new years’ resolution: be better at blogging

here we are. it’s motherfucking december 31st, 2024. usually i’m working pretty much nonstop through the holidays and have very little time to even process the days i am living let alone put any thought towards those on the horizon. this year, however, i’ve had a break, some space, and while i have definitely spent a lot of time fucking off, i have been doing a lot of thinking. if you know me, right now you are not surprised, and you might even be… rolling your eyes. lol.

i sorta started watching grey’s anatomy on my break. a former writer for the show just had a wild ass docuseries come out about her because she faked fucking cancer (and that’s kind of how she got the job too), but it made me intrigued enough to start watching. and then there were no new housewives episodes over this holiday season (c’mon bravo), so i’ve been a bit starved of things to watch. anyway, it’s not a bad show, i get it.

i also have been going to yoga almost every single day (well, every single day until today, when i went to another workout class instead). i realized that for the first time in maybe 10 years, i have yoga goals again. i don’t really give a shit about doing fancy arm balances or inversions, but i do have some real achievable goals around spinal flexibility (specifically I want to get into some crazy backbends) and hip flexibility (come back to me, bird of paradise).

i also want to put more effort into some real forward movement. that looks like a lot of things. career, additional education, self-work, domestic stuff, fitness, long term health, etc. the details are kind of…for me to know, but i am glad i was able to take some time over this break to actually think about it.

looking ahead right now is really difficult and/or painful for a lot of us right now, considering how goddamn ridiculous it seems like it is about to get. a giant idiotic portion of the country voted for an orange tyrant, and we’re all about to find out just how bad it can get. i’m fearful, especially considering that if vet med prices are as insane as they are, i can’t even imagine how bad human healthcare prices are/are going to get (i am real real bad at going to the doctor). oh and that parenthetical, it’s largely because of the piece immediately before it. in watching grey’s (casual watchers can call it that), i see these cases that involve so much surgery, effort, hospitalization, lifesaving measures, and all i can worry about is what bills these poor people are facing afterwards.

so i guess if we were to distill this very all-over-the-place post into some real time “resolutions,” it’s gonna look like this:

work on flexibility (camel, wheel, splits, bird of paradise)

put more forward moving effort into progression of myself as who i am as a human

make the house more of a home, in many ways.

to all of you…you’ve got this.