… of a sort.
I’m really not sure what I want to use this blog for but I want to keep it and start using it again. Does anyone blog at all on personal sites these days or have we all moved to sites like Substack at this point? I have a friend who still blogs on Dreamwidth and I thought about joining her on it, and then I remembered this site and the guilt of ‘I paid for this and have done nothing with it again’ came back with a vengeance. Then, of course, work got busy and I completely forgot about it again.
It’s been a lot of years since I started this, so you would expect I’d have pages upon pages of posts right now, especially since I used to post so often but alas, I do not. What I do have, though, is a lot of life changes through the years and a consistent lack of consistency in things but I’m working on that last part. I promise.
So, a life update and then onto the blog stuff, I guess.
I started this blog back in, god, like 2017 or 2018, and back then I was still working remotely in my parents’ house. I was paying rent and some money for utilities, but not much else, and I never left the house except where necessary. I had all the time in the world to read, game, translate, and so on. All of my friends either lived far away or were online, I had no reason to leave the house except for the times I was taking classes. Honestly, I probably should have done more to work on skills and other things at that time as I did have plenty of time for it, but I had a fear of failing and I hated being bad at things. And, of course, when you start new things you’re always bad at them.
In 2019, I got a job in Japan as an English instructor and then changed jobs to IT in 2022 and 2023. I made some friends, some of whom were immediately sent far away and others who left not long after arriving. I stayed through COVID, and continued living in Japan even after that. I spent a lot of my free time going out to different places, exploring, and meeting people. Again, looking back at the time, I feel like I should have done more but my Japanese had improved a lot and I was working on being less anxious and it really helped at least regarding going places alone because I could rarely ever do that in Australia.
I met my partner in 2021 and we’re, shockingly enough, actually married now. There’s been a lot I’ve had to confront about myself in this relationship – it being my first – and I think I’ve done a lot of growing as a person. We’ve been living together for over a year, and married for a couple of months, and it was an adjustment learning how to live with someone who wasn’t family. We both still find things that are cultural differences rather than complete issues, and we’re both stubborn, but I think we’re good. I might post about stuff with him occasionally, if I end up doing general blog posts like I think I might sometimes, or I might not. I’m still undecided.
Hobby-wise, I recently got into photography and purchased a Sony α6400. I’ve been having a blast going around and taking photos of things, though it took me a good few months to realise the settings had focus set to the middle only rather than tracking which prevented my camera from focusing on absolutely anything I wanted to focus on. I still play video games, though otome games not as often (the time commitment, oh my god), and I spend around a couple of days a month gaming with a friend online. I’ve barely been reading, but I’m picking that up again these days recently with Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart and Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.
Both of which I really enjoyed but couldn’t tell you anything about now as the days have just been so full on that I can barely tell you what I had for breakfast yesterday. It’s been busy, so very busy, but things should improve. I want to be able to make time for all of my hobbies rather than just one or two. I’ve also started a course on cyber security and, sure, one of my goals is to maybe get into that but maybe I won’t in the end. Either way, I’ve started learning things again for the fun of it rather than not doing anything because I’ll be bad at it at first. Although, I’ve always been pretty good at learning things, just not so great at the execution but I’ll get there.
As for this blog, as a hobby, let’s get into my hopes for it, shall we?
I want to start book blogging again, for one, which means reading again. A friend of mine works as a librarian so I’m probably going to constantly be bugging her for recommendations. I’m sure she’ll still love me by the end of it (she’ll hate me, pretty sure she’ll hate me lol). I also want to review Japanese books, and I think a lot of my reviews for those will also talk about the language as well as I am still learning Japanese and languages are hard.
I want to post some of my photography and write about places I travel to. This may not be as consistent as, while I still explore, a lot of it is mostly for food these days. I’m going to have to start going out more for more than just what I can eat, but I’ll probably end up posting about the food too. My photography posts may also just end up ‘here’s my hipster aesthetic post of literal garbage’ but who knows, it might be fun.
I also want to post about games and things again as well, and maybe translations if I end up playing any that aren’t out in English yet. These may be less common than the other posts though. I’ve recently been playing inZOI which has been fun and I think it’d be interesting to have a series of posts around a ‘family’ in-game for a while. I was super into The Sims growing up (and even now), and it’s kind of nice to see a good contender for the genre. But, who knows, maybe I’ll just go back to Black Desert and other MMOs and post about those instead. Or maybe otome games again, once I find the charger for my Vita (or purchase more games for the Switch).
Occasionally, I may post life updates. It’s nice to have those written down somewhere, and I used to post daily entries on LiveJournal back in the day so maybe I’ll get back into blogging about my life. I feel like a lot is going to change over the next few years and I want to feel like I can post about it rather than being stuck in ‘my blog has to be this and this only‘. Anyway, those may or may not happen, who knows, I may get too embarrassed to post about how boring my life is lol
Anyway, it may not be daily updates (or even weekly updates at this point), but hi, I’m alive and now so is the blog♡
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