2025 resolutions

Hello gentle readers! I’ve been welcoming the New Year very, very slowly. I’ve honestly been lacking clarity on what 2025 is supposed to be. I’m worried about turning 25 because nothing about this year looks like what I thought it’d be. On the other hand, the possibilities for how good this year can turn out to be are endless. Here’s to practicing optimism!

My 2025 resolutions!

I resolve to job hunt again. I definitely have been procrastinating on job hunting. It’s cold. I know the whole process has been utterly soul crushing and disappointing and there’s no good reason to begin the hunt again. But I would love to have a full time job with benefits and a decent salary this year!

I resolve to reread The Brothers Karamazov. This was supposed to be a part of the reading goals I had last year, but it didn’t happen. I’m excited to dive into Father Zossima’s teachings. (I’m also planning on attempting to reread War and Peace, so we’ll see how it goes.)

I resolve to knit a sweater. Around mid-December, I attempted to begin knitting a top-down raglan sweater. I made it pretty far, but I may be allergic to the wool I used, so I’m getting new yarn and going to try again. One sweater would be amazing to knit!

I resolve to become consistent on the blog again. I feel like this past year, and honestly for the past two years, I fell off the blogging train. I just want to get consistent again with uploading. I still have a million ideas but life gets in the way of me contributing to this space.

I resolve to be conscious of my spending habits. Due to waiting on invoices from freelance work and random subscriptions I keep spending money on, I really fell off on my spending. I want to be more conscious of card swiping and buying random things that I don’t actually need.

I resolve to take my driver’s test again. Last year, I literally did not make any progress on driving again, but I really want to get back behind the wheel.

I resolve to make serious progress on my student loans. When I get a job (positive energy!), then I attack my student loans and progress financially! I’ve definitely thrown a little bit of money at my loans but I want to have a clearer plan and ideally, having a full time job would actually have me paying off at least half of my loans this year.

Silly resolution: I want to keep exploring the wonders of New York City. Go to the places I keep telling myself I want to visit—Ralph’s, the Met Cloisters, that coffee shop in the Bronx, the Transit Museum. There’s so much to do.

Wild resolution: I get to travel somewhere new, preferably internationally at low cost.

Word of the year—

My word for the year is home.

It came to me in prayer, after which I decided to pick up Phylicia Masonheimer’s Every Home A Foundation. This year I want to cultivate a sense of home. I’ve felt adrift these past few years. Charlottesville really became home to me, but I don’t live there anymore. That part of my life is over. I don’t know if I’ll move this year or if I’ll spend another decade in New York City. What I do know is that I want to steward the place I’m living in well. I want to explore and be delighted with where God has me right now.

Listen to You Are My Home by Torchbearers.

2025 wallpapers—

In 2025, I want to feel good about the life God is building. I want to receive the good things He has planned for me. I want to be disciplined in doing the things I don’t want to do and be faithful to God, even when nothing is changing. Even in the life we never thought we’d have, I believe God can begin to give us the life we’ve always wanted.

Signing off,

Gigi

Let me know what are some of your resolutions for the new year!