Hello. I write to you from the other side of December 2025 – specifically, the last Sunday of 2025. Crazy that we are here, and yet, here we are.
Speaking of… I am totally wiped from wedding planning! So, all the best-laid plans about the reading I would do + fitness regimens that I wanted to adopt – all flew out the window. These got replaced by lots and lots of YouTube doomscrolling D: Funnily enough, I did keep to my rule of adding long-form videos to my Watch Later list, and I didn’t remove many of them. So I was able to reflect somewhat on some of the content I consumed – see my Nov-Dec roundup, heh. Interestingly, there are some threads that I may want to pick up on in 2026.
Exhaustion + Short-Form Videos = A shot attention span, which I don’t expect to be healed overnight. Even so, it did feel good to go back to an old habit of looking through my planner… it felt quite grounding.
In a bid to get my bearings, I did update my /now page. But the first draft left me feeling pretty ambivalent… Here are my secondary thoughts:
- Would be nice… if I can finish reading How To Do Nothing and Hellbent. HTDN takes a certain focus though, which I am not sure that I have in me right now. A good alternative… Will source for some fiction to read over my holiday. Hehe.
- Would be nice… to start a 5km plan. But once again, I don’t know that I’m in the headspace for that. A good alternative… is focusing on hitting 10K steps for this last week of 2025!!
- Would be nice… to eat whole foods. But I’m feeling kind of burnt out about worrying about food. I found myself eating to live in December, which worried me slightly. So, a good alternative, would be… to pay attention and take note of the foods that bring joy / feelings of self-care.
The week between Christmas and New Year’s feels pretty liminal. Life keeps getting “interrupted” by public holidays. Plus, I’m adjusting to a new life status, heheh.
So, I think my Q1(?) January(?) plans are what they are. I think it’s good to have a few options on hand, so that I can live a bit more mindfully. But once again, coping mechanisms are what they are. If I end up watching a few more YouTube shorts than I prefer, I’m going to not beat myself up too much about it. But yeah, I think it would just take a bit more attention, cos maybe I’m sending a message to myself about the things that I really want to do.
And, I just want to say, that for all the complaining I do about how tired I am – I’m pleased with how the wedding day turned out. So, I am married now. We are husband and wife. So surreal to type that… and yet, not crazy at all 🙂
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