Out of the Blū: 📷 OT

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Saturday, October 25, 2025

Some flowers from today. 😊

I'm so behind on my life, but thankfully succulents are quite forgiving of a little neglect.

Sunday, October 19, 2025

I swear, I don't know why Shaun puts up with my shit, but these days especially, I put myself first. I take my time on the weekends since I'm going hard during the week at the bootcamp. I wake up late. I lay around. I do whatever feels nice.

I don't know how/why he doesn't wake up later or rest when he needs to, but he's gotta figure that out for himself and also say the words to me if he needs something from me. I think he would tell me if he needed anything, but I could be wrong.

Side note: He's great at using gifs to express himself. I'm great at getting what he means when he uses them. I'm terrible at picking them to show my feelings, though. I wonder if that's at all related to why I never know what my own face is doing. 😂

Friday, October 17, 2025

GPS took me a different route to class this morning.

GPS took me a different route to class this morning. I'm so geographically challenged that I didn't realize I was going to pass by Bumblebee. It made my day to see him! 😊

Thursday, October 16, 2025

A couple of weeks ago I found mealy bugs in several of my plants.

A couple of weeks ago I found mealy bugs in several of my plants. I tried Diatomaceous Earth for a week, and they were NOT phased. 😬 Shaun helped me add pesticide (which I hate doing) and water them last weekend, but the greenhouse is staying closed, so hopefully no local pollenators will be affected.

I checked on them today and had a few flower surprises. I guess they're doing ok. I've had so little time to pamper them since starting class. 🥲

I love these weirdos!

I'm gonna check this again tomorrow. I hope to catch it more open!

So teensy!

I'm not sure if I missed it or it's just starting. I'll have to check back.

Pretty in Pink

This one is still happy and open!

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Shaun was playing with Bear today...

Shaun was playing with Bear today and got a little injury. Bear kind of headbutted Shaun on the side of the face.

It's not a huge deal and it was an accident, but I guess this is how it goes when some of your teeth live outside of your mouth. 😂

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

It's so bright in person! 😍

Karoo Roses are blooming! 💛

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Hey, Nerds Who Love Cats, check this out:

In the Web Dev bootcamp, we often need to generate Lorem Ipsum as filler text. One of the instructors gave us a few links to choose from, so of course I chose the cat one. It's funnier than I thought it would be (crusty butthole, catasstrophe 👀). 😂😂😂 I'm not sure if it would fly in a work environment, but I definitely used it today for our challenge.

Here is the link in case anyone wants to try it:

http://www.catipsum.com/

Monday, September 29, 2025

Friday, I saw a balloon launching on the way to class.

Friday, I saw a balloon launching on the way to class. Today, there was a whole flock. The view when they were rising in front of the mountain was spectacular, but it wasn't a safe time for photography, so you get the power line view instead because I was stopped at a light.

Friday, September 26, 2025

I only had to use one streak freeze...

I only had to use one streak freeze, and I missed that day by literally 2 minutes. I forgot that Duo doesn't operate on Blu time - by that I mean it's the same day if I haven't gone to sleep. 😂😂😂

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Shadow gave me a snack for school this morning.

Shadow gave me a snack for school this morning. I have the sweetest kid. ❤️❤️❤️

Sunday, September 21, 2025

These bloomed yesterday and they're giving me life.

These bloomed yesterday and they're giving me life. They're so pretty!

Bear is enjoying them, too. For such a wild child, he's very gentle when smelling the flowers.

I love how sweet he is with "our" plants. He's the best helper in the land! 😊❤️

Friday, September 19, 2025

I'm writing this little posty-post...

I'm writing this little posty-post, having a late dinner, and dragging my tired butt to bed.

The first week of Web Development bootcamp is officially behind me.

I don't think I realized until this week that I am getting actual college credit for taking this class at CNM. Like, I'm really a student again. I get my student ID on Monday. I am not complaining. I just thought it was like a career thing or something, and not considered an actual class. So that's neat.

This is 100% everything I wanted it to be (so far). Even before it officially began on Monday, I was learning things through the pre-work and making connections with people.

For example, part of the pre-work was an HTML course on LinkedIn. I took it, even though I've been messing with HTML since the days of Myspace. I knew from my time at JSU that it's a markup for web pages, basically the bones of your website. But this course on LinkedIn went IN DEPTH, like, telling the difference between <em> and <i> (which both make things appear in italics) or the difference between <strong> and <b> (which both make things appear bold). [If you care, the difference is that they are dependent on the context of the needed bold or italics.] Also, <center> is deprecated. I didn't know that. HTML has officially left as much styling as possible to CSS.

I wasn't too concerned about picking up HTML or CSS because I've dabbled in them for ages and felt ok about it. JavaScript has been hard for me for many years, though, and I feel like I'm finally starting to get it. We have 5 small coding assignments to do, due Tuesday. We did the first (and easiest one) together as a class so the teacher could show us how to run and check them. I finished one yesterday, and two today. I'm mostly done with my 5th (it's supposed to be a challenge for extra credit), but we haven't gone over the information I need to complete it. I asked the teacher if I was allowed to Google, and he asked me what I was doing. I told him, and he told me to just wait for the material on Monday. I told him I thought it was labeled a "challenge" for extra credit because it was harder because we didn't know what we were doing yet. 😂 So I'm feeling really good about things so far. And I'm really enjoying all of my homework. There is just kind of a LOT of it.

Even though things are moving at a fast pace, there is a lot of hands-on work and problem-solving and I really think it's what I needed. I've been curious how all of this works together for a long time, so I'm very interested in all of it. Our instructors take the time to explain everything really in-depth. Maybe I needed my hand held to pick up JavaScript. Or maybe repeated exposure to it is finally paying off. Or maybe the fact that I'm doing this for myself and not a grade or work has taken the pressure off and I can just think and absorb and try without pressure. I don't know. But I'm really proud that I've completed 3.5 coding assignments after only 1 week with just referencing my notes (and 1 small Google because I knew what I was trying to say, but not the syntax for saying it). It's a big deal for me.

I also love my classmates. We're a mix of everything. We have 5 girls and 4 guys. We have at least 2 people who have moved to the US from other countries, possibly 3. One person is Native. We're from all different backgrounds/levels of experience. And we're just having the best time getting to know each other and help each other. I think I'm gonna be so busy and having so much fun that these next 11 weeks are going to fly by.

Anyway, that's how it's going. Great so far!

Here's a pic of one of the code assignments from today. 🙂 I know it's not very impressive to anyone who knows how to do this already, but I'm so grateful to be making progress!