Goodbye 2025!

Happy New Year to you all! I am super late to making this post, but my school quarter started this week so I had to prioritize other stuff :P

I don’t tend to make New Year’s resolutions, but since I want to use this blog somewhat as a journal I thought I would reflect on the last year and think about what I hope to see in 2026.

2025 in review was a great year for me. To briefly list out why:

• I attended UCLA, which let me move into the dorms and reignited my passion for history, learning, and change (technically started in 2024 but whatever)
• My closest friends and I were in community with each other. We made time to see each other, helped each other through difficult times, and we all made it through!
• New (and old) friends came into my life from a few different places, and all of them have expanded my world into a more beautiful and diverse place.
• I made new memories with my partner, whose kind personality and love has helped me grow and push past my old limitations (and they grew as well)
• I watched my kitty Greasy Burger grow up and celebrate her first birthday
• Deltarune chapters 3+4 came out, which finally, finally has given me a new media that motivates me to create art and participate in community with other fans. It’s really good.
• I stopped using Instagram and Spotify, switched to linux from windows on my computer, and stopped buying things through Amazon, Walmart, and Target. I <3 CVS
• I made this blog and learned html
• I read and listened to books outside of my classes
• I created art of different kinds that made my heart happy
• Lots of cute and cool outfits were worn and a new hairstyle was tried
• I grew as a person and put more of my values into action

So 2025 was pretty awesome. Honestly, one of the best yet. Probably better than the year before it, and also the year before that. This is probably the year where I really started to like myself, hugely because I made the effort to change long-standing behaviors of mine that were misaligned with who I want to be. Building off of the changes of 2025, 2026 is going to be a big year of change considering I'll be graduating from college with a BA I didn’t think I was capable of getting, moving into an apartment of my own (hopefully, fingers crossed I don’t have to move back home), and starting on my career path for teaching. That said, I expect it to be even more awesome than 2025 because I’ll be even closer to living my life the way I want! There are goals that have carried over from 2025 and goals that I couldn’t realistically achieve until this year, so to list them all briefly, in 2026 I want to:

• Donate money consistently once a month to gofundmes and orgs
• Grow further as a person and more securely embody my values
• Get off of Gsuite services including Gmail, Google Drive, and Google docs
• Create and up-cycle more and buy less. I want to really interrogate my purchases and avoid buying things that are either unnecessary, replacements of something I already own that has simply gone out of fashion, or made to mimic a homemade/sustainable product when it is in fact from shein or target. No to the $60 sweater that looks handmade, and more sewing on patches and augmenting sweaters that I own to make them actually handmade
• Finish the loaning system on this blog and see it help even one person avoid an unnecessary, disposable purchase from Auto Zone or Home Depot for a tool they need to fix a broken
• Move into an apartment and finally feel like I’m capable of functioning on my own without going into debt
• Create a video game of some kind (maybe like the secret Santa thing for those of you who played that two? years ago)
• Graduate with my BA and start a program I like at a school where I can afford to live near to
• Spend time with my friends, frequently and for fun but also to help each other get through life
• Get my first and second tattoo (I already know what I’m getting blehhh 😛)
• Go to the tide pools and on hikes more often

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