January 5th, 2025
Last updated: 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
Wow, WOW! We actually made it. The celebration was so exciting. Nothing to complain about. I managed to write things I wanted to leave behind and share this opportunity with my family and burned all those papers with the mannequins on New Year's Day (the law-abiding pyromaniac in me was ecstatic). The food was delicious. I received a lovely dotted notebook. Despite having a severe toothache, I feel light.
On another topic, I finally took the leap to use extensions to keep myself accountable on what sites I spend the most time on my laptop. My phone has the Digital Wellbeing app and YourHour to limit the use of some apps. I wanted to bring that same mindfulness to my laptop. I am using Unhook and Superfocus. The former is specifically for YT, hiding sections like Shorts, Mixes, Recommended, and Live Chat. Superfocus tackles a wider range of addictive social media apps. At the moment, it hides my YT Feed which is such a crazy change. Now I just have the Subscriptions page to watch content. This is doing something to my brain I don't know how to express. I'm definitely spending less time on the site which I'm putting on other places that are more meaningful (like this site!), or checking out older content from people I follow.
Back to website stuff, I like having different things for the site to work on. Site Plans is divided into Structure, Design, Both, and Others so I have quite the breadth of things to tackle whenever I feel like and the site still feels "whole" (although the relative sizes are still screaming at me because the text looks HUGE on mobile but I dread CSS so I'm procrastinating hard on that). I decided to add the stuff I'm focusing one on the "Developing" section so I don't get overwhelmed/confused, haha.