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September 29th, 2019

Why, hello again

Was my last post really in April?? I have to admit, I didn’t expect to abandon my blog for that long. I was hoping to post at least once a month – not because I felt obligated to, but because I actually liked having a monthly recap that I could look back on at the end of the year.

I knew I’d have less time with a baby, but I do still have time for my hobbies. I just don’t have time for all of my hobbies, and so I’ve had to prioritize and balance them. Well uh… I didn’t balance them. I basically prioritized toy photography, video games, and baking.

But anyway, my last recap was for January and February. What have I been up to since then?

March

  • Celebrated my birthday with a lot of eating
  • Started refactoring my team’s Vue JS project from our company’s hackathon

April

  • Took a week-long staycation for the first time ever. I’ve taken days off before, but anytime I take off a week or more, it’s because of holidays or traveling. It was nice to just relax at home with my family!
  • Helped organize a work picnic for our engineering department
Tali and I at a botanical garden

Visiting the botanical gardens during my staycation

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7 · Posted in Life, Monthly Recaps
April 12th, 2019

The KonMari method, part 2

Before I get into my next progress on the KonMari method, I wanted to backtrack and explain why I went into a declutter mode. I had two main reasons for starting to declutter:

  1. I wanted our house to be easier to clean. I kept trying to solve this by buying new storage solutions, but it never fixed the root problem of owning too many things.
  2. My husband and I discussed potentially moving houses later. When I thought about packing all of our belongings, it gave me anxiety because I realized how much we owned and how painful moving would be.

After starting my decluttering journey a year or so ago, I started viewing my house in a different way. Everywhere I looked, I kept thinking, “we have too much stuff”, and it’d make me unhappy. Even rooms I previously decluttered, I’d still stand in and just look around, eyeing more things I wanted to discard. It was getting kind of obsessive.

I was also getting annoyed at my previous tendency to just collect things. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having collections, but among my collections were things I didn’t like. I kept them because it made the number of things I collected go up, which brings me to the next step in the KonMari method…

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8 · Posted in Life, Minimalism
March 5th, 2019

Recap: January and February 2019

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to continue my monthly recaps, since they aren’t always that exciting, but I do enjoy having these recaps to look back on. (They’re especially helpful every time I write my year in review.) Instead of forcing myself to recap monthly, I thought I’d try bimonthly and also a different format!

Highlights

  • We had some cold and rainy days, but fortunately, the Pokemon Go community days and special events fell on days with decent weather. We met up with friends several times at a large shopping center for lunch, Pokemoning, and walking around with the baby.
  • Talia celebrated her first Chinese New Year with my parents and got her first red envelopes!
  • I organized our company’s quarterly hackathon with another manager at work. I’ve participated many times in the past, but it was my first time organizing it!
  • I started off the year uninspired by my toy photography. I normally take photos of Nendoroids, but I mixed it up a little by taking photos of a friend’s LEGO sets and a few non-Nendoroid figures. That definitely gave me the spark of inspiration I needed, so I hope to do more outside of Nendoroids!

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6 · Posted in Monthly Recaps
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