13 Dec 2025

Weeknotes 35

How I’m spending my time these days

and other things I’m thinking about

  • I’ve been excitedly using my 2026 planner (a Hobonichi Weeks, which technically starts in December 2025). My desire to use a physical planner ebbs and flows throughout the year. I’m currently really into it, on account of the whole shiny new planner thing. Surely this is the year I will fix myself.
  • Related to analogue notetaking: I started a commonplace book, which I’ve been curious about trying for many years now. It just felt—inefficient, to do it on paper instead of in a tool like Obsidian or Notion or whatever. But I’ve never been able to maintain any kind of useful knowledge management system even with such tools, so I should try something else.
  • Home organizing/decluttering is ever-ongoing. I’m not very good at housekeeping, but I’d like to adopt a cat in the near future and thus have tangible motivation to get my house in order.
  • I’ve been watching a lot of home vlogs lately, which makes me want to lifestyle vlog (/blog) as well, like if I too emulate this beautiful kind of life, then I too will be beautiful and happy and fulfilled. I think a little bit of this aspiration is good for me (due to my aforementioned Being Bad At Housekeeping), but the consumerist nature of it can be offputting and overwhelming.
  • I’m counting down the days til the holidays—I don’t celebrate anything, so this time of year is mostly just a reprieve from the work schedule for me, which is exciting. I’m trying not to daydream too much about it, because I know I’ll inevitably spend a lot of time lazing about instead of Being Productive. Rest is good, but I also want to get stuff done.
  • Playing games sometimes—cautiously venturing back into the new Destiny 2 expansion (quite fun), and some more Hades II here and there (trying to romance Icarus…)

Creative projects I’m working on

  • The year’s media recap, which is probably the big grand thing I’ll be working on for the rest of this month. So far it’s in the vapourware stage of barely existing in my head, but I’m looking forward to spending a lot of time and focus on it over the holidays.
  • Drawing, sometimes. I started a new sketchbook!
  • Adding stickers and washi tape to my planner is fun.
  • Adding to my December Adventure log, where I’m documenting whatever creative bits I accomplish every day. Sometimes that involves not doing anything. I’m enjoying the lowkey nature.

It’s nice to return to this format after a while. I don’t feel the need to adhere to my previous structure. I sat down and wrote this in less than an hour, which is very freeing.