Hello, 2022.

Having spent the last five months trying to function as an adult again, it’s been tough getting back on the freelance horse. It certainly doesn’t help when you get the rug swept from under your feet just when you start thinking there couldn’t be any more rugs.

How fast can you go?

I’m doing as well as can be. I’m taking this time to write down a little progress report because I haven’t been setting time aside to write it down on my planner. This way, I hit two stones with one stone. No, we don’t hit birds in this household.

It’s not the end — did you count the ways?

We as a people have gone through straits that may be just as bad, if not entirely worse. But none of us would sign up to having a tough year — if there's one thing we all have in common, it's that we're here to have a good time. Unfortunately, life isn't that forgiving.

Dear ones in dire times.

Some might like to compare this pandemic with previous pandemics that occurred in the ‘20s of each century, but I’ve never been much for conspiracies. In any case, people die of disease and illnesses every day. It’s just that they happen amongst the many other difficulties life throws at us. Covid-19, though, is a beast of its own. Well, it’s a different breed of a specific specie of beast. So, it’s a mutant that we’re trying our damnedest to defeat this summer of 2020.

The 2020 Planner by Mossery.co: A Review

Is it too late to post this? In some ways, yes. But post it, I shall. This year, I'm using the 2020 Planner by Mossery.co. Let's get into it! In 2019, I used a planner for the first time. It was a great experience with the Everyday Planner by Penelope Pop. Its design was minimal…

The New Roaring ‘20s.

Here we are, at the start of a new decade. I'm excited.

Yes, I am one of those people that believe a new year is a fresh start. I know it's an arbitrary date for an arbitrary calendar made by humans that lived generations ago, but I believe in so few arbitrary things already. Will you please let me have this?

Gems.

This morning, I woke up early. One of those wake-ups that start with your brain thinking of awake things, but your eyes don’t really want to open yet and you’re somehow convinced that you’re dreaming, but why would your dreams be of dull, boring, soul-sucking things? So, I woke up, did my bathroom business, went back to bed, but then felt that “I think I’m gonna be productive this morning” things. It’s rare af, so carpe diem, no?

The Everyday by Penelope Pop: A Review

 In an effort to adult a bit better, I decided to use a planner this 2019. While I was casually looking around for an ideal one, even contemplating if a bullet journal might be the way to go, a coworker, friend, and most of all, partner-in-crime shared with me The Everyday by Penelope Pop.

So goes the gift of the Internet, where you can share bucketloads of information at the push of a button and a tap of a finger.

The Past Few Months.

Never has life been predictable for me. Needless to say, I am not at all where I pictured myself to be, I don’t know, ten years ago, which was 2009. I was… not necessarily in a good place back then, so I don’t blame myself for not planning ahead. After all, the things I have planned for since then have mostly, if not all, fallen through, so it’s not a great majestic effort to be disappointed.

A Half-Year Later.

Several attempts at updating, and a thousand rolls and a half of the anxiety ball later, I am a year older. The bane of any writer’s existence is real life, and I don’t think anyone will bother to deny this. The moments when we aren’t writing, we want to be reading. Alas, one must eat, drink, sleep, and everything else in between. Existence is immensely tedious.