2014 Resolutions

There are a little over 3 hours left until 2013 is over in my area right now, and I’ve decided on a New Years resolution for the next year! My resolution is:

• Daytime is for work
• Nighttime is for leisure

2013 has probably been my most unproductive year, and I realized that one of the biggest reasons for this was in me wasting the day away. There were many times where I decided to take a quick break from work during the day to play a game or read something. Normally not a big deal, but 9 times out of 10 that break would consume the entire day and make me too tired to do anything productive once dinnertime rolled around. So I resolve to stop procrastinating and get the productive stuff done during the day when I still have energy.

Moving over

So I haven’t updated this blog in a little over a year now and I’ve finally decided to stop procrastinating and start writing again. I’m not entirely sure as to why I stopped writing, as I wasn’t super busy or anything, but I think one of the reasons was just how annoying it was to write using Blogspot’s UI. I remember back then when I was choosing what platform to use, Blogspot won because they were the only service that supported iframes, which I needed to embed Nico videos. And in the end, I only used that feature sparingly! So I’ll be on WordPress now.

I spent a good deal of time today fixing up things and choosing a theme for WordPress. Unfortunately, featured images seem to be broken and I have no idea how to fix it, but it does seem to be a theme specific problem. I also don’t remember there being so many limitations to customizing the theme appearance: not only do some themes have to be bought, but there’s even an upgrade fee to customize pre-existing themes! Was it always like this?

A lot of things have happened since the last time I’ve written, so I’ll save them for future posts. The main thing I’d like to say is that I intend to write more often! Back in 2010 when I started writing on Blogspot, I would just be ashamed at my writing style when looking over old entries that I wrote on Livejournal a few years back. Fast forward to now at the tail end of 2013, and I feel dumb reading over my old blog posts from 2010! I hope to make writing a regular part of my life now so that I can get to a level where I don’t get embarrassed reading over my work.