"Open the floodgates!" -Cata
Cata again! It's been a couple days (years) since the last time I updated this... in fact, the site in general has been untouched since the last entry. There have been many developments since then! Funny enough, I am writing this entry from work again. However, this time I am in a cozier office job. Same company, but I moved out of the warehousing division and into a data center role. Better pay, better conditions. Nothing to complain about really! I started this back in December and have really settled in. Honestly, maybe too much. There's very little work I have to actually do week by week and I think it's gotten me really complacent.
The big thing I am writing for today is that it's my birthday! Normally in my role my manager would call out that it's a person's birthday in this org-wide chat so people can say congrats and all that... my manager is out of the office lol. So I get nothing! At this point, I'm becoming more and more used to it. At least I had cake for breakfast (my partner is an incredible person) but the rest of the day... is just work and sleep. Guess it comes with the territory of being an adult. This is the big 2-7 for me which is fucking wild. I can't believe I'm this old bruh... feels like I left high school like yesterday. I sincerely hope I get to do all of the things I want to do with the rest of my time on this Earth.
I also think I'm going to add a link on the site to this blog. It won't be quite as hidden as I originally was going to have it be, but there's some novelty to the fact that it's just going to be chilling there for everyone to see... Kinda like what a blog should be? Although my thoughts are useless to most lol. It's not like anyone has a real reason to visit my site anyways! I'm not popular by any means, and my friends can just talk to me directly if they want...
I think it's very in character for me to be doing something this pointless. It's nice to have a place to dump some thoughts.
I've also been playing in multiple Pokemon draft leagues as well as working on launching my own. I've met a ton of really cool people and I appreciate being a part of those communities. Pokemon has always been some significant part of my life so continuing to involve myself in it helps me retain some of my youth, I feel. I'm adding a page to the site for these as well. If you have any interest you should join mine! It's called Embers. I gave the league that name because even the smallest spark can ignite a whole forest. I wanted the league to be a place that accommodates people of all skill levels and helps them find their fire.
LAST THING. I've been watching more anime and I want to shout out the ones I've most recently finished.
* Kaguya-sama: Love is War is my now favorite anime of all time. It's cute as fuck. Please watch it dubbed (it's better I promise)
* Mashle: Magic and Muscles is a funny one. I normally don't really go for meathead MCs but Mash is written really well and circumvents initial expectations.
* Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is the most popular anime out for a reason. And it aligns with my magic/power fantasies quite nicely. Worth the watch!
Alright, I'll shut up and work on the rest of the site now. If you see this, wish me a happy birthday (even if it's not the 24th of April anymore)
-Cata
On Repeat : ur the reason im this way - AViT "I hate you, despise you! You're the reason I'm this way."
I'm sure this'll be found eventually if not immediately, so welcome! - 3/24/2024
It me! Cata, CataclysmG, Jordan... Whatever you know me by. I felt like having a dumb little hidden page where I had the freedom to write things out would be fun. I have no intentions of telling anyone about this for quite some time - if you find the one invisible letter where the link is hidden or whatever I do, congratulations. You get to read more of my writing LMFAO (I wish I was sorry)
I suppose the only right thing to do as a first entry is to explain what the hell is going on. I bought the domain cataclysmg.com in 2020 sometime - and it's taken me this long to actually build a website to go along with it. It was my intention from the start to learn HTML and build up my website at the same time, but I had already lost my motivation for computer science as a whole at that point so the idea was lost to the wind. I did set up the email though! The only account I had attached to this domain was my main Runescape account when I made it the same year, but I migrated it recently so this is now the only purpose for it more or less. I threw this website together in Namecheap's website builder (which was really annoying at first, of course) in between bits of work. Yes, I am writing this from my warehouse job. My feet fucking hurt lol. However. I am starting my Cybersecurity courses in a week (April 1st) and I'm an odd mix of anxiety (which is rare for me) and excitement (which is way common) so I'm kind of all over the place. I legitimately threw this together on a whim because I was pissed that I couldn't figure out why my WIP page for the site wasn't public. (All I had to do was point the nameservers to Namecheap's web hosting LOL)
Turns out, I'm really bad at motivating myself to write and/or record music. I take constant notes of lyrics, song names, full verses, you name a word and I've probably dropped it in a line somewhere. The process of throwing all of these things together is just not jiving with my ADHD ass brain. I think a lot of the problem with my musical process is instrumentals. I am nowhere near the point of being able to craft the sound that I need, nor do I have the expendable income to pay someone to do it. It's a block I did not expect when I started making music and it's probably going to be one of the hardest to get over, especially with my job and college work combined. If you see this, wish me luck (and send me instrumentals. for free. my email is literally on this website)
- Cata
Oh, and I'm gonna throw whatever song I have on repeat at the end of each of these. I swear I'm done writing now! Have a good day <3
On Repeat : it is what it is! - BIG LAX "And you can save those promises for someone else."