Welcome back then! Thanks for sharing your journey. It was an interesting read and props to you for taking care of a 3-y/o while WFH. Don’t know how parents are surviving this right now. 
Maybe consider joining @Marifly 's list here to stay accountable with WK during this season, too? Level 21 before 2021!
I totally understand when things are started and you end up not really seeing it through the end (e.g. full mastery) because life happened or more focus was placed on something else.
Summary
Ie. Attempted:
Cross-stitching and knitting: hands starting cramping, left it. Probably had the wrong needle sizes, too. 
Painting: takes up too much time (albeit it is very relaxing. Thankfully, I bought cheap paint, so it is not much of a waste…) I still have empty canvases hidden in a box somewhere.
Fountain/calligraphy pens craze (I blame online 
): I have not been writing as much as I am typing now so, they are hidden away in my Lihit case for another day. Maybe when I pick up the strokes, I will use those again for kanji. (Side note: For cursive writers, it is interesting to see how one’s script changes throughout the years. Wonder if learning Japanese will affect it? )
Languages: When I was in grade school, I tried to self-study French and little bit of Spanish (was curious with learning Esperanto but there were not that many resources before). But, the retention was lacking. (Accent/pronunciation are easy for me to mimic but, do I really understand what the words mean? And can I actually converse in French? Nope.) At one point, I was also curious about Polish and studied casually online but now I can only recall saying, “Do you understand English/Polish?” and the common please/thank you/excuse me greetings.
Then, I dropped all of it when I focused on learning a musical instrument 
(read: obsessed). Afterwards, I went to college. Although, I still play occasionally at church, I was not interested enough to become a professional performer. (I probably should have minored in a language or music to stay motivated but enrolling in private lessons “to level up faster” in terms of repertoire is 
.) So, the self-study route it is, just like with WK…
Now, I am working full-time and a lot of these have become side hobbies. Thankfully, due to WFH, it now seems possible to revisit all of these (including karaoke and practicing–sorry LingLing, it’s not 40 hours but 3 hours a week at most… 
- pity the neighbors’ ears…) and be more intentional.
But, I think my current main language goal this time round (specifically with Japanese) is to really reach that “finish line” by having better comprehension and retention to the point of fluent conversation. No excuses!
TL:DR: Talked about failed attempts in summary section. We are all here to move consistently forward in this WK journey, one kanji at a time. May we all reach cake day one day! 頑張りましょう!
Oops, I did it again…Thanks for surviving yet another long post from me, everyone.
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