2026 ahoy!

Resolutions: I can’t remember if I resolved any of this last year, but:

• I’m going to try the new fruits and vegetables that I come across. I crave variety, and I need to get more fiber in my diet. It’s also an easy win, and I need some of those right now.

• I aim to knit three to four Hexipuffs a week. that will get me to just about done with the couch blanket by the end of the year, since I’m at ~160, and I want 200 more to make a decently sized blanket.

• I’m going to keep working on my shit, feeling my feelings, processing, and doing all the parts of growing that make you into a more functional person. I was going to do that anyway but see again: easy wins. I need a couple.

I may need to write this stuff down in the front of my new bullet journal/day planner. Or possibly write it on the cover in gold permanent marker - that might do it.

I should probably go check what I wrote in January of last year and see how I did, huh? Maybe I’ll hit that tonight or tomorrow.

Good luck this year, everyone, and I’ll see you in the streets.

Last year’s resolution and how I did

“My resolution this year [2025] is that I’m going to play more. The goal is to do or say one goofy or silly or flirty or ridiculous thing every day. Play is good for the brain and helps our nervous system experience safety.”

I may not have done or said playful things *every* day, but I have done them enough that I no longer feel as awkward trying to have fun with folks. So that’s kinda cool. I don’t know that I experienced safety in general but I definitely experienced safety with the double handful of people with whom I was allowed to be silly and they would be silly in return.

I miss my meatspace people. So many of my japes and silliness are physical, and I’m only just now realizing how tactile I am in my play, nose boops, scratching at doors like a cat instead of knocking, tugging at the elbows of people’s clothes, etc..

<.< … >.> … *boops your nose*