Happy New Year! I hope everyone is having a good year so far, and I hope you all get to do what you set out to do. I’m gonna go over some of my resolutions and plans for the year, the first quarter is already turning out to be crazy.

Resolutions

The big one that I’m hoping to achieve is to lose a bunch of weight. Ideally, if I could snap my fingers and make sure that by the end of the year I was a specific weight, I’d be around 160 or 170. But, to start small and manageable, I want to get below 210. The last time I weighed, which was a few days ago, I was 227.5, so it’s around 20lbs to lose. By the end of the year, this should be manageable. If I only lost a pound a week I could get to around my dream goal weight, but that’s incredibly consistent progress. I’m not saying it couldn’t or won’t happen, but I doubt I’ll make that happen. Under 220 should be fine though. The holidays killed my diet and motivation for the gym, I was over at my friends house all the time and his mom makes amazing food and they’ve always got candy and sodas stocked. I came home and was weighing 230 one day. I knew it was bloat, but I was like “alright, somethings gotta change”.

The other big resolution I have is that I want to read a lot more. With TikTok probably getting banned at some point this year, I will have a lot more time to do outside of it. I don’t think I’ll go to Instagram Reels or Youtube Shorts, though I might spend more time on both of the platforms.

Media I Want To Watch/Read

I think maybe if I plan out things I want to read or watch, in the order I want to watch them, I am more able/likely to do that. So here’s a few things I want to consume this year, in the approximate order I plan to watch/read them.

Books

• Believe In Yourself: The Lee Priest Story - Lee Priest (I’m pretty far into this one already since it was a Christmas present. Hoping to finish it in January.)
• Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu (This is for PewDiePie’s book club that he’s doing. I’m closing into halfway done with it, but I’m not understanding a lot.)
• Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Tremendous: The Life of a Comedy Savage - Joey Diaz
• Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Sherlock Holmes Collection - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Greatest Beer Run Ever - John “Chick” Donohue
• Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Poor Folk - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
• Sakamoto Days- Season 1 Part 1 (Fun so far. Not as enjoyable as DanDaDan or Ranma 1/2 yet but I like it.)
• Wotakoi - Season 1 (The romance animes finally got me. Already started season 1, just have to find time to finish it. It’s fine so far, but not as grabbing as MDD or Horimiya.)
• DanDaDan - Season 2 (I’m so excited for DanDaDan Thursdays again.)
• Ranma 1/2 - Season 2

Manga

• Ranma 1/2 - Rumiko Takahashi (I loved the remade anime so I decided to pick up all the 2-in-1s. I’m about 4 volumes in (2 physical books out of 19), but it’s been a bit since I’ve read any.)
• My Dress-Up Darling - Shinichi Fukuda (This is a cute story, and the first season of the anime was really fun. I watched it in a few days and I’m excited for the next season that I think is coming out this year.)
• Heavenly Delusions - Masakazu Ishiguro (The anime got me HOOKED on this story. I need to rewatch the first season, cuz there was a lot that I missed and now I’d be so tuned into what I should pay attention to. Go watch it if you haven’t seen it, it’s dark and interesting as all get out.)
• Goodnight Punpun - Inio Asano (I have this physically, but it was kind of boring and depressing so I haven’t finished it. I’ll need to re-read most of it.)
• Wotakoi - Fujita (Probably will read this, but it’s kinda low on my list.)

Television

• Wayne - Season 1 (I’m 6/10 episodes in. Pretty good so far. It reminds me of “End of the Fcking World” on Netflix.)
• Squid Games - Season 3 (I just finished Season 2 yesterday, and supposedly season 3 is gonna be the last and it’s coming out later this year. Fun little thriller.)
• Stranger Things - Season 5 (If we don’t get it this year, I’ll be super pissed. I understand it’s a graphically intense show, but damn. Surely it’s not 1 editor for all the episodes.)

Charlotte Winter 2025

Getting pretty close to the end of the month as I’m writing this, so I might push more about this competition into a different blog post just so I can get this one out, but I went to Charlotte Winter 2025 and did way better than I expected.

If you want to see my solves, I recorded them all and posted them here. I didn’t do as well as I was hoping for 5x5, and it took all day for me to get any PBs but I finally got some for 3x3 and kept my pb streak going.

That’s gonna be it for this month, I don’t trust myself to come back and fill out anymore before January is over. See you guys next month!