…using both hands and my mouth to dust off the cobwebs on this blog…
What’s good everyone! Ahhh…looks like I got splainin’ (explaining) to do 😅 – first of all, I hope y’all are doing well (whether you’re in the states, or somewhere else in the world keeping safe and proactive in these times of covid).
I know it’s been since late July that I posted on this blog with “Keepin’ it 235%” Entry 2: Thoughts, Tenacity, Tennis. (7/22/20), and since last May since my last Japan trip #2 blog post with “Day 4 (Part 2): Scenic, Seaside, Sakura Shrimp. (11/13/19)”
Honestly, a lot has happened since then (both good and bad), and (without making any excuses) I found myself preoccupied with not only other priorities and sweeping changes in both my work and personal life, but also keeping up with both my physical and mental health – which I can truthfully say has been doing quite well (albeit a couple setbacks in my ongoing marathon training, but since then I’ve been recovering quite nicely).
Obviously with how the year has been going and the myriad of challenges that a lot of us face everyday in these times of covid and political unrest in our country (United States), I have been rather unhappy with how inconsistent I have been with this travel blog. This was one of those things that kept creeping back into my mind week after week, thinking whether I would ever have the energy and willpower to resume and get back into it.
I found myself constantly putting it off because of something that I deemed was higher priority, or even just because I had one of those tough weeks where I had to manage a lot in both work and personal life to the point where I just knew that I was not in the right mindset to talk about my Japan trip from last November (at certain times, I find myself going to my default of playing video games to get my mind off of things and take a nice breather – this does play into me keeping up with the Nintendo Jump Podcast – a gaming podcast that I’m a co-host of, and we’re still going strong as of today with 121 episodes and ongoing! Please check us out btw 😀 we’re on all of your favorite podcasting apps including Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, and much more!).
Let’s be honest, when you have a lot of things going on in your life, especially things that take up a bit of your time like house hunting (which has been a good chunk of my life for the past several months now), resuming a travel blog that happened almost a year ago is one of the lower priority things on the list.
Alright, so I got that out of the way.
I won’t make any promises on this, but given that it’s been almost a year since I’ve traveled to Japan (and given that I still have my notes from each of the days I’ve visited during those 10 amazing days) in moving forward with this travel blog, I may or may not be able to recollect almost every detail and thing that happened during this trip (especially the thoughts that I had during those moments and times); however, I will do the best I can to recollect and give you a good account of these moments and how it made me feel at the time.
I hope that this is enough for y’all to be able to take in and consider how meaningful this trip has been for me (despite my inconsistent efforts in keeping up with writing in the travel blog over the summer and in the fall this year).
Anyway, that’s all I wanted to say + look forward to the next travel blog post – “Day 4 (Part 3): An afternoon tea with the basement department floor to please.” (11/13/19)” coming soon!
As I’ve mentioned before in previous blog posts, take care y’all, stay proactive and stay safe during these tough times with the whole COVID-19 outbreak.
Have a great rest of the weekend + an awesome start of the week, and I’ll see y’all in the next post!
Cheers / wave
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