before the ball drops... [2024]

[zoomieyo]

— overall
I've said it a lot this year: I've become boring, again. Overall, I'm satisfied with the year I had, but it didn't really feel noteworthy at all. I was pretty moody, I didn't really do much of anything, I had no direction, no goals, no nothing. A very float along in my life and go with whatever happens. I definitely had highlights and good things happen... but I feel like I didn't make the most of it.

went and looked over the dreamwidth entries to see if there was anything significant and I've been struggling with this... listlessness all year. I summed up a lot of the good things in weekly reporter yesterday, but in case you missed that:

went on a solo vacation for turning 25, got 2 new jobs, saved a lot of money, tried out and loved pottery, met some cool people, bought a lot of cool stuff, hit a bunch of fitness PRs and (I'm sure) some other random milestones!

a couple of examples for random milestones include: making my website and getting into a graduate certificate program!!

— media
my media recap is extremely sparse on steam and switch fronts; I read some books, but didn't really do any kind of tracking (I think I read a lot of danmei); my spotify wrapped was underwhelming since I got pretty complacent in playlist making or I just listened to one vibe for weeks on end. I'm already someone who doesn't watch much tv or movies and this year feels even more barren than other recent years. I started a couple of shows, but I'm not even sure I finished anything...

— hobbies
on the writing front, I started a pretty good daily writing streak a couple months in but fell off of it. I definitely wrote a lot for the blog with the start of weekly report(er) but even then I stopped in the second half of the year... I did start pottery and felt a lot of success (with some scattered slacking too). had a couple creative bursts in designing my website, but as of now, it also sits unfinished.

— fitness
I felt the most success in the gym! I hit a bunch of personal records and achieved some of the few concrete goals I had actually set: being able to do a body weight pull up (max count: 10, with rest between) , bench pressing 135 pounds (3 reps!), and hitting other prs on squats and deadlifts that I can't remember. getting up and going to the gym was one of the big constants for me- the linear progression of "weights go up," helped with consistency and discipline.. plus I noticed the vast difference not going to the gym versus going to the gym did to my day.