2025 Check-in

It's been a minute since I've posted anything here 🥲

I have a pinterest board with web design ideas that I think are cool, and I was just taking a scroll through it and was reminded that I have a pretty cute website myself that I've been neglecting.

It's hard coming up with things to write about in a space like this. Over the years as the joy of posting to social media has dwindled for me, and I've gotten to a place where I no longer even look at social media, much less post, I feel like I no longer have the muscle for noticing shareable moments, thoughts, etc. Makes it even harder to think of long form content to post on a blog like this.

But, I miss it! I don't want to make any promises or goals about posting here, but I would like to get back to posting and even working on this site again. I had the thought recently that I want to learn what's up with Nest.js- could be fun to rewrite this api for this site at some point using it. idk!

I haven't been doing much coding outside of work at all- it's tough finding the desire to code after coding all day. My job really challenges me, so it's especially hard to find the mental energy to code in my free time. I really miss doing fun frontend coding though. I put "do at least one personal coding project" on my 2025 resolutions and I'm really looking forward to working on something that is definitely going to be as much frontend as I can make it.

I've been leaning into a lot of other hobbies lately which has been fulfilling. There was a stretch of time in 2024 where I really dropped all of my hobbies as I adjusted to a lot of new, overwhelming life circumstances. It feels really good to be back to reading and climbing especially. I've started playing tennis for the first time since I was 10, and I've been playing volleyball more consistently than I have since I was in high school which feels really amazing.

I also have been learning to crochet. Mostly I've made granny squares and small bags. I have made one attempt at making a plush and created...this guy:

I'm going to become insane once I get the hang of making amigurumi crochet. This slightly fucked up little guy is just the beginning.

So, anyway, feels good to be checking in on here. I look forward to hopefully breathing a little bit of life back into this place for no other reason than I still love how this site looks and feels, and I want to get excited about working and contributing to personal projects again!