It's about time for another one of these.
My previous blog was written at the beginning of February. And oh boi, has life changed since then.

First of all, my spouse moved into my apartment after we have been in a long distance relationship for years. This really made my available time for hobbies and projects a lot more limited. And I started new projects together with my partner, too! Let's see what we have...

Let's start with music first. As you might've noticed, I became inactive on my YouTube music channel a while ago. No more music uploads. What happened there?
I'm still composing music and have many projects to work on, but I decided to take a little summer break, due to other things that are happening in my life. Regular weekly uploads should return soon! This month!
I am also invited to the Chipwrecked Festival again and will play a little show this friday. Parts of this show will probably get uploaded to YouTube later as well.
Once I'm back home, I will start focussing on the music for Week of Charity 2025, which is going to happen again around September/October.
Once all those bigger projects are done, my plan is to do less of the big composing projects for a while in order to focus on my non-music projects more. Because there's so much more to do...

The KleederBros projects have been more irregular lately apart from our Podcast, which is still getting released weekly. We hope to be able to start Super Mario 3D Wörld again soon and get back into Minecraft as well in the fall/winter months. Once Super Mario 3D Wörld is done, we plan on being more active with the Duell series again. And a general and ongoing project remains our Wiki.

While we are at the matter of gaming, I'm sorry to say that Undertale Yellow is still paused. We can't say for now when the project will return, but I will make sure to mention it in a blog if it happens - or you can simply subscribe to the KleederLP channel.

As mentioned earlier, I was busy during the summer and had no time for my music channel and other projects. So what was going on? Well, since my spouse moved into my apartment, we started exploring Germany together. Our plan is to travel to every german state this year and spend some time there. A travel video of our adventures in this country will get uploaded sometime next year once we are done with all the states. We mostly visit them on weekends on small little trips, so this eats a lot of otherwise available project time.
On top of that, we did what I had planned for this year and that was a two-week vacation to England. The trip was a lot of fun and will see a travel video too, which I will hopefully finish before the end of this year. As always, it will get released on my VLOG channel.

As for my other travel plans, there are some changes to the planned trips:
Arizona/Utah/Colorado/New Mexico: Originally planned for one of the upcoming years, I think we will postpone any trips to the United States until a major change in politics/government over there, because I can't see us travelling there under the current administration.
- Korea: 2026 seems unlikely for this, but it is still planned and I hope we can go there in 2027 or 2028.
- The Baltic States: It seems like we will travel to the baltic states next summer. I'm super hyped for this one and hope it will happen as planned.
- Switzerland: After travelling through Switzerland last year in order to get to Liechtenstein, I realized how beautiful this country is and I want to spend another week there, maybe next year, too!

Those are the currently planned trips and I hope at least some of them will actually happen next year. But on the other hand, if I travel less, it means I have more time for hobbies and projects to work on at home, right? ;D

There is definitely some writing I have left to do this year. My hope is to get a first full draft of novel book number one done until the end of this year. This is another reason why I want to reduce the amount of travel and new projects from October on. As much as it rocks to do so many things and see so many places - the lack of progress on my novel frustrates me a lot. I hope I can announce some happy news about this in either my next blog or the one after.

For now, I have nothing else to say anymore. I hope you're all well and that you enjoy the summer. I really do! There are exciting things coming up and many projects to finish and publish, too. The content flow isn't stopping :D
Thanks for reading this blog.