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Hi friends, happy new year! Our new year was pretty mellow. Did all our cleaning on the 31st and made black-eyed peas and honey cornbread muffins. Stayed up until midnight to do all my rituals/superstitions and then slept in on the first. On the 1st we made waffles and bacon, kicked back, and relaxed. I didn’t even bother to start working on my goals until the 2nd, as I just really wanted to ease into the new year. Using a planner has, for once, been great so far. It doesn’t feel like a chore this year and I’m actually finding it helpful. It has really helped to focus on functionality and not be so concerned with it looking a certain way.

I took the rest of this week off work (from my day job) and it’s been great. I’m doing my best to schedule rest and not run myself into the ground trying to do 10,000 things. I did start the piano lessons on Yousician and it feels good. I also wrote a bunch of mail the other day and I am cautiously optimistic about this year.