Recently Watched Netflix Shows 2024/2025

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It’s been a while since I made one of these posts! But I realised that I have watched quite a few one-season Netflix shows recently so thought I would share my thoughts on them. They are in order of watched most recent so I might have recency bias but I have enjoyed all of these a lot.

Running Point

An easy one to start with, I literally finished this a few days ago. I wasn’t sure what to think initially when I decided to watch this, but now I have watched it and I agree with what everyone online has been saying, that this is kind of like Ted Lasso for basketball.

Isla Gordon is put in the spotlight as she takes over her family’s basketball team, the LA Waves. The show is filled with dysfunctional family drama while Isla tries to girl boss her way to the playoffs. Thankfully, you don’t need to know anything about basketball to watch this show. I had no idea what was going on with that bit, lol, but I still really enjoyed this.

I enjoyed the reappearance of Brenda Song in my life, better known as London Tipton from the Suite Life of Zack and Cody. It was a nice surprise. I also enjoy the dysfunctional family dynamics of the Gordon family including a secret half brother no-one knew about until now. I am looking forward to seeing where it goes, but also sad I have to wait for another season. At least there will be another season, I know Netflix can be flaky with this kind of thing so we shall ride the wave as long as they allow us. Omg that was totally an unintentional pun lol.

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Junk Journaling

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I have started doing a little bit of junk journaling in my regular journal. I tried to do this before in previous years’ journals but it always felt like such a chore. But this year? Something has unlocked in my brain and I am finding it fun. Not sure what has changed between the past and now, but I have been enjoying adding some creativity to my journal.

So, what is junk journaling? It’s a kind of scrapbooking where you just use junk. Did you go shopping today? Do you have a receipt or a shopping bag? Perfect, if you stick it in a notebook, then you are on your way to junk journaling.

My junk journaling isn’t the traditional sense of junk journaling because I don’t really use junk. But I suppose I haven’t really been doing things where I have accumulated “junk”. Junk doesn’t necessarily mean rubbish; it can be anything you have from that day that you think would fit in your journal. I mostly print photos from my phone and then use decorative stickers and things to pad out my pages.

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I’m Making YouTube Shorts Now

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This seems like a weird thing to advertise but I’m doing it anyway.

A couple of months ago, I had an idea for an Instagram Reel and decided to make it. But I am not really a short-form content kind of girlie. Like I don’t watch Shorts/Reels/TikToks unless someone sends them to me. And usually if I am posting an Instagram Reel, it’s a pole or aerial video which I wouldn’t count as a Reel because to me it’s just a video.

But in February I sat down to film a proper Reel and I didn’t hate it. Now, when I say I made a Reel, it’s not me doing any dancing or memes or anything – it’s literally me colouring lol. But I thought it would be a fun video to make and it was shorter than a YouTube video so a YouTube Short it will be.

Now I know you’re confused because I said it was an Instagram Reel idea but I just said I made it a YouTube Short lol. Well, they’re all the same thing, and yes this initially was just for my Instagram but because I have a YouTube channel, I thought why not put it there too?

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My Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Thoughts

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I completely forgot about the direct today but I have watched it now and thought I’d share my thoughts here. Also three blog posts in the space of a week? Crazy lol.

First of all, here are the bullet points I made while watching, I will put some final thoughts below but if you want a quick overview of what was going on in my mind at the time then please enjoy:

  • Starting out strong with Mario Kart – a classic.
  • Driving anywhere in the world is kind of crazy, I will definitely be taking some scenic drives.
  • 24 drivers?? Yikes. Can barely keep track of 12 half the time.
  • Knockout is a cool gameplay mode, I can’t wait to immediately lose since I am not good at Mario Kart lol.
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Games I’m Excited About From the Nintendo Direct

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Jumping straight in with the blogging thing, I thought I’d talk about some of the games in the Nintendo Direct that caught my eye.

I haven’t really been playing my Switch recently due to having abandoned any game that isn’t Infinity Nikki. But I miss handheld gaming and I’m not ready to invest in a Steam deck so I think it’s worth seeing what Nintendo has in store for us. Especially with the Switch 2 right around the corner.

Most of the time, directs do not appeal to me because I play very few games lol. If it’s not Animal Crossing or the odd Pokémon game, Nintendo does not hold much for me. That being said as a child, I grew up exclusively on Nintendo and my DS was my best friend so maybe I need to give them more credit.

So here are the few games which caught my attention in the latest direct:

Because I am in the cosy gaming space, I have seen a lot of people on my timelines BEGGING for this game. I want to say I’m not one of them. But I am looking forward to it.

I had Tomodachi Life for DS and I thought it was fun and cute at the time. I even had a Tumblr blog dedicated to my Miis and everything.

That being said the downfall of the game is it got very repetitive very quickly. Which makes sense, given that the game could only be programmed to have a finite number of scenarios which your Miis went through etc. So I stopped playing once I thought I’d seen everything.

I worry the same thing will happen with this game. It’ll get repetitive too soon and it won’t be worth the cost. I think the concept might do well as a mobile game with constant updates but I guess we will see. I don’t think I want to get too committed to buying it until we have more information.

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Thursday 27th March 2025

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Yesterday when getting out of the shower I randomly got hit with nostalgia of 2012 Tumblr vibes. I have a really strong memory of sitting in my room at like 2am and starting my Tumblr blog.

It reminded me of when I used to blog a lot and just write whatever I felt like writing. Usually it was just about my day. Sometimes I wish I could go back to that time.

Now, with my blog I am either really in the mood to post or never in the mood to post and I wish I could just get back to just posting whatever, whenever.

It’s weird because I’ve started a few posts in the past and been really set on finishing them but as soon as I’ve stopped writing it for the day I never pick it up again or want to post it. I suppose it’s just another form of writer’s block but the worst kind. Like why can’t I pick up these posts again that I once felt so passionate about?

I think sometimes it’s a timing thing. For example, I started writing a post about my trip to Marrakech but I never finished it and so much time has passed since the trip so I feel like it doesn’t matter or isn’t relevant anymore. Which doesn’t make sense when this is a personal blog and I don’t have a deadline or anything.

Other times it’s that I felt really strong about something at the time and now I just don’t. Which is fine, I can’t say I still feel passionate about all the things I’ve ever posted on my blog. But still I wish I had at least finished the thought to put it out in the world.

So that kind of leaves me where I am now trying to figure out what to do. Ideally I want to be out of this slump and get back to just blogging. I’ll admit I’ll probably not recapture the magic I once had with it. But I’d like to get back to posting again.

And I mean things that aren’t just reposts of YouTube videos. I want to be making more content like this. Things where I just talk about life. And I suppose nothing has really been stopping me except me lol.

So now I think I’ll challenge myself to get back to my “roots” for blogging. Just posting random thoughts and feelings about the day and things I’m doing. But also trying to put more paragraphs in it, because as it is I am still technically micro-blogging on a regular basis on Bluesky/Twitter. But I’ve always liked having a place for my long-form thoughts.

As always I’ll not put too much pressure on myself but I think it was good for me to have this reflective chat with myself via blogging. Not sure how long this mood will last considering I’m 90% sure it’s hormonal but we’ll see.

At the very least I’d like to continue on and eventually post some of the drafts I’ve started here and not finished. No matter how much time has passed after the fact. Sometimes the thoughts are still relevant.

Anyway, that’s all for now. Not sure how helpful this was for others but I found this blog post very therapeutic to make. These are just thoughts I’ve had for a while about my blog and it feels good to share them. So maybe someone can relate.

I Started a Reading Journal!

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After watching a few videos about people starting reading journals, I decided to treat myself and start one of my own. I say treat myself because there was no way I was going to be doing this without stickers. I am not an artist so drawing is going to be kept to a minimum but I still want my journal to look cute so that’s why I’ve decided to use stickers.

I made a video documenting setting up my journal and it turned out really cute! I am really excited to start filling out my journal. I just need to figure out how I want my monthly layouts to look.

I am also hoping I can keep on top of this and it doesn’t end up being something I am constantly catching up on like my sticker planning. But since I don’t read many books per month so it should be fine. But yeah I just thought it would be a bit of fun and something different for the year.

I will probably share more content related to my reading journal soon as I think it’s fun. Probably more videos or even short form content – I recently made two reels! – so definitely look forward to that. Worst case there will just be some pictures on my blog but that’ll still be good. 

If you want to follow me on my reading journey I track my reading digitally on Goodreads and Storygraph as well so please feel free to follow me there! Otherwise stay tuned for a flipthrough of my reading journal at the end of the year.

Planner and Reading Journal Sticker Haul! | ScribblePrintsCo

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It’s been over a year since I bought stickers and in January I was feeling sad so decided to treat myself with some sticker shopping lol. I finally am trying to finish my 2023 planner so I needed some sticker kits to complete it and while I was at it, I thought hey, why not get some reading journal stickers too?

I really love everything in this haul and was so excited to share it with everyone so please enjoy and wish me luck on my reading journal journey – hopefully I stick it out at least for the year. And I’ll definitely be posting flip-throughs and things on my YouTube and pictures on the blog so watch this space!

There’s No Business Like Show Business… | The Sims 1

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Some more Sims 1 content! I filmed these two parts back to back on the same day I booted up Sims 1 for the first time. I am not committing to any Let’s Plays at this time because I am unreliable but if I feel like chatting about my Sims gameplay, then a video you shall receive. Turns out the Sims 1 is NOT easy to play and I was struggling A LOT. But it’s a learning curve. One day I’ll master it for sure… but not right now, we’ve got lots of other games to be playing lol

Making Magic and Fires | Playing the Sims 1 For the First Time!

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I have decided after almost 4 years to resurrect my Sims channel! I never abandoned it on purpose, I just stopped playing the Sims and so the Sims videos stopped. But I thought it would be fun to come back and play some Sims 1!

I’ve never played before so this was something new and I really enjoyed it! I will definitely be back with more. In fact, I already have two more videos edited and ready to go lol so look out for more Sims content soon.