Taking it Easy
2025-08-16
Feeling: Asleep
Listening to: E S P R by Mikito P
Been meaning to make another blog post for a while, but writing is sooooo hard. Honestly, the past couple months I've just been kind of burned out and sleepy. Not in an awful way, I've mostly been spending my free time playing a bunch of video games and it's been fun, but I haven't exactly been the most productive.
My old cat passed away in the spring. After that, I spent a bunch of time just doing home improvement. Repainted a table, sewed together a purple couch cover, got another bookshelf for my gunpla, treated myself to getting a big Turn A Gundam poster off Mercari and a frame for it. And then I adopted two new cats, so I've been making myself somewhat busy offline at least.
I've played about 200 hours of Monster Hunter Rise since I last blogged. And then we finally exhausted all the content in Rise, so I've been playing Gen U with one of my friends. I also finished my replay of every .hack//IMOQ game. (they are not very good video games to play but the je ne sais quoi is special) Did I post about having played Sorry We're Closed last time? Great video game. Replayed Silent Hill 1 and 3 to show them to a friend and those games haven't aged a day, had a blast. Had an itch I couldn't shake and replayed the first Golden Sun game, which goes down smoothly but is mostly mediocre. Then still had an itch for jrpg food and played FF5 for the first time, which I was kind of underwhelmed by honestly? It's hard to follow up on the perfect game FF4 I guess. Thinking about playing 1996 Tomb Raider. Busted out the Nintendo Switch for the first time in a year and bought Squeakross for a weekend roadtrip and ended up not actually playing that much but I've been bringing it out for playing in bed at home. Basically just been taking it easy reconnecting with my enjoyment of video games and it's been fun, even if that means I don't really have anything creative to show.
I went through an arc for a month just throwing myself into bed after work and binging every season of Great British Sewing Bee I could get my hands on and I felt more alive than I ever have in my life. I need more. Why isn't all television like this. I feel so empty now that I don't have more of it to fulfill me.
My responsibilities have severely increased at work, which means I've gotten a nice payraise, but also that I can't really listen to books anymore because I'm being waved down so much throughout the day. A bit sad about it. Also very tired because of this.
I think I've finally managed to shake my "I need to constantly post Content online or I'm nothing" brain disease I've had for over a decade, which is good for being able to relax, but combined with my general lethargy for the past couple of months I just haven't had much brainpower for drawing. There'll be new art when it happens. Taking it easy.
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Until next time!
