The Chronicles Of Nay

Hello! How is everyone doing? I hope that everyone had a great Christmas! Mine was pretty chill! Hung out at home with the parentals in our Christmas pajamas. My mom made a thanksgiving type spread. I ate so much food! My brother isn’t coming in to town until later in the week so I still haven’t opened many of my gifts. I did open my gift from Santa! It was a power drill! I am so excited I have needed one for a little while! I am pretty excited about it! I have so many jobs for it! haha

I am sitting in Starbucks and the way the lights are turned I feel like I am in a spotlight! Sorry that has nothing to do with anything expect I feel very exposed! haha I finally finished that book I was reading. I was not a fan. But I pushed through it and finished it. Now I am torn. I set a goal to read some books out of my comfort zone. So I started Dracula, kinda. I feel like this is going to take more concentration than I usually give a book! I brought another book to read and I might start that one.

So last year I had a few smaller goals they were:

1) a picture a day again. I have a plan to try to make it further this year. More check-ins! Haha 2) To try new things. 3) Blog more consistently. Finally I am making a conscious effort to 4) Find the sunshine.

That damn picture a day I can’t get past August! School starts and then bam I get behind then I just stop. I was pretty good about blogging until this semester started. Finding the sunshine is something I need to be more consistent with. I may turn some of the empty wall outside my room a find the sunshine wall. We will see… I need it to be sustainable, something that I won’t have to manage much! I will ponder. Thoughts?

My word for 2023 is Pause. I have a tendency to forget to take time for myself. I get caught up in things I think I HAVE to do and forget to do things that I enjoy doing. This semester I didn’t sit at a restaurant, I didn’t do any geocaching, I didn’t play games with friends, I didn’t blog, I didn’t take pictures of the sunset (or sunrise for that matter). So my word for 2023 is to do more of those things. School and work will be waiting for me if I take an evening and have dinner with friends and play games. Or if venture out and grab a few geocaches along the way.

So some goals for this year:

• at least 50 geocache finds
• Watch at least 12 sunsets (that is one a month!) Not just watch the sunset but take the “Pause” and not doing anything (maybe taking pictures) but just watch the sun set.
• Read at least 20 books this year
• The goal is to blog more but let’s put a number 24 blogs this year. That is 2 a month at least.
• Keep up better with my bullet journal or switch to a planner!
• Of course I am going to try to take a picture a day. I have an app that is supposed to be like 1 second a day. Then at the end of the year you end up with like a 6 minute video. We shall see. I haven’t used this app yet. The problem is that there isn’t a good android app. There is a pretty good i phone app.

I think that is good! I will reevaluate the ones with numbers in lets say June! haha This year is gonna be a good year! What is your word for 2023? What are some goals you have for the year? Do you need or want someone to check in on how you are doing on those goals? This wasn’t really about traditions but more a reflection and looking forward!