I guess I'll continue my trend of summarizing my year on tumblr. I feel pretty strongly about keeping them all in one place and I don't really want to move my old ones to bluesky.
This year was pretty good. I got 3 tattoos, 2 of them were on a whim and one I've thought about for a while. I got to meet 2 friends for the first time in person, which was awesome! They're both amazing people. I really like my main friend group, everyone is really supportive and also really talented.
I made the mistake of telling my psychiatrist whom I'd been seeing for several years that my primary care doctor was at a different health clinic, so he dropped me as a patient. I started seeing a nurse psychiatrist and was not comfortable with her. I complained about weight gain and food cravings on one of my meds and she said "It's so easy to cut sugar out of your diet, I have several patients who did it and I did it, so it's very easy". She told me that the Metformin I was on, which makes my appetite reasonable, could be prescribed by my primary care doctor instead of her. I also brought up attention issues and short term memory problems and she immediately went "You have ADHD, here's some Strattera". The Strattera DID help my attention issues and I was nonstop drawing for hours a day for like two months. It did stop and I wound up seeing a different psychiatrist, who said I should probably discontinue it (and has not brought up ADHD at all). So that was weird.
I was having sleep problems so I was put on Trazodone, and when my sleep problems didn't go away, I kept getting put on higher and higher doses. It got to the point where I was sleeping 10 hours a day and I was exhausted unless I got a good 14-15 hours. I spent most of my weekends just sleeping. I had my doses of Lithium and Olanzapine lowered to see if either of them were causing my sleep problems, but it didn't go away until I lowered my Trazodone dose significantly. The lower Lithium caused me to get irritable like 3 days later so I went back up on it, and I've been tolerating the lower Olanzapine so we haven't touched it.
Art-wise I've drawn more this year than I have in like the past 3 combined. I started a webcomic during my Strattera phase and got pretty far into it, but then I burnt out and haven't felt like continuing it. I might try to start it back up again but I'm okay letting it sit for a while. I made a bunch of plushies as Christmas presents for friends and I really hope to make more in 2026 and get better at making them. I've actually been debating opening commissions for them. My issues though are that it costs money to make and ship them. It was $8-9 to ship the plushies I made and sometimes I'd need a little bit of a certain color or type of fabric, and the only option was a full yard which cost like $15 or more. So it would be expensive to make them but I've been having so much fun, I really want to do some art trades at the very least.
I'm still living with my parents. I'm hoping in a year or two to buy a house and move out. When I do, I want to throw a big party and invite all my friends :3
I also saw a flash tattoo design that I LOVE and will try to get in like March or April. I also have ideas for 2 other tattoos, one of which I want to get next year and the other I'm fine waiting a couple of years.
I went to Furpoc this year, which is in Connecticut. I got into a car accident on my way there which unfortunately set the mood for the con. I didn't have a great time, the only good part was seeing my friends, and they didn't have a good time either. I had been thinking about going to more furry cons but after this experience, I'd rather hang out with my friends. I think going solo would suck for me even if I suited. I'm def not going back to Furpoc and we'll see about going to ANE again after the one coming up soon.
Oh I made a full body suit for my partial fursuit. It came out okay, it doesn't fit great and I don't really have anyone close by I can ask to help me make a DTD. :/
Work has been okay. It stressed me out a bit, and I've been wondering what kind of job I want in the future. I still don't know. My team at work got switched up and I'm doing something different but similar and I actually enjoy it. I guess I'll stick around for a bit... I heard it's been hard finding a new job so I'm not looking forward to that.
I tried dipping my toes into online dating again, and I keep talking to guys and maybe going on a few movie/gaming dates, but nothing farther than that. I would really like to have a boyfriend again but it's hard when I'm not desperate and have standards.
Cinnamon turned 12, he'll be a teenager next year! He's my little cuddlebug. Last year his kidney levels weren't great, so I changed his food to senior food and his levels were normal this year, so I'm thankful for his health.
Both of my sisters really want to go to South Korea soon, and I've been trying to teach myself Korean. I really hope to keep learning and know enough to get by if I ever go to South Korea.
So some things I hope to accomplish next year: keep sewing and make better plushies, get at least 1 more tattoo, hang out with friends more often, and learn Hangul.
