January Happenings

Some random happenings from January.

Enjoy the photos! 

Three years in row, we've had a family gathering on New Year's Day with the family members who live in the area. 

This year we met up at a mall food court for lunch. It was fun and the food was delicious!

One day it was pouring outside and I really didn't want to go on a walk. I put on some fast drying clothes, got my umbrella and convinced myself to go. 

I ended up really enjoying the walk. For some reason it made me happy even though I got pretty wet on the walk. :)

I received an adult coloring book from one of my sisters for Christmas. I've been enjoying coloring the pages. It's pretty cathartic. 

I went to brunch with a few friends one day. I got this salted caramel waffle and it was delicious! It had bacon, whipped vanilla mascarpone, brown sugar roasted walnut crumble, caramel drizzle and sea salt. 😋

The group of friends I went with to brunch. My friends are awesome!

Some cuddle time with Ash. 

The last half of January has been quite cold outside. I had to convince myself to go on this cold walk last week. I did go, but I didn't want to. 😂

Normally the winters in Virginia are pretty mild with cold temperatures but not very much snow. Last weekend it snowed and it's also been really cold. The highs have been in the 20s and lows in the single digits every day since the snow got here. The issue with that is now the snow is icy. 

Unfortunately I do not own a shovel and could not shovel my car out of its parking space the first day after the storm (which would have been the best time to do it). And it's been really hard to find a shovel because all of the stores are sold out. Thankfully I received one on my doorstep (after a local store got a restock of shovels) on Thursday. 

The snow pictures above were taken the day after the storm (Monday). And it’s Saturday now and my car is still stuck. I’ll work more on getting my car out today.

Hope you all have had a good January and are staying warm and safe wherever you are located!

Procrastination

Sometimes I put off doing things longer than I should because I overthink. I think it’ll be super complicated or take a long time. At times it does end up being complicated or take a long time but sometimes it doesn’t.

There was something I’d been putting off doing for a couple of months. This week, I finally made the call to get it taken care of (yay) and it ended up not being nearly as bad as I had debated about in my head for so long. 

I say all of this to say, maybe I should try to not overthink so much and procrastinate tasks as much as I do sometimes. But knowing myself that will be a hard thing to try to overcome. 🤣

2025 in Review

I’ve seen people on social media make videos of their 2025 in review. I am not technologically savvy enough to make a video but I thought I would make photo collages from pictures from each month. 

For various reasons, I’ve been debating whether or not I should post this. But after some back and forth in my head about it, I decided to just post.

Enjoy the pictures!

January 2025

February 2025

March 2025

April 2025

May 2025

June 2025

July 2025

August 2025

September 2025

October 2025

November 2025

December 2025

Although most of my pictures are of happy things, life is not always rainbows and butterflies. Life gets really hard sometimes. But I hope this year you have a good year with more happy memories than bad memories. 😊

Happy New Year!