Happy happy new yearrr everyone!! Yes despite going completely off the grid for the past year and a half, I am alive and well, and I hope you are too. May only bigger and better things that bring happiness come to us in 2024 💗 I've met so many wonderful, kind souls on this site over the years and thought I don't know how many of y'all are still around these days, I really hope you're doing well in life -- wherever that may be. 

In 2023, I spent a lot of time doing a lot of things, but I find it hard to summarize what those "things" are. Working is one for sure, especially in the last 3 months of 2023 where I got completely ed over by this field of modern (corporate) slavery we call consulting lol. Going out, drinking, socializing -- sometimes very pleasantly such that I meant it when I said "let's do this again", sometimes to a regrettable, embarrassing extent. Going places, experiencing cities and colours and dishes with someone who makes me very happy -- someone who makes me tear up out of the blue sometimes when I think about how much I feel for him.
 

I did a lot with so many different groups of people and I justified it all because it was my first full year of working and living in a new city, but now that it's a new year, and I'm going to officially be in my mid-twenties this year, I want to recalibrate and re-evaluate the steps that I'm taking. 

This year I want to focus time and energy on people and activities that actually matter to me, which means staying in more and spending more time with myself to reconnect with the little things I had often ended up sacrificing for the rush of the outside world. One of them being writing. I recently came across the quote "Write a little every day, without hope, without despair", and I think that's something I want to try to take on. I want to get back into writing. I may attach goals to them because I think I'm at that phase in life where if I spend hours on something, I need to be getting some tangible return in some form, but the goals won't be a dependency for anything crucial so if they lie there in the dust, unachieved, then so be it. But in 2024, I do want to make more time to reconnect with my creative hobbies like writing, illustrating, (I've also recently signed up for pottery classes so stay tuned for that lol) because I need them for my sanity, so that's what I plan to be doing this year. 

So you might see me around with something soonish! Let me know in the comments if you're still on AFF. I realize that this past December, it's been a whole DECADE since I started this silly little account, so if you've supported any of my works from just reading to commenting and upvoting and helping my stuff get featured, thank you immensely 💗 some of the kindest things anyone has ever said to me have been from strangers on this site, and for that, I'll forever cherish AFF.