Hey guys, long time no blog!
So I've kind of stopped blogging for a few years, shortly after I returned from my study abroad in Japan. I was recently reading my lovely friend Mo's blog, and it sparked my urge to blog again!
I’ve been working a lot on YouTube, so I haven’t been totally gone. I’m going to try to post some blog posts about my YouTube videos do you can read more in depth about my adventures, and I can add some photos in. Since I'd started making videos, I kind of didn't so much feel like I needed blogging as an outlet anymore, but I frequently go back here to find stuff and remind myself of my study abroad experience or find old pictures, and I kind of miss it.
I also want to have a bit more of a diary kind of thing like I used to. It’s kind of nice to type things out than just saying them on video because I can be more clear here. I guess I’ve realized that I may have seasonal depression because every year around this time is when I lose my creative spark, work (which I actually like) starts to get me down, and I can feel the pressure to do more with my life without the time or energy to make it happen! But I remember that there definitely are times where I’m full of energy, seeing friends constantly, photo shooting, going out to see cool Japan stuff and flowers, and I thought, oh that’s because it was warm outside! It doesn’t get as cold here as it did in WV and NY, but I still would rather be sweating in the extreme Tokyo (or even Kumagaya) heat, than even just a little bit cold. I haven’t even been dressing up fashionably very often, and I realized that’s because of the cold too. I hate to be cold, so in the chilly mornings, I always opt for the layers of warm over the cute skirts.
I’ve been really building my Liz Lisa collection lately using Mercari (Japanese secondhand sales app) and constantly checking out thrift stores (so also I haven’t spent more than ¥2000/$20 on any of my Liz Lisa items) and I really want to wear them, but it’s just not the season yet. When it was still a bit warm in the fall, I really started to dive into modeling, but then the winter hit and I haven’t been so much into it (plus work and shooting outside in cold is hard). I really want to dive back into it in spring with the cherry blossoms! I’m going to see as many flowers as possible, I want to FILL my Instagram feeds with flowers! They make me happy and I am so ridiculously excited for them!
Lately I've been playing around a lot more with photography. My passions I guess change in waves, but always alternate between Youtube vlogging, photography, modeling, fashion, and music related things. Oh, and I started swing dancing again, but that's gonna be its own whole post I think.
Anyway, I think for this blog I’ll just post whatever, whenever. It’ll be less orderly than my YouTube, though I kind of do the same for YouTube anyway. I still have a tiny glimmer of hope that my YouTube might somehow start to make me a little extra side money though XD But that’s not my goal, my goal is to have fun and have my own video diary of my life while possibly helping out someone traveling or moving to Japan in the process! My blog will be more personal, when I can go back and see more of my deeper thoughtful about my day. Then twitter is my quick thought diary!
Anyway, thank you guys for reading if you got this far, and be ready to see more on here in the future!
