Happy Monday, my friends! Last week was the most, but in a good way. I haven’t used my brain so much since… grad school? Yeah, probably grad school.
What I’ve Been Up To
Work/Writing
The contract is signed and my first few articles are up, so I can finally share that I’m now working as a freelance writer with gaming website Gamepur! This week has been chaotic as I added this new gig into my schedule and got a feel for how I’m going to rework my daily schedule. After so many applications and pitches into the void, it feels amazing to be onboarding as a freelance writer! You can check out my stuff from last week here.
This also means that I won the bet with my husband, where he said he’d buy me a PS5 if I managed to get a job writing about video games, so we’ve got a shiny new console in the house!
General Life Updates
Honestly, this week has more or less been taken up by work.
The virtual race for Fanthropy Running Club continues, so I’ve been getting miles here and there between everything else. We had our second session in the new D&D campaign as well.
Current Obsessions
Gaming
Let’s get right to the good stuff here—I am finally playing Baldur’s Gate 3! I purchased and downloaded the game the instant we got the PS5 set up, and I am stoked.
I’d been pretty worried that all the memes and online chit chat would have me spoiled on plot but I realized those were mostly thirst traps and that I had no idea about the actual setup of the story at all.
Since I have never previously held a PS5 controller, the double-whammy of learning to use the system and how to play the game have me going a bit slow, but I’m having fun regardless.
Books
My book blog’s witchy reading extravaganza is officially underway, and I am looking forward to leaning into magical reads for the next month and some change. Starting the month off with Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young to get into the spooky, atmospheric vibes.
Planners
It’s new planner launch season, and friends, I fully admit that I have a problem. I adore planners. My color-coded system in my Passion Planner is the only thing that keeps my chaotic brain organized, and I am excited for my 2024 version to arrive.
That said, I love planners so much I almost ever manage to stop there. Does a person reasonably need more than one planner for any given calendar year? Probably not. But they’re all so pretty and shiny and organized differently that I inevitably end up with more than one.
In 2023, I used a Writual planner to log daily Tarot reads alongside my Passion Planner and it worked well. So of course I already have a 2024 Writual planner. But I’m still yearning for some of the other ones I’m seeing online. The algorithms know my weakness. Stay tuned to see how many planners I end up with this year. (Last year it was 3, and let’s all have a moment of silence for the reading planner I stopped using a few months into the year.)
Words on the Web
I already shared the link to my author profile on Gamepur, where you can check out what I’ve been working on this past week. I think I had the most fun with the Sims how-to about getting mini goats in the Horse Ranch expansion, but they were all honestly a good time.
Otherwise, it’s Witchtober, so that’ll be the focus for the month on the book blog.
That’s it for this week’s update! Hope you’re all doing well!
Congrats! I’m more of Nintendo girl myself but I can understand PS5 allure
Ha ha. “We now have a shiny new console”. Congratulations! 💕