Reflections 2018 / Resolutions 2019
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marumo Now the Epiphany was passed and my winter break was over... officially Christmas and the holiday season are ended. I went to the first day of work in 2019 yesterday. Well, after a week of vacation, everyone was so in low motivation (ofc including me.)
It is kinda late to make this type of posts, but I made reflections on 2018 and resolutions for 2019. Sorry I'm not good at summarizing so it is pretty a long post.
Reflection 2018
Life
Fandom
Resolutions 2019
Life
Fndom
Be more active in cap-im community
I've already signed up/planned to sign up for some up coming events, very excited! For now I want to finish my BINGO ;
Draw everyday/ improve my drawing skill
As I wrote in the last post, I'm now enthusiastic for drawing itself, so want to make more improvements. I want to draw everyday even just a bit!
Watercolor!!! Fill all my sketchbooks
I've been into watercolor past months. I want to improve my watercolor skill too and for that, would like to fill all my sketchbooks. Sketchbook Challenge!
Be more challenging as an artist
1. Make English fanbook (working on it!)
I've been working on translating my fanbook to make English version. It is one of my dreams and hopefully complete it till spring...
2. Take commissions or something like that
I'm still not good enough for that, but one day I'd like to try to take commissions... it'd be a long-term goal but I write it here for now!
Keep making AA fanworks and be enthusiastic about it!
... and also make more fanworks for non-AA stevetony too lol
Read comics, et familiar with it :)
Now feel like 2019 will be a packed year too! Hope I can achieve many resolutions. Let's see.
It is kinda late to make this type of posts, but I made reflections on 2018 and resolutions for 2019. Sorry I'm not good at summarizing so it is pretty a long post.
Reflection 2018
Life
Moving
My fiancee had finished with his masters in the States and come back to Japan. So we moved to a new apt for two people. The apt is cheap and overall not too bad, but I'm not happy with its lack of sunlight (very cold!) Considering to move out sometime.
Marriage
I got married with a guy I met at the college in the States. We both have enthusiasm for classic music and shared a lot of good memories through the college time. I'm so lucky to have a wonderful man like him in my life.
Then, my life of the most part of 2018 was pretty busy for wedding and the honey moon stuff even we didn't make a fancy one. We had a wedding in the States where we spent together in the college time, and flew to Hawaii for the honey moon (so typical, huh?) We both fel in love with Hawaii, want to go back there soon.
New Community
I started to join a choir! My major at the college was vocal performance but had a long absence from it since I came back to Japan and started to work for full time. The choir is formed with foreign people who work/study in Tokyo area and many of them have decent music background. I'm glad to find a new community out side of the office :D
My fiancee had finished with his masters in the States and come back to Japan. So we moved to a new apt for two people. The apt is cheap and overall not too bad, but I'm not happy with its lack of sunlight (very cold!) Considering to move out sometime.
Marriage
I got married with a guy I met at the college in the States. We both have enthusiasm for classic music and shared a lot of good memories through the college time. I'm so lucky to have a wonderful man like him in my life.
Then, my life of the most part of 2018 was pretty busy for wedding and the honey moon stuff even we didn't make a fancy one. We had a wedding in the States where we spent together in the college time, and flew to Hawaii for the honey moon (so typical, huh?) We both fel in love with Hawaii, want to go back there soon.
New Community
I started to join a choir! My major at the college was vocal performance but had a long absence from it since I came back to Japan and started to work for full time. The choir is formed with foreign people who work/study in Tokyo area and many of them have decent music background. I'm glad to find a new community out side of the office :D
Fandom
>>Being active in English stevetony fandom (outside of Japanese fandom)
In the latter part of 2018, gradually I shifted my fandom activities to English fandom from Japanese one, like, I moved my blog to Tumblr and started to make English posts more, and started to use discord. The reason why is, I love AA and wanted to reach out people who love AA too, and inevitably it'd be outside of Japan. I already had talked with many fandom people from various countries, but 2018 I think I made a big move on my own fandom activity. I am so glad that everyone in cap-im community is so welcoming.
>>Here's what I have done...
Meet up with Navaan!
I metnavaan when she visited Japan for her business trip!! That was very short time meeting but I had an awesome time (it was fun to visit the Marvel store and chat over Okonomiyaki <3) She is such a wonderful person! It was one of my dreams to meet up with English fandom friends so it came true <3
Discord
I started to join Discord and tried to interact with people more :D Eventually it had made me want to have a server solely for AA stevetony and I made one XD I'm still not sure I'm doing good at running the community (maybe not), but I'm so grateful for people joined and share the love for AA stevetony <3
Community Events
I joined Holiday Exchange again and it was my 3rd time ! I will make a post about it separately but I had more fun than former years because I got to know more participants in the community last year so was able to have fun with them.
Blogging
Well I moved my blog from Wordpress.com to Tumblr for easier image upload and SNS function, and made a lot of English posts mostly about AA stevetony lol now I've moved to DW for blogging though. Damn Tumblr.
MTH
I won 2 MTH auctions!! Now excited to have my auction fics, and it is very feeling good to spend money for good. I have 1 auction fic from STH in queque too so there is a good reason to live <3 Next time I'd like to join as a creator.
Fanbook
It is actually for Japanese fandom but I made my 4th (!) AA stevetony fanbook (this one.) It is always stressful to make a fanbook but it gives me a big accomplished feelings.... kinda addicting. And I'm just surprises with myself for making 4 AA fanbooks...
In the latter part of 2018, gradually I shifted my fandom activities to English fandom from Japanese one, like, I moved my blog to Tumblr and started to make English posts more, and started to use discord. The reason why is, I love AA and wanted to reach out people who love AA too, and inevitably it'd be outside of Japan. I already had talked with many fandom people from various countries, but 2018 I think I made a big move on my own fandom activity. I am so glad that everyone in cap-im community is so welcoming.
>>Here's what I have done...
Meet up with Navaan!
I met
navaan when she visited Japan for her business trip!! That was very short time meeting but I had an awesome time (it was fun to visit the Marvel store and chat over Okonomiyaki <3) She is such a wonderful person! It was one of my dreams to meet up with English fandom friends so it came true <3 Discord
I started to join Discord and tried to interact with people more :D Eventually it had made me want to have a server solely for AA stevetony and I made one XD I'm still not sure I'm doing good at running the community (maybe not), but I'm so grateful for people joined and share the love for AA stevetony <3
Community Events
I joined Holiday Exchange again and it was my 3rd time ! I will make a post about it separately but I had more fun than former years because I got to know more participants in the community last year so was able to have fun with them.
Blogging
Well I moved my blog from Wordpress.com to Tumblr for easier image upload and SNS function, and made a lot of English posts mostly about AA stevetony lol now I've moved to DW for blogging though. Damn Tumblr.
MTH
I won 2 MTH auctions!! Now excited to have my auction fics, and it is very feeling good to spend money for good. I have 1 auction fic from STH in queque too so there is a good reason to live <3 Next time I'd like to join as a creator.
Fanbook
It is actually for Japanese fandom but I made my 4th (!) AA stevetony fanbook (this one.) It is always stressful to make a fanbook but it gives me a big accomplished feelings.... kinda addicting. And I'm just surprises with myself for making 4 AA fanbooks...
Resolutions 2019
Study/polish my English
It can go to the fandom resolution too. My English is considered as decent enough in my country but I'd like to polish it more (especially output skills... writing and speaking) and want to be able to interact with people more fluently.
Reconsider the current job/career
I've worked for my current job for 5 years now. I think it's a good time to reconsider my career. I don't know what I want to do though.
Quality time with family
Spend more quality time with my husband and parents, siblings, and friends.
Use time/money for good
MTH gave me a good idea about spending money for good, so after that I've tried to use my money for that kinda charity things. I'd like to keep doing that. Some fandom friends doing ko-fi or something like that, so it'd be fun to fund/help them too as a starter in 2019.
It can go to the fandom resolution too. My English is considered as decent enough in my country but I'd like to polish it more (especially output skills... writing and speaking) and want to be able to interact with people more fluently.
Reconsider the current job/career
I've worked for my current job for 5 years now. I think it's a good time to reconsider my career. I don't know what I want to do though.
Quality time with family
Spend more quality time with my husband and parents, siblings, and friends.
Use time/money for good
MTH gave me a good idea about spending money for good, so after that I've tried to use my money for that kinda charity things. I'd like to keep doing that. Some fandom friends doing ko-fi or something like that, so it'd be fun to fund/help them too as a starter in 2019.
Fndom
Be more active in cap-im community
I've already signed up/planned to sign up for some up coming events, very excited! For now I want to finish my BINGO ;
Draw everyday/ improve my drawing skill
As I wrote in the last post, I'm now enthusiastic for drawing itself, so want to make more improvements. I want to draw everyday even just a bit!
Watercolor!!! Fill all my sketchbooks
I've been into watercolor past months. I want to improve my watercolor skill too and for that, would like to fill all my sketchbooks. Sketchbook Challenge!
Be more challenging as an artist
1. Make English fanbook (working on it!)
I've been working on translating my fanbook to make English version. It is one of my dreams and hopefully complete it till spring...
2. Take commissions or something like that
I'm still not good enough for that, but one day I'd like to try to take commissions... it'd be a long-term goal but I write it here for now!
Keep making AA fanworks and be enthusiastic about it!
... and also make more fanworks for non-AA stevetony too lol
Read comics, et familiar with it :)
Now feel like 2019 will be a packed year too! Hope I can achieve many resolutions. Let's see.
