Hic Sunt Dracones

Oh man... the holidays kicked my butt this year. I feel like Thanksgiving happened and then time ceased to be a concept and now, here we are an hour away from 2019. This year seemed like it was a long year. A lot happened for me: A finished my Master's, moved into my own apartment (for the first time ever), got a promotion at work. I feel sort of like an adult for the first time ever.

But with 2019 on the horizon, it's got me thinking of things I would like to accomplish. Firstly, exercise 3 days a week. My life is super sedentary and I can really start to tell. I just feel physically weak in ways I haven't before, so I want to try and build some of that back. Secondly, reading more often. Since finishing my Master's I've definitely not been reading as much simply because I got to tired of it -- which is not always great when you work in a library. But I want to start reading again and I managed to get about 10 read in 3 months, so I believe! Lastly, I want to start writing again. Original, fanfics, I don't care, I just miss exploring characters and plots and all of it. Writing for fun is liberating in a way that writing for school is strict. Both are good exercises, but I think I need to get comfortable with expressing myself in that way once more.

I also have a day planner so I can start scheduling out time to do things. Literally setting aside time in my weeks for these things. It helps to visualize them and keep some of the burden off my own brain. So yeah, I'm already making plans and trying to flexible to see which will work for me.

Either way, so long 2018. May 2019 be better than this year was.

I feel like I've been doing a lot recently, even though that's definitely not the case. I am dming this Saturday, which means I've been prepping for that the past few days. It ended up being more than I had planned on, as there are many places the party can go. It also means fighting with my inner perfectionist to keep myself from over prepping. It's a struggle.

I also have been working on my next part of the DA2 replay recap series. It's ended up being way more thought provoking than I expected so the write up has ended up with me doing going down research tangents. It's about half written and I'll probably edit it down some, but hopefully coming soon!

I've also been baking, especially today, and its been kind of a fail. I'm so out of practice with it and this is really the first time I've used my oven for baking so its been a lot of trial and error. My mexican hot chocolate cookies are just... not great. I may need to find a new recipe or maybe I just need more flour - both are completely valid options at this point.

I may also feel more exhausted than I should because I slipped and fell 3 times on Wednesday when I was attempting to get to work. Thankfully I'm not seriously hurt, just some bruises and a scrape on my knee, but I still fell into a snowbank in front of like 5 people. It's pretty funny to think about now, but it was mortifying at the time. Thankfully the soreness is mostly gone and my knee is healing nicely. I'm just not cut out for the snow y'all.

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So, I haven't been on a blogging site like this since my livejournal days, over a decade ago (that sentence makes me feel oooooold). Because of that, forgive me if/when i make a faux pas or don't seem to understand the way things work here. I, like many people, are creating new accounts because of changes to tumblr but i want to stay connected to fandom and the people that i've grown to cherish as a port of my life.

But it's also exciting to return to a platform that is more focused on text than images. Don't get me wrong, I love fan art and image editing, but fanfiction is where my origins began and I have, due to school and work and life in general, i have forgotten about. I miss writing and participating with fandom through that medium.

While this move is because of a stupid and poorly implemented decision by a site I've spent a large portion of my life on, I'm trying to see the good that come from trying new things and returning to my roots.

Hopefully, this experiment will be successful!

(ps. I so missed the mood feature when I was on tumblr... such an easy way to sum up my feelings~~)