2025 (vitruvian man edition)

• strength building
• vitamins (iron + c daily, d + zinc in winter, potentially add others)
• keep up with skin care
• floss regularly
• stretch regularly
• dabble in hobbies, try lots of new ones, pick up some old ones, do what feels good or interesting in the moment instead of trying to build a habit or create a side-hustle (and then end up hating the hobby as a result)
• ✔ less and less social media
  • ✔ delete facebook
  • ✔ avoid scrolling on instagram, just look at friends' stories
  • ✔ continue hitting the block button on tumblr the moment i see stuff that i don't want to see, no matter how harmless
  • ✔ delete pinterest

2025 (hedonism edition) taste

• meals from the new restaurants near me that i haven't tried yet (4/6)
• ✔ something on my favorite restaurant's menu that i haven't tried before
• milk tea from my favorite downtown restaurant, as often as possible
• homemade poptarts
• ✔ good meals with my friends
• ✔ fancy little treats for no reason

smell

• ✔ rosemary spray, everywhere, all the time
• ✔ baking bread
• ✔ lush flying fox
• ✔ petrichor
• ✔ a perfume with barely sensible reviews that i fall in love with
• ✔ fresh air through my bedroom window as often as the weather permits
• ✔ djarums
• cocoa butter

touch

• ✔ sand
• ✔ cold saltwater
• ✔ warm beach rocks
• modeling clay
• soft fabrics
• gloves -> film -> developer
• ✔ something that fits in my hand in a very satisfying way

hear

• drums that fix my brain chemistry
• a guitar riff that makes me insane
• the four right chords
• ✔ future favorite songs and albums that i don't even know exist yet
• ✔ applause for my friends at their talks and events
• my friend's amazing playlists as we have art days together for the first time in years
• a mixtape i make by taping songs off the radio as though it is the early years of my life
• my d&d players cheering each other on as they figure out a puzzle i set for them
• local orchestra

see

• dozens of beautiful, cool, striking, and ugly things through my camera's viewfinder
• ✔ something in a gallery that evokes a strong emotion
• ✔ something in a museum exhibit that makes me laugh out loud in delight
• ✔ something in an archive that breathes life into my thesis
• sunrise on both solstices
• lots and lots of zines
• a book about the history of chemistry
• ✔ many books in general
• a tarot spread from the deck i've been planning to make
• a line of poetry so good i have no choice but to highlight/underline it

2024 THINGS TO CONTINUE

• ✔ enjoying a diverse and abundant selection of entertainment without reaching for consumptive goals (numbered goals like 'read x books in a year' are my enemy here)
  • keeping up my habit of writing out my thoughts on media
    • this has lost its charm
• curating an incredibly dramatic yet comfortable wardrobe
• ✔ redoing my bedroom and making it a pleasant place to live
• ✔ trying out new music frequently instead of falling back into my trap of only listening to the stuff i listened to when i was 20
• keeping habits like flossing and skin care going even when i miss a day or two
• ✔ being less ambitious with my gardening and sticking to what works

NEW THINGS

• ✔ save $5 for everything i do on this list and use it to help fund next year's resolutions
• start a new stardew playthrough and only play this one for the entire year
• start a youtube channel
• travel
  • ✔ halifax (1-3 times -- j's wedding? visit my cousin? fieldwork?)
  • ✔ ottawa (archives trip)
  • around the island as much as i can (fieldwork? boat lighting? road trips?)
    • fogo (cohort trip)
    • brigus? (also cohort trip?)
  • ??? gotta take advantage of the whole getting paid for a year with no obligations but writing, though
• seed-bomb some local places with native wildflowers
• take a screenprinting class
• pagan shit
  • figure out a wheel of the year that actually makes sense for the environment i live in. why the fuck am i celebrating spring festivals in winter. i'm sorry brigid but imbolc is in april now
• start drawing my oracle deck
• food to make
  • sun tea
  • hobbit feast
  • cheesecake
• ✔ use up/try and toss ALL my little sephora samples
• carve a pumpkin
• read moby dick
• learn to knit and/or crochet
• get memberships at the two arts groups i keep eyeing
• go through steam library and hide all the unplayable garbage i got from bundles so that i'm not constantly scrolling past things i will never play while trying to find something good
• first aid
  • renew basic first aid/CPR certification
  • learn more specific types of first aid
    • wilderness
    • street medic
    • psychological
    • naloxone administration (free training here)
• dark sky advocacy
• ✔ spend quality time with my cohort before we end up in different places
• ✔ start keeping a recipe book of recipes that have associations with people i know
  • ie, not just family recipes but the salad my youth group leader used to bring to potlucks back in the day, a's mom's brownies, my classmate's cookie recipe, the dessert my returning officer brought when we worked elections
  • also include food wisdoms shared with me (ie, d's observation that cod bites are boneless, so you get more fish for the same price)

2023

THINGS TO CONTINUE

• ✔ enjoying a diverse and abundant selection of entertainment without reaching for consumptive goals (numbered goals like 'read x books in a year' are my enemy here)
  • keeping up my habit of writing out my thoughts on books, and spreading that out to other media (video games, tv, etc)
• ✔ writing for my own enjoyment first, my friends' enjoyment second, and potential audiences' enjoyment third (if at all)
• drawing without the goal of selling art, just having fun with it
• ✔ curating an incredibly dramatic yet comfortable wardrobe
• ✔ trying out new music frequently instead of falling back into my trap of only listening to the stuff i listened to when i was 20
• keeping habits like flossing and skin care going even when i miss a day or two
• ✔ wearing masks on transit/at work and school/in crowded places, regardless of what the current public health situation is
  • honestly who are these people voluntarily breathing public transit air. anyway
• ✔ slowly but surely converting my yard into a food garden (and also just a more pleasant place to be)
• ✔ diversifying my skill set to make transitioning out of events planning easier

THINGS TO START

• actually bring my cameras places so i will actually maybe take pictures
• ✔ resisting the urge to buy makeup when i hate wearing it
  • ✔ see also: jewelry
• ✔ actually attending stats class so i can actually, finally pass it on my third attempt
• learning ogham
• making videos

THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

• ✔ road trip
• ✔ california trip part two
• ✔ graduating

DATES FOR 2023 THINGS I MIGHT ENJOY

january

• ✔ 6: every loser - iggy pop
• ✔ 20: remember never before - july talk

february

• ✔ 9: let her burn - rebecca black
• ✔ 24: cracker island - gorillaz

march

• ✔ 17: memento mori - depeche mode
• ✔ 24: so much for stardust - fall out boy
• ✔ 31: scream 6
• ✔ 31: the love still held me near - city and colour

april

• 14: renfield
• 28: first two pages of frankenstein - the national

may

• ✔ 19: fast x

august

• 11: the last voyage of the demeter
• 18: blue beetle

tba

• ✔ new pj harvey