We Love Fairy Tales Week - Tag

Rachel at Hamlette's Soliloquy is hosting a We Love Fairy Tales Week (February 9-14). Feel free to join in and answer these tag questions.

1. What's your favorite fairy tale?
In the past I would say Beauty and the Beast but now I prefer East of the Sun and West of the Moon which thought to be the inspiration for Beauty and the Beast but instead of a beast, it's a bear which I guess is like a beast.

This book (above) version has a frog instead of a bear but it's a children's book.

East of the Sun and West of the Moon is about a man (perhaps a prince) cursed to be a bear until a girl (maiden) lives with him for a year while he's in his bear form but he cannot tell her he's cursed or let her see him in his human form. Somehow, he begins to share her bed but he comes into her room in total darkness so she never sees him as a human. Later, being curious about who her bedfellow is, she somehow gets a candle to light the her room and finally sees him in his human form which ended with him being taken to the troll palace (which is located east of the sun and west of the moon) to marry the troll princess. The girl travels to the troll palace with the help of various wind beings and sort of recuses him with some trickeries and somehow breaks the curse and they live happily ever after. (I have no idea if the original story is like this but this is the version I like.)

2. If you could cast any actors and actresses ever in a movie version of that fairy tale, who would you pick?
I don't know who to pick but definitely actors/actresses who are not well known because I prefer the characters to stand out and not the actors. But then again, I probably prefer an animated version so the faces are not anybody in particular.

3. Do you have a favorite fairy tale movie?

Disney's Tangled (which is a Rapunzel retelling) which is a musical which I don't like all that much but for this movie, I didn't mind it. Also, I'm sure if I have more time to think it over, I would come up with some other title but I guess it would still be a Disney movie as I maybe watched a bit too many Disney movies growing up.

4. Do you have a favorite book that retells a fairy tale?
I have made a list of favorite fairytale retelling books here.

5. If you got to be in a stage or film production of a classic fairy tale, what fairy tale would you want to be in, and who would you like to play?
I can't pick a tale but I would play someone wicked, one of the villains maybe, not a good guy because I think playing the bad guy is more fun but definitely someone with magic/powers.

6. Do you like fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen or the Grimm Brothers best? Or someone else's?
I like both Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm Brothers - combined, they give you a more complete types of tales but I'm sure there are other fairytale storytellers that I don't know about out there.

7. What more obscure fairy tale do you think more people should know about?
The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye? I don't know if it's considered a fairytale but it reads like one. I don't think it's obscure but I don't hear about it much.

Feel feel to answer the tag questions. Check out We Love Fairy Tales Week at Hamlette's Soliloquy > 

Words for Wednesday Prompts - Feb 11, 2026

This February, I am the host for Words for Wednesday. Words for Wednesday is started by Delores and continued by Elephant's Child who sadly passed away. River at Drifting through life is our new coordinator but the prompts are provided and hosted by various people and hosted on various blogs. The aim of Words for Wednesday is to encourage us to write using some or all of the prompts.

This week's prompts are: 
1. heartbreak
2. cheeseburger
3. postcard
4. afterlife
5. beachcomb

Charlotte's color for February is Electric Rose (#f00699) which you can see it better here.

You may write your piece in the comments or post it on your blog. If posting on your blog, please leave a direct link to the post so we can all visit you. Have fun writing!

Some of My Favorite Fairytale Retellings

Rachel at Hamlette's Soliloquy is hosting a We Love Fairy Tales Week (February 9-14) and I thought I list my favorite fairytale retellings (not in any particular order) with a few honorable mentions. For more about We Love Fairy Tales Week, go here.

01 - Kiss of the Spindle by Nancy Campbell Allen
Retelling of: Sleeping Beauty
With: steampunk fashion & technology (such as airships, an android that is sort of amusing, shifters, a surprise creature (which I will not name because it's a spoiler)
I really like the ending with a surprise (to me anyway) creature. (This is part of a four-book series but it can be read as a standalone.)

Fiction: The psychic at the park

Will's friend said he would find Miss Rose at the local park just west from the entrance and beside the duck pond. Within moments he spotted the old woman sitting alone on the bench beside the pond. Her short, gray hair was covered with a white winter cap with her electric-rose colored coat standing out among the gray winter landscape. 
    With his hands in his coat pocket, he walked toward her. "Hello Miss Rose," he said, trying to keep his voice low as not to disturb the quietude of the park.
    "Hello Mr. Will," she said, her eyes on the pond. "Sit, please." She patted the space on the bench on her left. On her lap was a small, black leather book
    Will sat down and looked toward the pond. The frozen surface was covered with fallen debris and one of them appeared to be a small, stuffed bear.
    "How did you..." Will's friend said not to be surprised by her knowledge of things she shouldn't have known.
    "Let's begin. If I say marrying Shelia will make you the happiest man on earth, you would marry her but if I say marrying Shelia will make you miserable as hell, you will reject her. So, how should I answer?"
    Will was, again, surprised by her. He swallowed and said, "Truthfully. I need an honest, real answer. Should I marry Shelia?"
    "Then I have to say, Shelia will make you happy but not the happiest on earth and she will make you miserable but not enough for you to regret marrying her."
    He waited. Shouldn't there be more? "That's it?"
    "What? Oh, you want some detailed foresights? Do you want me to tell you will get a black eye the moment you said your vows? Or that you will spend most of your money on car washes? Or that Shelia will hate mud baths but take them anyway? And that on your forty-fifth birthday, you will choke on jelly beans? Or that when your daughter is four, she would duct tape you in your basement and forget you but you would sleep through the days because of the cold medicine you have taken and your wife will call the cops and you will become a missing person for a week before they thought to search the house? Is that the kind of details you want to hear?" She turned to face him. There were a few faint lines on her smooth skin. If she was supposed to be in her early sixties, Will couldn't believe it.
    "I don't know. But those details would be nice to know. Does my future daughter really leave me in the basement and forget me? Do I die on my forty-fifth birthday?"
    Miss Rose chuckled. "I could not say. I made them up. The future comes when it comes, you don't control it. You can only make your decisions and handle the consequences later. But do avoid jelly beans and whatever you do, don't give gift certificates for mud baths as anniversary gifts." She grinned.
    Will couldn't help but smiled. He came to her knowing whatever she would say, he would still marry Shelia because he believed his life was with her. But he hadn't been certain until she spoke. 
    "Mr. Will, I do not know why you came to me when you already know the answer. Now, if you are done here, would you mind leaving? I like to have these early mornings to myself. If you please." She turned back to facing the pond.    
    He nodded. "Thank you, Miss Rose. I hope you have a good morning." He got up and walked away but after awhile, he paused to look back but she wasn't there. He looked around the park but couldn't see her bright colored coat and there was no one around. She must walked really fast, he thought. He shook his head and went on his way and reminded himself to avoid jelly beans.

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This month's Words for Wednesday prompts are provided by me. The prompts are posted here. This week's prompts are: black eye, car wash, mud bath, jelly bean, duct tape. And Charlotte's color for February is Electric Rose.

60 Reasons why I'm a bad blogger & 500th Post

I was not going to do a post about reaching 500 posts on this blog but then decided I should make a note because it really is a new accomplishment. You may not know but I moved to new blogs a lot so most of my blogs reached over 100 posts but rarely near 500. At least, not that I can remember. It's not that I abandoned blogs but more like I move to a new place like you would a home to find the best one. And the best one right now is this blog. 
      In a previous post I said, Blogging is not my life but it's part of my life. And it's still true now. Without blogging, I would probably procrastinate more, have more listless days and basically put off almost everything. Having a blog is something to keep my mind active enough to do other things. If that makes any sense. So I'll keep on blogging away.

I'm serious about blogging...

To celebrate this little occasion, here's a list - 60 reasons why I'm a bad blogger.  I don't think I'm a bad blogger but sometimes I am a bit too lazy to blog.  I don't think I'm a bad blogger but sometimes I am a bit too lazy to blog. This list is edited from a previous list (that had 59 reasons) which also came from a previous list and that list is also from a previous list so I did some alterations to sort of freshen it up. (Also, because I'm lazy, I'm using the same art - mouseover to see a changed expression.)

60 Reasons why I'm a bad blogger:
01 - Late at commenting
02 - Late at replying to comments on my blog
03 - Have a vivid avoidance to social media
04 - Refuse to use hashtags in my post titles
05 - Refuse to use hashtags in my post labels
06 - Spend too much time worrying why people don't visit my blog and doing nothing about it
07 - Write posts that may be way too long
08 - Change my blog's header often 
09 - Sometimes move to new urls for no reason
10 - Have short attention span
11 - Keep saying a blog is a form of social media so that I don't have to do social media
12 - Do not blog on Mondays. And Sundays. And sometimes not even Tuesdays or Fridays. Or even the coveted Wednesday.
13 - Sometimes avoid blogs that are a bit too challenging for the eyes (light color text on black or dark background is still very daunting)
14 - Refuse to blog after 8 p.m.
15 - Waste a lot of time trying to perfect the look of my blog but ends up putting it back exactly as before
16 - Do not have an email subscription service for my blog
17 - Sometimes refuse to accept that bloggers can also do social media
18 - Do not have any type of blogging schedule
19 - While blogging, wonder too often why I'm not doing something else
20 - Awkwardly but not too often, tell people there's something wrong with their blog
21 - While reading blogs, sometimes skim long posts if there are no indents or line breaks
22 - Do not often get along with bloggers who leave one comment and never come back again
23 - Join a lot of memes/challenges/blog events so I don't have to think up things to post
24 - Refuse to have a sidebar
25 - Sometimes have no understanding of time
26 - Post erratically or not at all
27 - Post a lot list posts
28 - Do not have a blog niche or any sense what my blog is about
29 - Take too long to update anything on my blog
30 - Waste time stalking old blogs that are not being updated
31 - Do not leave comments for blogs using disqus
32 - Do not leave comments for Wordpress blogs that requires signing only into Wordpress/Twitter/Facebook
33 - Do not have a Wordpress account
34 - Edit/correct/change posts long after they are posted, sometimes even years after
35 - Do a lot of over thinking before hitting the Publish button
36 - Do not know how to spell procrastinate but practice it all the time when blogging
37 - Often feel bad about not commenting enough but does nothing about it
38 - Does not read blogs through feeds or readers or email subscriptions
39 - Recycle posts ideas
40 - Spend too much time worrying about what I have said in my comments on other people's blogs
41 - Post a lot of rants and ramblings that may or may not be too negative
42 - Have short thinking span
43 - Post things nobody cares about or have any interest in
44 - Is often a bit too honest and then regret what I post or comment
45 - Make a lot of last moment decisions when it comes to what to post
46 - Ask a lot of dumb questions when commenting
47 - Only blog when I'm in the mood
48 - Really don't like to leave a comment just to leave a comment
49 - Very bad at checking for replies on blogs I leave comments on even when I ask a question that I'm interested in getting an answer
50 - Write a lot of post drafts but don't post about 99% of them
51 - Have a habit of reverting posts to drafts
52 - Takes a lot of unannounced blog vacations (where I just don't post)
53 - Do a lot of regretting for some posts that I had posted
54 - Repeat myself a lot but often doesn't realize it until later
55 - Always making excuses not to blog
56 - Mostly don't care to be up to date on anything related to blogging
57 - Do a lot of drive-by-hopping where I read blogs and don't leave comments
58 - Sometimes forget I have a blog
59 - Still don't know why I'm still blogging
60 - Still don't know if copying a previous post from a previous post which came from a previous post is considered a bad way to blog

Do you have any reason to believe you're a bad blogger?

Words for Wednesday Prompts - Feb 4, 2026

This February, I am the host for Words for Wednesday. Words for Wednesday is started by Delores and continued by Elephant's Child who sadly passed away. River at Drifting through life is our new coordinator but the prompts are provided and hosted by various people and hosted on various blogs. The aim of Words for Wednesday is to encourage us to write using some or all of the prompts.

This week's prompts are: 
1. black eye
2. car wash
3. mud bath
4. jelly bean
5. duct tape

Charlotte's color for February is Electric Rose (#f00699) which you can see it better here.

You may write your piece in the comments or post it on your blog. If posting on your blog, please leave a direct link to the post so we can all visit you. Have fun writing!

Book Rants - Jan 2026

It has been a long-short month where the days just sweep by like there's only a few hours per day. I did some reading, some jigsaw puzzles, basically procrastinating until I have to do mandatory stuff like work and chores. Same old things but I'm lucky to be able to say nothing extremely bad happened and though I wish time would go slower, at least I'm still around to complain. Here are the books I read this month.

01 - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
What's it about: silver, gold, moneylenders, Jews, poor people, winter, bits of magic, kings, demons, slightly lunatic husbands
There are three main female characters (Miryem, Wanda, Irina) we are following so it's like we are reading three different stories at once though they are interconnected. I don't like these other perspectives from minor characters that could be told through one of the three though there is a bit that is probably necessary for one of the minor character's view but it wasn't as if they couldn't fit it into with the three. Plus why no winter king's perspective when his character is essential to the plot? I like that the king adheres to a strict trading rule - you do something for him and he do something for you in return - he doesn't do anything without a reason.
    There is no romance which I'm all for but the ending sort of ends like a romance which is fine. But these women (two of them anyway) were forced to marry these jackasses and [SPOILER AHEAD > they ended up with them so it kind of seem like a dumb conclusion but at the least the men changed in a way < END SPOILER] but we don't know that for sure since the ending isn't too detailed.
    Still, I enjoyed this book even if I sort of dislike how it ended but the ending still would have benefit from more details. 

Fiction: The Cupcake Tragedy

This month's Words for Wednesday prompts are provided by Sean Jeating and posted at River's blog over here. This week's prompts are: long, monk, novice, spiritual, time and/or ants, boy, compassion, stream, trapped.

Fiction: The Cupcake Tragedy
Penny Picnickle's mission was to bake 500 cupcakes in different varieties of flavor and design for a place in the Women's Culinarian Society (WCS) to please her would-be mother-in-law. Not long ago, Penny would have dismissed doing such dumb things to please another but this could change her life. She had to go through three baking competitions to become one of eight lucky candidates.
    It took Penny a lot of sleepless pacing, a bit of meditation and a whole lot of tea to make the cupcakes in five days. Thankfully, her cousin Nicky had all the supplies she needed. Sometimes Penny thought he must be a spiritual monk. He never broke into a temper nor had a flicker of ire toward anyone or anything. It was as if he had all the compassion and patience in the world. In the last two days, his calmness kept Penny from freaking out. He also got her the ten trucks to move the cupcakes to the Kinsfolk Hall's massive kitchen.

Seven Things: Little Rants

01 - "I adore complaining. It calms the nerves." — I came across this quote I wrote down from the book Chime by Franny Billingsley and I thought this makes perfect sense. I had done a lot of complaining on this blog and all my previous blogs and I think it's therapeutic. It may not do anything but I think it's better to let out your complaints than to keep them in. I'm not someone who does a lot of talking so writing is my talking out loud. 

02 - Rachel at Hamlette's Soliloquy is hosting a We Love Fairy Tales Week (February 9-14) — I love fairytales (I prefer the spelling without the space) and used to read any fairytale-like stories/books but these days, I don't read much of those but I'm still adore them. I'm going to post about some of my favorite fairytale retellings which mostly likely featuring some of favorite Beauty and the Beast retellings since that is my favorite fairytale although East of the Sun and West of the Moon is also a favorite and was the inspiration for Beauty and the Beast but with a bear. More about We Love Fairy Tales Week here.
    
03 - I seem to be reading a lot of books where the bad guy/villain/serial killer gets more page time than the main characters and I really hated that — I don't want to know how these people became these asshats, I don't want to sympathize with them, I don't want to know how they kill people. If I want to read such books, there are books solely with these bad guys as main characters. For books that centers on good guys, I would prefer more page time for the good guys. I suppose the question is why do we need to understand the bad guy when the reasons they did those awful things are sometimes just inhumane so I just prefer not to know more than necessary.

04 - Do people think about the noises around them? — It's the level of the noise that we probably don't consider. I didn't until recently with a new vacuum cleaner - why are vacuum cleaners so loud? Sure you hear something earsplitting once in a while which is fine but constant louder than loud noise is probably not good for your ears. The subway trains (where I am anyway) for an example, is really loud and sometimes there are these awful shrieking when a train must hit some metal parts or something while you're inside the train. And hair dryers - those can be loud - I've reduced to using the lowest setting but it's still loud. I've looked for low or no noise ones but they don't exist. So if anyone know of any good noise cancelling headphones, let me know.

05 - Whenever I commented on a Wordpress blog, there is a popup box asking me to subscribe but it wasn't like that before — I have turned on block pop-ups and third-party redirects in Firefox but it doesn't effect these wordpress blogs. It's not a horrible thing but when it does it every time I try to leave a comment, it does get a bit annoying. If I wanted to subscribe to a blog, I would have done so - I don't need constant reminders from the same blogs. 

06 - Music I've been listening to lately — I don't listen to new music often but when I do, they are usually released years ago so they are new to me music. I listen to a lot of Cantonese music  (specifically pop music that may have touches of rock, jazz, dance and others plus some lyrics in English) even though I don't understand the language, I just simply gravitate toward them. Here are the albums I have added to my playlist recently:

EMO (released in 2024) & Lifeline EP (released in 2021) by Jay Fung - Listen at youtube here >

Galaxy Within (released in 2023) & Bloom (released in 2025) by Pandora - Listen at youtube here >

Myself (我本人) (released in 2011), Across (released in 2014) & State of Mind (released in 2013) by Kary Ng - Listen at youtube here >

07 - Blogging from A-Z Challenge April 2026 — I know it's a bit early but I like to make a note of this challenge to remind myself. If you don't know, the A-Z Challenge is when you post every day (except Sundays) for the month of April using the alphabets as a sort of guide (this means exactly 26 posts). For example, day 1, you would post something that starts with the letter A like apples or apes who dance and then day 2 would be letter B for butter or beastly jokes - anything you can think of and you can even do themes.
    For me, I mostly post random stuff with some short fiction. I usually call this challenge '26 days of mild entertainment' since most of my posts aren't exciting things but they can sort of entertain. It's a good challenge for any bloggers who wants to add some stress to their blogging routine for a month or simply to have fun posting random things that may or may not have a theme. I enjoyed the challenge and I always finished it every year and I always seemed to vow not to do it again but fickle me always going see-saw about it but I'll probably do it. For more about the A-Z Challenge, go here.

What's on your mind these days?

Things I like to continue, start or restart

These are not new year resolutions - I don't do those. These are things I may or may not do and I may or may not take some of them seriously but I put them here more as reminders than mandatory tasks I have to do. I think if you force yourself, the results may be satisfactory but the struggle to get them done is probably worst than not doing. Anyway, here is a list of things I may continue, start or restart.

01 - Continue blogging — I don't have to say it but I like to just to remind myself just in case I go mad and quit blogging. 

02 - Continue to refuse to join any social media or anywhere else to embarrass myself except in a blog.

03 - Restart commenting more on blogs — I may have slacked in this since last year and I have no excuses for it. I just don't seem to have things to say like I used to. Sometimes I re-read a post a dozen times trying to find something to say but just end up with something brief or not leave any comment. It probably doesn't matter what I say but I like to say something worth reading however brief they may be.

04 - Start practicing procrastinating in my sleep.

05 - Restart on finishing my artworks that may have been piling up for years — I have no idea how many unfinished artworks I have but I'm sure it would take a couple of years to finish them all but no one would really finish everything in their lifetime so trying for a couple is at least something.

06 - Continue to not learn any new people skills — I don't know why but my people skills aren't getting better. I always try to be polite but sometimes people are not polite and I can't help but treat them the same way they treat me. I can only tolerate so much crap.

07 - Restart finishing/editing my novels and short stories — I keep working at them and keep not finishing them and even after many tries, I still fail to finish. But I persist anyway. Because I have a need to finish. There is a growing number like my artworks and I may never get to them but I hope I can finish a couple.

08 - Start watching less youtube — This is probably not something I can do too well but I can try. I think less screen time would do me good. At least I'm not watching youtube on a phone.

09 - Start exercising every day or at least briefly consider to consider doing it.

10 - Continue trying to go wireless even though there is no such thing when you have to charge everything with wires.

11 - Continue doing jigsaw puzzles — I haven't done one in a long while but I like doing them and they help me to spend less time staring at screens.

12 - Restart reading more fantasies, science fiction, middle grade books and books that are not murder mysteries — These few years, I had been reading nothing but murder mysteries so now I think it's time to add back the books I used to read. I don't want to say reading too much murders is bad for me but having more varieties in my reading is better.

What do you plan to continue, start or restart doing this year?

Fiction: The Night Shift

This month's Words for Wednesday prompts are provided by Sean Jeating and posted at River's blog over here. This week's prompts are: become, emigrate, every, reliable, soonish and/or disunited, joining, million, referendum, vote. I seemed to have missed using one word 'soonish.'
    Last month's (December 2025) prompts were provided by Wisewebwoman and posted at River's blog over here. That week's prompts were: larch, trifle, multiple, poteen (Irish Moonshine) and/or surprise, quiche, flag, crossword.
 
Fiction: The Night Shift
Poppy didn't like the smell of the larch wood of her cubicle but it often kept her awake during the night shifts. Even with fifteen people hidden in their little alcoves, the office was always quiet but with these new, taller and thicker cubicles, the noise were muffled that Poppy had gotten into the habit of listening for sounds of movements to ensure she wasn't alone in the office. 
    Nothing was decided by referendum but by the top boss' wife, Mrs. Walker. She regularly disunited the employees over what she claimed to be trifle changes. Poppy sometimes wondered if joining the company had been a mistake. Her very pessimistic cousin always said no job is reliable no matter how long they had been in business.
    Drinking poteen from her water bottle also helped to keep Poppy awake. Her co-worker, Paul, made the drink from his grandmother's recipe. She had emigrated to the U.S. with nothing but her recipe book of alcoholic drinks - they were used to raise their family from poverty. Paul had said the drink had many health benefits one of which was making you smarter. Drinking the homemade booze didn't make Poppy smarter or drunk since it had little alcohol in it. But it frequently gave her disturbing and surprising daydreams.  

Things I Quit

Just because I quit something, it doesn't mean I won't restart them but for now, today, these are the things I quit and will likely continue to do so.

01 - Quit buying ebooks — I find no value in ebooks. You buy it, read it, leave it on your device and then nothing - yes, the value of a book is something but if you've read a crappy book, where's the value or where can I sell it without committing a crime? If you don't know, when you purchase an ebook, you purchase the right to read it but you don't own it so selling an ebook, even if you brought it, is not legal.
    So maybe reading borrowed ebooks from my public library is not a great solution either because they have to purchase rights to the ebooks and those rights do get expired which often is fine unless you're reading a book series and then it's either you read audio books (instead of ebooks), skip a book or two in a series, start a series with the third or tenth book because the first couple of books are no longer available, place a hold on an expired rights book and wait for it to be available in about a year or never or not read the last book of a series. I think it would be better if publishers/authors allow libraries to have perpetual or permanent rights to ebooks they purchase so they can have it in their permanent collection like they do with paper books. But that will never happen because that means they make less money and we all know they wouldn't agree to that.

02 - Quit reading books I'm not enjoying — I used to finish every book I started unless I only read two pages which don't really count. I think after reading more than 20%, you will have read enough to judge a book and whether to quit or to continue. Some people might think 20% is not enough to judge a book and to that I say, keep that thought to yourself.
    Also, I quit reading series I'm not enjoying. I think now I will never finish any series I start because 99% of books (I read) are series so the chances of finishing them all is zero. And those who say you shouldn't judge a series by the first book, I say, shut up. People like what they like and people can quit what they like.

03 - Quit chocolate — I only like to each chocolate during the cold season. I find eating them while I'm sweating not that great. Before this year, I might had been eating them every winter but now, I don't seem to care for them. But I've never been addicted to chocolate, I don't think, I didn't like them until much later in life so not eating them doesn't affect me much. Except for those times when I crave sweets and think of chocolate.

04 - Quit watching Korean dramas — It used be Korean shows are only one season and the series is complete and you don't have to slug through 5 or 7 seasons to get the answer but now with multiple seasoned shows, I just don't care to watch. The one-season was why I watched these shows. There is such thing as too much of a good thing. And besides, I rarely seen any second season being as good as the first. But mostly, the service I use to watch Korean shows keep offering romance shows and I don't like to watch those. 

05 - Quit buying digital tv shows and movies — unless I really love a show/movie, there is no chance of buying a series or movie in digital form. Like ebooks, you are purchasing the rights to see the show/movie so you don't own it even if you actually purchase it.

06 - Quit paying for subscriptions to anything most especially tv streaming — Just like ebooks, tv/movie streaming also purchases rights to allow viewers/subscribers to watch shows/movies and when the rights are expired and if the provider does not renew them, viewers have no luck in watching or rewatching them. (This is true for the service I had used so I don't know if this is true for all streaming services). This is one of the main reasons that I find annoying - you can't rewatch your favorite shows because their rights have expired. Some of which does not make sense when the provider is also the owner but I don't want to waste time talking about that.
    I also quit (more like never started) on becoming members of any youtube channels and pay to watch early video releases or exclusive members-only videos. I don't want to be a member of anything that involves having to pay to be a member. I think the benefits does not outweighed the cost. 

07 - Quit shopping online at new places — I still do buy things online now and then and only at a few places but I'm never going to shop (or open a new account) at new web places. With almost all my favorite brick and mortar stores closed, I'm reduced to shopping online for most things. I used to love shopping online but somehow that love had faded away when I keep getting badly damaged packages/products, mixed up orders that took too much time and patience to get right but mostly they are closed - some of the web places I used to shop just closed down their website without notice which is annoying because they still have my information and who knows if they might get hacked but I choose to believe they did the right thing and erase all their customer's data. And if not...

08 - Quit multi-tasking — I only maybe half quit doing this but it's better to quit half than nothing. I had been multi-tasking because of time constrain but now it's become a habit so it's not easy to quit. I've experienced stress from multi-tasking so I try  not to do it often. Naturally the lazy side of me likes multi-tasking because if I finish a couple of things all at once, I'll have time to procrastinate.

09 - Quit blogging consistently — It used to be I post at least five times a week, then it's down to three or four times a week, then it's twice a week and now it's whenever I feel like it. Even when I have posts written and finished with finished artwork, I still somehow managed not to post anything. I like bloggers who can be consistent even if I can't but that didn't mean they have to post on a schedule or all the time. I think blogging is a post-whenever-you-want vocation. If you're a blogger, you don't have to post all the time but you should do it enough so people know you're still alive and kicking. 

What have you quit that you are glad or not glad about?

Happy 2026!

May your new year be filled with good health, new joys and good fortunes. Happy New Year!

(This artwork is full things I wish for you all. I'll tell you a few things that may match your beliefs and thinking: red cat is for good fortune; tangerines also for good fortune, wealth, prosperity; unicorn for magic; yellow lotus for beginnings and openness; all these you can interpret for yourself.)