Wow! 2026 already!

... I missed the spring flowers ^_^

Hey y'all! It's been a lil while since I updated this site - life sure comes at ya fast, huh?

Last update was in November last year, and those who've been paying attention may notice that I wrote something about how I was currently reading The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu and how I was "obsessed" with this new genre. Well um... I don't think I can say that her books arent part of the reason that updating this site fell to the back of mind :D I've also simply been busy with life and haven't had much art to post. But NOW I'm getting this place cleaned up for 2026 and up to date with the stuff I've accumulated to share so far!

2025 was a really exciting year for me, but I'll save the retrospective for another post; I wanna chat about what I've been up to since last time I got on here - 2026 has been a wild ride so far already @_@ !!

Where I've been

After the new year, the first good chunk of January passed without much incident - and thank goodness for that; I was chilling out after the busy Christmas period by just going to work and spending my off-time enjoying the brand new and exciting world of danmei/yaoi/boy's love I'd just discovered :)

Work was going pretty well too - about as well as it could be going after a significant part of our team was switched out for a new set of people with no hand-over of knowledge! Not ideal! We can still feel the absence of the previous guys even now, but we just had to do our best to make it work!

And then the end of January and early February hits, and then it seemed like it was just one thing after another o_o! Snowstorms/heavy snowfalls nearly once a week, making commuting difficult, and massive IT problems at our workplace that left the whole team unable to work for entire days! At the same time, my birthday came around and our parents took us to the aquarium to celebrate, and the downtime at work and crazy amounts of snow was honestly novel experiences (until the snow got annoying lol)

Mid-february I went to my first ever convention with my sister! AND IT WAS AWSOME!!! I am 100% coming back again next year :D we did like 4 laps around the artist alley, watched the crazy talented cosplayers amongst the crowds (including a couple of people cosplaying the characters from the books I'd just gotten obsessed with!) and I spent sooo much money. This convention also hosts the national cosplay championship, so we stayed the whole evening to watch that - the halftime show while the judges were deciding was a treat in itself :D

The very week after, Thursday, I went to my first ever Powerwolf concert (also with my sister) (favorite band btw)!!! AND THAT WAS ALSO AWSOME AS FUCK!!!!! My sister and I both agree that we gotta go to more concerts for sure, and I'm eyeing the Gloryhammer concert I know is coming to our city this fall... Unfortunately none of the videos I took at this concert made it out unscathed, but at least it's very funny how they sound like bass-boosted memes :)

Then Sunday evening I started feeling a lil iffy, and by Monday I was violently ill o_o! I won't go into details, but there was a fever and sleepless nights and lots of time spent in the bathroom and I lost like 3 kg due to how little I was eating. I had to take 4 days off of work in a row! I've never tried that before! I had already worked from home the entire previous week because of a cold I didn't wanna spread to my coworkers, so I ended up absent from the office for a full 2 weeks... Coming back online that Friday I could truly feel how appreciated the work I do in our team is, as my coworkers immediately went "oh thank goodness you're back" hehe...

I spent the time I wasn't resting in bed on my computer, finally watching The Apothecary Diaries. Holy shit. How have I allowed myself to sleep on this show for this long...!? Even if watching characters on screen get violently ill from poisons maybe wasn't helping my own recovery lol. For episode 4 in particular my main thoughts were, in order: "why is the animation like EXTRA good in this episode", "(as a character is bedridden and can't eat) omg #meeeee", and "Maomao is so cool... I love women..."

March rolls around, and life calms down a bit again. Spring has suddenly sprung in my area, so I dust off my bike and make the most of the warming weather by riding it to work :) We're three weeks into March as I write this, and my "biking to work"-streak remains unbroken so far 💪 Work is still in chaos, but now it's because we've gotten a new version of (arguably) the most important tool in our workflow, and it's maybe got a feeew bugs that need ironing out... we'll figure it out someday :)

Oh yea, and I won a fucking light sprite in a Roundsey raffle on flight rising the virtual pet website???????????????????? I'm still in disbelief at how lucky I got there. Hopefully I still have some luck left for the rest of the 2026!

Maybe it's just the mood I'm in that led me to writing this blog post in the first place, but I feel like I could write several blog posts elaborating on all the stuff mentioned here! But I'll stop myself for now :D

My hopes for 2026

So that's what I've been up to so far, but I also wanna quickly discuss what my plans for 2026 are - it feels appropriate for the first blog post of the year!

I say that, but my plans are kinda that I don't have many! Since I was feeling a bit wrung out after December, I've chosen to be less ambitious with my new year's resolutions for 2026. I minded it a bit back at the start of January since I've been such a vocal proponent of setting goals previously, but I've been thinking since then: living by the same rules gets stale after a while, even if the rules in question are ones you made up to encourage yourself to get the most out of life :D

So I'm keeping my resolutions very simple:

Aside from those I also wanna indulge in my hobbies more, learn new skills, have new experiences... the classics that I assume most people can relate to! I'm just not setting any specific goals for these since I already feel like I have a lot on my plate in-between work and hyperfixations - setting more goals for myself would start to feel like chores at this point, and if the goals aren't fun to work towards, then what would the point even be!?

I also hope I can work some more on this website this year cus I still have sooo many things I wanna share on here, but I'll have to see how it shakes out. When you spend your whole day working with tech, it's not very often I also wanna spend my scant evening time in front of a computer :') Likewise, I also wanna work more on improving my gallery template - I did actually start working on an update back when the IT at work was fucked, but I wouldn't hold my breath for that update to be ready for release anytime soon yet... :D

And with that tease, I think I'll end this blog post here; I wrote a ton of stuff once again... I'll need to post more often so I won't have so much yapping built up in me! See y'all then, whenever that happens <3