July 7, 2024 - bloghan 1
Welcome to the first post of bloghan! I'll be refining the list of what I'm putting in each post throughout the following weeks, but the plan is to make a blog post every Sunday (PST, of course), or on days when something really funny or really sad happens, as the case may be.
There will be lots of text on this page, since I am a flowery writer. However, I'm pretty sure a bunch of browsers offer a reading view for long pages of text (Firefox does!), so give that a try if you want. For now, each thing going into bloghan gets its own header, and just for this week, each section will have a little explanation too.
Tier list of the week
First, tier list of the week! Including this because I know that everyone I talk to either adores or despises my opinions, so I thought this would be a little refreshing thing at the start of every bloghan.
Ordered tiers, but unordered within tiers. Feel free to disagree, but know that you are objectively incorrect.
Personal updates (achievements, reflections, and antics)
Next, this section is about my big and small wins throughout the last week, and how I'm progressing towards achieving my goals and dreams. It can also have some reflections I had throughout the last week, and if I took part in what some of you would call "antics," I'll mention them here too.
This past week, I've made a lot of progress towards learning to live on my own. It turns out that working for 5 years in fast food did actually teach me some things, so I was able to react quickly with the mop when I discovered my fridge was dripping apple juice overnight. The processes of grovery shopping and cooking has been kinda nice too, if not really stressful and time-consuming. It's also been strange to just go out and do adult things: I have a morning and afternoon commute, I sit in a cubicle, things like that. But there's a little dichotomy I've noticed in my time alone so far: for all the adult stuff I do, I still feel like I'm a bit of a child. I go to the grocery store, calculator app open to calculate which box of pasta is the best deal, but then I pass by the cookie shelves and grab two boxes of Oreos. My landlord gives me a rice cooker and some herbs for soup that she grew in her garden, then comes back minutes later to give me a 20-pack of Freezies. I guess this is a pretty major transitionary time in my life, but I can't help but feel like I'm still behind everyone in terms of life progress. So many 'adulting' things I'm learning for the first time just now, my peers have already been doing for a while. I still wonder how many of those peers consider me as just a child. I'm pretty sure my landlord does, as does my mother, but what about those peers?
Anyways, there's not much point in thinking about that now, since I'm currently living alone, far far away from those aforementioned peers. Everytime I go outside (not often, I am working in STEM after all), it still feels strange that I'm living alone, in a slightly warmer city than where I've grown up, and that I'm going to be here for more than a year. Honestly, it still feels almost like a summer vacation trip, but I'm sure fall and winter will bring that feeling down. Until then, I guess I'll just focus more on getting fully settled in.
Future plans
For cooking, this week I want to redo my recipes from last week, making them better where I can (mostly through the addition of garlic sausage where possible). Also this week, I plan to read the Thriller Bark arc of 'One Piece,' and maybe make a playlist specifically for my upcoming weekly aquarium visits (suggestions are appreciated and desperately needed). In the long term, I will be hanging up some pictures about my apartment soon, and very soon, I will begin working on that pesky door on this website. I might visit downtown this weekend as well, depending on how tired work gets me this week.
Song of the week
For the first song of the week, how about the song that partially inspired this website's theme? 'Far far away' (https://youtu.be/2GM3X-GBt5E), sung by Aika Kobayashi in 'Yohane the Parhelion.' The quote on the home page is a lyric I translated from that song, and I feel like it really sums up about how I feel about this period of my life. Fun fact: I almost got caught singing this song in the shower while in Switzerland. Almost.
Call for suggestions
This about wraps up bloghan 1. This section will probably not be around in future posts, maybe only lasting until September. Let me know what you thought of this, and what kinds of things you want to see more of, and what kinds of things you want me to stop yapping about. However, please note you cannot take my tier lists away from me because as far as I know, I have never had an incorrect opinion in my entire life.
- bubbler