roadmap for personal self improvement patch release v 3.2.0.0

Oof. The bald content creators were not kidding about how once you shave your head it gets cold really easily. As soon as the steam of a hot shower leaves, the air might as well be from a freezer. Anyway, I figure since it's new year I would write up my new year resolutions. There really isn't a better time of the year to properly reflect how life has been and the things I want to do, in my opinion.

Find a matching hat for my coats

I think wearing beanies with coats look goofy (or at least the kind of coats that I have), but those are the only headwear I actually use. Might get myself my first flat cap for that. I'm not bold and brave and free enough to get a fedora/trilby, though. But flat caps would suit better anyway imo.

Continue getting more jacked

Haven't written a tangible goal beyond this vague description. Only that I will be bulking a bit slower than my previous bulk so my gains won't be mostly fat.

Floss every day

Stole this from a youtuber but it's a real one I do need. My dental health got worse according to the last dentist visit, so I have to get that fixed.

Learn croatian more

I am a 32 year old man born in Croatia and my vocabulary is barely on par with a five year-old. Embarassing and shameful. Really need to get this shit fixed.

Continue listening to old music

For about a year and half ago I've been doing this side project where I listen to popular albums released, year by year, since the 50's. I'm currently in 1973 and hope to get to at least the 90's. I noticed that the quantity of albums to listen to has been increasing quite a bit. 1973 is currently the record holder with TWENTY FOUR noteworthy albums and I hope it's just an edge case, since most of the previous years have been around 15 albums pr so.

Draw traditional art at least once per week

As I was in the art tools shop yesterday I realized I missed the excitement of drawing things on paper instead of just digital. It would also be good for my eyes to look at something for a while that is not a screen.

Play the remaining Yakuza games and the games bought during Steam's winter sale

That's right this is going to be The Gamer Year. In total it's going to be 11 games... which now that I have written that number down I realize I might not finish them all this year. But it'll be most of them!! Hopefully!! But after that I think I'll cool it down with video games for a bit.

Participate in Culture

Museums!! Cinema!!! Maybe even concerts!? Something else!?!? I want to explore the world of art beyond the online world and do it in the real world. Think it would be fun.

This might not be the best time to say "Let's be optimistic for a good year" but I don't want to be a downer, and do my best to keep my spirits up! Also being able to do HTML stuff owns I love it

this is me

Heyo! I'm Free(appears)/ Frippy/ Ivan. 

I've been chronically online most of my life for better or worse. I have done a few attempts at blogging but none of them really stuck for variety of reasons. But this one will not fail. Or at least not for those reasons.

This blog is going to be used to document my thoughts and sights about a variety of Things, from mundane stuff, hot takes, sexy takes, major life events and yelling at clouds.

My hobbies are primarly drawing, bodybuilding (not competitive that's cringe), gaming, clothes and enjoying banger online content.

See you later large reptile!

Me brushing a goat

blog entry number one which means blog entry best

Between the end of 2023 and middle of 2025 I would make monthly Instagram post with photos I've taken of that specific month. Around the halfway point I would also write about my reflections of events that happened during that time as well. After a while I got tired of it, since the posts would usually focus on the "Big Things" that happened during that time, which meant I had to spend a lot of time remembering what to write and it just got tedious. And my life was getting rather repetitive in terms of Big Stuff of what I have done. 

I did want to blog about the mundane and small things, but with the way Instagram was structured, the focus there was always on the most eye-catching content, and it was just not all that good of a place to write texts in. It'd feel odd to have a simple photo of a street light covered in stickers and reflect on politics on the same platform people use to share Funny And Helpful Videos. Especially since my audience were just my family members and friends.

An online mutual (lillyashton idk how to tag sorry) has been talking about Blogging On Actual Blog Sites today and it got me interested. Having reflected on my past blogging life on IG, that feeling went to genuine excitement for what I can do with blogging that even regular social media just don't capture fully.

Whether this is something that will actually last or just be a one-off thing is going to Depend but I do know that there are plenty of things in the upcoming future that I do want to blog about once they come.

So with all of this in mind, let me talk about what happened today, January 3rd:

THAT MOTHERFUCKER DID WHAT!?!?

Here I was hoping for a chill (figuratevly but hey I don't mind some light snow) day, but waking up to find out that some dipshit leader bombed a city in a different country just to kidnapp their dipshit leader was not really what I expected. I imagine there's going to be a wild series of events related to this.

To my personal life though: Did the first workout of the year! I always train early in the weekends, mostly to avoid having to deal with people, but it's also nice to have it over with early so the rest of the day is wide open for activities.

It was leg-day. Nothing to note but I did make solid progress on all of the exercises. I fear the inevitable plateu but I'm enjoying this W. 

I weighted at 83.50 kg (~184 lbs) this morning, and my current goal of the year is to slowly bulk upward. I don't set a definitive weight goal because expectations for how someone will look at a specific weight is going to differ in reality, depending on how fast you gain weight. 

Besides that I went out shopping. Got myself a cool dark brown belt from a second hand store and it has the belt holes across the whole belt, instead of just a handful at the tip. Got some very much needed new socks and coloring pencils, primarily for the black sketchbook that I got as a christmas present from a friend.

The big thing that happened though is that for the first time in my life I shaved my head. Had to confirm to the hairdresser at least twice that Yes. I want it at 0 mms. 

The reason being that I've noticed that my hair was thinning out at the top for a good while. I simply wasn't sure how it would look on me, so I saved it for after new years when I don't have any events where I had to look good.

Got a bit annoyed at a response from Threads where some random stranger responded by replying an AI edit of me in a rock stage. Unfortunately, people on Threads (or at least Swedish people on Threads) are far more okay with AI than I would like. It's honestly a bit gross. I told that person off and he seemed to have listened... for my case, anyway. I could see he kept doing that stuff to others but none of them (that I saw) got upset at him for that.

Truly a strange day for a lot of reasons. Thank you to everyone who took their time reading this. Will see you in a upcoming post!