{umi}dunite.

🏠︎ MINIBLOG GUESTBOOK

Every start of year I list tons of goals and, surprisingly, I hardly reach any of them. Mostly because I overdo myself trying to change from night to day, but then I get mental paralysis and taking any action is just too burdensome — welcome to my brain. This year (2026)... will not be different! I will just keep making goals. I will keep trying to achieve something, change, little by little... But I am being more gentle with myself, not achieving but trying is just as valid as conquering it. That's what life is about.


This year onwards, I want, and NEED, to reduce my time on social media/mobile screentime. Why specifically mobile? Well, I do rely on screens for some hobbies (games, webtoons), work (freelance translator), and projects (see below!); which are all extremely different from doomscrolling. My screentime is pretty high while important things gets potsponed, I feel really unmotivated to start my day, and my hand is always glued to my phone.
It is a challenge when my mushy brain is always craving for rapid-short-content nham nham, so as well as a child, I need parent-control! I've configured my cellphone to limit social media to 4h a day — for start — since I also create content and need an extra time sometimes managing the accounts, but the idea is to reduce gradually. My sleep is pretty precarious too, so it will block all apps but communication and banks from 11PM to 9AM.


limiting social media access 4h/day (reducing it gradually)
blocking internet access from 11PM-9AM to improve sleep
switching doomscrolling on social media to other activities (reading)


I've dragged it for so long! I just don't have the discipline to learn alone, but also I'm not in the moment where I can pay for classes, but I don't want to strech it even more. So I will make an effort to do some progress this year!
I do have a general basic understanding of grammar, I can read katakana/hiragana pretty slowly, and have a basic and poor anime vocabulary, so I'm not starting from zero.


revising hiragana/katakana
studying weekly by any manner
consuming more media for immersion learning


I'm kind of a content creator (my 26k subscriber YouTube channel can speak by itself hehe), but I've long abandoned it. In the last year, I did try to take this road back, but I keep failing with consistency... Though I really like editing videos, so I really want to give it a try, keep it consistent. And as a kinda recently turned freelancer, it would be amazing to have it monetized, right? haha So it is one of my goals now.


keeping consistency
do not be afraid of posting videos!

No, I never learn. I keep stacking project after project and freeze being unable to take action, but I can't ignore the willing spirit to keep trying, right?
I'm reeducating myself to finish projects — because, oh, there was a time I actually managed to do it! — and having it written somewhere to remind myself that I do have things to accomplish might help my mind. After all, this website also became a project I am actually being able to turn reality!


Since I was young, I was wanted to have my own story for everyone to read. I've started manga inspired zines so many times, with so many different stories, and as my brain was always pretty loud and I got overstimulated by all the tasks, it never keep on going. But something switched in me last year and I got this huge urge of actually doing it — specially because I have a story ready, start to finish, which is pretty short so it seemed more doable as a first webtoon.
I hope that by the end of this year I will have it ready to be posted, and I might share the progress in the blog!


working consistenly! at least 1 page per week, 1 chapter finished per 2 months
decide in which language it will be posted...
making an website for the webtoon later