mikogalatea | Entries tagged with real life

That feeling when I live in a country that isn't used to blazing hot weather and is currently experiencing blazing hot weather.

Ugh. It's all I can do to make sure my poor dogs are okay in this heat. Not looking forward to likely thunderstorms later, either.

At least it shouldn't be so goddamn hot from tomorrow.

Current Mood: hot

I had a decent Christmas, in case anyone was wondering. A fairly quiet one with my brother, my sister-in-law and my doggies, but that's fine by me.

A couple of unrelated assorted things:

1. I've stopped using Tumblr. I haven't deleted my blog outright, but I have all but abandoned it now; I haven't logged in for over a week now, and I don't even miss it. I never fully liked the site anyway, nor was I a fan of basically having to check my dashboard all the time to stay caught up with everything (not that the dashboard was even much good at keeping everything in chronological order anymore, the last few times I looked) so quite frankly, good riddance.

2. I'm trying to read more novels now. I intend to get a card at the local library in the new year, and I've been taking note of people's book recs here. Of course, I'll still be into all my games and manga and anime, but it's always nice to have different kinds of stories to get stuck into. :3

3. Speaking of anime, I still need to finish the other four series I was following this season (Banana Fish, Bloom into You, Release the Spyce, Double Decker!), though it's only one or two eps apiece so it shouldn't take all that long. I'm impressed I actually stuck with six shows all the way through...

4. This year has been a crummy one in certain ways, but one good thing that has come out of it is that I've written a lot more fanfic. There's some pieces I did for

fandomgiftbox that I'm pretty happy with, and I'd definitely like to do it again if it comes back for 2019. Actually, fanfic is another incentive for me to read more; not only does it potentially give me more fandoms to enjoy, but reading novels always has this effect of making me feel more inspired to write.

Dunno what else I could add... I want to make a post about the Switch at some point, because me talking about Switch games is way overdue, but that'll have to be a separate thing as I'm sure it'll be a long one.

For now, here's to hoping 2019 will be better than 2018.

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Smash Bros Ultimate - Bloody Tears/Monster Dance

I should get back into using this thing! I know I've said things along those lines before without them coming to anything, and there's a good chance I'll still be quiet here, but I think I should be more firm about it this time...

Let's start with a life update, shall we? It's not the happiest one, because my job ended in the middle of May. D: It's nobody's fault, as such; I didn't want to go, and my bosses didn't want me to go either, but the contract ended and the company's so small that there just wasn't enough money in the business to keep me on. So that means I'm job-hunting again. I feel like there's more out there on the job market than there was before, but still, I miss the job I had. I really enjoyed it there. ;.;

Some rather expensive things happened in the last month, too, but I'd rather not get into that in a public entry... but other than all that, I've been doing okay!

I don't know if I'll actually break the habit of leaving my poor old journal abandoned for several weeks at a time, but at least it's around for me if I need somewhere private for my thoughts on anything, which is more than can be said about a certain other blog I've been using more often... *cough cough*

Current Mood: okay
Crossposts: http://cybersky.livejournal.com/228556.html

After today, or after tomorrow at the very latest, I won't have internet access for a while. I'm moving house.

I'm sorry to announce this so suddenly, and so close to when it's happening to boot; it only even became a definite thing about this time last week, and I've just been feeling completely overwhelmed by it all. I know it's bad of me to have not said anything sooner, but... ah well, there's nothing I can do about that now.

Anyway, I'm expecting to be gone for a couple of weeks, give or take. I'm sure I'll miss you guys. ;.;

See you when I do! I hope this move goes okay...