I said that 2026 would be the year I got my s**t together...
...I have barely managed to get any of it together so far.
You know how it is, you say at the start of the year that you're not going to make any New Year's Resolutions because you think that they are a waste of time and you tend to break them within 24 hours of making them. But then you start thinking there are actually some things that you want to achieve in the next twelve months.
For me, it was reducing the time spent on my phone, sorting out my CV, attempting to get fitter and spend more time creating stuff. Oh yeah, and finally applying for my replacement provisional licence so I can start having driving lessons (I can't remember where my old paper one is, but it's better that I get the photo one now anyway).
There have been some small wins, for example, a few Sundays ago I spent a few screen free hours building the Super Mario Lego set that my sister and her family bought me for Christmas. I made a start on planning my CV one rainy evening when I had nothing else to do with a tiny bit of help from ChatGPT (mainly for advice on how to set it out because God knows how long it has been since I last made one). I have aimed to spend an hour or two a week looking for jobs on websites and signing up for job alerts, but there's nothing that stands out to me. And the other week I bought some cheap exercise equipment and searched "exercises for beginners" online. It's a start.
Out of all the things I wanted to achieve, however, the big one was to spend more time creating stuff. I have been blogging on and off for about twenty years, first with Blogger for a couple of years, then regularly-ish with Wordpress. I also posted the odd blog on MySpace and had a Tumblr blog to basically post everything that I was listening to, watching and/fangirling over along with the occasional rant and photo I had taken that I thought was quite cool. Yes, I did have a few blogs, and this is the latest one of them. However this one is a bit different from the others I have had in the past.
I’m using this as a way to ease myself back into blogging. I’m not going to pressure myself into updating it as much as possible, I’m going to blog whenever I feel like it. And if it means that I end up posting four times a week or once every four weeks, that’s still something.