Happy New Year, Everyone~
We’re about 14 days into 2023 and I feel like I’m just now able to breathe. After spending the first two weeks for the new year with a Mercury Retrograde (listen, just go with it. If you’re a Virgo or Gemini you’ll understand because we get the brunt of it), we now have the rest of the month in the “post shadow.” Which really means it’s not super safe to do all that you were trying to figure out during the retrograde, but it’s safer than it was two weeks ago.
That being said~ This upcoming weekend is Lunar New Year and I’ve always enjoyed celebrating that since I consider it to be a restart to the new year. And it gives me some extra time to sort out my intentions for the rest of the month. I no longer make resolutions—I make intentions. Sounds lighter.
One of my intentions this January is to save 1 million KRW (by today’s standards that’s $807.72). I’m planning something big for 2024 and I need to save all the money I can for it. I’m excited, but also nervous. But only a normal amount of anxiety~
My next intention is to do two drop-ins at my friend’s gym. I was at my best a few years into being here and I was working out all the time. I loved my confidence and I felt very much different than I do now. I want that feeling back. And I know a lot of it is tied up into my ability to move. This is not a case of body anti-positivity or anything of that nature. This is about movement without pain.
Lastly, I have had some stuck energy in my house lately and I feel it’s been contributed by the back room of my apartment. It needs to be cleaned out and put away neatly. So I plan on doing those things .
Now I know what you must be thinking…uh…are you gonna write? Yes. Yes, I am. But I am stuck and the best way for me to get unstuck is to plan for the future, have some movement, and free myself from some of my mess.
In 2022, I did a lot of reading. It was great~ I finally finished a book challenge and that felt really wonderful. Finishing something. :) I read 13 books last year and my favorite one was Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library. It was so wonderful and fitting for a new year book.
2022 had a lot of health challenges for my loved ones, which is why in 2023, I want to be stronger to support them—mentally, physically, spiritually. There was progress in 2022, and there were setbacks. But nonetheless, we got through it, right?
All in all, I’m hopeful for 2023 and all she will bring. And I hope to write here more often.
Xox.
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