i finally got off my ass and made a blog page for my site. it's sketchy and doesn't run on php or anything proper because i just don't have the fucks to give nor the spoons to learn. i can write posts and update the rss manually and it works well enough. this is the last step in a multi-year endeavor to fully extricate myself from "social media" a.k.a. information-based corporate platforms. i had a little tumblr blog and that worked great for awhile but still felt limiting overall. so here we are, one and a half years after i stopped posting. i am free, and alone.
2025 wasn't a very fruitful year for me creatively. i spent a lot of time being burned out at my job, which sapped a lot of creative energy, and what little remained usually funneled itself into fixing my life, fixing my home, or supporting friends in ways that are pointless and/or tiresome to document. i did spend a couple weeks over the summer restoring a minibike, and there will be a blog post or two about it and eventually full documentation in the projects page. i'm not generally a believer in Maslow's hierarchy but i am a believer in time as a finite and scarce resource. circumstances in 2025 left me with very little time to do things that weren't taking care of my financial and personal security or resting from doing either. many things fell to the wayside. and so it goes.
so what have i done to try and make 2026 better in that regard? well, nothing really. there isn't much i can do other than wake up each day and hope it's better than the last. i bought a lightbox and some key lights to photograph things i make, either digitally or on film. my phone wasn't cutting it anymore, especially for small electronics. hopefully that will prove useful for future blog posts or projects. i also unearthed my MIDI controller and got FL studio running on an old PC to play with my husband - but i don't expect any of that to manifest in a shareable way. although it feels great to write music again after a decade-long hiatus, playing with sound, engaging that part of my creative brain, i have mixed feelings about putting any of that creative output into the world right now. i've felt similarly about what little art and design i've made recently as well. the context surrounding that deserves to be its own post.
what i can say is that recently, more and more, i feel like writing. i don't want to use this space to make "takes" or "proof of life" posts. rather, i want to talk about whatever interests me, like i used to on twitter before it became Twitter before it became X. there may be project updates, sketches, rambles, glossing fondly about things i enjoy, or nothing at all.
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