Last Sunday
Dec. 29th, 2024 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonI am extremely happy that I have today and tomorrow off, as Christmas week was VERY busy for me with the day job. Yes, even post-holiday it was a bit crazy as one of our bookkeeping systems was absolutely convinced that we were open on the 25th and would not let me close the day otherwise...and that took me two days to resolve. Sheesh!
Anyway, I'm pretty much at the wind-down part of this last week of the year. Today the in-laws will be stopping by for lunch and whatnot (in which A and I did a marathon cleaning of the house, including terrorizing the cats with the vacuum cleaner), but tomorrow I have very few plans other than dropping a very heavy return off at the local UPS store, doing laundry, and finalizing my end-of-year blog posts and best-of music lists. It felt SO GOOD to sleep in until 8am this morning, as I'm usually up around five-ish due to my early work hours. I desperately needed the rest.
On a more personal note...yeah, there was Drama and a Life Event that went on earlier this year, but I think I'm doing pretty well regarding, as I actively made it a point not to spiral into moodiness and reactive emotions. I think that was probably one of the last life-cleaning things I really needed to do at this age, and it felt really good to move on from that part of my life. I'm able to move on and reach that clarity I've been needing. And yeah, I'm still not thrilled about what the next four years might entail, but I'm learning to face it directly and with a healthy dose of "oh FUCK no, not on my watch" instead of shrinking and hiding away. I've always hated that part of me and I don't want to do that anymore. I'm tired of avoiding conflict, especially when it is desperately needed.
That said...signing off for the year. Hope everyone has a great 2025!
Anyway, I'm pretty much at the wind-down part of this last week of the year. Today the in-laws will be stopping by for lunch and whatnot (in which A and I did a marathon cleaning of the house, including terrorizing the cats with the vacuum cleaner), but tomorrow I have very few plans other than dropping a very heavy return off at the local UPS store, doing laundry, and finalizing my end-of-year blog posts and best-of music lists. It felt SO GOOD to sleep in until 8am this morning, as I'm usually up around five-ish due to my early work hours. I desperately needed the rest.
On a more personal note...yeah, there was Drama and a Life Event that went on earlier this year, but I think I'm doing pretty well regarding, as I actively made it a point not to spiral into moodiness and reactive emotions. I think that was probably one of the last life-cleaning things I really needed to do at this age, and it felt really good to move on from that part of my life. I'm able to move on and reach that clarity I've been needing. And yeah, I'm still not thrilled about what the next four years might entail, but I'm learning to face it directly and with a healthy dose of "oh FUCK no, not on my watch" instead of shrinking and hiding away. I've always hated that part of me and I don't want to do that anymore. I'm tired of avoiding conflict, especially when it is desperately needed.
That said...signing off for the year. Hope everyone has a great 2025!
