Survival of the Softest, Cutest & Sweetest aka My Life with My Comfort Dolls
Two years ago when I hurt my back falling on a trolley, I felt very isolated and lonely. It was during the shut down over the pandemic. I was in pain and was given inadequate care. A friend made plans to come over and make Barbie clothes. They canceled last minute, but I made the clothes anyway. It sparked something in me that had been dormant for years. I used to play barbies as a child. Hell, I played as an adult as well.
When I lived with my sister and her sons, we played Barbies all the time. I played them alone when no one was home. It was extremely therapeutic for me. So once I found myself home alone and often immobile, I played with dolls.
Anyway, I've been in tremendous pain for the past couple days. So to cope, I play with dolls. I don't collect them especially. I play with them. I pick dolls that I find especially cute or interesting. Right now I'm very much into 18 inch dolls like American Girl or Our Generation. In fact, my comfort doll squad are all either AG or OG.
Even though I was ambivalent about having children, lately especially right before my period starts, I really wish I had children. I satisfy this urge by either making a sim family for me or what I've been doing recently is fully playing with my dolls. I craft them doll food. I dress them (when we go out that is). And on days like today when I'm in too much pain to do much of anything, I keep them in their pjs and we stay in bed and just hang out. They play with with their toys and I browse the internet or write. Or days like yesterday, we just slept and watched movies.
Today I felt a little better and decided to do a virtual museum visit. We looked at the Nafasi Art Center in Tanzania and then made this "collaboration" with Bach via a Google experiment.
Afterwards we made a song using an AI program that finds a Bach composition that harmonizes with whatever notes you come up with.
And today is another day (one day later). We made music painting the sky with sounds
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