November 25thth, 2025- Seven Months Blog Free
Listening to a t c a f e lofi Hip Hop

It has been about seven months since I last updated my last blog entry-- the last time I updated was one entry from Spring 2025. I just have been so preoccupied with hobbies, tasks, health, homemaking and social connection (twitch streams and live voice chats). I will say the past months for this year, I feel I was able to prevent myself from doomscrolling. As much as I enjoy certain content from scrolling through apps, going overboard can definitely lead to brainrot. -- I am glad I was able to load myself with healthy-and-productive activities for most of 2025. Does this mean I am perfect with my priorities? Absolutely not. I sometimes been watching those really ridiculous C-Drama shorts ironically, I can't help it because  my online girlfriends have been sending these clips to me. There are a lot of insane ones, but there's a few that are actually well-made (art house level of direction). So many plots involving rebirths, CEOs, revenge and Cindrella-esque situations.  I don't regret watching the shorts with cursed plot lines because they're kind of campy and was learn basic Mandarin from watching these. I guess you can see this is our generation of Days of Our Lives. 

My last winter felt like the holidays were cut short-- for reasons that we cannot control. This year, I am hoping to a smoother time.  I need to find a holiday dress-- I will have to see if my closet has anything that still flatters me. 


Art 2025 - Here are some artwork I've made from this year:

For Spooky Szn 2025, I drew tarot-card style for my OC monsters. I've managed to do three prompts because I've been pretty busy that month.

 

I attempted to only draw one Zodiac character for Spring and did a DTIYS illustrations from a couple of streamer artists. 

 

These are the drawings that I did from last spring & summer. The ice cream couple was a redo of an older drawing. The starter kit was based on a trend that involves no AI.

 

I got back intro traditional art. I basically started doing impressionistic paintings with roses (not pictured) and ended up painting a holiday cat meme because it makes me giggle just thinking about this kitty. 

I am thinking of deleting my Cara account. I just find the site pointless for me. I feel as if I could just build my own portfolio site with my drawings instead. 

Currently, I'm doing my very best to work on my speed and be consistent with my drawings. There are times when I just want to finish all my tasks in one day. Obviously, that's just unrealistic. 

Anyway, if any of you want to join my drawing prompt, here's mine for the holidays:


Fitness 2025  For the most part, I've been keeping up with cardio and video workouts. All I know is that if I don't keep up, I would feel sick and my gut would not cooperate. No, I don't have the physique of a Street Fighter character BUT I feel stronger and I need my bowels to remain happy. I do get comments like "YoU'rE wOrkInG oUT? bUt yOu aLreaDy LoOk gReAT" I have to remind some of my friends that I don't engage in fitness solely for vanity reasons-- I treat this as my personal medicine-- doctor's orders. As another friend have said, "looking great and feeling great are two different things". 

Social life 2025
Last month, I made some new friends by collaborating in a Silent Hill F game. I don't care for others' objections with this game, I enjoyed the story line and it healed me! There were some things I can relate to the characters in the game. Spoilers: One of my worst nightmares in life is not having the ability to explore my dreams; I don't like the feeling of getting my wings clipped. That was what the main character of Silent Hill F was facing.  The puzzles were a lot of fun and it wasn't super scary to watch ( I don't mind that). A friend of ours who was controlling the combat exchanged language lessons-- he basically swapped the translation text in the game to learn English from the group. 

I personally don't find HelloTalk to be helpful when it comes to language lessons XD especially if you're a woman 

As for physical, local friends-- Bern's friends Dragon and Koala has been pretty good about penciling their time to hang out with him. I finally hung out with my former coworker from years back, we got coffee and went thrift shopping together. As usual, she dresses so beautifully-- her personality is always full of sunshine. I am happy that to hear that she upgraded her career life and didn't tie herself down to a toxic workplace that we worked at. 

I recently joined a Secret Santa for a community made by one of my favorite streamers. I believe I will be getting the giftee's name assigned by the Santa bot. 

Beauty 2025 (Not part of my resolution) 
I've been wearing a lot of warm tones-- I know the color red suits me, warm red in particular. I believe my makeup skills improved since the 2010s. After going through some personal meltdowns from 2020, it's nice for me to be able to wear makeup a little more often.