Happy New Year everyone!
I ended up feeling so damn drained from the holidays and Blogmas that my drive to do anything decided to take a hike. Seriously. I basically just crashed in bed for the last couple days, playing games, starting a couple books, and catching up on my sleep (which ended up further destroying my sleep schedule, must fix that).
I know I had said I was going to post on both Monday and Wednesday, but I hope you can forgive me. I honestly wouldn’t have made much sense at that point.
So, recap of the last week.
I played Bugsnax! This is a cute game that came from the developers of Octodad, which I never got around to playing. For looking so damn adorable, it’s also incredibly dark in the story it tells. It took me about three days to take care of it, and it was actually pretty good! I was having the time of my life finding all the Bugsnax, though I still hear Bunger when I’m sleeping. Because of course the burger snax wants to get revenge.
I also did something I’d been gunning for since the beginning of this year! My silent goal of 2020 was to finish Lego Dimensions on PS4, especially after doing it on Xbox One. And I did it! I only had the Story Packs to complete. Now, I’ll be honest, I didn’t go for 100%. I just went for trophy completion. I probably would have done it, but I was running out of time to finish by midnight. I’m just happy that by finishing the game to trophy completion, I technically have completed every Lego game on PS4 (ignoring Lego Worlds, which I do not count). Next up is to do it on Ps3 and Xbox 360.
Speaking of Xbox 360…
This has been the year of having massive delivery delays, and I totally get that. I found out on Christmas Eve that my “big” gift of the year was to be an Xbox 360, something I asked for simply because I wanted to make a bad joke on Christmas. Oh, and because most of the Lego games I wanted to play on Xbox aren’t backwards compatible. Unfortunately, Mom ended up ordering from a third party seller, and it never was shipped. So, no Christmas meme for me. We’re hoping that it’ll actually ship at some point, or she can get her money back. And then I’ll just head over to Gamestop and pick one up there. For the record, she knows that’s my plan, and she’s almost heartbroken that the one surprise for me failed. (Especially since all the clothes she bought me didn’t fit.)
Anyway. The other big thing I did (video game wise at least) was set up my streaming stuff again! I have my capture card and camera set up, and my mic (though I may just not bother with it, and just use my headphone mic). But the big thing is the other surprise gift from Mom, a 4″ ring light. I’ve been looking for one for months, because where I have my desk set up requires more light, and now I have one that will work perfectly. So hopefully starting next week I can get back to streaming! Oh, wait, AGDQ is next week. Gonna have to push that one more week.
I’ve also finally gotten back into reading! One of the books I was given on Christmas was Rebel Rose by Emma Theriault, which is the first book in The Queen’s Council series. From what I’ve been told, this series is a new imagining of the Disney Princesses and the real world history behind their stories. Basically, a well-written version of the live action movies. This first book is based on Beauty and the Beast, which is one of my Mom’s favorite Disney film. I haven’t gotten too far into the book, but I’m hoping to knock it out this weekend.
One of the big things I spent a few minutes doing this past week finishing up the prep of my bullet journal! I was hoping to have it done during Blogmas, but the fates had different ideas. It’s something that makes me really happy! I’m really hoping that this will be a tool that will help me this year. The honest to god good this is that the November Owlcrate box came with a reading journal that has more than enough space to use as a regular planner should the bullet journal not work out. I’ll be posting pics (without any identifiable details of course) some time next week.
So, the last thing I spent time doing this week was setting up a specific schedule and goals to follow each week (of course part of it will be skipped due to AGDQ, since I’m hosting that on my Twitch channel and I have like ten runs that I want to watch). My plan is to stream on Twitch for two hours on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (about 3:30 to 5:30 pm PST). On weekends, I want to do longer streams, probably four hours (so around 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm PST). The reason for the short streams is because I can’t stream while Mom is working, because it knocks her off, and I have to start dinner around 5:30 (I cook every night as a trade off for not having a job yet). I may also do evening streams, but it really depends on what my family’s plan is after dinner. We watch movies and shows together, or play board games.
Other things on my schedule is that I want to post twice on Instagram. I want to read a book a week, with a book review to be posted on here on Monday/Wednesday weekly. I want to post here three times a week, the aforementioned Monday-Wednesday-Friday. One other big thing is that I want to post at least one fanfic a month, if not two a month. I was hoping to post one starting today, though it’s delayed until tomorrow because I totally didn’t remember to finish this post until I was halfway through cooking dinner. Whoops?
Anyway, I’ve rambled long enough. It’s New Year’s Day, and I’m tired. I hope everyone has a safe, healthy and prosperous 2021, and please be safe! Wear a mask, wash your hands, social distance, and honestly, make the sacrifice now so that we can get back to normal soon.
Until next time!
