Misty's Diary

Finally Heard Back From Unemployment

Unemployment finally mailed me my Certificate of Understanding after I was able to get on a video call with them. I should finally be getting some benefits before I get a job, which could be very soon with Goodwill calling me back Tuesday about whether or not I got the job when I interviewed with them Thursday. Very happy I have something good to report this time.

July 1, 2023

Job Applying

I'm applying for jobs right now to fill the gap in the wait for my furlough to end, so please wish me luck. To my displeasure, unemployment has not helped me out in any way whatsoever and I had to get in touch with a manager from Macy's last night about why I hadn't received my call for my return-to-work date within two weeks. I was told that they "hadn't received word yet on return dates for furloughed colleagues". I'm very tired of this, very unhappy right now.

June 26, 2023

Reviews

Reviewed MYM Chapter 4 in More Detail After Watching It Again

I may have reviewed MYM Chapter 4 already in its discussion thread, but that was just for a warmup. This is the real review I always wanted to do for it. https://www.deviantart.com/mistybrightshadow/art/Make-Your-Mark-Chapter-4-Review-971157815 I also wanted to do this after watching all the episodes more than once because I didn't just want the writing in the review to be just right, I wanted all my thoughts to be just right as well. This chapter deserves that extra polish for a revi

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June 23, 2023

Reviews

g5 Reviewed Winter Wishday After Watching It Again

"Winter Wishday in July!" Yeah, remember that joke from my G5 summer story? https://www.deviantart.com/mistybrightshadow/art/MYM-Chapter-3-Review-Winter-Wishday-970999436 The joke comes to life, I reviewed the G5 holiday special with the first day of summer being on the horizon.

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June 19, 2023

Made the Third Installment of My King Sombra is in G5 Theory

I'm sure that you guys saw this coming after the alicorn theory, I've already done yet another Sombra theory. What can I say? I had to do something for my 300th deviation on DeviantArt celebration.

June 13, 2023

Alicorn Theory Inspired by MYM's Latest Chapter

Of course, the newest chapter of MYM inspired me to write a fan theory...that's not about King Sombra. Granted, I've done a non-Sombra theory in the past, but this is the first one that's actually about official MLP media. Hope you enjoy!

June 10, 2023

Got Furloughed at My Job

Some very unfortunate news that I've already made a status update on and will elucidate more on here as promised. I was called in for a meeting at the start of my night shift and informed that my department would be hit with a mass furloughing, impacting at least seventy-one people. This confounded a lot of people, myself included, seeing how these past few days have been very busy. However, according to upper management, the workload is actually lacking, so they've decided to furlough full-time

June 7, 2023

My Essay for Izzy Moonbow

Twilight Sparkle (moderator) told me that it's better to link to forum threads for these essay posts with blogs instead of posting my whole essay in a blog, so here's my new thread showcasing this essay I did for an amazing character like Izzy Moonbow for my birthday.

May 21, 2023

Games

Got a Steam Deck!

I recently finally got myself a Steam Deck! Yeah, that's Devil May Cry 4 on there. It's funny how the console told me the game was unsupported on Steam Deck when it actually plays fine for me. That's the only thing I really don't like about the console, that confusion for some of these games that will actually play fine with some minor tinkering, if you even need to do that at all. Other than that, it's awesome.

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May 5, 2023

Reviews

MLP G5 Make Your Mark Chapter 2 Review

Even though I've kind of already reviewed this chapter, I felt that it deserved a much more detailed review in the style of my MYM Chapter 1 re-assessment, so here we go. https://www.deviantart.com/mistybrightshadow/art/MYM-Chapter-2-Review-Pre-MYM-C4-Release-970987346 Prelude Make Your Mark Chapter 2 is currently my favorite piece of G5 content. At this moment in time, it’s the second most positively received part of G5’s media, with the most positively received part being the m

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April 28, 2023

Received My Raise at Work After Being Officially Recognized as a Top Performer

I mentioned in my last blog that I was potentially getting a raise, and now, I officially am getting one. Although it's not that much extra money, it's certainly going to add up, and I am grateful to have any raise in pay. I was also extremely happy to see that I am now officially recognized as a top performer. My supervisor told me that I'm one of the top performers out of seven. Honestly, the boon this has been to my feeling of self-worth is more valuable to me than the money.

April 25, 2023

Another Work Award, Potential Raise

Since I have not made a blog about work in quite some time, I guess it's finally time to update you guys on how I'm paying the bills. Work was mostly slow for a while in the winter with the least active peak season I've ever seen, but lately, it's been a lot more busy with a lot more stuff to do. Coinciding with that, they're getting stricter at my job with people needing to meet productivity. It's not given me any trouble though, I received yet another award from my job last night.

April 13, 2023

Twilight Sparkle's Greatest Accomplishment: Creating the Unity Crystals

This can also be found on my DeviantArt gallery. https://www.deviantart.com/mistybrightshadow/art/The-Importance-of-the-Unity-Crystals-MLP-Essay-973931576 Opening Twilight Sparkle did a great service to Equestria in making the Unity Crystals. This, I know for sure, is a controversial statement. However, I’ll even go a step further and say that what Twilight was revealed to have done to help Equestria in the second issue of the G5 comics is her greatest accomplishment in the serie

April 7, 2023

Dreams

Another Strange Dream Featuring Rikifive

Yeah, I had another weird pony dream, another dream where I was a younger version of myself, and another dream where Rikifive's name came up. This time, he wasn't "Rikifiveguy". I was watching this episode of MLP: FiM with my sister that was titled "Rikifive" for some reason. The only things I remember while watching it were this weird opening sequence where Discord turns Shaggy from Scooby-Doo into a plant and this scene where a 3D-animated Twilight was talking to this robot shark with a full s

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March 13, 2023

Vent (Sort of)

Nontroversies

This is my first ever blog on this site that is going to be somewhat of a vent. Who here is tired of nontroversies? Who here is tired of everything needing to be "controversial"? I know, this is absolutely nothing new. But it's something that continues to grow ever more baffling. The world sucks right now, worse than it ever has in modern history, yet as it continues to get worse, people continue to get better at creating non-issues. Look at all the real ones we have. It's growing ever more diff

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February 25, 2023

Sinus Infection

Last week, I felt I was finally getting over a prolonged sickness I was tired of having, something akin to a cold. However, early Monday morning, I came down with some severe congestion in my nose and ears. Part of me worried it was COVID initially, considering how stupidly long I had been sick, but a negative test combined with no other symptoms besides sinus symptoms confirmed it was not. I have a sinus infection, I've been having to blow my nose very often, and I've been blowing out both yell

February 16, 2023

My Personal 2022 Retrospect

From my last yearly retrospect on 2021... "Fairly adequate year for me I believe, despite the miring of my work and moderate miring of my family relationships, discounting the improvement with my sister. Absolutely awful for the world, again, however. I truly do hope 2022 does something to finally break the mold of this dark age." As much as I'd like to start with something optimistic, I don't want to jinx 2023 for you guys. Moving straight to recounting what this year was li