Hey hi hello!

It's been awhile since I've made a journal, so I figured I might as well do something toward the start of the year here. Hopefully everyone is doing well and staying as healthy as reasonably possible. I've been pretty busy with work over the start of the year. Hoping that calms down eventually here... but I'm also not planning on staying at this job longer than this summer for a variety of reasons.

Setting yearly goals isn't something that I normally do, but I've been feeling stuck in a bit of a rut for awhile now. I need to make some sort of change, so I figured making and committing to a few more concrete, track-able goals was probably the best way to go about doing that. I don't want to over extend myself either, so I've settled on two things that I think I want to focus on this year:

Goal 1: By the end of the year, be able to draw my own characters (to some degree).
Goal 2: By the end of the year, get my weight under 280 lbs.

I haven't really had any sort of creative focus or endeavor since college, and I've been wanting to actually learn to draw for quite a long while now. I've started and restarted that process quite a few times over the past year or so, and I'm hoping that having something more concrete to work toward will help with that. The health-related goal will probably be easier to attain, given that I'm fairly close to that point already.

So yeah, we'll see where things go this year! I still need to come up with a schedule for myself to make getting into the art-practice habit a bit easier. Actually having a solid goal to work toward on the learning front should hopefully help with the feeling of "What the hell should I actually be practicing?!" that I've dealt with before.