Thank Goodness That's Over (2025)

I feel both relieved and prickly about the end of 2025. I'm ready to move on completely (which is why my end-of-year review post is over a week late) but I'm also afraid of what's to come (what with the news...). Give me just a bit more January before my birthday on the 19th! Or maybe we can just reset the calendar to the 1st and try again. The only resolution I nailed down is "calm down", but I'd also need the world to calm down as well, so who knows how that will go.

It wasn't all bad, though! My surgery went well and the recovery's not as bad as I thought it'd be. It's plateaued down to something I can work with somewhat. I have good days and bad. The bad days dominating the year are mostly why I'm so done. I'm, of course, never going to be done with the recovery from the car crash entirely. One of the many doctors or nurses who I've seen since said this would be a "lifelong journey", which is convenient because so is everything else.

The other big thing that defined my 2025 was kinda small — my Hobonichi Techo. I finally committed to daily journaling and, despite a few blank spots, I successfully filled an entire notebook with my various thoughts and bullshit throughout a whole year! It's so comforting having a record of what I was thinking and feeling and doing. I have such a bad memory that I will struggle to place memories from, like, 2 months previous. But now it feels like I'm an historian of my own life. I flipped through it this weekend and got overwhelmed by the scale. These days really add up to something, even if individually they sometimes didn't feel like much. I will not be showing you most of it.

Nicky Flowers - Let's see how this one goes!! - 01/10/26 - (send any comments/questions to hello at nickyflowers dot com)