lonely for the holidays.
when home is not a home
🎶 snowy christmas days lofi mix - feardog
Happy last week of 2022!! New Year’s Eve has always been one of my favorite holidays—there’s just something romantic and glamorous and reassuring all at once about counting down to midnight, potentially kissing someone, and starting a new planner with all of the previous year’s disappointments tucked away permanently on my shelf. (After my beloved Muji planner got discontinued in the U.S., I’ve been using this monthly planner. If you work in a corporate setting, however, I would recommend this monthly/weekly planner, as I found weekly planners crucial for fielding all the surprise tasks and requests that can crop up throughout the week.) And depending on which hemisphere I find myself in on NYE, the air feels like either bitingly cold motivation (to jump around! to run! to get warm!) or warm promises of a life of leisure. (I love my parents but no longer visit them for the holidays, which I’ll get into more …