New year, new… palette?

I don’t have any goals yet for 2025. For the last week I’ve been trying to muster up any sort of enthusiasm or energy for the new year. Maybe it’s my age and life experience, maybe it’s just that collectively 2020-2024 feels like this alternate universe we’ve somehow found our way into, maybe it’s that end of year this year means facing reality that my dream business, while still open, still isn’t generating any real profit 4 years in…. I just can’t be excited this year.

I’ve sat down and tried to do my usual end-of-year recap, introspection, and planning. I’ve tried to think of what goals I’d like to make for 2025 personally and professionally. I’ve tried to do the SMART goals thing everyone recommends to make your goals achievable. And, honestly, right now? None of it feels right at this moment in time.

So we’re starting small here. I soaked my watercolor palette, sacrificing a smidgen of my “good” paints in order to rid myself of some absolutely awful Hobby Lobby watercolors I had started with a while back. It seemed apt to rid an old and shitty something from my life that I’ve been holding onto, and it was.