Rebuilding Habits

20260712 - Sunday

It's still very hot where I am, which means my computer is not performing the best. There was about one week of milder weather before it all amped up again. I'm still on the job hunt. I've been feeling very demoralized, and so I've fallen out of a few wellness/hobby habits, which has only made the demoralized feeling worse. However, I've slowly caught up on my Japanese review cards and it does feel good to be back on track/close to on track with where I left off.

Web Browsing

⊳ Stitchel: I found this from a post on Reddit that I think is deleted now? But it's a small pixel art/cross stitch editor I've been trying out. It's still in early stages, but I've been having fun with it. I enjoy that it's a lot more responsive/faster than FlossCross, which is my usual pattern creating/editing tool.

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Craft Progress

I still haven't been to the craft store, so I don't have a proper backing fabric for the kogin piece I showed last time or for the sashiko tote, which I finished stitching sometime last week-ish. I also ended up returning the Sashiko Sourcebook to the library without working on any other patterns from it. I'm a bit disappointed the craft isn't for me, but not disappointed enough to try and brute force my way through another piece. Either way, I think it was a good thing to have tried it and to know it's not for me, than to have not given it a go. I still want to try to improve with crochet, and to learn the very basics of knitting and machine knitting. I'm not sure if that'll happen this year.

Japanese Progress

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Reading

Miscellaneous

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