happy new year!!!!!! i've been kind of dormant on this ol website of mine for the past month or so, because the holidays and also bc i didn't have a computer at home (see my first entry, where i talk about only being able to update on my work computer lol) BUT i've been doing a lot of updating and stuff because i FINALLY got myself a laptop for home!!!!! so i have a computer at last that i can use to program stuff at home i mean i'm still writing this at work but shhhh don't worry about it

anyway here's some stuff that's been going on with me lately:

• organizing a whole ass house is a LOT of work!!! like really, it's kind of silly how much work it is to own a house. not to mention we have mice in the basement and our pipes keep freezing bc our main water pipe is in the cold room (idk who thought that was a good idea tbh it's real frusterating)
• we're hosting my wife's parents elderly dog for the next little while. They're going to be in Trinidad and Tobago for a month, so he's staying at ours and he is just the sweetest big boy in the world, but he struggles getting around on our hardwood floors so we have to pick up some cheap mats and rugs to help him out while he's staying here lol
• we just came back from a trip to Ottawa to spend Ukrainian christmas with family, and we got to see my wee baby niece. She's so sweet and it was so nice to spend some time with her and the rest of the family! now I've gotta get everything unpacked tho (×_×;）
• we also gotta take all the christmas stuff down!! which is like :( but also i find it's nice to signal the end of holiday mode and the begning of the new year. idk i really like the new year, i love the feeling of a fresh start

well i think that's everything i've got going on right now, except for news about what's going down with my site. the thing is, my work computer monitor is HUGE. like, unneccesarily big. it's kind of silly. but my laptop screen is, necessarily, much smaller. and looking at my site on that screen, i realized there were a bunch of things that looked like SHIT on a smaller screen, which SUCKED. my site looked so good on my big screen!! but most people probably don't have a screen this big lmao. anyway, i've been going through and cleaning up my code so my site looks much better no matter what screen size it's viewed on. which like, it's actually making a lot of stuff better in general, so i'm not complaining. it was a shakeup i needed to make some good improvements. but the reason i'm so interested in making these small improvements is because I signed up to be part of Petra Pixel's indie web contest! i'm really excited, not necessarily because I think i'm going to win or anything, but because it'll be fun to check out all the sites that are participating and have some more people check out my site too! so i'm trying to clean things up, like tidying the house when you have guests coming over lol. I mean, i'm not making any huge updates, but I did want to make things look a little nicer.

oh! i've also been working on my first shrine page, which has been taking AGES because i'm VERY serious about it lmao I'm not going to spoil what the shrine is for (i mean if you follow my site on neocities you might have already seen it in the activity feed, but shhh) BUT it is something i've been obsessed with for a LONG time, and i just need to finish some of it up. I'm SO proud of how the page has turned out, and I definitley want it to be up before Petra Pixel's contest starts in Febuary.

aaahhhhh anyway i think that's all from me for now. I hope everyone's 2025 has started off soft and yall have a great year full of good things coming your way♥

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