It's the New Year!

[mousme]

<img src='https://mousme.dreamwidth.org/file/2546.gif' alt='Jillian Holzmann from Ghostbusters' title='Holzmann' />

 

Happy New Year, everyone! Time for my annual Jillian Holzmann gif, which for some reason I CANNOT get to display on DW. Sorry, folks. It's my favourite.

 

2025 was a beast, friends, and it almost got the better of me several times, but I am still here, a little battered around the edges but here nonetheless. I won't go as far as to say "still standing," but sitting up seems to be a pretty good compromise. ;)

 

I have to say, I am not expecting 2026 to be much better globally. I think we're going to see more economic hardship, probably a bird flu pandemic that no one will report on because the US is busy burying their data while destroying what's left of their healthcare system, a lot more international conflict, and probably yet another record-breaking year of climate disasters.

 

That being said, the plan is to keep on keepin' on. I'm turning 47 in four days, and so it's time to get back on the horse, or get up on the horse for the first time depending on what we're talking about, and work on myself, since that's the only thing I have even a little bit of control over (more or less).

 

I kind of fell off the bandwagon of posting every day, so I'm going to try to get back to that starting today. I also noticed that so much happened last year in the news and social media and even in my life that I've forgotten most of it. Like, "Oh yeah, it was THIS year that Elon Musk threw that Nazi salute!" and "Fuck me, I'd almost forgotten about the California wildfires!" and " Oh, geez, there was an actual election this year and it feels like it happened ten years ago!" etc.

 

I felt like I was constantly slightly behind this year when it came to the news, and then it all leaked out of my brain anyway, so this year I'm going to try to be a bit more diligent and less haphazard about how I write my journal updates. I've created a template (subject to tweaks/changes as things progress) which should prompt me to try to document things as they happen: 

 

1- Daily personal updates (basically "what happened to me today").

2- Updates on personal/household projects.

3- Local and national news updates.

4- International news updates.

5- Miscellaneous (basically whatever doesn't fit into the above categories).

 

I'm at work, so I may or may not write a proper update for today a little later, depending on how busy things get. It will mostly consist of my new and continuing goals for the year, so if I don't post it you won't be missing much. ;)

 

Take care of yourselves, friends, and I'll catch you on the flip side.