life updates

Spring is officially over and with it so is the semester. I am a lot less busy now, leaving work in the late afternoon most days, but still haven't really been able to do much outside of work just due to me being tired most of the time. I have officially started my new research job which is pretty much exactly the same as my previous position just with increased and more varied hours. My partner graduated this semester so we celebrated that a bit. I am very proud of her, she worked extremely hard throughout the past year.

I am still in the process of preparing to move. We have gone furniture shopping at a few different places and I have packed up all my books and games. I've been wanting to pay Pokemon Sun/Moon to start the process of getting ribbon masters for my favorite Pokemon but my copies are buried in a box right now. The difficult part of packing is going to be my figurines (mostly to store, I am not bringing many with me) which I haven't started even now less than two weeks from moving. Due to moving and end of semester things lining up I've had to drive 4+ hours about three times this month and I'll have to do the same at least twice more in June which hasn't been fun.

ikea trip

One of the best things about moving is that you get to take a trip to Ikea. I love Ikea. There was a period of time where I went to Ikea yearly. My partner is less fond of their simple/minimal furniture so she wasn't expecting to enjoy the trip that much but she ended up having a great time. It's a lot of fun to look through all of the model rooms even if we didn't actually end up getting much. We also both agreed that the meatballs were great, even though I honestly remember them just being average. That said I don't think the different parts of the Ikea lunch have much synergy. The jam and potatoes only go well with the meatballs (not each other) and the peas don't really go with anything.

i miss liking stuff

I wont go too deep into this because I am half planning on writing a full post about it but recently I have been thinking about how I don't really have anything I like much any more. In the past I was really into collecting Hatsune Miku merch and had multiple yuri series that I was following closely. My interests gave me so much joy yet now the thought of getting back into them is stressful more than anything. Even the things I still interact with like music and games I don't have that much investment in. It feels like my identity has taken a backseat over the past year so that I could focus on being more productive and stable. I don't dress as nice or try to present myself in the way I prefer as much compared to my past self too. I think over the summer I would like to try to try to find a balance between my productive self now and my joyful self from last year.

conclusion

Despite having much more time I still feel about as busy as I was last month. I hope that getting moving over with will help with that. Now that spring is over I should also have a new gallery post with images from the past three months so you can check that out as well. Thank you for reading.