Seasons Change

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January has been a month where it feels like everyone in the house has been getting sick or is otherwise feeling unwell. I won’t try to make it sound like it has been easy. To top it all off, I discovered a crack in my the frame of my eyeglasses this morning! This may sound like a lame take, but at the very least, I am thankful for my current job. They have been great, and I think it’s made the whole ordeal easier to manage.

Overall, I’m confident that this is just another phase. My hope is that February will be the start of an upward trend.

→ 9:31 PM, Jan 29

It’s on a night like this that I find myself searching for… something. The New Year has arrived, and, not that I’m trying to make a resolution, but it would be nice for this year to mean something.

In a lot of ways it feels like a fresh start full of possibilities. Who will I be this year, and who will I become? Will I make time for my arts such as photography or music? Will I get back into game development? How will I grow my children? Oftentimes, the question is more interesting than the answer itself.

All I can say is that I hope that it’s something good. Something meaningful.

→ 9:53 PM, Jan 13

Reset

It’s been a long few months. I feel like I have had to push myself in both my personal and professional life. Work has been stressful and the holidays brought no respite. I’m really feeling it as I settle in for the evening.

I started a new job this week, although, it would be more accurate to say that I returned to an old job. Work has been kind to me this week, but I think that the weight of these past months has finally crushed me, and my mind and body have had enough. This weekend will need to be about self care and restoration.

I feel like this would usually be the part where the writer would draw some sort of conclusion or make a resolution. I won’t do either of those things, because I don’t have it in me right now. I think that what I need most right now is to do nothing, and abide in the nothingness. Let’s consider this a reset.

→ 8:53 PM, Jan 4

Small Beginnings

I’ve never been the Blogging type. It has always felt like a sort of grand ritual, and much too formal for me. If you’ve ever spun up a blog on WordPress then I’m sure that you know how complicated it can be. There are plugins, pages, drafts, all that stuff. The advent of the smallweb and microblogs has me thinking, perhaps blogging doesn’t need to be complicated. Maybe I can just show up in my tie-dye shirt and cats-in-space pajama pants and write something.

And so, here I am. Writing is a good exercise for the mind, even if I am not very good at it. I think my goal is to start small and get posting semi-regularly. I’m not here to change the world, I’m just here to do my best, and maybe change myself.

→ 4:51 PM, Dec 30