I was kind of thinking it might be already, this has been a long month... ;;
I know not many people here know me but ah... Hope you're alright, if you're reading this!!

I'm writing cause I... Well, you see, I have been wanting to write more entries, but I never know what to say.
But lately I have been struggling to be online at all because the platform I used to be in most (Artfol) barely lets me in. App is crashing constantly and when I try the website it gives me a 404 error or... Things just don't work. ;;
I've been trying to be on Bluesky but I'm not entirely sure how to exist there, and I wanna try being here more too so I thought, why not write on my journal?

It's been an awfully long time since I had a blog!! Possibly over a decade!! Easily over a decade, really. I'm very old.
What do y'all folks do for socializing? I seem to not have gotten a good grasp on it yet. I can't remember what people wrote blogs for either... Hmmmmmmm

Well, since this is a journal. Let's see, how has this year been so far?
I'm gonna not talk about any of the big looming things probably bothering most humans on the planet, but those have definitely made things harder.

My social circle has had a major shift in the past few months leading to now and I think I'm still adjusting. My partner has been an enormous blessing, and I'm so grateful for him... We'll be four months old soon!! And I mean, four months, when compared to a lifetime, sounds pretty small... But we have both had a very chaotic last four months, and well... Year, I suppose. And the fact that we've been able to make things work through all that chaos is really heartwarming. I've also made new friends!! I have made really cool new friends! Artsy too!! One thing that had been bothering me somewhere last year or the year prior was how I seemed to simply not have a lot of artist friends. But now I do have some and life is better for that!! I feel like I am much better at socializing than even just two or three years ago too, even if, as I mentioned above, I still haven't quite gotten a hang of this socializing thing.

I've also been a lot more experimental with my art since making more artist friends, and have been learning a lot!! And I went back to... Well, having my own characters!! Which I had sort of pushed aside for years... Granted, I haven't been able to draw a lot of my childhood OCs for various reasons, but I have made new ones!! And I love them!! And I want more of them!!

So... Yeah. While the truth is, I have been quite exhausted and depressed from my social circle shifting and the things going on outside of my control... I think within my own circle of influence, within just my own life... There's good things to find.
I hope that's the same for you too, if you're still reading!! Which, if you are, thanks for the interest!!

I think taking the time to think about the new connections I made and the things I've learned and ways I've been inspired have made me feel a little better compared to when I started writing this entry. And I think that means the job is done, and the time was well spent.

I think I'll go and bake a sweet potato now!
Take care out there in the overworld! :3