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In all honesty I’ve felt pretty overwhelmed lately.
I have roughly 4 weeks till I set off and I still have an endless amount of things I should get done. As much as it stresses me, I think I have to accept the fact, that there will be a great number of them that I simply won’t be able to do.
I don’t really have ‘cool off’ days, when I’d be free to completely let myself breather, there are always things on the to-do list. That results in my productivity level being lower and lower in my opinion.
While I’m trying to tackle my biggest monster – boxing up all my clutter, and trashing as many things as I’m emotionally able to, I’m totally unable to create art or finish my portfolio website as I think I should. There are many art-related things I wanted to get done before I set off, but juggling 2 jobs, taking on extra quests, trying to help everyone with everything is definitely not playing in my favor.
I have to learn how to say no, so that I’m not completely flooded with tasks, not to procrastinate with other people’s quests instead of mine.
I have to learn how to actually stick to the lists I create, make progress and then be content with what I achieved and give myself not only credit but breathing time to recharge for the next battle.
Wish me luck to win against myself! 🙂

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Ooookay, so I’ve been caught up in life and also I’ve just been procrastinating on starting this blog I think. I kept planning, writing blogposts in my mind and coming up with different things, series, categories whatnot, but never actually starting it. I had so many “great time to start” moments, connecting it with certain dates, but it never happened. It’s always best to start ‘today’ anyway. 🙂

So here I am.
No more excuses. Getting into the habit of writing things down for real.
To help myself with that I did get back to writing diary posts lately, but that is different. That is for myself only, while this one will be for myself, for my friends, for you, great people out there, who take the time to read it. Thank you for that!

Here is my dilemma for the moment:
I want this to be widely accessible for people,but I also want to keep it personal. I have no idea about how to balance that.
I want this to hold my treasured memories, my experiences, lessons I’ve learnt, inspiring moments.
I want this corner of web to be my experimental space where I get to play around with words, pictures, open myself up a bit, show bits of my life, dare to fumble.

My year’s motto should be “Take the leap” so that is what I aim to do – feel free to keep me acountable for that (within reasonable limits ;D)!

From now on I challenge myself to write at least one blogpost per week.
If anyone is reading already – you are now entitled to kick my butt if I don’t seem to keep that!

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Thank you for stepping by!

This is my cozy corner of the web, an experiment of some sort, an attempt to get myself to consistantly write and record moments of my life visually and with words.

It’s 2017 january as I’m writing this and this year I decided to take the leap and go backpacking for I-don’t-know-how-long. I’ve been dreaming about doing so for years and years now, and the time has come to stop making excuses and jump.

This blog is supposed to be a diary about my travels, the preparation panic prior to setting off, my ups and downs on the go, experiences, everyday things, moments of joy, appreciation of people and places, recommendations, random memories from my life and hopefully it will also be a blog full of sketches as I intend to draw a lot during the trip.

I know that this is fairly broad but we’ll see what happens as I start actually writing it and getting soaked in experiences.

For now I’ll just take the leap and then see where the wind takes me. 🙂