4. Festive self-date weekly, flirt all the
time!
Heck yeah and heck yeah! Since I’m an Artist’s Way
person, I’m supposed to be taking myself on dates once a week anyway, but I
often will skate by on, like, going half a block down the street to smell the
candles at the co-op annex. Those still count, but this year, I wanted the self-dates
to be special.
At first, it was hard. I was still brokenhearted from
a romance that ended in mid-November. But I did it. I drove to the OUTER
suburbs to see a matinee of Nightmare Alley. It felt grim and lonely,
not just because I’d chosen a superbleak movie!
But after a couple of months, I was driving along to
wherever and I just thought “I love you.” In my head! TO MYSELF! I was dreamily
stopping to take a sunset picture in the Movie Tavern parking lot on the way to
see The Black Phone. Equally bleak movie, way-less-bleak heart!
Self-dates make the world feel more open, generous,
and playful. One movie night even led to a second-chance love adventure! Two,
actually, but those are stories for another blog.
I try to make fresh goals every year, but maybe this
one needs to be every year, right underneath “Make stuff whenever I want.”
5. Cultivate my Mighty Writers
relationships. This one backfired so badly that “Don’t go
to the meet & greet” is one of my guidelines for 2023. Still a heartbreak I
just can’t find words for.
6. Two hours Kahn Academy math weekly. Yep!
I mastered 7th grade math and I’m halfway through 8th grade
math! I got to change my car magnet tutoring ads from K-6 to K-7! Adding a math
grade is a pretty big deal, actually! I’m pretty excited about it.
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