May Goals

 

It's a brand new month and it's starting out wonderfully. Well, minus a panic attack. I made my bullet journal May calendar spread and my May habit trackers last night, wished Ástrid and Koji a happy May at midnight, wished my co-workers a happy May at the start of my shift and went outside to take pretty pictures of flowers this afternoon. Flores, in Português!

I love making little goal lists, so I thought I'd do one for May. I'm curious about something, what kind of blog layouts do you prefer to see? Pictures that are solo for easy pinning or group pictures that are a layout as if they're in a magazine? I love both, so I'm torn on which to do for my blog. Give me your thoughts!

Here are my goals... 

🌸 Blog a LOT more! I miss blogging so much. So, how do I fix that? Blog more, of course! I took my bullet journal and just started writing down post inspiration and SO much came to me. 

🌸 Do more light exercise! I say light because my ankle is still swollen, but my Doctor even told me to try working for about an hour, so I can finally get exercise in again. I'm putting together my fitness wishlist, so expect that soon!

🌸 Participate in Mermay! My drawing isn't anything special, but I feel like I can do so much more after watching Koji draw. Of course, he's a professional artist and he does make drawing look SO easy, but still! The fact is, whether my skill is good or bad, I love being creative and that's what counts!

🌸 Clean... a LOT! Okay, so this is often on my goal list. I'm messy, okay? I also have ADHD and have an incredibly hard time getting started cleaning, focusing on cleaning and finishing this and pretty much anything else. Mix that with OCD and cleaning is hard. 

🌸 Take better care of my skin! I have rosacea and right now it's manageable, but there's times when I get a flare up and I really struggle. So, this month, I want to take the best care of my skin that I can!

🌸 Be more spiritual! I haven't connected very well with my spiritual side lately, until recently when I found a new matron Goddess, who I'll definitely talk about here soon! But I want to do that and so much more. I want to read my tarot, write in my grimoire, have Ástrid do a pendulum reading on me and so much more.

🌸 And as always, be the best wife, mommy and friend that I can be and help my little family be happy and healthy! They are truly my everything! 

Alright friends, tell me, what are your May goals?! I can't wait to hear them! 

Meu Português - My Portuguese

 

Bom dia! Good morning! This post will be a mix of English and Português, but don't worry, I'll translate! Meu nome é Angela. Eu falo muito pouco Português mas estou aprendendo! My name is Angela. I speak very little Portuguese but I am learning! Eu estarei me mudando para o Brasil em 2022... Eu espero. I will be moving to Brazil in 2022... I hope. 

So, why Brazil? Well, Koji has family there and even lived there himself in the past. He told me all about Southern Brazil and it's beautiful and homey. It's also very open-minded! There are so many LGBTQ+ people there, those who accept polyamory and metaphysical acceptance. Which is so different from where I am originally from, which is Utah.

Gramado in Southern Brazil

I also love the greenery! Okay, so I am originally originally from Illinois and my suburb was VERY green. Utah, as beautiful as the state is, was... More yellow and orange and not in an Autumn-y way. 

So, yes, I am learning Brazilian Portuguese! How, you ask? Well, I started with Duolingo which did help me with some words... But I was lost on speaking sentences.  Until I joined HelloTalk!

HelloTalk is an app where people can join from all over the world and list what language they're learning and which they are fluent in and will help others with. It's SO nice. You only see those posts, called moments, in your feed. It's like Twitter, but much less busy. 

I've made quite a few friends there and even made a WhatsApp to talk to them, as it's popular in Brazil!

Messaging someone on HelloTalk

Outside of Duolingo and HelloTalk, I also have help from Koji and his friends and I keep a journal of all the words and sentences I use often. It's very helpful!

Now... I just need to work on my accent.（＾＿－）

Bom dia! 04/14/2021

おはよう! Bom dia! Good morning! It's been a while... (＃⌒∇⌒＃)ゞ Life's been busy. TWO new jobs (two different companies, but the same parent company.) Searching for a third. Our new place! Learning Portuguese. Bullet journaling. Running our Conan server and moooore. 

But I miss my little space here. I miss my bloggy friends. Do I still have any? (๑•﹏•) I hope so!

We're also planning our move to Brasil. But... That's expensive. I don't even have my visa yet. We'll also have to move all of our babies. Most likely, we won't be there until the middle of next year but I'm hoping for sooner. Really depends on fate! Though I am putting in the hard work too. 

I love helping my friends, so if anyone is looking for a legit work from home job, let me know and I'll send you my company's info! I'm getting my first paycheck tomorrow! It's going to be small though, as they only pay once a month and I started very late in March. I do work 60 hours a week though, which is GREAT. However the minimum requirement is about 10-15, so it's also useful for people looking for a side job.

Come on, let's manifest $$$!

Oh and my darling husband opened a commissions page on Ko-fi! If you want a DnD, video game or other OC or even a portrait of your real life self or family, pets included, read more here! 

I found a new Matron Goddess, her name is Yemoja and she's from the Yoruba religion. I'll share more about her in a second post! 

My sister-friend Sam has come back and I missed her dearly. We've been talking a lot, doing purikura with each other and just being big and lil sis. I'm the big sis! (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑ 

I've also been trying gyaru more. I followed my first tutorial via a TikTok video, as Sam somehow managed to get me into TikTok... Anyway, I didn't do great but a lot of gals told me it's a good first attempt so I'LL TAKE IT!

Oh, and, I dyed my hair blonde! Kind of... It's NOT as good looking as the picture would suggest. So I plan on going in and getting a professional dye job and style. I really want a rokku style. Rokku kind of is like... Rock and Roll. Imagine something cool. 

I know this post is all over the place, but one of my biggest blogging goals is for people to feel like they're reading a letter from a friend. (＾ω＾) I'll make more themed posts soon!

Oh yes, also, we HAVE A VR HEADSET NOW! Well, Ástrid does and I just borrow hers all the time... Especially for VRChat where I spend most of my time in Japanese and Brasil worlds. If you have VRChat, let's party!

And most of all, I've been loving Koji, Ástrid, our babies and our friends. ♥ I hope you're all doing well and please comment, if you'd like, so I can catch up with you! I'll be going through Bloglovin' and reading everyone's posts to catch up as well!

Until next time, which will be SOON, I promise!

~ Angie

Today

 

こんにちは, oi and hello! Today is, so far, an absolutely lovely day... For the most part. Our stimulus came in and I'm using that for self-care and self-love, along with a few little gifts here and there and hopefully fixing my Switch. My poor Nintendo Switch died on me, RIGHT after I started working on my island. sigh I was so excited to see my bamboo grow and now it's a gamble, because my Animal Crossing island is saved on the Switch itself and not a card. :| Wish me luck!

And well, the other downside is our card is locked for fraud. Nothing even happened, but I guess the bank panicked because we were doing a lot of shopping and now everything is being reversed. ;.; I called them, was on hold for an hour, fixed the situation only to find out... It's not fixed yet. Ahhhh! 

But enough about that.

Let me talk more about this self-care and self-love journey I am on. I was browsing Etsy and came across Blessing Manifesting by Dominee. Now, Dominee doesn't even know me, so I'm not being paid to write this or anything like that. I'd love if she knew I existed, because even a few pages in and I am loving her rainbow aesthetic with bold colors and her writing style. But anyway! I may... have spent about $50 in her store. 

Here's what I bought! Magical Housekeeping & Decluttering because I reallyyyy have to do this and I feel so refreshed when we have a wonderful clean house! Self-Care Planner Witch Version, because I miss my Witchy self. I used to be so in-tune with myself. Self-care is also so very important. Self-Love Workbook because, just like self-care, self-love is deeply important and something I don't really struggle with but I do find it hard to find the time to "focus on it" and that's gotta stop! To be honest, a lot probably has to do with my ADHD. >.< But this will help me! Journey Through Journaling is next because I am finally keeping a bullet journal! I won't lie, it's very bare, haha. But I'm doing well and feel really inspired by Dominee's book. I just started reading and so far am just so impressed. I can't wait to read more and follow her prompts! 

Next we have Itty Bitty Hygge Workbook! I got this because I LOVE hygge and it's something that while I don't really need to "learn" more about, I love reading about and watching videos about. I find that, itself, hygge. So, I also got Body Love Gym Week One! I've been realllly inspired to exercise and eat better, but am still struggling with DOING that. This will help! If I manage to do week one, I'll get the rest of the weeks! I've been finding a lot of fitness and healthy living YouTubers, most if not all of them very down to Earth and treating their audience like friends. I love those kinds of bloggers and vloggers most. As for the last two, I got two add-ons for the Self-Love Workbook! Fitness and Blogging! I dearly miss my blog, but I've been having a hard time coming up with ideas and Dominee helps with that - a lot. I also want to keep track of my stats more! 

All of Dominee's workbooks and more are soooo affordable, most being between $5-$10 and you get them as PDFs, so for certain stuff or everything you can print and work on, put them in your journal or read them on your computer and get inspired. I'm actually buying a printer (...once the card is taken care of) so I can do so! I'm so excited!

Finally for this post... I GOT A JOB! I got an AMAZING work from home job for a huge gaming company. I don't need to be on the phones, either! It's something I can be proud of and do for long-term. It's a contract position, so if it's not long-term, it's at least my foot in the door for working for more gaming companies which is what I've wanted since 2004. Woo! Go me!

Thank you for reading friends! Tell me how you're doing! ^_^ 

A Very Busy Month

Hello, my friends, it's been a while! This month brought a BIG new change... I started my new job! It's telemarketing, which isn't my favorite thing in the world (I thought I'd be doing marketing not telemarketing.) It's work from home though, so I don't have to leave Koji, Ástrid and the babies behind every morning. ♡ My goals are still being either a community manager for an MMO, a social media manager for an awesome company or a chat support agent. I don't really want to receive or make calls, to be honest. I also would love to be a streamer and professional blogger. I even made Everything So Kawaii, a blog about... Well... Everything So Kawaii! I hope you'll read. It's just starting, so it's going a little slow but I have SO much inspiration for what to write.

I'm also going to make a Kawaii Discord Community, which I'll link here as well once it's made.

So, why am I working now, you might ask? Welllll... Koji, Ástrid and I want to move to Massachusetts and we want a house instead of an apartment! So OBVIOUSLY that's... A lot of money that we need. But, we need the room for ourselves and all of our babies. The babies being the main reason. Especially considering I really really want a doggo and Koji promised me one when we get a house. 😁

Also I have kind of a second job, which is being an Admin for our Conan server and Discord server. SO much goes into that and it's so rewarding. If being my Admin-y self could be my day job, I'd be one happy gamer girl.

I think that's all that's been going on, for the most part! Catch me up on what's going on in YOUR life! Let's talk! 

Koji's New Art Twitter!

HI EVERYONE! I am SO excited. Koji started his first art Twitter and has started taking commissions again! I'm so proud of him. This isn't his first time doing commissions but he's only drawn as a hobby for a while. I am hoping so hard that people will welcome him, support him and commission him. 😊 We're working on something really big, so I'm looking hard for a job and he's doing this and Ástrid is thinking of starting a leatherworking business! WOOT! Anyway, let me share some of Koji's artwork! If you're interested in commissioning him, e-mail him: lordcroweKK@gmail.com or message him on Twitter. He does game characters, real life people, DnD characters and so much more!

I wanted to include some WIPs to show off what he's working on right now! Eeee, I'm so excited. This is the start of something wonderful.

Catching Up

こんにちは! Oi! Hello! How are all of you? I've been... Bad. There have been WONDERFUL moments so far this year, like Ástrid, Koji and my anniversary and Koji's birthday. But we've also had Mya pass on, which severely triggered my insomnia and anxiety... and anxiety about the insomnia and now I need a job for some extra money. Which is huge, because... Since this blog was remade, most people probably don't know, but I'm disabled. So I get disability money and also have insurance which covers my very expensive medication. ONE prescription is over $1,000. It's also the most important, woo. So I need to do something that will give us extra money, but not too much extra so that I don't lose my benefits. @.@ 

Koji and I have wanted to start streaming, both separate and together, so that's one thing we can do both for fun and as a business. I have my blog, which I'll dedicate more time to. I'm searching for a work from home job, too, maybe something that's just part-time.

If you'd like to help us in the meantime, I have a Ko-fi here! Whether it's just as a way of helping us, payment for a tarot card reading (NOT needed but very gladly received) or $10 for an ad spot on my blog, anything would help.

If you're interested in a tarot reading, send me an e-mail: kawadaangelam@gmail.com or tweet me on Twitter @kawadaangela and let's talk! Same if you'd like an ad spot. They're 350 x 350 and go on my sidebar. 😁 They come with some extra stuff too, like a blog interview and me sharing your posts on social media!

I'll be blogging much more often now. It's even written down in my Pusheen planner! よし!