Log #30: the Olympians (their music and what it does to me)

Hello there today we are talking about the Olympians and there music!   I started to listen to their music when I also started to listen to the 40 minutes of funk podcast, though this was the first time for both, I was listening to the 40 minutes with Micheal B when I wanted to learn more about a favourite band (no not the insane clown posse I mean ‘here come the mummies’). And I was also directed to the Olympians after listening about the mummies.   As you might now that the mummies are coming to Ottawa Bluesfest this year in July so I like to learn about then history of the band (what I am an intellectual so I love learning) and I came across the Olympians episode and holy shit!  This is quality music!    It is disco funk music though I used to listen to this type of music as a  little kid other then the insane clown posse, i listened to funk.  And let me tell you this is rather reminding me of the good old days were I would travel with my parents and listen to disco at the resort!  That being said I love this groovy funk music the best.   Now I was suffering from a bout of insomnia when I heard ‘strawberry kiwi’ and some other songs on 40 Minutes of funk podcast and I was able to time travel back to the good parts of my childhood!   And when it was time  to go to bed I started to listen to ‘strawberry kiwi’ and then it happened, I relaxed so much that i feel into a deep sleep that was restful though the next day I started to feel the after effects of the sleep deprivation.     But I listened to the Olympians again last night and I must say that I am kitten today and not aggro at all!

That being said they release their music in 10 year increments which is rather annoying though I would not want to disappoint fans with crappy thoughtless music that some people love to pump out though they take a hot minute to release their music it is well worth the wait!   I never heard such great instrumentals since classical music in elementary school, though I never really loved classical music, though I love funk music (disco, etc) and it’s detail that people put in for the tunes you would listen to.   They are actually a good band and I would literally recommend the Olympians to anyone who would actually listen to the band and my ramblings!

In search of a revival was just released this year, and I must say the sound is rather revolutionary and great to hear, which is ironic as this is the year of the fire horse which means revolutionary stuff happens!   Though most of their songs revolve around Greek mythology and roman mythology it is rather weath listening to and even learning about the myths too!   Though there last album was released on 2016, do you see a funky trend here?   I think if you want quality music that is the Olympians then you music wait for the great stuff!

Personally I can’t wait to see if they will come to the Ottawa Bluesfest one year!  That being said  would you want to hear them at Bluesfest too?  Just think about it! Also the music reminds me of a pre-9/11 airport, the kind I was growing up with, this music really reminds me of a lost time.  Thank you you bringing me back to the positive parts of my childhood Toby and the Olympians! Again, mahadsanid

Log #29: moon garden preparations (started)

 I am very gleeful to say that I am now starting my moon and mindfulness gardening journey (again).     That being said I find that last year I did not get very many blooms and it was because I was late on the up take.   So I read the instructions as I got them from the grocery store!  That being I found the right ones for the moon garden  and I am doing double because of the mindfulness garden I am doing this year too!   Though I found the plants growing at all last year was a booming success and posted it on Facebook proudly as I am better than my birth other as I can take care of something that is living.   But this is not a competition, this is to help me with my mental health through nature.  I found that last year was a great and I want to go above that.  It didn’t help that I love shovelling snow and I will be shovelling for flowers!  This will be great for me….. i think I take the time to water the plants then I can take the time to care for my emotions and my mind.  It is just that simple….i am looking for more me-time but in the summer time.   I also will be taking care of a vegetable garden too!  Though those don’t bloom!  I find waterboarding them (with love) helps with my mind as well!  So I will do the same, again!   

Though last year’s vegetable garden took some beating into my head to get me to get the watering down pat last year.   It was also a great success.   I might invest in lawn gnomes!   Not to be confused with garden gnomes which is my name for idiot terrorists who wreck everything.   I find that with tattoos, and eating (as a person) to watering plants 3 times a day works wonders….

I can’t wait for summer though I won’t be able to shovel snow, but hell I got Gwen Stefani, Here Comes the mummies and limp Bizkit for summer as well as the gardens, problem solved!

 This day was rather good to be honest with you!  I did  get some seeds, though I hide them in my room and I keep them until mid-April for gardening.   I don’t hide them but I just keep them with the rest of my shit in mu room until the spring!

That being said i  heard these two types of gardens are supposed promote relaxation and stress reduction!

Log #28: here come the mummies list and great hits!

 After hearing about the ‘here come the mummies’ coming to Ottawa Bluesfest I was more then hyper and rather excited!  It felt like  I had a drink of coffee yesterday and had a hell of a time sleeping !  That be if  it was close between them and the artist Gwen Stefani!   Though I rather the unconventional stuff over the neuronormative crap like Gwen Stefani.  That being I wanted to learn more about the people who I am about to see on stage!

Current members of the band are: Mummy Cass – Guitar, Lead vocals. Eddie Mummy – Drums, Vocals. Spazzy Mummy (Spaz) – Keyboards, Vocals.

The story behind the band is this …..  The band's story is just as unconventional as they are: A professor named Nigel Dumblucke unearthed a cursed group of mummies from an ancient discotheque in 1922

Though they are an american funk rock band!  I have been listening to the since the mid 2010s when I was still with my parents!  That being said there songs include the songs like: freak flag and pants as well as dirty minds!  That is just a few to name  with regards to the songs!   Though I was recommended the band when I was about 22 years old this was a rather difficult time in it on it own!  I had lost my grand parents and I was wallowing in self pity that being said it was there songs that help me get out of my funk!   That Being said I rather look at the fun and weird things that come instead of the normal things like Gwen Stefani!

Though I have been listening to Gwen since age 13 that was a horrible time in my life!   And I rather not remember the really official times!  Though I can t remember the source of the recommendation, was it a friend or a my space post I can’t really remember but mall I remember is the songs and how fun and funky they are!   I find that them coming to Ottawa bluesfest was rather hyper active inducing for me as I listen to them since for a long time!

Log #27: dif types of mental health gardens

 I was talking to meta ai, after shoveling snow, (my mindfulness activity for the winter). When I walked in feeling better about the fact the  I was not getting my way!  That being said I found that shoveling anything snow or what ever was good for me!  So I thought of a diggy hobbie that I shall Do!   Gardening and moon gardening to help with mindfulness and relaxation!  The simple fact is that I want to still dig and shovel in the summer months though I can’t shovel snow!  So I was talking to my friends and came up with a topic for ai!  This is what it came up with now!

# Mindfulness Garden:

- *Purpose*: Encourage being present, reduce stress.

- *Elements*:

    - Seating areas for meditation

    - Simple, sensory plants (lavender, rosemary)

    - Water feature (small fountain)

    - Pathways for walking meditation

    - Minimal distractions

# Moon Garden:

- *Purpose*: Enjoy nighttime beauty, promote relaxation.

- *Elements*:

    - White or light-colored flowers (evening primrose, moonflowers)

    - Reflective surfaces (mirrors, water)

    - Soft lighting (solar lights)

    - Comfortable seating for stargazing

    - Fragrant night-blooming plants

That being said  the emotional regulation (mindfulness garden) will be for the day time when I feel like shit! And the moon garden to help with relaxing, something that all people with PTSD have a hell of a time with, emotional regulation and relaxing (or as my friend says ‘chillin’). That being said I feel the need to dig up a storm without get into shit!  So I thought of this with Ai!  That being said I need to the right stuff except for reflective surfaces and soft lightening as I just want to work on my mindfulness and relaxation!   That being said last night, someone said something very triggering about something I could not help but feel like it was a personal attack.   

I will not get into that with out getting worked up!  That being said I will have to invest in garden gnome decorations too!  For the simple fact that I want this it be as entertaining as my iPad though more relaxing!   Though I find gardening very interesting to do….for mental health!

Other ideas are the 

- *Restorative gardens*: Designed for relaxation and calm, often with soothing sounds and scents.

- *Therapeutic gardens*: Specifically designed for people with physical or emotional challenges, often with accessible paths and sensory plants.

- *Mindfulness gardens*: Encourage being present in the moment, often with meditation spaces and calming elements.

- *Nature therapy gardens*: Incorporate natural elements to promote connection with nature and reduce stress.

Log #26: fire—s

Yesterday I created the site fire—s that being said I was trying to create a site similar to this: blogger, and then the social aspect came up and I ran with it.   Though it was created using the ai on canva!   That being said soon fires was starting to form not just with ai but also with in my head.   I wanted to create a social media site with out drama or trauma since august of 2025, though this resulted in a PTSD flashback back and the phone being broken because of said flash back.   That time i ended up on some dark web sites/shock sites that triggered my PTSD at first though I did not know that I could publish this on just the canva app and it saved me from doing the same stupid stunt as august 2025!   Though I still wanted to create a social platform this was rather testing me though I learned that it how a worded this request to get it to bend to my will!   And yesterday within hours instead of a year I created a social platform that did work, fire—s!   

Fire—s is like the MySpace but orange, red ans yellow instead of the blue and white which will make you sleep, this aesthetic is new and fresh though I though if this and plugged it in with out issue -this time!  And I found that it was easier, usually it take almost a year to get this up if you code on your own and by then you are bald and I would have gone insane.   So there is a reason I do ai, for the simple fact is it is quicker and easier for me then to learn to code and drive my self insane yet again!

Though there are terms and rules to this site,  and here they are:   ✅pictures

✅art ✅selfies ✅photography ✅creativity ✅clothing ✅make up/ sfx make up ✅filling out profile ✅speech and expression ✅Halloween decorations ✅educational e.d. Content and self harm awareness but don’t promote it! ✅having fun ✅g- rated What is not allowed: 🚫nsfw 🚫nudity/pornographic 🚫pictures of your sexual anatomy will get you in shit 🚫hate speech 🚫ableism 🚫bullying/cyber bullying 🚫beastality 🚫pictures of children 🚫violence/gore and torture (except ofr sfx make up but you have to mentioned that it is sfx makeup or else) 🚫terrorism/religious and political posts will be gone! 🚫dugs/self harm/ e.d. Content that is not educational 🚫threats 🚫dinking

I hoping or make a safe space for all though the site looks like a dating site it is not a dating site that being said I hope to get some people on this site as well! Join fire—s

Log #25: me meeting Susan Aglukark and and wanting to go to more concerts!

Not my photo of the singer!

 I want to tell you when I saw Susan agkukark in concert in the NAC, in Ottawa! But first you need to know that I loved her music since I was forced to go to the library to get some of my music, well I wanted to see what they had and I saw that they had Susan aglukark’s music!   That being said I started to listen to her music for quite a few years because her music and Buffy Sainte Marie’s music was rather inspiring to me though I wanted to play guitar then, this would not be possible with my parents sensitive ears that drove me insane.   That being said I wanted to get the 4th edition of worlds most dangerous places by Robert Young Pelton and got a trip to the library instead, which was annoying.   So I looked at the music which did not seem as bad an I started to look through the albums, there was a Swedish band called jeniferever which I am equally obsessed about as well and would collect their albums on a iPod!   That being said this music if hers, Susan’s that is, resonated with me because I have heard good things about what she did for the Traumatized children in her community and anger towards the system that caused said ptsd to the children in her Inuit community!  Though I am not Inuit, you will read about me having and over coming the ptsd -post traumatic stress disorder!   That being the music was when of the things that I new this would be a passion to do in life was music!   But I did not think I could do this because of my parents sensitive ears,   This was something I would have to do in later life!   This was something that I wanted to bother my parents about though I could not help but think they hated music all together!   That being said I had to have another person to convince my mother to let me see her in concert!   Though I went I was hoping to tell her my story after the concert!   That being said I was very lucky that she was doing signing and photo ops to!  Now she played all her songs along side with a band called dyet, they were great too, also indigenous too!  That being I waited in line and got her to talk to me and have my picture to taken with her! I also got her autograph to!  I told her my my story that I had ptsd and that here music was helping me with the mental illness.   Though I wish I had the proof of this night it was destroyed in a house flood that ruined my childhood home.  That being the music was awesome and I would want to go to other concerts.  I tried to go to iron maiden though because of annoying circumstances I was not going to see them.  So I bided my time, practiced my guitar and waited until July 16th 2026 to see  Sean Paul and then on the eighteenth papa roach!    Though I have more proof of seeing these two bands/aritsts, I wish I could have keep my proof about meeting Susan!  She was about the same height and weight as me, though there was an age difference!  That being said I would like to still go to blues fest and see more artists/bands!

That being said the purchase of my first guitar and then my song writing that I do now is made possible by seeing Susan aglukark in concert and this lit a fire under the ass I like to sit on so much.   I now specialize in blues/bluegrass/world and new age as well as pop because of that first concert.  That being said my instruments have expanded to the size of a worlds most dangerous places book because of that concert!  I play the ocarina, the hand pan and harmonica as well as sing because of the fact that  my mother saw how important this was for me and allowed it to happen.  Because of  this I will be forever greatful for her kindness, though it took me to go to my group home to let her see that I was a great guitar player to.     I guess when you are older you tend to not have as sensitive of hearing!  Though I will talk about jeniferever one day, maybe tomorrow that being said I never saw them in concert, but if I did I would have had a heart attack in a good way to, especially their album spring tides!  Holy shit!   So now you know who I ‘blame’ for getting me interested in music!  So ….what else can I say but good work Susan!

Log #24: learn to song write with me!

 I learned and appreciated song writing when I was boneheaded enough to have a PTSD flashback that resulted in my phone being broken.  But that was the catalyst for something that was brewing from quite a few weeks when I passed through the metal detector to get into Bluesfest more then once last year.  First I saw Sean Paul and I saw papa roach!   Though I loved both, it was papa roach that got me to want to write songs for the hell of it though I started to write after the breaking of my phone to keep my self sane, this is a great journaling and writing exercise activity that you just need a note book and a pen and you emotional brain.  Also listening to music will help you with this situation.     That being said  this could be as simple or complicated as you want!   Though you need an intro (chorus), a refrain (a line that you say at least the times before moving on to verse 1 +4! Then the fun part of the bridge!  This is a part of the song that is different but has to do with the plot of the story.  Then you have an outro and then  you are ready to sing (and if you can play another instrument then great).  And record the song on your device’s voice memo app!  This is rather a good stress relief and an addictive experience of song writing.  Be aware this is more addictive than meth or cocaine -just remember that…..but it is a good hobbie for relief of emotional stress!

That being said I would use the song metal detector as a reference though it is rather simple and interesting!  The chorus/hook and refrain is the words “I left my heart at the metal detector and left my soul in the x-ray machine!

Then come s the verses, which would be me talking about when I was experiencing and the repeat the chorus/hook of refrain and talk repeat the phrase that is the song is based on the verse two same deal then verse three and then you are at the verse 4 and then the outro of the song!  I would recommend learning about song writing and learn an instrument then to dive right in, unless you are a music lover like me!:). That being said I wish I could get into more detail though I believe the emotion that you are feeling will guide you.  Also you don’t need to be bone headed and break an electronic to start this hobby!    Well there is my song writing spiel