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It's been a while. I think I was last here right before I got married-- which was 11/2019-- so not too long?

Honestly, I haven't been active online since Fall of 2017. The last semester of college before getting my bachelor's.
It was a way to help ease the stress of a senior project and those final loose ends of a degree that I never should have honestly gone for ( Not the B.A. just because of the student debt and my not-ready/unprepared, no-connections/no-network issues) It was stressful, so Gaia was my sort-of crutch, if you will.

Since then
☆I went to cosmetology school for an esthetic's license -- wasted my timeANDmoney.
☆ Graduated and went to commencement- Which was so emotional but also just cathartic?? I felt like a new person.
☆ Got engaged after passing the cosmetology board exams.
☆Attempted a job in that field for a second- was lied/decieved-- and basically found myself working at a local software company for a good year.
☆FINALLY moved out of my parent's basement ( i was a commuter student through my years at uni, so I never got the experience of living in a dorm? or living on my own?)
☆I got married after 9 years being together smile
☆Went on a nice 1/2 honeymoon at Katsucon (yes... i went to a con for the moon of honey... ) was planning a cruise towards the end of the year closer to our anniversary.. but that well...
2020.???
☆Big spikey round boy happened
☆I lost my job -- and have been floating around ever since.
☆We added to our family and brought a corgi pup into the picture, named Calcifer.

My first year of marriage, I dare say, has probably been different compared to most people's first year as newlyweds. I get to spend time all day with my husband. Which is really the best thing ever to me. It's cliche but we are best friends ( I didn't put that in my vows tho, lmao-- no shame to those who do. But I told myself not to do that because I think I've heard EVERYONE say it lol)

He works from home, and I am here. Ramping up on graphic design and taking advantage of my time to get better versed in something that will hopefully make me happy. Cuz the world is crap, and instead of working to live, we live TO work.
So might as well compromise and do something that will use my creativity, and make me happy right?

So yes, we are both at home every day, and because we are not wanting to get the spikey round boy ( not so much because of the fear of expiring, More so the effects afterward. Longhaul-- possible internal damage? actually, not possible-- VERY likely internal damage) we just dont want to chance it. A family member already got it, he went to the hospital-- and is STILL struggling, months later.

We had a couple close encounters, and each time we have made new rules for socializing. Family thinks we are paranoid-- but I sing, and I like breathing. I don't think that's too much to ask... So???

Yeah--

I've been reverting to old social media lately. Craving the nostalgia. I learned of Spacehey- returned to tumblr to write with my old friends ( which has been a lot of fun) and I feel like my old vibrant self returning. Been diving back into cosplay--
I want to make a Youtube channel and really just take advantage of my free time while I can.
So yeah.. That's it for now.
(❁´◡`❁) Until the next few years.

I think I will take on some art stuff here too ? I'm considering it.