It’s the New Year, which means new opportunities, new the opposite of opportunities, and new secret third things. As much as I tend to dislike New Years resolutions, I do appreciate the opportunity to “reset” the way I think about about my life with the passing of the year and will be enacting at least a few hard goals I know I’ll want to stick to this time around. 2024 passed by pretty quickly for me, and some of the more memorable things that happened were not pleasant, so one of the resolutions I’ve made is to take one photo of my surroundings each day, regardless of what the photo is. I’m hoping it’ll give me a more comprehensive understanding of what my life is like and an excuse to take more photos for myself, a personal album of memories and life progression that I can attend when things are difficult. I have not felt any better over the winter break, but I do think my life is getting objectively better despite that. I want 2025 to be a better year for myself and will be more insistent about making it better instead of just hoping things change in that direction.

In other news, my website recently had its 1 year anniversary on Neocities (yippee!). It’s quickly become one of my most favourite creative time sinks and will hopefully encourage me to continue creating personal things into the future, however that looks like. Maybe someday I’ll even have all of the main pages up and running (although that requires me to actually finish a zine, so we’ll see). I find having a semi public void to scream into helps organize my thoughts immensely, so I don’t see it going any time soon.