Happy New Year for those who use the Gregorian Calendar! The New Year is now upon us and this means that with it comes a blog update as well as some resolutions and life updates! 2024 was a year of extreme highs and extreme lows for me, so here's to hoping 2025 ends up being better than that.

I want to start with some website goals as I feel that's the most pertinent to this website! While I have a to-do list, it needs revamped, and I feel like I need to set up more concrete goals for myself! So lets start with that!

1.) Revamp some of my site.

remove the opening page with Elvira... she just feels unnecessary. I'll incorporate her somewhere else on my website I think.

remove the red from most of my home page... I learned how to make things completely invisible that aren't in boxes (see: the media page) and I want to do something like that again. Do this also with the Joachim Shrine

change the image ppi on everything from 300 to 72 as is web standard... no need to bloat my site like that, since it's so image heavy.

update the blinkies on the home page to be just red colored ones

add a fun silly current read page to the home page. Likely between the drawing of my character and the sotn disc

update the webmaster and about sections

update my web manifesto

update the website goals/to-do list

actually use the fucking site updates thing i forget it exists because im lazy

revamp the blog looks for the 2023, 2024, and 2025 blogs

remove the habit tracker. that was a useless idea lol

update my media page to be more current

check links page for dead links

add a section dedicated to my web resources on my links page

fix the collections directory so its not fucking busted

update my music collection page (I got new CDs)

add doujins and others fanart to the Joachim Shrine!!!

gundam shrine could use a lot of work... want to fix the background, make it more readable add cute little floating images, pick a background I like more, make it so the char and amuro stamps are actually next to each other, redo the color scheme to hurt my eyes less

2.) Get an external hard drive to keep backups of my website + the images and fonts used

3.) Make the page dedicated to art.. upload everything at 72ppi to save space until a bettter alternative is reached

4.) Create a photography page. This will be seperate from the website, but a link will be available from my website. It will not link back.

5.) Work on the Gundam Shrine. So many more pages need to be done. Infinite number of pages. It's more of a side project for when I have time to kill, but I could be doing way better. lol.

6.) A backlog page. Not to have a list of my current backlog, but so I can update my progress on what games, movies, shows, and books I've interacted with. Also a place where I could more easily allow myself to write reviews

7.) Sitemap. I need to do this before the website has too many fucking pages and it ends up being a god damn nightmare to navigate. Might have a seperate sitemap for the Gundam Shrine as well

8.) Dragon Ball Shrine. For funsies. I like Dragon Ball. This kindof hinges on if the hyperfixation hits me, though.

9.) Continue progress on the House of Leaves Shrine

Now for my own personal New Years resolutions! I don't take much stock in starting them at the start of the year, but I want to try and do that while I have a little bit of energy!

1.) Work through more of my backlog. This won't be easy since I will end up very busy with school, but I'm hoping I will have the energy and time to at least play a few more games this year, read a few more books, and watch a few more movies. I'm off to a good start this year with my manga backlog, but let's hope I can keep it up. My backlog also includes things I will be replaying/rereading/rewatching, just for my own peace of mind. its my list of resolutions i do what I want.

2.) Completely halt my social media use. Though I stopped posting, I was still doomscrolling tumblr. I want to instead devote that time to something else, so I got an rss feed.

3.) Generally use my phone less for unproductive things. I downloaded an rss feed on my phone (+ have one on my computer) so I'm still mostly aware of the news and things happening without my friends. I also installed a phone app that allows me to restrict the amount of time I'm allowed on certain apps and this has also been doing wonders so far.

4.) I want to get better about my eating habits. It's not that I'm not eating, it's that I am too reliant on getting food from like... taco bell. And I would like to instead work on making my own meals and finding things I like. It doesn't have to be healthy, I just want something I have cooked. Less money going towards like.... mediocre fast food and more towards like. Yummy home made jerk fries.

5.) I want to be better about my hygiene. Unfortunately, I have the ADHD curse and am terrible at building habits and sticking to schedules. I want to be better about brushing my teeth and also taking care of my skin. Thankfully I have the haircare down, I think I just need to incorporate those both into my shower routine and it will save me some trouble.

And last but not least, the fun stuff! This should be a short life update, not much has REALLY happened. Just some general stuff, lol.

For starters, I quit that job that I was complaining about! My manager made me super super miserable, like she genuinely was just mean and kindof scummy to me and made me feel like a really useless employee, so I'd rather move on to a company where I am more appreciated and valued. Also I was only getting maybe 2 shifts a week, and that is NOT rent paying hours. So I'm hopefully moving on to better things.

Christmas recently happened, and my gifts this year were awesomsies! For context to people on how my family does things, there's like... 4 categories of thing we get. The first is the "Santa" gifts which is usually like socks, knick-knacks, and small little fun things. Nothing serious, just things that are fun or made someone think of someone else. Then for the main gifts, everyone gets... more or less 3 things: a book, something handmade, and one to three things we had on a Christmas list (cost depending). This year my main gifts were awesome :) I just want an excuse to talk about them, lol. The book was the Barnes and Noble special edition of Jurassic Park, and the handmade thing was some tote bags my mom made that have pockets, and will likely replace my backpack for school and get used instead (THEYRE SOOOO CUTE. I CANT BE BLAMED. AND MY MAMA MADE IT FOR ME :D I LOVE MY MAMA). The final gift this year was... A SEWING MACHINE :D. its a Janome MOD-15 and it's my baby and I would protect it with my life. I've already made one (1) tote bag with it and I love it.... it's sharks! A picture will be provided somewhere on here ^-^! I love my shark tote (shote).

And... much to the bemusement of everyone around me... I have started Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. I started it a while back actually, but I am currently almost finished with Part 3. It is so fun. I am having so much fun. I genuinely just really love and enjoy the series it is something that I've been finding really easy to read and it's also VERY fun to livetweet (everyone say thank you to my good friend Alex [links back to her website] for sitting through my livetweeting of the fucking manga to her. Long story short though, I am having a BLAST. It is so fun. I recommend it to everyone ever. Well like. Mostly. It certainly has it's issues, but for now I'm just having fun. And for anyone curious so far Magician's Red is my favorite stand. And my favorite characters are Kars and Joseph I believe.

This semester of college is realy busy for me, so unfortunately expect blog updates to be a little slow. Hopefully I'll have a little bit of free time I can dedicate to this page though, so while updates may be slow, know my dedication to having a fun and enriching website remains! Happy new year everyone!