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Notable Moments

2025:
- Lost beloved dog
- Quit job
- Started 3 new writing projects
(Almost finished with 2)
- Acquired puppy
- Trip to NM
- December Funeral trip to KS
- survived

2026 predictions:
- ❤️???
- New Job
- Finish 3 projects, publish 1.
- please read more :(

Personal Aesthetics

2026 predictions:
Colors
- Dark Green, Soft purple

Scents
- Orange
- Pomegranate
- Field Grass

Songs
- 80s rock love ballads?
- Queen or The Cure
- new Noah Kahan, Chappell Roan, Harry Styles???
- Jackson Browne for good measure

Personal Aesthetics

2025:
Colors of the year
- Teal, light green

Scents
- Rainforest, Apple Cider, Gravel

Songs
- “David”, Lorde
- “April Come She Will”, Simon & Garfunkel
- “Maine” (LFF), Noah Kahan
- “Open Arms”, Journey
- “Friday I’m in Love”, The Cure
- “Garbage”, twenty one pilots

2025:
Bonus Resolution-
Be intentional about watching movies this year (and keeping track)

Results-
- I watched exactly 100 movies this year. (Not including DNFs)
- 3 in theaters, 28 on streaming (rest are owned or through a library)
- 33 were new to me.
- 38 1/3 I saw with other people.

2026:
Reading goal
- no expectation set (maybe 26 again?)
- read 45 minutes before bed every night if possible
+ No new purchases without finishing current reads challenge (impossible)

2025:
Reading goal
- 26 books (1 every 2 weeks)
+ read more fantasy/mysteries

Result
- 13 books finished, many others started 😬 (but I lost 1/2 of my free time which would have gone to reading)
+ I read many of both 🎉

2026:
Resolution-
Start a Commonplace book/quote journal. 📔

Mentality/Vibe-
2025 broke me in unchangeable ways; 2026 will be my year (or else!)

2025:
Resolution-
Go to the Library much more, use their resources.

Results-
- Went in-person way more, also got into their apps and borrowed a lot. 😀
+ Got 3 new local library cards and 1 out of state card!

Add one more so I can read one a week for a year. Now it’s a self-help novel with achievable reading goals.

Ooh ooh other pet peeve of mine:
Apps that use a custom keyboard instead of the phone’s standard keyboard. My muscle memory is too precise for your smushed ui.

I was going to suggest graphic novels.

If you do comics, the Knightfall trilogy (Batman) is 3 volumes, about 6-900 pages each and you could easily finish one a day. I mention this because that padded my reading stats this year.

And when you report it they “find no issue” with it. TikTok is horrible with screening their shops and reports.

Horrible pre-bedtime activity. I just scrolled through local job listings, and now sleep and I aren’t on speaking terms. I miss when I was younger and dumber and the world (although bigger) was within reach.

Harsh winds blow tumbleweeds where dandelions should be. The only hint of color in the field is that old pine tree, but I swear I can still smell that sweet green grass. Somehow, even in the cold of winter, I find myself standing in the summer sun where you left me.