Heading into 2025 with Miss Stacy energy

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Tap, tap, tap. Is this thing on? Ahem, it’s been a fewww months. (Kids going back to school, celebrating 17 years of marriage with excellent almond cake, and a visit to the ER.) Life’s like that sometimes. 2024 was a wave. Dec 31, 2024 is the shore. And then it’s going to recede and leave us some god damn room to breathe, or else. Just kidding. It’ll be a million other things and (not but) we will be fine. Even great. But like the wise Miss Stacey (Anne Shirley’s fav teacher of course) always said,

“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it, yet.” I care less about the mistakes and more about the fresh start business. Turning the page and all that. I love New Year’s for that very reason. It feels like, Yep, let’s turn this page! On to the next!!” And my mental map reroutes and re-rights and releases. Even if nothing technically changes except the date, I feel lighter, free-er, and fresher.

Let’s do this, 2025! Here are some of my hopes I want to manifest (not a thing, but maybe hopefully?! but also wildly problematic at scale) for this new year which also happens to be my last in my 30s:

• A new job I love that loves me (yes, jobs can love back)

• Body confidence

• Related: arm strength

• Also related: inner strength/greater emotional resilience

• Reading 50 books (←about 4/mo)

• At least 2 Girls Trips

• International trip with my family/House exchange

• More fun/light/silly 1:1 time with my kids

• Keeping a tidier closet

• Continuing my morning walks (going on 4 years. best thing of my life.)

• Letting this go: Trying to get difficult people to treat me well.

• Day dates and weekend dates with Keen. All the bahn mi sandwiches, oat milk lattes, and schnitzel we can handle.

• Leaving my phone upstairs during the evenings so I can hang/chef/clean/bedtime/chat without distraction.

• Do my hair & put on make-up more often bc I like the way I act when I do.

More laundry list manifestations to come, I am sure. Until then, hope you also have an Anne Shirley worthy start to your fresh new year.

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Reading and Listening to Lately

Telepathy Tapes!!!!!!!!! Please listen to this so we can talk about it?

To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

Sandwich by Catherine Newman

The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner

The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza

Bridge by Ali Hazelwood

Then She was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Heard It In A Past Life by Maggie Rogers

A Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi Trio

What are you reading and listening to?

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