Please pardon the dust!
One of my biggest goals going into the summer months is to revamp this blog a bit, using a new template and everything. I just feel the need to change things up. Nothing is currently being planned for deletion, but things may be moved around a bit, tags might get messed up, etc. All will (hopefully) be well and right with this once I get it done the way I want. These changes are planned to happen over the weekend, when I have an extra day off (yay for not having to work on federal holidays!).
On the subject of blogs, another major thing on my list is to finally set up a blog specifically for my fanfiction. It has become more common to see fic being posted on both AO3 and on personal WordPress accounts, and it’s high time I follow suit. When it’s all set up, it will be included as one of the links on the menu, and I will also be making a post detailing anything that needs to be said. You should expect to find all of the fic that I’ve written and posted on AO3, along with a few others I may pull from the FF.Net vaults (but if those happen, I’ll be heavily editing them. It’s high time).
Beyond this, I have plans to catch up on a lot of shows that I missed this year. My goal is to give them the One Chicago treatment that I was doing last summer, where I review each season, instead of by individual episode (since I’ll be basically binge watching them). My plan for viewing is:
- One Chicago (I’m currently midway through Season Five of Chicago Fire and Season Four of Chicago PD. I’m still not planning on watching Chicago Med past what I need to because of crossovers, do to my utter dislike of pure medical dramas (I just can’t handle it; there’s nothing wrong with the show itself). However, I may give Chicago Justice’s one season a quick hate-watch)
- Hawaii Five-0 (This is a maybe, depending on how I feel.)
- SWAT (This is also a maybe, at least in finishing it before the next season airs. It’s a good show, just not a priority.)
- Heartstopper (This one is a must. I read the first graphic novel early last year and really liked it, but ended up forgetting to read on, and I rehomed the novel anyway. It’s high time for me to give it another shot and also love on the Netflix series.)
- Locke and Key (I watched Season One last year and ended up really liking it, but I haven’t given Season Two a watch yet. I plan on doing that soon!)
- Whatever Marvel throws at us. (I’m caught up on everything but Doctor Strange and Marvel’s What If? at this point. Ms. Marvel comes out in June, and I think She-Hulk follows in July or August? Something like that.)
I’m not sure when these write-ups will be posted, as I’m also having to work around my work schedule (which will be changing in mid/late June when I finally enter training, and no I’m not joking about that).
From there, I want to give a brief update to my reading challenge. It’s going… Okay, it’s basically stopped right now. With my first paycheck, I took a portion of it to try to finish collecting the last books I need for my collections. I still have to find eight more books, but for the most part, I could probably sit down and blast through a good chunk of the list and not have a problem. I’m just stalling, I guess you could say. I know what I want to read, but I just haven’t had the drive to read it. With my two major hyperfixation shows on summer hiatus, no writing challenges on the horizon, and no discord to bother me, I really think this will be the best time to blast through and get through them. (In fact, as soon as this is done and posted, I plan on grabbing my next book and reading, since I probably won’t be doing much of anything at work today, but I can’t watch or play anything without fear of missing something.)
One of my other goals is to finally finish off a few of my writing plans. As of right this exact second, I have six story ideas that I want to write and finish. I won’t talk about them here (simply put, I don’t want anyone to snag them), but I hope to finish them during the summer. One should be posted on AO3 by the end of this week if everything goes well. (And since I probably jinxed myself, there’s always next week. But I do want something posted before the end of the month.)
And of course, I also have a few plans for posts for this blog. I want to give updates on some of my ongoing projects, including The Kudo Project I mentioned in April (which I plan to talk about in early July). I also would love to talk about my Playstation Trophy-a-Day challenge, where I’m trying to get a trophy every day this year (self-explanatory, I think). And there are other posts planned during the months ahead.
As for personal plans this summer? I really don’t have any. We’d hoped to go see another Dodger game, but with the rising numbers again, I’m not exactly comfortable with being in a large group again. Mom and I do, however, want to drive around the LA area and explore. I want to go to a few different bookstores that have been on my list since moving here (The Last Bookstore and the Barnes and Noble located at the Grove, both in LA). But my big goal is to settle into my job and get through training when that starts up next month.
That’s all I have for today! There will of course be other things posted (breaking down some stuff from both 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Lone Star, probably at least one Marvel post, etc.) that will also be filling the gaps. I hope you all stick around!
Until next time!
