🍑🌙 | あけおめ～♪

あけおめ～♪

明けましておめでとうございます～♪！ Happy new year, everyone~♪!

2024 was…a lot. I feel like overall, it was an ok year, especially compared to years like 2020, but no year is without its ups and downs.

2024 was the year I began this website! We went through three major design iterations, and I’m planning on a fourth soon (yes I like how the site currently looks, but the carbon output has increased and so I want to make it both more accessible, and also work on sustainability; ALSO I get bored easily and am constantly getting new ideas).

I started journaling again, after not having journaled regularly since I was a teenager, and I gathered a sizeable collection of washi tape and stickers, and even a few notebooks! I acquired many pens in my search for a pen that was comfortable enough for me to write with for a long time, and landed on fountain pens as a concept. I broke two jinhaos, both of my pink ones…

I gathered a small collection of inks and began mixing my own fountain pen inks! I quit playing the MMO i had dedicated much of my time to the past three years (FFXIV), and I started therapy up again. I got closer with two important friends, and cut out one toxic one about halfway through the year.

I became more comfortable with myself, started practicing more self-compassion, learned to stand up for myself, and spent more time looking after myself instead of focusing all of my attention onto others. It was hard, and at times, it felt borderline narcissistic, but I learned that was because of how I’d been raised, and not because I was a narcissist.

In 2025, I’m looking forward to doing more art, trying out more makeup looks and maybe even really zeroing in on a personal style, makeup-wise. I’m looking forward to picking sewing back up and dipping my toes into music production.

I want to read more, draw more, finish some crochet projects, and continue to re-evaluate the things I do and have in my life and continue konmari-ing things and practices that no longer serve me, and tidy up my life and my home in 2025.

there’s a lot of things about this and the next few years that will be really challenging for me, as an american, but I really hope I’ll get through it ok and that even if nothing else gets any better, then at least my relationship with myself and my relationships with people will continue to improve.

Thank you for joining me on this adventure this past year, anyone who is reading this now, and may your 2025 bring you joy!!

published: 2025.01.09
by mana