This week I started a new hobby with Isa, model making! Well, I guess more specifically for him gundam building but I am more so making a model. I am someone who can have many hobbies or things they enjoy. While we lay in bed at night I color, I lay sticker scenes, I read, and now I build models.
I think having these hobbies is overall good for my mental health, sort of maintaining the idea I’m doing more with my time than rotting away, but I do recognize hobbies can become expensive. Especially for someone with no current job.
I started with a model that I thought was interesting for the most part. I do think some of the big mecha guys have cool designs but part of me isn’t entirely interested in them. I found myself more interested in the cute girl models, haha.
So far it’s not too difficult to do. But, I don’t enjoy that there are many pieces that are extremely weak and finicky. I have already broken multiple parts that had extremely thin and weak connectors/designs that I had to push on. It’s disappointing to break parts, it feels like a failure. Why couldn’t I be gentle enough to safe the piece?
Other than gundam making, I saw my Bama today which was nice. I hadn’t seen her in almost 2 years so it was nice to see her face and talk about things in person. When visiting her, I realized more that moving back from Japan was the right move. I want to be there for her more and continue to help her when I can like before.
Despite being 83, she is very upbeat and active. She has many hobbies, exercises, and activities she does everyday to keep her mind and body young. I do have some sense of stress every time I visit her, but that’s more of a personal problem. I always worry something I say or didn’t do will disappoint her and it will be a point of contention, but, I think with time I’m beginning to see that now that University is all said and done she just wants me to be happy.
Of course, as a grandma she worries about some aspects of my life but overall she trusts my judgement and my movement towards my own idea of happiness.
I am grateful for my grandma, she is the family member I am closest to so it is important to me that I continue to see her regularly and maintain a relationship with her with what time I have left with her.
This is the gundam/model I am currently building. She is super cutie but you can see all the small details to her design which are extremely easy to break.
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