✧ Welcome Ramble ✧

As someone terribly prone to spending all of my time indoors and online, I am trying to spend more time outdoors and present this spring/summer!  ₍₍⚞(˶˃ ꒳ ˂˶)⚟⁾⁾

I've actually been feeling way more fulfilled! I know that being unemployed has definitely been a catalyst, as it has not only provided me with more time and energy, but I can also rest when I need to, which has significantly curbed my chronic fatigue. 

Regardless, I've been making more of a conscious effort to disconnect more often.

I've been gardening, ideally hoping to grow some veggies and herbs to eat because cost of living crisis. (╥﹏╥) I've also just been making more of an effort to take care of the plants I already had. (Soon I plan on trying to propagate what I can and give plants away to friends or on marketplace heheh).

I also have been painting and although the amount of effort I need to put in to complete the canvases kinda scare me, I'm also excited to have physical art I can hold. Most of my previous art was digital only, so it most definitely a change of pace.

All of these things have also led me to making this page! I'm hoping that in the same way I have found fulfilment in projects that I more hands on, I will find similar fulfilment in a form of social media that is both more hands on and more hands off. I think SpaceHey is more hands on in a traditional sense (coding to change the aesthetic of your page, message boards, active statuses, etc.) but more hands off in a sense it's missing the FOMO of a lot of other social media. From a marketing standpoint, this could be seen as a negative, but it is this fact that makes it seem more friendly and approachable. Everyone on here is because they want to be, rather than from necessity. I feel like we all know that social media was never properly "social" (at least that's what we were told lol) but recently the main ones have been feeling less and less fun. And although I love my Tumblr, the world I have curated there for myself feels so disconnected from my real life. I'm hoping that between the way this site functions, the focus on creating longer form content, and the nostalgic feel I will be able to a) stick to it and b) create something that has a more authentic feel rather than a social media that makes me feel like I'm creating a Netflix trailer for my life.

I feel as though I am constantly spouting that any kind of effort towards a positive outcome is a positive and encouraging my friends to start new projects ("because you have to start somewhere") but I am terrible at taking my own advice!  (⸝⸝๑﹏๑⸝⸝) So this is me...making an effort.

So here I am! Ready to be imperfect! Ready to try something new! Ready for whatever is next!

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I can't really tell you what I will end up posting here, but I do want to at least make an effort to post something! I'm hoping if I stick to my goals of going outside more I can use this as a digital scrapbook / journal for my thoughts, adventures, and day to day life but I guess we will find out together!