{2025} Spring Goals

Spring Goals 2025

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Hey, welcome back to my quarterly 

goals and wishes check-in. Here I 

take a look at my goals for the year

and figure how far along I am in com-

pleting them. Wish me luck this spring!

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 Goal #1: Get A Job

Update: Still issues with the

bank. I'm at a stand-still. 

☐ March: Letter to bank.

☐ April: ???

☐ May: ???

Goal #2: French

Update: Studied but did not hit

 all the goals I wanted to. 

 ☐ March: Cover A2 chapters.

☐ April: Cover B1 chapters.

☐ May: Take sample exams.

 Goal #3: Health

Update: I have been feeling better 

but my diet is still kind of poor.

☐ March: Daily stretching.

☐ April: ???

☐ May: ???

Goal #4: My Comic

Update: The current project is 

actually a visual novel.

☐ March: Complete Nanoreno.

☐ April: ???

☐ May: Develop Mermaid characters.

 Goal #5: JS/Python

Update: Currently not learning anything

new. In March I will learn Renpy.

☐ March: Learn Renpy.

☐ April: JS Basics.

☐ May: ???

Goal #6: Video Diary

Update: I am looking to buy a 

digicam and figure out how to transfer

videos from my camcorder.

☐ March: Nothing.

☐ April: Film something daily.

☐ May: Film some prompts.

 Goal #7: My Site

 Update: All is going well, need to 

continue updates and adding missing pages. 

☐ March: Updates only.

☐ April: Video Club microsite.

☐ May: Collections page.

Goal #8: Blogs

 Update: Need to do a lot of catching up.

☐ March: Missed French & media blogs.

☐ April: Fashion A-Z.

☐ May: ???

 Goal #9: Screentime

Update: Not a good month for this, let's do

better in Spring.

☐ March: No YouTube during week.

☐ April: Only 1 hour for phone.

☐ May: YT only on weekends. Limited videos.

Goal #10: ???

???

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Small Goals

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CD/DVD Collection

I picked up 3 DVDs and 4 CDs in

January. I want to order some CDs 

from Discogs in spring.

Buy an Xbox 360

I actually had the money to do this but

we really needed it for other stuff so this

will have to wait.

Jailbreak Banana

I'm giving up on this because it just

doesn't seem worthwhile with the 

phone's OS being basically abandon-

ed. I instead want to collect more flips.

Fairyary

I failed. I only drew 2 fairy characters

and didn't even finish them. The new de-

signs are pretty cool though.

200 New Movies

I only watched 15 new movies in January 

and February, which isn't great  because

I need to watch at least 16 films a month

to reach 200 movies in 2025. 

10 Fiction Books

I'm still reading Three Body Problem and 

didn't finish a single fiction book in the 

winter. I need to speed it up.

10 Non-Fiction Books

I finished only one non-fiction book this 

winter, Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and

Reds, it was awesome.

Digital Camera 

I really, really want one but I can't just-

ify the cost right now. The one I want

is about 100 euros plus a little shipping. 

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We'll Be The Same As Before {2025 Week #9}

Hey. How's it hanging? Week 9 of the year is at an end, it feels like time is running away from me. Monday was as usual, a bad day. I did make a pretty nice dinner, finish my Elliott fanlisting and started watching What Did You Eat Yesterday. 

It made me confront that maybe I do actually like cooking. For some reason I still have some residue of internalized misogyny that makes me think I can't enjoy what some people see as "womanly" activities. Or maybe I'm just not a great cook so there's no point saying I like it. But I kind of do. When you cook food you're excited for, its a special moment of the day. 

We're having strange weather.

I was back to studying on Tuesday after the mess that was last weekend. I also took a little walk to the Noz and picked up the cutest Moomin notebook that came with a little key chain. I love it. Also found a Kaiser Chief's CD that I actually already have but it's at grandma's house so I probably wont see it for the next decade. My visual novel for Nanoreno is being prepared but the rules are that you cant start anything that will be in the final project before March.

He's the best!

I had a meeting with my social worker on Wednesday. She's real nice and helpful and she helped me schedule a meeting with a person from an organization that helps foreigners with all the documents and stuff. I'm still waiting for my letter from Banque de France. I also started the O.C. today. What beautiful trash! I have listened to the official soundtracks for close to a decade now but never actually watched the show. I actually decided to after seeing a clip on Alice's site where Seth and Summer argue about Death Cab. I love Death Cab. Studied too. My eyes have been kind of hurting recently, I think I'm at the PC way too much but all my hobbies are here so I'm trapped. Still, need to touch more grass, no argument against that. 

Did my make up for once.

On Thursday my mum left to Bordeaux to go pick up my dad. He's coming for my sister's birthday, she's turning fourteen. Last we talked in person we were on good terms but we had an argument on Whatsapp because he is a conniving shit. Anyway, I let bygones be bygones and when he arrived we were fine. Finally he brought the hard drives he has been promising for ages! The reason we don't get on well is because we don't really know each other. He hasn't been in my life since I was twelve, I'd see him for a week or two every two years maybe. It's always weird having a near stranger get upset with you or reprimand you as if he's your family, never mind that you're pushing 26 and haven't been a kid for years. But honestly I already feel nothing about this situation we have in the family, I'm just keeping things civil.

On Friday we had a pretty lazy day because everyone was so tired from yesterday. Dad made some very fancy burritos so that was nice, him and mum mostly did some stuff in town and got ready for my sister's birthday trip to Spain. I'm not going just because I need a little space to be alone and catch up on missed tasks. 

Saturday was my sister's birthday, they left kind of late, at about 10 AM. I went to Noz again and got 4 more CDs. Awesome CDs! Feeder, Embrace, Taking Back Sunday, and Manic Street Preachers, each for 2 euro! What a steal. I watched Lemonade Mouth during lunch, I had a turkey sandwich. Did not enjoy it. I got some things done but a huge migraine started at the worst possible time. Before bed I watched half of Charlie's Angels. I was not impressed.

Sunday, I woke up early to finish Charlie's Angels and I actually appreciated the camp much more in the light of day. See, your mood or health can seriously affect how much you can enjoy parody, satire, camp, or anything really. I worked on a lot of web stuff and prepared a notebook for Nanoreno. Everyone arrived pretty late, they brought me a cold McDonlands burger and a solar-powered Maneki-neko. I also got my sister a Death Note mug from Noz.

And so ends the week and the month of February. I will not miss it, it was terrible. Honestly, the future is not promising but I'm not making any predictions. This week I offer you one of my fave bands of all time, Rival Schools. This is 69 Guns.