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Been meaning to update this for awhile, and started to on Wednesday morning, but that day turned really bad really fast. Working on righting the ship now which is good, and it'll take time and hard work, but hopefully we're moving in the right direction now.

I was meaning to gripe about a whole bunch of things but I'm trying to be more positive now in general so I'm giving up on what I'd started to post here. Mainly it was complaining about shows I hadn't watched yet but should have, things I haven't read, games I haven't played, etc. Instead of just ranting about it, though, I'm going to do something about it.

I sort of have, in relation to reading more (though I need to stop buying more books!), since I'm at least reading regularly again - right now Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (I know, I know), a biography on Houdini, and this neat novel called Shadow of the Wind are what I'm working on - and with respect to video games I've been really playing the crap out of and enjoying Final Fantasy XIII. I bought the game, like, pretty much as soon as it came out back in 2010 or so, haha, complete with the strategy guide, and I'm glad I finally got into it. FFXIII-2 came out in January and I managed to snag a collector's edition of that for just $19.99 the other day, because I'm burning through this game and want to have more ready for after it's done. :) I really like the characters and am overly fond of the battle system; each new FF game comes with something different to master and sometimes it's hit or miss but I really like this system. So that's been taking up the majority of my free time lately, working through the game. I think I'm just about finished with Chapter 7 of 13 total chapters, though there's a lot to do after the main storyline is finished I think. We'll see if I stick around for that or just jump to XIII-2 I suppose, but either way, loving it so far.

I'm also trying to keep up with my writing. So far I'm lagging behind on the Get Your Words Out challenge - I signed up for the 150k level and should be at 75k after June, but I'm only around 53k total or so. NaNo will boost that in November I suspect, but I want to be writing more before that. I've got a neat little idea I'm cultivating and I just need to start actually writing things out. There's some plotting that I can't quite work out in my head but I think if I just start typing it'll come out organically, hopefully. XD I have part one of it written, and I'm debating whether to post it to my AO3 account or not. I keep meaning to post more things there, and it's been awhile since the last thing I posted there - a little Firefly ficlet I wrote for an exchange. We'll see I guess.

I hope everyone has a great weekend! :)