Here We Go! 29!

These are not the only things I will do. I’m very ambitious. But as the wrapping paper and the birthday cards clear here are several things I intend to do:

1. Play my new games. It sounds so simple. But its not. I’ve always had trouble with “play” feeling like everything has to be productive or have a “purpose” other than just pure fun. So this year I got myself a Nintendo Switch Lite. I have several games lined up to buy. My first was Coffee Talk. So far I have made one triple shot espresso and it took me ten minutes. If I was a real life barista, I’d be fired in a second.

2. Utilize my new book journal. I still haven’t finished my current book journal but my brand new book journal that my cousin got me has so many more features. It has some blank pages at the end that I kind of want to dedicate to my favorite books and make some sort of Awards pages. The best part? This book has a section for book clubs. There is even room for members to rate each book. Up to ten members. We have exactly ten members.

3. New affirmations. I have a large collection of affirmation cards but it is always growing. I’m a big believer of affirmations. Too many might be useless but thats why I swap them out. My most recent affirmations? Self-care is important. I care less about being “liked” and more about being well. I stop chasing people who don’t value me.

4. Planning a fiction novel. I have a book I’m working on (it will be my seventh self published book) and I’m feeling really optimistic about it. It’s going to be an anthology with six sections- short stories (some of which have had homes in magazines), essays, letters written to both people I know personally and also famous historical figures, book reviews, selections from my blog and my poetry. I have decided it is going to be my last book for a while because after that I plan on switching to fiction for a  bit (which of course is always a little bit based on reality).

5. Work on Christmas presents. Anyone who plans on doing presents for about twenty five people- all homemade- better start as soon as it turns to fall. In fact, my mom’s present is already done. I knitted four cutlery holders for her (one for each member of the family). My dad’s getting a hat. I’m pretty good at hats. I would like to make fingerless gloves for one of my friends but that’s looking a tad ambitious. But I have plans for everybody else and they involve a barrage of snips and stickers. Damn, I should have started earlier. 

6. Using things up. This is a weird ambition but I’m tired of saving things for a rainy days. Last year my cousins got me a spa basket and alot of it (the scents of the oil diffuser, the shower steamers) hasn’t been used yet. Why wait? Pamper myself. Start today.