Happy end of 2024! I love the new year and its shiny promise… but for now, I made a list of the things I loved most over the last twelve months. Best wishes to us all in 2025.
- Old friends
- New people and optimism
- Carrot juice
- Wavy perms
- Caffeine twice a day (once on the weekends)
- Audiobooks in the car, especially
- Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
- Calling friends weekly
- Sweaters ugh I love them
- Staying in
- Jump rope for fitness
- Malatang and other spicy soups
- Having multiple beverages at once
- Songs by women with short titles
- “Impossible” by Clairo
- “Scott Pilgrim” by Plumtree
- “anything” by Adrianne Lenker
- “Track 10” by Charli XCX
- “Heaven” by Mitski
- “Dreaming” by Blondie
- Movie scores while studying
- Relearning how to be alone, after forgetting
- Big daunting academic projects, now done
- The lasting desire to be a better reader
- The lasting desire to be a better writer
- Forgiveness and stillness and not saying anything
- Video games, alone and with friends
- League of Legends (yeah)
- Stardew Valley
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
- Mario Party Jamboree
- Night in the Woods
- Hoarding many of the same picture of my dog
- Wearing the same four outfits all semester
- Feeling melancholy about school
- But saying bye to nostalgia
- My Yoshitomo Nara flip clock
- My Gentle Monster Kiko sunglasses
- Unexpected letters and postcards from friends
- Zines, as always
- Selfies
- Ibuprofen
- Sleeping well
- Feeling like myself, again
- French fries
- Lamb biryani
See you next year ❤
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