As vaguely promised, here’s your January Newsletter.
I rung in the New Year at my dear friend, Jessie’s house which doubled as her birthday celebration (Capricorns are ELITE don’t even try to convince me otherwise) and discovered my tolerance should not be challenged by two? three? glasses of champagne (we were in bed by Midnight; it was amazing).
The month was mostly sick-free (wahoo!) and the honeymoon phase of moving is waning. I’ve envisioned myself moving/ living in San Francisco, working in the Financial District and getting a studio to myself. I daydream about moving back to D.C., where familiar faces and state-named-streets greet me and a days where Google Maps are not required every other time I leave the house. Every dog I see tempts me and every cat reminds me why I’m glad I don’t have one.
Stand up comedy and trivia night are two new things I tried this month (not performing, just getting picked on in the crowd!). Social, low barrier activities such as these make the winter a bit less sad/ gloomy (I don’t take trivia seriously, you see). I also signed up to (hopefully) volunteer with the goats at Fairyland which will be a surprise to both you and me. I’ll be sure to report back next month.
This year I am aiming to try/ say yes to all the things I have been meaning to do the past few years. Some are as follows:
Trivia nightStand up comedyat least 1 date a month (anyone wanna go on a date in the next 2 days lol)
Rock climbing
Cooking class
Mini golf
High tea
Trail ride (horses)
Volunteer with some kids
Volunteer with old people
Paint more
Read 26 books this year (last year I finished 25!!); 30 if I am feeling BoOKISH
Finish my novel
Try to “get into Crock-potting”
Buy a bike
Try mountain biking
Find the meaning of life
Quit my job, buy a van and travel across the country and become an influencer(not this)Adopt a rescue dog (why have I met so many people in California who got their dogs off the streets of Mexico)
Anyweasels, let this be some inspiration to you! Try that thing you’ve been wanting to do forever. Bring a friend. Bring yourself. Bring Renee Rapp. DM that person who looks they’d be a great pal. Message that crush. Throw out your socks with too many holes. And give it some time. I am glad I am sitting with my feelings of BOREDOM and STILLNESS and giving myself the space to adjust and settle in. Don’t forget to say “rabbit rabbit” on the first of the month.
a poem i enjoyed this month:
Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.
-William Martin
another one :,)
i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twentysix and thirtysix
even thirtysix but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me
—Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and A Memoir 1969-1980
No, I do not have children and no, I will not be elaborating.
See you later <3
-catie !!!
love love love!!!!!!!!!!
YES CATIE!!!! what an intense and fun and chaotic and brave start of the year!!