I have years of Japanese in my head but cannot for the life of my put it all together to make sense.
In some ways, I envy you for that. I really love the feeling of “oh, THAT’s how that works/what it means/how you write it” when I manage to piece some little thing I picked up into the bigger jigsaw puzzle metaphor of my actual Japanese knowledge, but I’ve kind of advanced to a stage where I’ve learnt enough to cover all the bits I knew, and all the remaining pieces are in the box, not in my hand, so I won’t be getting that feeling any more. Unless I’ve dropped some pieces on the floor and forgotten about them. And that’s probably about as much stretching as that metaphor will take.
What I’m trying to say is good luck and keep it up. =)