection. enough about this week, though, let's talk about _last week_.

weekly retro: the 'late because i went to boston' retro

this week's retro is late because i was out of town for the weekend and am, today, finally able to Go On The Computer™ and Blog™ - you know, *the two things i was born to do*.

weekly retro: crunchy flowers and interesting feline shapes

after a week and a half of weird joint paint, i was starting to accept that this was perhaps the moment every person who has sat for 4 hours in an endocrinologist's waiting room is told may happen (rheumatoid arthritis), but as of today i've been 5 days without any pain.

weekly retro: the one where i became a walking weather stick

this week was one of those week where i made a point to not do much outside of my scheduled obligations, so to give my body a rest. my knees were SCREAMING in a voice i never heard before, but joint pain is a pretty common symptom of hashimotos. this is the first week in 7 months where i did not go to the gym!

figure drawing session - april 16, 2025

last week i went back to jc print room for a live model figure drawing session. this time the model was male. we don't know what kind of models we are going to get until we show up which keeps the experience fresh. i get super bored drawing the same body type, especially when they're similar to my own.

weekly retro: playing radio, chandlery and blue prince

my upstairs neighbors are doing construction and it sounds like they tore out all the floors and/or they filled their pockets and boots with heavy weights, so i've had to take about seven (7) breaks as i try to write this.

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