A statement of intent

  With this New Year about nine hours old and my previous post coming the day before with what was a brief history of myself, there seems to be an undertone of New Year's resolution to all this. And you're right.

  Journaling is something I am familiar with and have done in the past, but I've had trouble with consistency in keeping up with it. Kinda makes me think that whole '21 days" or whatever of doing something to make it habitual is a bit bullshit. But I'm really hoping this will stick for a few reasons.

1. Jounaling in the past has been theraputic and beneficial to me for the multiple reasons I've done it.
2. This format allows me to flesh out more my thoughts, allows more detail and nuance to explore thoughts and ideas and perhaps explain myself better.
3. Social media is fucking bonkers and this is the only real alternative i really know of and hope to do away with it all, but I can settle with killing Facebook, the worst offender to humanity.

  But keeping a journal again and using social media less are only two things I want to change about myself this coming year.

• TV is a big one, Love to ditch it for the most part. finish whatever shows I've already started and like, don't start new ones.
• Dedicate more time to my actual interests like:
• Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA)
• My metalsmithing, to get better and become self employed
• SCA, the living history group I'm with

  Regaining Control of my diabetes is another big one. this last year i tried  an insulin pump and found i didn't like the experience. It made me too permissive with my diet and my a1c suffered for it. This will be my most urgent goal. November my a1c went down from 7.3 to 7.0. I want to get it under 6.0 again and keep it there.

  So I hope to expect this to be a somewhat busy blog in trying to keep up with all this. In addition I want to do long rambly posts on topics of interest to me that aren't covered in this post already. Like magic as i explore animism more. And politics, as an anarchist I have shit to say about it all. And maybe private life stuff too, may just keep a physical journal for that though.

  But mostly a journal to keep track of shit and (hopefully) keep me accountable. which is what I really need.