Yeah, I know it’s nearly mid-February, but hey, I’ve been busy. Work has been crazy and I’ve been writing A LOT. So I haven’t been streaming much either. Most all my free time has been writing. This wasn’t something I was expecting. But it does sort of happen sometimes.

We are now two weeks into the year and I’m feeling really good so far. Routines are always super important for me. They jive really well with my mind, so I’m always looking for ways to create them.

I was in DMs with a friend the other day and we were talking about castles. We do this a lot because we have this running thing where we search up castles for sale and dream about a group of us moving into a castle together.

Anyway, he sent me this gif of a castle and it got me thinking about this old story I had started a long time ago.

I’m not talking romantic loves. I’m talking about things I used to love to do but no longer do.
Like I used to be super active in the writing community. I used to make weekly videos about writing and planning and stuff. I used to do all this stuff that I really like doing, but somehow can’t find time for it anymore. Back then, I was working at a gas station and had even less time than I have now. But somehow, I managed it. So, I’m trying to figure out how I did it and how I can recapture that.

I don’t know if you can tell, but I’ve been doing a lot of admin things on the backend of my business. A big part of that has been tweaking the overall design of my website and playing with fonts and making new images and generally making the website easier to navigate and more fun to consume.
I gotta use that graphic design degree somehow. It was expensive.

This week, I’ve stayed largely off social media, besides YouTube, and that was mostly because I was using it for background noise. The break was nice. It was needed. I spent a lot of time on the various social platforms and it was good to just detox from it.

One of my goals for the New Year is to consolidate and streamline what I do online. I was thinking about this the other day, and I realized that I love having a blog, even if I don’t update it that often. I’m sad that I’ve lost hundreds of posts over the years when my website went through renovations or the couple of times that I let it expire and the databases got deleted.