10 days after the first seconds of the year 2022 and now I finally got the energy to say 'Happy New Year!'.
The final days of 2021 has been stressful for me.
After working straight since March 2020 and didn't really have a break from making art since then, I experienced massive burnout. From the start of November 2021, I didn't have the energy to make art at all. I can't even think or visualize about art anymore and my brain just wanted that break.
All I did was just do anything else and not art, really. Sleep, do some self care, even had shopping spree where I started getting a bit worried about it cos I would have like 20 parcels coming my way. It did make me happy tho lol.
By the middle of December, a storm happened. My city isn't affected directly and we just had small rain and had network connectivity issues for days but that still stressed me out big time since my dad was in a city that was badly affected. He got stranded for days trying to come home for Christmas - we also lost contact for days - but thankfully he was able to get home safe.
We were supposed to go to a Camp near our city but unfortunately we had to go to the emergency room and had my dad admitted to the hospital a day before our trip. We're thankful it didn't happen while we were at the camp because hospital will be hours away. The medical bill was big even just 2 days of getting admitted but the mental stress was still bigger now that there's permanent change on his health from now on.
I won't go much into details but he's okay now so you just imagine how rough it was. XD
I started the new year rough but I'm slowly getting back to the pace I had before.
The past few hours I had was productive. I started writing on my 2022 planner to organize things. I have important exhibit already scheduled this year and will join another one (I have yet to send my application lol).
I did laundry, cleaned the house, changed the bed sheets to the new ones I ordered, organized my desk, decluttered my wardrobe, bathed the dog after weeks (I'm sorry), and finally did a protein treatment on my hair.
I absolutely love the current look of my desk and even added a small mirror (not in the photo) so I could look at myself while I work. I've thought it would be a great reminder to look at where I am at now and what I have done the past few years and so I can be grounded to the present time instead of drifting back to the past when I have flashbacks.
I also would love to share with you the 2022 digital planner that I'm using at the moment. Here you can find the link on Etsy. I absolutely love it and appreciate that I can just click on the hyperlinked templates and it makes it so much easier to navigate + the planner is so well-thought.
Oh and I absolutely love playing on Switch!!! I finished a game already and now playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and hot dammmmnnn I'm really enjoying it a lot. It helps so much on de-stressing and it was just perfect timing for me to get one lol.
No, I'm not gonna speedrun cos that's just stupid (for me) so I'm taking things slow and enjoying and appreciating all aspects of the game. It took me 3 weeks to finish Ori and the Will of the Wisps cos the sceneries really was just beautiful I didn't want to end it haha.
Anyway, new year, same shit sounds negative lol but hell nah.
It is the same shit cos I have the same long term goals.
May everyone have the same level of passion on everything and happy new year to all!
