Man, this year has been... a wild ride. Not just for me, but for everyone in general... and the last month hasn't been calmer and better either.
Welcome to my last blog post of the year, can't believe it's the last day of 2025... we'll be doing a short recap of what happened this year in my life/general.
But first... let's talk about this month.
December has been absolutely busy and wacky for the most part due to us having to move places unexpectedly. If you don't remember, on my birthday (which was November 30th) we've received a notice that we'd have to move out by December 22nd due to... an apartment's owner's daughter planning to move in. Yup. (Yes I said landlord before instead of owner and that was my fault at getting that part wrong, but oh well.)
Day later after my birthday we slowly started packing our things and also we've been hunting for our new place every day, with the help of my sister. For the first couple of weeks, we had no luck of finding anything. The first one turned out to be literally smelly, and the other one... well, we got no word on that after my sister contacted its owner about it... and on the top of that, she got sick, yippee!
Thankfully after my sister felt better we finally got something. It's the house we live in, but different entrance and apartment. Originally we were supposed to move in on December 17th, but the universe just kept persisting. My sister and her husband had to do a lot of work-related stuff so we had to push it to 19th. This has honestly made me feel crashed and defeated even if it wasn't a small delay because I was so fucking tired of things getting in my way.
Thankfully on December 19th we've finally managed to move into our new place, but even after this a couple of days has been really busy because we had to unpack stuff plus we needed time to get used to things again.
All of this moving stuff has heavily impacted my time to draw so I had to limit myself to working on just one artwork per week, but after January holidays are over I'm gonna try my best to slowly get back on my feet. I'm probably gonna be sticking to mostly traditional art during that to get back into the swing of things since I haven't done it in a hot minute.
But anyways... after we've finished unpacking stuff, I've spent Christmas just finishing my art and then chilling for the rest of the day.
I think that's pretty much it about things that happened on my side this month.
And now... it's time to recap 2025.
A lot has happened this year. A lot of ups and downs, that's for sure.
The things that make all of us worry about the future of the internet with all of the age verification stuff that is slowly spreading across the world and it's... really concerning. I said this before but all of this has been questioning about how long my online presence would last... but I'm trying my best to stay strong despite all of this. It's really hard to do this, especially now... but I'm not giving up that easily.
The universe just kept doing its best to not let me draw as well. It felt like it wouldn't stop. And yet I kept fighting.
On a good note... this year I started mostly focusing on my OCs, and I'm currently working on a project/story about some of them (specifically my goat girls: Luna and Rhea). I still have a lot to do, but I hope to finally settle for the title and start working on the chapters soon.
I could go on and on about things that happened to me/in general, but let's actually look back at every month.
January: nothing much happened, slow start to the year... except that I started working on a card page for my sonas/OCs... but due to the element limit I had to scrap this idea
February: nothing much again, except that I've been focusing on more original stuff
March: mourned 2 years since my aunt has passed away, fought laptop issues, back to dentist appointment hell and finally redesigned my main fursona Lerun
April: got sick with most likely the worst type of COVID so I wasn't able to be productive much so it has been the worst month in my life, a lot of stuff has happened in VTuber community as well but we're not gonna talk about it as I'm trying to distance myself and just stay in my lane
May: kinda quiet month so nothing much has happened on my side either except for more dentist appointment hell
June: moved my blog site from Dreamwidth to Leaflet, finished preparing for Art Fight and slowly started working on ideas for my story/project
July: participated in Art Fight again (of course not without the universe getting me through even more challenges), age verification stuff and payment processors being shit which slowly started questioning the future of the internet
August: been mostly resting and recharging after Art Fight... and surprise, EVEN MORE DENTIST APPOINTMENT HELL!
September: made a dream diary blog, got hit with EVEN MORE dentist appointments and got stuck in Pokemon art jail
October: finally finished those goddamn dentist appointments (for now), but of course something else just had to come and this time it was something wrong with my ring finger on my right hand which made me take a break from drawing for a while, but afterwards I managed to finish Halloween artwork at least
November: felt burned out for the most of the month... moved blog sites again to another Leaflet page to be able to use the domain with my actual username. Celebrated my birthday and turned 28, with a plot twist... we had to move out by December 22nd.
December: moved into our new place and celebrated Christmas.
For 2026 I have goals to just keep working on my project/story, get back into practicing my kalimba/synthesizer, possibly restart learning Japanese and hopefully... get into VR. It has been something I originally was planning to do once I'd move out of this shitty country and get a proper PC... but sadly with circumstances keeping on getting in my way I may have to do that early than I've planned.
So... 11 hours left before New Year for me... I'm excited and also scared at the same considering the current circumstances about the internet and life in general... but let's just hope that 2026 will be a much cozier year.
I'll see you in 2026.
And for those who it already got past midnight... Happy New Year!