It's 2022 and I'm still blogging

Alright, so I get the title might be a bit confusing because this is my first entry here, so allow me to explain:

My preferred method of blogging up until now has been on Tumblr, but that's got ten years of my fannish behavior attached to it, so I just need to be normal on this one site, PLEASE.  Like...Abby the person, not Abby the obsessive.

Anyway.

I'm here because I need to word vomit at times, and there's no better audience than strangers, apparently.  This was just the best platform it.  If I had been born ten years earlier, I would have been doing this on LiveJournal, I guess, and I guess I technically still could, but I don't know who the hell is even reading over there anymore.  Besides, there's no Fandom Wank, no Harry Potter drama...none of it.  So what's the fun?

(Special Interest #1: Internet and fandom history.  Let's circle back to this sometime, shall we?)

Anyhoo, I've had this blog since September, but I'm only just now getting around to it.  I finally got bored enough.  Multiple times today I've said out loud, "I just don't know what to do with myself," and I unfortunately have landed on blogging about my boredom.  Lucky you.

But it's not always so boring.  I mean, I worked on some embroidery and read a few chapters of my latest book (Confessions of a Radical Hag (With Recipes) - review to come?).  But then I just hit a wall.  It happens.  And they say your 20s are the best years of your life.

OK, I don't mean to be such a downer.  I'm just being a jackass.  There's a lot I'm looking forward to right now, little projects.  I'm going to pick up this little greenhouse I saw and put all these potted plants my friend sent me in it.  I've been getting more into gardening on a small scale this past year, and I'm going to pick up some paints and paint the pots and plant the little plants and put them in the little greenhouse, and it's going to be great and cute and all that good shit.  

I've also found all these free online courses that the Ivies have uploaded for people to take whenever, so I went through the other day and picked out all the ones I thought looked interesting (there's a lot of them) and organized them by topic in a PowerPoint with the links so I can come back to them and do them bit by bit.  The first two I've got lined up are The Piano (just...the piano.  Like how it's built and how it works and how it's influenced music, which would sound pretty awful I bet to anyone who doesn't play, but luckily, I do) and Civil Liberties.  A little trial session of these online courses, if you will.  We'll see how they go.  

Funny thing is, I just graduated undergrad, so I should want to be far away from any classroom, virtual or not.  But I guess I'm just not ever going to be ready to stop learning.