It’s time for the post we’ve been hotly anticipating… a quarter of a century on the third rock from the sun and it is now for me to talk through 25 things i have in my head for the 25th anniversary of being birthed!

1. It’s difficult to quantify the amount of time I have spent in bed just staring at my wall,,, but it’s for sure a significant percentage of my life time.
2. I have no consistent outfit aesthetic and I think that’s neat. One day I will look like straight indie trash, and the other the preppy jock type.
3. There was a total eclipse today (I missed it, and I was not in the path of totality) and I do wonder what kind astrological implications that has for one being on my birthday (this is also fishing to the astrology girlies to woman-splain this to me)
4. I am a certified, licensed yapper if given the right set of circumstances. I yap to myself, frequently (to replace human connection)
5. I am approaching an IBS diagnosis and it frightens me
6. I am going to become the greatest advocate for third spaces. No more having to pay to hang out, we will all hang out at the park, I promise!
7. I am learning Japanese in anticipation of a trip to Japan, and I have since learned that the Japanese will make fun of you for doing this,,, which is really cool.
8. Trip planning is all fun and games until you find out how much a flight costs.
9. I have not done Karaoke since the summer and that needs to be rectified immediately!!! (my go to being Burn – Usher)
10. I have been doing Muay Thai classes and I get beat up pretty frequently during drills, but it’s fun to be in an environment where you aren’t good and are encouraged to get better (this is me just soft-launching my improv class era).
11. I have been thinking of creating content for Twitch or Youtube for a long while, but I have the emotional fragility of a hamster (aka I will die if you scare me).
12. Lowkey, if you have been in a single romantic relationship since high school you deserve to be divorced and single (I am kidding, I am begrudgingly happy for you).
13. Whoever thought Austin Butler would take a fantastic turn as Feyd-Rautha in Dune? I’ve seen that Elvis rehearsal clip. I was not prepared for his greatness.
14. Social media has provided me the worst brainrot ever, and yet I cannot leave. I like my friends too much!
15. I have reached a nirvana point with my day job, and it’s fun to do the things that I do… my silly little tasks are great!
16. I have been reading bell hooks and… it’s… we need more writing like this I think.
17. I have been very enamored with poetry and short story form lately, I think it provides me a lot of closure that I need when I am writing in short spurts.
18. I think love and hope is the strongest force we have collectively as a society, and the fact that people are so selfish upsets me a fair bit. Christopher Nolan was cooking with Interstellar!
19. I have more than a few people in my life that I love and hope the best for, but that I would dislike spending another minute with.
20. Despite me being single for years now, I have more confidence in who I am now than I ever did when I was dating (which isn’t saying much since I last dated someone in high school).
21. I have a lot of executive dysfunction issues, and it makes me push things off, but I have lived this long, so whose to say it won’t get better? (I have been flying by the seat of my pants for literal years now,,, help).
22. If I could Super Mario 64 my ass into a painting and see what lies in there, it would honestly be a Rothko or something similarly abstract. I want to see how that is interpreted.
23. AI still scares me even though I have more or less accepted it in my life… I just don’t like that my metaphorical yapping through the computer can be replaced by an AI.
24. I want to retire early. So catch me working hard until I can!
25. It is a privilege to live the life that I do, on the same Earth as some really quality beings. And yeah… I get pissy and weird about my life sometimes (and the people in it). But I have a genuine wish for everyone out there to live the life you want to live. I have no enemies. And I hope I’ve expressed that thoroughly to people (nobody reads this).