Hey, y’all! Oh… Oh… Oh…it’s meeeee… And I’m not saying that I am really back for good but I’ll try my best updating this blog as regularly as I could.
As you might have noticed, my presence on this blog in 2023 was almost nil because life is always like that. I don’t know if I had mentioned it in one of my previous posts but being consistent with my hobbies is not really my strength. Most of my hobbies actually rely on my mood at a certain period. If I feel like I don’t want to write, I wouldn’t which actually puts me in a dilemma because there are some projects that I want to finish but I couldn’t because of this trait. I always need to be inspired and motivated if I want to do something or even write something. So if I am not feeling it, I would procrastinate until I’d forget and remember about the said project a few years later which is kind of crazy. Year 2023, unfortunately, was like this. I just can’t find enough motivation to update the blog and share to you what’s happening in my life. Believe me, I already ditched crocheting, novel writing, and bullet journalling last year. Nothing really fanciful happened with my life except for the constants but I wasn’t so sure why I suddenly lost the groove to do all the things mentioned.
Anyhow, 2023 is not without its exciting highlights despite my lack of motivation to pursue my initial plans for the year. Aside from my travel to Cebu and Butuan, one of the highlights in 2023 was that I adopt two new meowbabies, Tatiana and Serafina, who have been a daily source of joy and annoyance ever since they came home with me. They are probably one of the reasons why I lacked to motivation to post because learning to be a furmom to fuzzy, attention-seeker, psychotic, and spoiled little kitties takes a lot of effort and brain powers.
I also purchased a new gaming laptop (an ASUS ROG) because while it might not be financially practical, I justified it by telling myself that “this is for my mental health” which is bad advice by the way. But hey, I was able to play Sims 4 again which was really the reason why I decided to buy the laptop. IKR???! But seriously, you cannot imagine the kind of happiness playing Sims 4 has brought me so I think it’s a worthy purchase.
Third highlight would be me getting hooked into a new fandom: the fandom of One Piece anime. Ok, I wasn’t really keen on watching One Piece because I initially thought that there’s no way in hell that I’d be spending my life watching 1000+ episodes of it and you know, waiting for its completion until 2027 or when kingdom comes whatever. It was my husband who got hooked with the anime way back 2020 and I left him to it. But 2023 came and I was kind of burned out from watching too many K-dramas that I decided to watch something else. So when I browsed Netflix, the One Piece live action TV series Season 1 popped up into my ‘Recommended for you’ list. Skeptical to try it first, I made the effort to read some reviews and holy molly, the reviews were glowing. So without further ado, I went in for the ride and ho ho ho ho, I LOVED the whole freaking series. Unlike the other anime live actions that I had watched the previous years, the One Piece live action was heartwarming, faithful to the cast of characters, and definitely untacky. Since I cannot move on with how amazing the series was, I just had to watch the source material, you know because it wouldn’t be right fangirling over a live action series without knowing what really happened in the anime version? So there you go, I finished up to the 1088th episode of the anime and now, I am having a severe withdrawal because the wait for the next episode seems too long. Sigh.
And last but not the least, another constant highlight would be my travel to Cebu-Surigao-Butuan-Gensan during the Holiday break. Yep, I celebrated the Yuletide and New Year holidays in Cebu and Butuan with the hubby. Although what happened during the trip didn’t go as smoothly as planned, everything turned out for the best as I bid the hubby farewell on January 02. How I wished that I’d be able to prolong the time spent with my hubby without draining my pool of vacation leaves. Oh well, I know that He will find ways sooner than later; being LDR is just emotionally and physically hard. Me and the hubby are coping though and hoping that the future will open opportunities that will enable us to be physically together more often.
So before I wrap this up, I’d like to let you know that I’ll probably shift to posting Lifely Updates posts twice a year: July and January the following year just to give me enough of a breathing room. more time to pursue my New Year’s Resolutions (hahahahaha!) and other hobbies. I’ll try, however, to be consistent with the posting of my book reviews as I have pending e-ARCs that need to be reviewed.
So that’s for 2023 and I hope that we all have a good year ahead.