Blogiversary

I kept up my blog for a full year, and since you know I love to post cringe let me share too I am low-key proud of myself for that one. Twitter has called itself X for months now and somehow still gets worse each week, and reddit has chosen doomed enshittification as well. In 2023 I started using a new app called BlueSky that has tried to fill the scrolling time I used to be reading tweets (and I have invitation codes if any 5 readers want to join BlueSky) so I guess online is not completely hopeless. Here on the blog I am thriving!

This time last year I was dealing with some actual bullet holes in my apartment wall, and that horrible property manager dragging her enormous feet to have it repaired. Thankfully that feels like such a distant memory now. I talked to a mental health counselor every few weeks, took CBD and other interesting medications regularly, I played the video games Tetris and Animal Crossing for hours at a time, and I just tried to otherwise stay busy and I got through it without developing any PTSD symptoms. My whole life has been unrelenting with non-stop traumatic violence it seems, and I’ve also been through a lot just this year! There was a bad fire in my apartment building in August, I am pretty much “over” that now too. Very thankful to be alive 

My child (she’s an adult) had a health scare and major surgery earlier this year I’m not sure she would appreciate me describing in detail, but has recovered fine. I’m very happy she is healed, and proud of her for advocating for herself when she wasnt feeling well and getting bounced around the psychotic USA healthcare system. The dentist appointment I made from when my tooth broke back in February is finally coming up at the end of November! So I’m looking forward to taking care of something that’s been wrong for a long while.  Some other changes are happening in my life but I’ll try to explain that in it’s own blog post another day. 

My goals for year 2 on my website are to get more of the design figured out (make it look better and function how blogs are supposed to with things like archive pages and email links- I used to know how to do this stuff, like 20 years ago, it’s all left my brain since then) and maybe gently begin to promote it. I have a Youtube channel I haven’t uploaded anything to in years but sometimes I feel inspired to record myself or document my crafts so maybe I’ll have a more video presence online. I’ve heard of TikTok of course but it seems scary.

Some upcoming events I’ll hopefully write about soon are a new Hunger Games movie coming out.  My daughter suggested the book series to me when they were getting popular in her tween years and so we’ve always gone to see each one in the movie theater! I’m also going to try to see the Nutcracker ballet as many times as possible through its season.  There is an upcoming USA government shutdown I’m really interested to see how that may play out, the future is so exciting

Thanks for reading and thanks for sticking with me here.