How is it already Winter?! Wasn't it just Fall?! Time passes so much more faster as an adult and the fact that this is literally a fact blows my mind. How unfair. Wish someone had told me this was another side effect of adult hood lol.
Texas weather is crazy; we've gone from 30's and next week we're going back up to 80's. Clearly Texas doesn't play by seasonal themes. At all. Which wouldn't be so wild if it at least didn't make it Winter and Summer in one week.
I attempted to do holiday photos yesterday and it went... not as I expected what so ever. But at least I attempted, I guess? It's super difficult with kids who like to randomly just run off for any given reason. Like, this is why parents have those leash bags. Crazy kids.
drink hot cocoa
Okay this one I already did at The Dallas Farmers Market. And we had a Hot Cocoa night with the girls. I do want to go somewhere and get one more cup of Hot Cocoa from somewhere. Maybe a bakery or something, I haven't decided yet but somewhere possibly fancy. But a nice cup of Hot Cocoa sounds super festive and cozy. Throw in reading the last few books of the year in there!
see holiday lights
We drove around the higher end of Dallas and saw some amazing lit up houses along the way. Like, big ass houses that just had a whole light up display. I don't do this as often as I use to, so I'm glad I got to this year. I've always wanted to do those drive up light displays but now I can't seem to find any of them!
go ice skating
I would go ice skating with friends every year when I still lived in The Bay Area and we'd go to San Francisco and spend the afternoon ice skating before spending the rest of the afternoon playing DDR. It's been years since I last went ice skating and I know my oldest has been asking to go lately. I really want to take her but she's still at that age where she gets really upset if she can't do something she's never done perfectly on the first try. Soooo, I'm not entirely convinced I should take her but it would be fun to let her try it. Or it could be the worst idea ever, but hey, that can apply to any choice lol.
bake holiday cookies
I've had a KitchenAid for like, 4 years now, no joke. And normal pre babies me would be super excited about that but just thinking about baking anything already got me tired. Just thinking about it. Shame since I went to culinary school for baking & pastry and I haven't done shit in a really long time.
That said, I actually got cookie cutters and all kinds of other shit so I wouldn't have any excuse to not bake cookies this holiday season. We'll see how that goes.
refresh my gaming set up
Since getting my new upgraded gaming pc, I've been wanting to redo my whole desk. The problem is that it's an L shaped desk but it's pretty small. So instead of feeling like I have more desk space, I end up running into the longer part with my chair a lot. I even have it placed the opposite way I had it in the last place because I kept banging my knee/leg getting in and out of my chair and ended up with bruises everywhere. Like yo, this shouldn't be so damn difficult!
Other than that, I want to redecorate the whole area itself. I have my floating shelves up but I need to organize what exactly I want displayed up there. As well as on my monitor shelf. I'm wondering if having an actual sound bar was a good or bad idea. It does take up some space but I don't really want separate speakers either. And of course, you can't have enough RGB items... despite my gaming chair, my sound bar, and my extension tower all light up. Oh and of course the side of my pc that's open and the front. Still doesn't feel like enough lmao.
make one cocktail drink
Typically my husband is the one who makes me drinks. Which is fascinating since he doesn't drink. He's never had a drink and he doesn't really believe in it. He's one of those straight edgers or whatever. I don't know, nor would I know lmao. But for someone who doesn't test drink what he makes me nor knows what alcohol tastes like other than my off the wall ass descriptions, there are some drinks he's made that I've loveeeeeeeeeeed.
And while I'm not trying to take that job from him, I do want to learn how to make my own drinks and mix something up that I like. My brother (as in my real biological one) is/was a bartender for a very well known club in San Francisco for a few years and I'd run into him in the living room or kitchen or wherever he decided to practice his drink mixing and he'd usually be mixing drinks during our holiday parties.
Just something new I'd like to try. Honestly I'm more into mocktails now that I'm older but this also sounds like it could be fun.
re-evaluate my shops & businesses for 2026
Re-eval as in have a better idea of what I want to accomplish for each shop and each stream of income. While having a vague idea has been working, I feel like it's just contributing to my brain fog even more, if that makes sense. Not just that but I want to start a test shop to test a potential shop idea, but even that, I need to have a much more clear idea of what exactly I'm trying to test.
I'd love for all of this to be a bit more organized.
That includes writing down and planning new launches, self. This also includes idea's and rebranding concepts, thanks.
do a deep in my soul purge of non joyful things
I hesitate like a mf to get this one done. I want to let things go, but I don't want to feel like I'm abandoning those parts of me or my life, which I get that I'm not, but as someone who constantly had the things they held close and dear either be broken in front of them (on purpose) or taken away from them growing up -- it can be hard.
It's hard for me to let go of anything because of that reason. I cling to my things even more because that's how me and my stuff were treated my entire life until I moved out and even then, the boys I lived with always felt like they had a right to throw my stuff away. And some without even telling me. How anyone thinks that's their right, their choice to make or think it's even okay is way fuckin beyond me. You don't touch someone else's stuff, period.
But over the years I've let go of a lot of people I thought I'd have in my life for life. I've realized that we outgrow people and things. We outgrow memories. And that's okay, as long as it's within our timeline. Not someone else's.
I know why I'm like this. And I know why it's hard for me to even think of letting my stuff go, but I also know that I have to let go of older stuff, stuff that doesn't even serve me anymore, to make room for new stuff and stuff that just might.
And I'm hoping to do the majority of this before New Years Eve... that's the goal anyway.
What are some things on your winter bucket list?
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