Jessica Journals

Welcome!

Hello! I'm Jessica, and welcome to Jessica Journals, to my little home on the internet! A cartoon image, from the shoulders up, of a curly brown haired white woman wearing glasses, a purple top, and gray dungarees. Behind are large stripes in black, gray, white and purple, with faint stars.

This is a website where I write about various interests of mine, mostly involving various aspects of techonology including self hosting, productivity and applications.

However, I have recently expanded to include more interests of mine, taking note from the resurgence of websites inspired by those from the 1990s and 2000s, the era I began participating online.

The content has been organised into a series of rooms, as if this website were a house. You can click on “Rooms” in the navigation bar above to find out more about the rooms and what is inside of them. Posts can also be navigated through the “Tags” page if you prefer instead, or by clicking on “Posts” which lists all the posts chronologically, both also found in the navigation bar. Lastly, “Recent Changes” of the last ten updated posts has been listed below.

Recent Posts:

Mood Tracking

While I can easily identify “big” emotions, like sadness, anger, anxiety and happiness, I do struggle a bit with naming more precise emotions, particularly when I feel uneasy and don’t know why. It unsettles me as I feel less in control of my emotions and they overcome me. In this short post, I’ll go into some of the mood tracking methods I’ve tried over the years to help me better try to label an emotion.

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Tags: WeblogPoMo2024 Android Applications Mental Health

ThreeGoodThings

When I first joined Mastodon, I came across a hashtag which seemed nice and a fun little activity to join in on every day: #ThreeGoodThings

The concept is simple, just list three good things that happened in that day. On positive days, this can be easy, listing things like going on trips, eating tasty food or meeting great people. On more mundane days, things like seeing a nice sunset, wearing a favourite sweater or just getting out of bed and moving around more can be found.

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Tags: WeblogPoMo2024 Mental Health Social Media

Orders

Even though it was created as a joke, I liked the idea of creating a page listing a food order, so I’ve made this to list all my favourite ones. Although I don’t actually make food orders, this is what I would have based on restaurants nearby, made as a “fakeaway” at home for special occasions to share with others and eat over a couple of days.

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Tags: WeblogPoMo2024