WELP ! HELLO. It has been many, many moons since I sat down to work on my website. My absence from developing a new hobby is well justified. Since March, I have seen a lot of change in my life – good and bad. I’ve made decent strides in my therapy, enjoyed a friend coming to my state to visit for my partner's birthday, had a birthday myself, watched the slow and terrifying yet unexpected downfall of my country and participated in acts of patriotism to try my hand at preserving peace and making room for furtherance of said peace, adopted a tiny teeny baby kitten, made a friend, and lost one of the greatest loves of my life to old age. Through it all, I stopped participating in my hobbies as much due to I lost my June on 09/11/25. I made the choice to get her euthanized at home. Her death was not unexpected but it hits really hard. June taught me what it means to deeply love as a protector and friend of something small. She was an absolutely wonderful cat, and I feel deeply honored to have been her best friend. Her fur smelled like clean laundry and sunshine and her breath always smelled of fish. She was never extroverted and didn’t make friends easily, but with me she was extremely loyal and very sweet and affectionate. I will forever miss the feeling of her paws holding my cheeks as she sniffs and licks my forehead and nose when I got home from work. The way she would often meet me with a slight head shake accompanied with a soft, “prrr,mrA” as I turned to speak to her or give her love. It will be hard to capture feelings of love and comfort sweeter than I felt on those nights where she would curl up in the crook of my armpit, purring, with one leg out (razzle-dazzle) for temperature regulation and fall asleep alongside me and when I wake I wake up to a sore shoulder, soft purring, and gentle kisses along my cheeks. She savored her time outside and made sure to make every moment count. She would take big long drinks of air while taking stock of the scene in front of her, taking tons of interest in birds and bugs of course. I nick-named her moony because when she would stretch she would fall to one side and stretch her body as long as possible, appearing to be a crescent moon. She brought oour family sooo much happiness. She was the absolute princess of the house and we were all basically at her beck and call by the end. We certainly feel that the house is empty without her. I hope that wherever she is and whatever happens to us all after we die that she or whatever she has become is experiencing something wonderful. I will be yearning to hold her and kiss her and sit in the sun with her until I die and after that. I lve you June-bug. I will continue forward and work hard to do my best at becoming a better person every day to make you proud. Thank you for being by my side all of these years. You are one of a kind. Beyond teh tragedy of losing June, and teh terrifying reality of American Politics -- I am quite pleased to annunce that I COOKED with this theme. I feel like this was the most natural I have felt putting a site together and that I have made something that truly represents the style of website I was looking to make when I started learing these skills. I chose a muted, blue-leaning, green, a warm light cream color, and a deep red ochre because the combination feels peaceful. The over-all design was inspired by those vaporwave pc application overlays, the golden age of web, and this one artist streamer I saw recently who had a very relaxing and verdant set-up. I was lucky enough to get everything finished just before my website first birthday. It seems perfect to me that after a year of trying my best to keep this place somewhat operational, the knowledge that I do have about web-coding solidifies and I am able to drop an update that has all of the features I so desired when I first made my page. I hope you enjoy your stay!