Well, here we are at the end of another month! I don't see any point in stalling, so let's get started!
My month begins on the 1st (you know, like everybody's month) when I had an eye test – my first in three years, believe it or not!
I was told that my prescription had improved considerably, and so the optician was worried I could have keratoconus (again) and so I should go back in a year's time to see if it's got worse (if it has, I'll be referred to an eye specialist again.)
It was also my cousin Gráinne's birthday, so congratulations to her!Three hyperlinks in one paragraph? Get me, sending my reader(s) on a wild goose chase!
On the 3rd, it was my parents' wedding anniversary, so congratulations to them for being married!
On the 5th, I discovered while playing Terraria that the final stretch of the game would put my various towns in severe danger, so I moved three of them (I mean, one of them was just a single house, but I added another person when I moved everything, so that counts for something, right?)
And on the 6th – or, rather, in the small hours of the 7th – I completed the game Fallblox, which I've been playing on-and-off for the last over nine years since it was released in early 2015!
Meanwhile, during the actual daytime on the 7th, Google Maps "tried to kill" Maia (her words) by telling her to cross a busy A road (she found another way, but was then scared off by the idea of finding a dead body or something, and then found ANOTHER way that involved crossing train tracks.)
On the 8th, I went to IKEA with Dad and got a new chest of drawers, which Dad put up the next day, as well as new pillows and a new phone stand.
Two days later, on the 10th, my new bed arrived! It's a divan bed, so it'll hopefully be sturdier than my old bed frame, and I also finally got a new mattress for literally the first time ever (yes, I had been sleeping on the exact same mattress for twenty years running.)
On the 11th, I defeated the final boss of Terraria for the first time, and on my first try, to boot!
Meanwhile, Mum approves of Olivia Coleman's Irish accent (it sounds decently genuine, although I noticed one part where she says the word "car" as /kɑ̈ːɹ/ with a central vowel (so the "A" sounding like it does over here in England) rather than /kaːɹ/ with a front vowel (which is how it sounds in Ireland) – though I will also point out that I'm not actually bothered by it, it's just something I happened to notice.)
I'm pretty sure Mum only put that film on because it's Irish, anyway.
The next day, on the 12th, I made a "cypher language" in about 2 hours and 45 minutes because I was bored, I think.
It takes the sounds of English – not the letters – then changes them according to a specific set of rules, and then re-spells the words after all the sound changes ahve been applied. As an example, the word "England" becomes "Umbrengg", while the word "hypotenuse" becomes "autikangwôš". It also affects grammar, too, but that only becomes apparent in full sentences.
Like I said, I was (probably) bored.
On the 14th, Mum & Dad went to Ireland for a wedding that took place the next day, leaving Maia & I home by ourselves for the four days until the 18th. We had fun, and it reminded me that moving out will be a good thing (when it actually happens, which is completely unknown.)
Nothing much has really happened for the rest of the month, though – all I can think of is how I've started playing Pokémon Legends: Arceus again in the last week, because my plan is to complete all 241/242 (depending on whether or not I'll be able to get Darkrai, which I probably won't because it requires save data from the one pair of Pokémon games I deliberately skipped) entries in the Hisui Pokédex before The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is released on the 26th of September.
Yesterday, meanwhile – the 30th – they released a new trailer for Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom!
This trailer showcases the "Still World" where everything ends up once it's fallen into the rifts.
Anyway, that's all from me for this month, so I'll be back this time next month!
Bye for now!