April 29, 2024

An update – Life, the Universe and Everything.

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This year so far has felt very… sporadic, at best.

Nothing has really \’stuck\’ the way I wanted it to and naturally, the blog has to follow that erratic mess of my thought patterns. TragicFangirl, in all it\’s myriad forms, has always been the place where my thoughts come together and I somehow make sense out of \’life\’

So, for a while, this place was a book-reviewing blog, before that it was a hobby blog, an art blog, a place to share my Fangirly thoughts. So, what\’s next?

Well, currently, I am playing my flute, but I don\’t think I\’ll be taking and sharing videos of that on the internet any time soon! But, I do have some clear \’end\’ goals I would like to reach with my lessons; I\’d like to lean how to play \’The Sound of Silence\’ and the theme for \’Pirates of the Caribbean\’ both technically challenging piece for someone still re-learning how to read sheet music. But, goals for things are good!

In terms of book reading, I\’d like to read 100 books this year, I am currently 3 ahead of schedule according to GoodReads. I\’ll always read, even if I am not writing reviews on everything that I get through anymore.

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I would like to pick up Warhammer Hobbying again, so I am pledging to paint 50 miniatures between now and the end of the year – I don\’t know if WordPress allows countdown widgets, but I\’ll look into it after this post and see, just to keep that aspect of motivation going. Failing that, I\’ll pull some unpainted miniatures off the shelves, put them all out on the table then narrow them down to 50 and go from there.

I\’ve also started a Dressmaking course. I don\’t know what my goals and intentions for this course are yet as it\’s still early days; I\’ll report back on it when I have that figured out.

I do know that art, how I used to draw and the general feelings around it aren\’t what they used to be. At one point in life, drawing was everything, it was the life in my veins and I used to look forward to coming home from work and picking up my pencils and drawing. Now. It\’s stale, fills me with anxiety and makes me feel like I have wasted my precious time. So, it\’s time to move on from it and forge a new path; it\’s not gone forever, but for the time being, it\’s having a rest.

As always, the blog will remain, regardless of where life takes me and I\’m always reading what people are up to, even if comments are few and far between.

Recent Comments

  • Dawie
    April 29, 2024 - 3:24 pm · Reply

    Glad for the update Jenn as a person who got to know you through the Ginrey furry and now a 40K reading buddy. The blog part needs to be fun, if it aint then why do it. Counts for everything else as well. I hope we can continue our trek through the setting and other books on our lists for years to come.

    • Jenn
      April 30, 2024 - 2:42 pm · Reply

      Thank you.
      I think they already are, just writing things down helps get the brain organised again.

      Sorry to hear that things aren’t going so well for you. I hope everything is okay?

        • Jenn
          April 30, 2024 - 7:42 pm · Reply

          I can relate to that as well.
          Tends to come in the form of SAD for me, and with this year feeling exceptionally grey, it’s not been fun.
          I hope that you’re able to overcome it soon and back to enjoying yourself.

          Thanks
          Jenn

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