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1/29/2025 | Happy belated new years all! I can't believe it's already the end of January. US politics are also in chaos, but I've been trying to focus really hard on what is within my control so that I can keep the anxiety spiralling to a minimum. (Idk if it's working, but anything is worth a shot right now.) I've also been journalling a little more and trying to reach out to friends so that I'm not just endlessly ruminating on things.
Stress aside, it's been a busy start to the year! My mom, who reconnected with our extended family in Slovenia two years ago, and decided to start learning Slovene this year and she asked me if I wanted to join her. I'm really out of practice with language learning (despite still knowing a little Spanish, Italian, and Japanese), but I thought it would be a fun thing to do with her. =3 There aren't a lot of resources for Slovene out there, but I'll probably start a page here when I have a little collection of links to share. (If on the slim chance you're also learning Slovene, I'd be happy to have some other folks to practice with!)
I'm also still moving along on my crochet sweater. I just have to finish the last cuff, sew up the seams, and block her, and then she will be wearable! I've been a little unfocused for crochet, but I think it's because I'm out of "do the same thing with tiny modifications" territory and into "read the directions closely". But hopefully!!! This weekend!!!
On a whim I also joined Get Your Words Out for 2025 with their tiniest wordcount pledge (75,000). I used to be a fairly prolific writer of fanfic (that I never shared, lol) and original fiction (mostly short stories and poetry), but I realized at the end of fall that I was really missing it! I'd wanted something to encourage me to write again (self-motivation is hard), but 200ish words a day didn't seem like such an insane task. I'm still figuring out where to make time in my day to write, especially when I can't be at my laptop, and I'm already behind, but just keeping track of what I have been doing has been strangely encouraging in contrast to other tracking options I've tried.
Slightly related in that I'll be needing to do a little more writing for it, my QPP asked if we could play D&D together! >=) He's only played once, and I've been playing since I was 10 but have never gotten to DM, so we're gonna play around with a smol campaign just the two of us. I'm also jazzed because I sold him on my favourite campaign setting, Eberron, which I've only gotten to play in a little bit, and this is a great excuse to recycle some of my old D&D characters who I never got to play with long term but invested so much love into. I guess it might be time to really commit to making some OC pages here too!
