I’ve been really busy lately. This week I started a new job, after a couple of weeks of temping in various places. The Pure Idol Heart indie idol tournament is underway,  and Gaki and I have been hard at work  doing that. Idolminded’s end of the year coverage has gotten underway, and I want to contribute quality stuff to that. I’m trying to figure out presents for online gift exchanges as well as gifts for my family. And in addition to all of that I’m keeping up my Happy Disco posts (starting to think about end of the year stuff there!) and I’m trying to figure out how to fit Happy Media (my other website) and writing fiction in there.

Yeah.

I’ve had a bad tendency in the past to just drop blogging when the going gets tough in my personal life. Which I don’t think is unreasonable. I was busy with college-y things, so that took precedent over Happy Disco. However, a big part of why I put Happy Disco on a schedule was to avoid this sort of thing. I don’t want to have to make a post every once in a while going ‘lol oops, I’ll do better later;’ I want to do better now. But I’m at that point where I have to start figuring things out.

This isn’t an announcement post; I’m not quitting Happy Disco, Idolminded or Pure Idol Heart. Hell, I don’t want to quit any of them. I wish I could post more to Idolminded and PIH because I think they’re both excellent sites I’m proud to be a part of. I also have no intention of 100% abandoning Happy Media or my other writing. Writing about idols is honestly one of my favorite things; on the way back from work today all I could think about was planning Happy Disco posts.  This is the type of thing (blogging) I’d love to do professionally, but it’s just something I need to figure out and make sense of.

Still, I think things will even out a bit after the holidays. And then, I should be able to kick off Happy Media and my sort of novel that I’m working on. It’s just hard to fit everything in one schedule. Which is why, as much of a bummer as it is, it’s easy to see why so many idol  bloggers go MIA for a while or aren’t very regular about blogging. Getting caught up in life happens to everyone, and I know that I’ve hardly been a paragon of keeping up with my blog.

So yeah. If things seem a bit short or cut up into bits, I’m just trying to work out the kinks of this full-time job thing  plus all the hours I put into blogging/writing. This is why my Suzukake Nanchara single review is cut up into three parts; because I just don’t have time/energy to write those long reviews with a full-time job. Honestly, I think that has the potential to be a good thing. I got kind of burnt out writing that NMB48 stage review because it was SO long. Also,  I have a tendency to get long-winded,  which isn’t always the best writing. If this allows me to be concise but still get my opinions  across, I think I’ll be a better writer.

So yeah. Self-improvement. Is there anything you’d like to see me do with Happy Disco? Anything you see me do that you think I could 100% do away with or rework? Let me know!