Every month, I tell myself "okay, I'll do the blog post early in the month, then I won't have to worry about it!" and then every month, I do it at the last minute. I feel like this is a microcosm of my life - good intentions leading to panic. Executive dysfunction is a pain in the ass.
Although, I'm not gonna lie, this is the longest I've ever consistently blogged. Normally I go "I'm going to blog X amount of times!" and then I do it, like, twice, and... peter off. My first blog had a gap of like... two years at one point. I just totally forgot about it. I think part of the consistency is that I really, genuinely love Neocities. I love the control I have. I love that I can do more or less whatever I want. Also it's free?
Well, okay, I'm paying for it now, but it's free by default. And $5 a month is very reasonable. I'm paying $70 a year to have my own website under the kunabeecreations.com domain, and let me tell you - that is insanely cheap. Like. I have found the bargains, and they are not bargain-bin quality! Sure, Neocities has its limits - this blog is actually suuuper janky if you look under the hood, that's why I've had some trouble creating some features for it - but just. Chef's kiss.
Enough on the delight of having full control over one's website and internet space. I still have several serious and in-depth topics to discuss that I have very rough drafts and beginnings for and yet do not write on, including one about the internet Then vs Now. I really should write this stuff; these are important topics to talk about, and I think I have good ideas. But also like... ehhhh. effort. So this is going to be another "I ramble and give everyone vague updates" post ♥
At the moment, I am preparing to move in the fall. September/October. My parents are going to be moving to an RV and traveling the country, and I do Not want to be crammed into a small space where I have no privacy or place to even breathe with them. I wouldn't want that with anyone, actually. I could live in a RV by myself and Cinnamon, but otherwise it would be far too small and cramped and just ew.
(Is it "an" RV or "a" RV? One, it's an acronym. Two, the acronym starts with a consonant, but that consonant is pronounced with a vowel at the beginning. Anyway.)
I'm planning to go to Oregon with my partner, so that's exciting at least. It's been hard being long distance; it's hard not being able to touch someone, to see their face, especially when you have before. I lived with him for a while before, so it'll be nice to live with him again.
June 1st, I'll be attending my first Pride event! June 1st is a Saturday, and the parade is on a Sunday, but my mom doesn't want to go on Sunday since there is church and stuff (and for me to go alone, I'd have to leave 1 PM or later, and I'm not sure when the parade starts). I'm a bit sad to miss the parade, but very excited to see what all there is to see. It's going to be super corporate because it's the officially sponsored Pride and each ticket costs $20, which I feel like is a great indicator of what to expect. Expensive ticket = corporate sponsorships. Or something like that. It's Pride in Utah so I'm expecting it to be fairly sanitized and, again, corporate and consumerist.
Also, since it's Pride month, I will do my best to put my butt in gear and make a post with Thought and Meaning behind it. It may just be a post describing, like, the asexual and aromantic spectrums and split attraction models or something, but it'll at least not be 'Shiloh rambles for a while'.
That's about it for things I want to talk about. I'll not drag this post on for any longer. Thanks for reading.