Welcome to my web diary!

An early post for once, however not by choice. I have terrible insomnia and have done for almost three weeks now. If I'm lucky, I am able to get a few hours in the early hours but today I am wide awake, with no sign of stopping. I'm wondering if it's worth going to the GP about seeing as this bout of insomnia has gone on way too long now.

However, I've updated my planners and done some drawing and played some Hello Kitty Island Adventure, so not all bad. It was -3 degrees but has gone up to -1, and apparently there will be snow - but I will believe it when I see it. I hope so! 

Got a hand blender finally so now I'm in my Soup Making Era and will be making cream of chicken soup after blending up the veggie soup I froze. I'll also be baking homemade bread to have with it!

Not much else to report, but I would like to journal a little more here than I do. So maybe that's a resolution for the New Year. I'm going to be sorting some other stuff too - tidying my desk room, sorting my wardrobe and clothes, stuff like that. Nice and clear for the new year.

I might try and stay up until bed time but we'll see how that goes...

Until next time!

So... it's been a while huh? But so many good things have happened, so I feel the tone of my journal will change for the better.

First things first, I completed and handed in my final assignments for my degree and... I got a 2:1 I am SO happy! Considering I started during covid, a house move, personal problems, adjusting to new meds and being diagnosed with anxiety and OCD... I am so proud of myself. I now have a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Arts and Humanities (English Language) and I can't believe it... I will have to book graduation soon so I hope I'm able to get tickets as it's first come first serve an I don't want to wait! Plus I also need to find out about photographers and graduation gowns... :)

I applied a couple of days ago to study an MA in Applied Lingusitics with Open University... fingers crossed! Am I crazy? Yes.

Another nice nugget of news is that I have a job, and have done for a few months. Retail, and I've met some lovely people through it I would consider friends. It's been great for my anxiety, mental health, self confidence... and having more money helps! It's really been a good but mad few months - if you'd have told me a few months ago this is where I would be I wouldn't have believed you one bit. Plus, the Sertraline is working absolute wonders for me and I wish I would have started them sooner!

I'd like to pick up some hobbies, I have four more days off work and I want to tackle making (or starting to make) my neocities website. I also want to do more art and writing, and reading. I'm excited!

In other news, I've randonly become allergic to hair bleach, which is a travesty as I am always changing my hair colour. I've also had some problems with tomatoes, some cider flavours (???) and some materials, like my smart watch strap. So I'll have to book an allergy test for sure, but first I have a cervical smear so let's take it once step at a time haha.

I'm also absolutely hating the heat... Sertraline is making me drip with sweat and it's awful. I can't wait for autumn/winter!

Anyway, that's my big update. I hope to post more from now. I might make a post of my favourite gaiaonline avatars that I have made.

Until next time!

So we decided to do a master dungeon on Destiny 2 last night (grasp of avarice) and I think we would've been successful if the servers didn't have to go down for emergency maintenance. Honestly, I play destiny less and less these days because of the dodgy servers and error codes - it really puts me off! I'm hoping they're trying to find a fix but there's been a lack of communication between Bungie and players (understandable considering the abuse they get on Twitter etc.) but for the genuine lovers of the game it can be quite off putting. Oh well. Maybe we'll try again tonight, but it's reset tomorrow.

I'm wondering about finding a different game to play. Maybe Cyberpunk? I'll have to look into the bugs and see if they're less too. I'm not so much of a ~gamer~ really so I'm not sure what I would play or what would suit me. It's currently half price on steam and seems fun, but we'll see.

Because of Destiny's server/maintenance issues I've made another Stardew farm for the millionth time. I can't help it! It's such a fantastic and comforting game for me. I have it on xbox, switch and on my PC via the xbox pc gamepass. I don't know how many hours over the past 5? 6? years I've played Stardew but it must be creeping up to 1 or 2 thousand. (probably novice numbers to some, lol)

I really fancy a new game to stick my teeth into, though. I've played a lot of animal crossing, stardew, skyrim... we may try elder scrolls online too, and I'm interested in Starfield when that comes out in September on gamepass. I suppose it's not long!

Speaking of hobbies, just glued my birthday memories into my notebook, as well as cinema ticket stubs. I left a space for Barbie and Oppenheimer tickets! Not long until then. I'm wondering what films will be out towards the end of year - I will have to check. I've been enjoying going to the cinema basically every month. I suppose it's a hobby now!

Also, I find it hilarious that I've searched on this site for "pobol y cwm", a Welsh soap, and there is nothing about it. Nothing! Not a community, a post, an interest. I might start a community or a different journal to write about it, or maybe I'll just ramble here about it. I'm not Welsh but it's such an addicting soap and the best I've watched - a good balance of real life, not too much doom and gloom but enough to be relatable/educational and some very lovable/hateable characters. I've been watching I think for the past 5 or so years, maybe just 4. I was influenced by my mum who has been watching for the past 15 - I would catch glimpses and get really into it and before moving out again we would watch it together - now we watch separately and discuss in depth lol. I feel like (for me, anyway) it would be fun to ramble about my thoughts here every week, so I might.

Anyway, not much else to report on, just taking it easy and fiance has a day off tomorrow, which should be fun and is very much welcome. On Wednesday I will be seeing my parents and youngest niece as a sort of second birthday seeing as I didn't see her when it was my actual birthday. It should be nice!

Until next time. X