Jan 12, 2024

Okay, well.... Let's hit the ground running! I wonder if the awkward feeling you get when you start a journal is a universal thing. I'm sure it's a majority feeling in the very least.
I want to start a journal in an effort to organize my mind and learn to better retain memories. I also hope to become better at both writing and typing. If all of my goals fail, in the very least I will have a nice website to scroll through and reflect upon when I am old. I started this journal a bit late because of procrastination. I had insisted on taking my sweet time picking out my theme for fear that the vibe would be off... or something. That is why you'll notice that this was posted on January 13th, 2024 despite what the title of the entry says. If i even care about that detail upon reading back.... If I even read back..... If I even manage to keep this journal going.
JAnuary 12th was an ordinary day. I woke up a little bit late, as it was an off day and I had been up until four in the morning the previous night working on a crochet project. It being early afternoon, my partner was in the middle of a meeting and speaking proudly about the platform his company offers. Since I fell asleep in the living room, i had to quietly stumble my way into the bathroom hoping that i would not be caught like some cryptid in the background of my partners meeting. I should do that less.
We needed groceries and decided to go to the asian market as the majority of the goods we needed to restock on were there. We severely misunderestimated what 18 degress felt like and decided it was a lovely enough day to walk there. My fingers were freezing and my nose was numb but I enjoyed that freezing walk with him. (I love to have the opportunity to walk and laugh with him on the way to pick up groceries for our house. Such a wonderful privelage.) We picked up the majority of what we needed and grabbed a few extra items for hot-pot that was decided upon for dinner. When we got home, I realized that I forgot to pick up the hot-pot base so I had him do a drive by and drop me off to pick up the base really quickly, because there was no way in hell I was doing that walk again. The dinner was magnificent. I had been craving hot-pot for a long while up until this evening so I made sure to eat my fill. It was a spicy hot-pot base that we paired with king oyster mushroom, enoki mushrooms, pork belly and beef short-ribs, noodles, ttebeokki, rice, kimchi, garlic chive kimchi, chives, white onions, jalapenos, and garlic. MY goodness it was a feast to remember.
We watched the movie Pearl to accompany dinner. I liked it. I knew that I would going into it though. Hopefully that bias doesn't have much to do with the overall objective quality of the movie, because I really believe Pearl is one of the best psychological thrillers of 2023. I love the subtlety in its message, and that the message seemed to be about female captivity and rage. How the femme is viewed as unstable or dangerous for deviating from her role. I really identified with her want to escape despite her perceived responsibility in pursuit of her happiness, but every time she gets an opportunity to escape she comes face to face with a challenge that stops her plans in their tracks. My partner and I had a discussion about the movie between us and both decided we needed to watch X again to prove to ourselves that X was truly a sequel to Pearl. Spoiler: It truly is. I then began to think about how I should really start a journal because it really is a bummer that I don't have 25 odd years of journal entries or photos to look back upon. So I got onto WordPress and here we are. I am very much hoping for a long and fruitful journaling adventure, no matter what kind of twists and turns it takes. I hope to embrace my journal as an expressive medium and let myself explore it to its fullest!
ʸᵒᵘ ᵃʳᵉ ᵉⁿᵒᵘᵍʰ. ʸᵒᵘ ᵃʳᵉ ˡᵒᵛᵉᵈ. ʸᵒᵘ ᵃʳᵉ ˢᵐᵃʳᵗ. ʸᵒᵘ ᵃʳᵉ ᵛᵃˡᵘᵃᵇˡᵉ. * ╰─..★.──────────╯