See what I did there, with the title…? Yes, I made a Star Trek reference (to the 3rd movie The Search For Spock), yes it is a bad pun… But it’s actually very befitting for what this past week was like, honestly.

Plus it rhymed! And I’m never one to pass up some kind of goofy pun if one can be made!

You’re probably wondering what that title means, exactly… Well, let me tell you… Obviously, I had to go in search of a watch. Again… It sounds like an easy task, right? Well, maybe it is for some people. But I’m not like other people. I’m incredibly picky when it comes to certain accessories and watches are one of the things I’m pickiest about. I know; it’s just a watch. But everything I wear or carry is a statement of who I am… a lopsided artist…

There are quite a few criteria a watch has to meet. It has to be water resistant, no metal bands (they always pull my arm hair) and they can’t be pretty and effeminate because I’m more the funky tom boy. And, though this has flowers on the band and is the color I hate most (navy blue is okay though), it was pretty funky. So I bought it. One day I accidentally spilled a bottled water, which ran over my watch, and a shit ton of condensation built up under the crystal. Assuming it was just a bum seal, I returned it for another. Guess what… A tiny amount of water touched it and damned if it didn’t immediately fog up again! Ugh… Seriously, don’t advertise it as water resistant if the slightest amount of moisture is going to fuck it all up. I was fed up and pissed off by this point. I needed a watch! Worse, all the stores here in bumble-fuck don’t actually carry the watches on their website. I’m sorry, I can’t blindly choose a watch without physically being able to see or touch it. Yes, I’m picky!

By Saturday, I was going bat shit insane… I felt naked without a watch…

It was suggested that I go to this huge outdoor mall full of outlet stores about a half hour away due to the fact that they had a Guess outlet and I was looking at their watches. So I traveled north about a half hour (traffic was awful, so it was more like 45-60 minutes) to the outlet stores. On a day it reached 88 degrees (F) and the sun was strong… And I walked all over the whole large area in search of a watch.

My first stop was Fossil. I found a few that were okay, but still, I felt really meh about them. I did, however, find a really nice camera bag purse. I know I shouldn’t have gotten it, but I couldn’t help but buy it… and a new wallet… Oh, bad Jackie… It just got worse. After, I went to the Guess outlet. The front where the watches were was fairly crowded (social distancing, you know) so I checked out the rest of the store. I ended up leaving with 2 T-shirts, 2 lip balm, a small bottle of a new perfume they have and one of the watches I saw online that I liked. Best watch ever! Still, quite a trek to get one…

It was a bad weekend of spending like crazy…

Friday, the day before my trek for a new watch, I made up my mind on something I was undecided about. I bought a Nintendo Switch Lite…

I also got another copy of Animal Crossing as that’s the only way to do what I did. I got this Switch (not crazy about the color, but it was this or gray, and it’s not a horrible color) because you can only have one island per Switch and I have a Northern Hemisphere island. I don’t know anyone with a Southern Hemisphere island and I desperately wanted to have certain items from a place where it’s winter. Plus I could set it for a different time zone and play different times of the day. I know I shouldn’t have spent the money… A Switch Lite (which any Switch right now is hard to find) is $199, plus $60 for the game, then add tax… Yeah, it was a fairly expensive venture. But I’m glad I did it. I can have a ton of stuff I’d normally have to wait a long time for and I have no patience. Besides, I wish I’d have known how certain aspects of the game were going to be so I could have planned better. With this island, I can!

Besides… I’m going to need the distraction…

Morticia is officially off from work for at least 6 weeks. Knowing her, it’ll be even longer with how much she whines and bitches… Tomorrow she’s going in for a hysterectomy. I had one myself, in 3 surgeries, however. I lost one ovary in 2006, the other in 2007, then finally had the rest yanked in 2018. I’ve been through hell with everything and still am. Surgically induced menopause, especially at the age I was at, does bad things to your body that don’t get better. I don’t want to hear her whine and bitch to me for the next 6 weeks. I don’t know why she does… I don’t dole out pity to anyone, let alone her. And I’ve already been there. So suck it the fuck up, buttercup. Don’t be a pussy. There’s nothing I hate more than that. But… this is Morticia we’re speaking of. God forbid people shouldn’t feel sorry for her. Hell, no one gave a flying fuck about any of my 3 surgeries. Why should I care about hers? Sorry, that’s how life works. I wasn’t worth her caring about then; I don’t care about her now.

And the annoyance begins already…

She has off today as well and, as I expected, she called… At 7:24AM, she called… I realize I get up at some insanely early hour every morning, usually between 4:30-5AM every day. But that doesn’t mean that I want to talk so god-damn early in the morning! Jesus Christ! I can’t take time to blog, work on my art, write my stories… Even if, by some miracle of fate, she actually left me the fuck alone for the day, I still wouldn’t be able to get anything accomplished because I’m so stressed and irritated that I can’t seem to get the creativity flowing. I actually read an article about how to get people to stop calling you all the time and it stated that, constant calls, can cause stress, trouble focusing… all sorts of issues. The weird thing is, she has so many other friends, so she claims. Why can’t you call one of them for once?! I’m just so sick of feeling like I have no privacy, no life outside of talking to her… I need to stop this in a nice way and I don’t know how…

At least I have my neat little escape…

Every Sunday night this month, they’re setting off fireworks for hours in Animal Crossing New Horizons. I’m really glad they’re doing it at this point…

Isolation sucks, not being able to go do normal summer things like going to carnivals and going to watch fireworks has been annoying to say the least. But, thanks to the awesome people at Nintendo, I still get to see fireworks and I don’t have to be socially distant from anyone when I do it. It’s just a little saving grace for those of us who are going bat-shit insane missing out on normal activities.

If I could crawl inside the screen and literally live inside my game right now, I would…

After all, if I get too hot, I can go visit my other island where it’s cold and snowy. I don’t have to social distance, there’s no COVID-19. But, best of all, there’s no Morticia on either island! And the best she can do from hers os send me letters. No phone calls, no annoyances, no listening to whiny bullshit. Just peace and quiet, living on a once deserted island you built up to perfection. What more can one ask for…? Well, except to make my idea a possibility…