2025
Things I have done or am doing this year.
home improvement projects
- major decluttering / re-organizing
- 3 new pieces of furniture
- 1 vintage piece for office
- 1 vintage piece for main bedroom
- 1 custom new piece (Etsy) for living room
- getting rid of plastic
- coffee maker, coffee grinder, kitchen utensils and bowls, toothbrush heads, throw blankets, linens
- 3 new pieces of furniture
- owner bathroom remodel
- traded old 2011 Nissan Altima (first car) for parents' Mercedes 2018 E300
scuba diving
- PADI ReActivate course (May 2025)
- PADI Advanced Open Water certification (June 2025)
- PADI Invasive Lionfish certification (June 2025)
- 4 days of diving in Belize (June 2025)
books
- この嘘がばれないうちに (Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe) by Kawaguchi Toshikazu
- まけずぎらいキティ by サク・のぼみ
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Edwin Catmull and Amy Wallace
manga / comics
- Blood on the Tracks, vol. 17
- Gundam: The Origin vols. 7-9
- X-Gender, vol. 1
movies
- 新幹線大爆破 (Bullet Train Explosion) (2025)
- スオミの話をしよう (All About Suomi)
- 逃走中 THE MOVIE:TOKYO MISSION (Run for the Money: Tokyo Mission)
- ラストマイル (Last Mile)
- Conclave
- Heretic
- Kings of Egypt
- My Octopus Teacher
- Once Upon a Crime
TV series
- 極悪女王 (Queen of Villains)
- 薬屋のひとりごと (The Apothecary Diaries)
- ライオンの隠れ家 (Light of my Lion), season 1
- のだめカンタビレ(Nodame Cantabile) (Live Action), season 1
- 葬送のフリーレン (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End), season 1
- 私の家政夫のナギさんさん (My Housekeeper Nagisa-san), season 1 + movie
- 8 Show, The, season 1
- Adolescence, season 1
- Black Mirror, season 7 (in progress)
- Boyfriend, The, season 1
- Devil's Plan, The, season 2
- Marry My Husband, season 1
- Mole, The, seasons 6-7
- Ranma 1/2 (revamped), season 1
- Squid Game, season 2
- White Lotus, The, season 3
video games
- ファンタシーライフ:グルグルの竜と時をぬすむ少女 (Fantasy Life: The Girl Who Steals Time)
- 428: Shibuya Scramble
- 1000xResist
- CRISIS CORE -FINAL FANTASY VII-REUNION
- Life is Strange 2
- The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
- Star Wars: Jedi Survivor