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2026

So, we’re unemployed.

Honestly I started this post a while back and then the unemploy-ening happened so the direction of this shifted – This isn’t going to be one of those pity party posts. It happened, I’m not distraught, and I’m looking at this as an opportunity to really think about life and what I want to do.

But yes, we’re unemployed and I now have an abundance of time on my hands. I guess we can kick things off with our ‘2026 Goals – If I call them resolutions, I won’t do them’.

  • Read 50 books
  • Read more books that are on my physical TBR
  • Diversify my reading genres
  • Complete my Economics Module (with a good grade) and pick up next module
  • Aside from uni module, undertake some self-learning
  • Pay off majority of debt
  • Bake more bread and make more soup
  • Take time to enjoy the everyday

In the wise words of coffee senpai from Persona 5, let me explain.

Reading Goals

  • Read 50 books
  • Read more books that are on my physical TBR
  • Diversify my reading genres

I will cluster these together, but I’ve set myself an overall goal of reading 50 books. When I look at my previous years of tracking, I have not been consistent in the slightest for how many books I’ve read.

For both 2023 and 2024 I overachieved, but in 2025 I didn’t even meet my goal of 50 books. I give myself a light pass because I was working a lot in 2025 and that took a lot of my mental space up. 50 books seems highly achievable this year – as of writing this post on the 14th Feb, Happy Valentine’s Day btw, I have finished 12 books with 3 in progress.

I do however have 2 supplemental reading goals, which is to focus more on reading books I physically own (over KU, Kobo plus or any random library picks) WHILST also diversifying my reading. Genres I have in mind for this is Horror, Non-Fiction and Brandon Sanderson, as these are not ones I tend to lean towards reading if I have a choice. I’m also a big mood reader so there is also that – if the mood isn’t mooding in that direction, then it isn’t happening.

Before anyone corrects me, I am aware Brandon Sando is an author and not a genre, but his books are thick lil numbers and I have always been egregiously intimidated by them.

I should note, I have failed diversifying my reading so far this year. I am a huge romance and fantasy reader, often enough with books having both these in abundance, and all my reads so far are one or the other (or both – looking at you Onyx Storm that I FINALLY finished after picking it up on release last year).

Studying

  • Complete my Economics Module (with a good grade) and pick up next module
  • Aside from uni module, undertake some self-learning

As you can guess, I am finally continuing my degree and on the agenda is an Economics Module. I am not confident. I feel like my brain is losing its wrinkles and ridges because taking in information is honestly so fucking difficult. My attention span is non-existent to the point I’m having to drown myself with pomodoro timers, focus apps and brown noise in order to get through 2 pages of reading. I’m hoping to get a good grade to get the momentum going so everyone send me your good juju.

I know it’s probably not going to be that bad, but if we can drape our lives in existential dread, who will?

I also want to spend time outside of studying my degree completing a personal curriculum. Not sure on what yet, but I have a few topic ideas that I think would be fun to research and also a nice brain break.

Life

  • Pay off majority of debt
  • Bake more bread and make more soup
  • Take time to enjoy the everyday

Throwing it out there first, ‘Pay off majority of debt’ will probably be hard considering I currently have no income, but we’re still keeping this in the forefront of our minds.

Onto more interesting goals, ‘Bake more bread and make more soup’ and ‘Take time to enjoy the everyday’. They are not word for word follow it kind of goals but I wan’t to put more of my spare time away from doomscrolling into activities like baking, making soup from scratch, or going on walks. I also want to learn how to pickle things – I swear to you, the art and process of pickling things is so fascinating and you can pretty much pickle most things. But, I have only ever done this somewhat successfully once, so who knows, maybe it’ll be my calling in life.

Not really sure what to add now as this post is too long, so ttyl. Maybe I will finally post those book reviews I have written 😀

Love, Eliza

Well hello

It feels oddly surreal writing on this blog after so long.

A lot has changed in the almost 6 years it’s been since I committed to a published post here. We’re ever closer to the daunting age of 30 and I still feel like im drowning on dry land half the time.

I feel oddly motivated to have this blog back and to really put in the effort of documenting my thoughts and feelings – I know, shock fucking horror, she’s back again.

Over the last few months I’ve tried to take more of a break from being perpetually online. I stopped streaming and spending hours on twitch, I avoided mindlessly hanging in discord without purpose, and I’ve stopped staring at my phone like its the closest thing to a lifeline I have.

I found myself in a mental rutt. I started noticing patterns in how I felt I was using my time doing things that just took from what little reserves I had and not feeling proud or content at the days end.

I was also feeling a lot of resentment to how my worth as a person was almost dictated solely on transactional means.

In short, I was tired.

But alas, let us not spend this entire time complaining.

As I said, a lot has changed. I changed jobs. I got myself a pretty cool boyfriend. I started streaming, and then I stopped a few times in between. I made friends and I lost friends. I started and proceeded to watch the entirety of Greys Anatomy 5 times. I watched Arcane, picked up playing Valorant and TFT, AND lined Riots pocket because I have no backbone for not buying in-game cosmetics.

But saying that, a lot has stayed the same. I still start hobbies, hyperfixate on them for a time, then refuse to touch them for an undetermined amount of time. I still have debt, albeit less of it. I still stand by buying books, finding new books to add to my TBR, and reading books are 3 separate hobbies (all of which im very good at).

In order to acc get this post over the line and get it published (I’ve been writing this for the last 4 months on and off), I’ll wrap this up now.

I will be posting older book reviews I’ve written after jazzing them up a bit. I will TRY, hard hard emphasises on the try, to add posts here more often.

I will also hopefully be adding a post on a reading challenge I picked up recently and things I’ve read so far in the year – what are the faves, what are the ones we had higher hopes for, and what books are we super excited for.

TTYL

Love, Eliza x

P.S. have a picture of some type of flower