New season, new joys? :D (Patreon)

Ok, I know it's not TOTALLY a new season yet, but I feel like the end of summer is ... kinda the beginning of autumn (which happens to be my favourite season, yaaaaay!).

It's no secret that I felt like utter crap in August. Work was extremely hard on me (for a lot of reasons that are mainly influenced by COVID - normally they say our summers should be the calmest time of the year, i guess not :)); the weight gained on my july weekend really got to me mentally (it wasn't much, but because work was so freaking hard, I had no energy left to eat healthy) and me still finding my place in the Twitch world.

So let me do a 'life of Mary' big update, and then we go back to our normal regular posts ^^.

FIRST: HEALTH

I started in March with the big 'losing weight' journey. I did that strongly, with good effects until July, when I went away on a weekend and gained back a ton, in just 4 days. Lesson learned, I gain quick! :')  The rest of the summer I took a little break from it, for the reasons mentioned above, it was just too much. 

So here comes the updated goal: I started at 80kg in March. I'm now around 75 kg. Every month I'd like to lose 1 kg, so with a bit of margin I'm gonna go for that 70kg by the end of the year. More updates on this journey and how I'm doing, will be in the next one ^^.

SECOND: YOUTUBE

If you've been in the stream lately, you know that I'm obsessed with starting a YouTube channel. With the help of a good friend Kipp, who's giving me some editing lessons, I discovered how much I loooooooooooooove editing! I think it's a nice change of pace to still be working with the stream, but in an offline environment and letting the creative juices flow. 

Next to that I've heard little birds say that having a YouTube channel really helps out your Twitch community. Don't get me wrong, I don't aspire to be this big online personality, but I did notice a decline and that's ofcourse also what I want to avoid. I do feel like what I did on Mixer is just not working on Twitch so this might actually be an answer to my problem.

You can find the channel here: youtube.com/marijchu and the next video will be up in a couple of hours!

That being said, I'm thinking of changing the Patreon into a way to help out the Youtube journey. As you guys now my time is limited and it would help me out a lot if I had someone help me to edit some videos. I will always try to edit the majority of them (since I also want to learn how to edit well), but if 2 or 3 per month could be montaged by someone else, that would be a huge stress reliever. 

I'm gonna add some extra tiers that are just focused on making that possible. DON'T THINK I expect you to subscribe to these tiers (I kinda hope that if you're here, you already know me enough to know that I appreciate any supporty). These tiers will be higher, but it's to give that option to say 'this video is here thanks to me'  or if someone subs to these I know for sure 'ah, I will always have for sure one/two this month that can be edited'.

I'm excited to get started again and leave August far behind me. It was a sad time, but I feel like I found something that really makes me smile A LOT :).

Thanks for the support during me feeling like a crappy bean, I'm excited to continue our journey together!

Mary