1/1/26

New Years Resolutions 2026

Happy Tuesday,

See also: New Year's Resolutions 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.

Looking back on 2025 Resolutions

1. Turn 28 Success.
2. Hydrate Success.
3. Keep up with my meds Success.
2020 - 20, 2021 - 42, 2022 - 42, 2023 - 16, 2024 - 10
4. Post Resolutions in January. Oops. Fail.
5. Post 2023 and 2024 Book Review. I decided to stop posting book reviews so I did in fact Fail at this one but I'm not mad about it.
6. Keep consistent with my reading log. Success.
7. Read ≥ 65 Success.
2017 - 41, 2018 - 69, 2019 - 19, 2020 - 53, 2021 - 51, 2022 - 45, 2023 - 63, 2024 - 82, 2025 - 65.
8. Read 2 books from my 2025 TBR List. Success. I only have two books left in my physical tbr that I am hoping to read next year. I say, "hoping" because one of the books is a poem a day... I'll let you know how that goes.
9. Write more - ≥ 50 pages. Success. I crushed it this year!
Project C 2022 - 206 pgs, 2023 - 244, 2024 - 281, 2025 - 403.
10. Journal more - or rather keep up the good work. Success.
2019 - 77, 2020 - 40, 2021 - 139, 2022 - 75, 2023 - 82, 2024 - 97, 2025 - 80.
11. Keep under 50 violations of my new buying rules. Success.
12. Create more art. Success.
13. Finish a coloring book. Success. I'm so proud of this one!
14. Achieve more resolutions. Fail.
2016 - 4/12, 2017 - 5/8, 2018 - 7/13, 2019 - 4/11, 2020 - 7/12, 2021 - 6/12, 2022 - 3/12, 2023 - 7/13, 2024 - 11/14, 2025 - 11/14.

2026 Resolutions

I've edited and deleted a few resolutions for the next year because I can.
1. Turn 29
2. Hydrate
3. Miss less than 10 days of meds
4. Separate reading log by month
5. Read ≥ 65 books
6. Read two books from 2026 tbr list
7. Write more - ≥ 50 pages
Project C 2022 - 206 pgs, 2023 - 244, 2024 - 281, 2025 - 403.
8. Track buying violation and get less than 25.
9. Make art
10. Finish a coloring book

Totally Ky

P.S. I've been trying to format this bitch for an hour because apparently the draft format is different than the published format. How long has that been happening?

12/28/25

Low(er) Buy 2026

Happy Tuesday,

The formatting on this got majorly messed up between draft to post... I might fix it at some point.

Also, I'm just going to stop acknowledging the huge gaps between blog posts.

Sincerely,

Totally Ky's team (aka me and my cat Batty)

This is my second year of having buying rules to try to limit the clutter and over consumption in my life. These are my rules for this year which are very repetitive, detailed, repetitive, long and repetitive because I found loop holes in my rules for last year. For example I put "watermelon lip oil" in my list of exceptions. I meant the one I love from dollar tree but because I didn't specify that I bought one from five below that I didn't like. And then I did a lip product inventory and realized I have five of the dollar tree watermelon lip oils so I took it off the exception list completely. I also put "Shein hauls" in my exceptions list last year so I changed that to mean that I could break the other buying rules if I bought it during my once a month shein purchase.

I also took that out of my exception list and now I've limited shein or redbubble to every other month.

I added accountability partners and punishments that I'm hoping will be such a deterrent that I won't even need them... We shall see how that works out.

I also added a reward. If I finish five non-chapstick branded lip products then I get to buy one to replace them.

I'm super excited about this and have been keeping a list of lip products I want. And that excitement is driving me to really try to get through products. I've already finished a lip product that I've had since around 2017.

I took screen shots of my rules to post here and send to my accountability partners so that I can't change the rules and I just noticed a typo that I will not be fixing.

Bonus: How did I get here?

I've managed to limit my anxiety to five years in the future. Meaning I am allowed to worry about aspects of my life and plans within the next five years and past that is future Ky's problem. That means I'm worried about moving which my family is planning to do sometime after my brother graduates highschool.

Now what I am worried about is moving. I mean literally moving all of my shit (do I curse on this blog?... Well I do now) from one place to another. I have lived in my current house as long as I can remember. I lived in a few different places when I was very little but I don't remember even moving in to my current home. The only moving I've done is from one side of the house to another. We moved out of the granny pad and into the main part of the house after my grandpa passed.

So I've collected a lot of stuff. I got really into taking inventory this year so I can tell you I have 97 stuffed animals, 67 lip products, 45 Halloween headbands, 99 articles of outer clothing, about 95 books. And this is after years of decluttering... And buying more things.

Totally Ky

2/6/25

New Year's Resolutions 2025

Happy Tuesday,

See also: New Year's Resolutions 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Looking back on 2024 Resolutions

1. Turn 27 Success.
2. Hydrate. Success.
3. Keep up with my meds. Success.
I got a monthly pill holder ($12 on Amazon) which helped a lot with consistently
taking them but it brought less attention to the days I missed. While I do think I did better this year I am guessing the number of missed days. I plan to add another strategy to help keep a more accurate count.
2020 - 20, 2021 - 42, 2022 - 42, 2023 - 16, 2024 - 10
4. Post Resolutions in January. Success. Success.
5. Post 2021 and 2022 Book Review. Success.
6. Keep consistent with my newly started reading journal. Success.
7. Read ≥ 60. Success
2017 - 41, 2018 - 69, 2019 - 19, 2020 - 53, 2021 - 51, 2022 - 45, 2023 - 65, 2024 - 82
8. Read two books from my 2023 TBR List. Success.
9. Write more (Goal is 340) - Fail.
Project C 2022 - 206 pgs, 2023 - 244, 2024 - 281.
10. Journal more - or rather keep up the good work. Success.
2019 - 77, 2020 - 40, 2021 - 139, 2022 - 75, 2023 - 82, 2024 - 97
11. Be more mindful about buying stationery. Success.
12. Create more art. Fail.
13. Finish a coloring book. I was so close! Fail.
14. Achieve more resolutions. Success.
2016 - 4/12, 2017 - 5/8, 2018 - 7/13, 2019 - 4/11, 2020 - 7/12, 2021 - 6/12, 2022 - 3/12, 2023 - 7/13, 2024 - 11/14

2025 Resolutions

1. Turn 28
2. Hydrate
3. Keep up with my meds
2020 - 20, 2021 - 42, 2022 - 42, 2023 - 16, 2024 - 10
4. Post Resolutions in January. Oops. Fail.
5. Post 2023 and 2024 Book Review. I'm considering giving up on posting reviews because it's a lot of work and I don't wanna.
6. Keep consistent with my reading log
7. Read ≥ 65
2017 - 41, 2018 - 69, 2019 - 19, 2020 - 53, 2021 - 51, 2022 - 45, 2023 - 63, 2024 - 82
8. Read 2 books from my 2025 TBR List.
9. Write more - ≥ 50 pages
Project C 2022 - 206 pgs, 2023 - 244, 2024 - 281.
10. Journal more - or rather keep up the good work.
2019 - 77, 2020 - 40, 2021 - 139, 2022 - 75, 2023 - 82, 2024 - 97
11. Keep under 50 violations of my new buying rules. (I may make a separate post about this).
12. Create more art
13. Finish a coloring book
14. Achieve more resolutions
2016 - 4/12, 2017 - 5/8, 2018 - 7/13, 2019 - 4/11, 2020 - 7/12, 2021 - 6/12, 2022 - 3/12, 2023 - 7/13, 2024 - 11/14

Totally Ky

7/13/24

Book Review 2021 & 2022

Happy Tuesday,

A lot of these reviews I finished writing recently which means I don't remember all of the books very well and my notes were not always helpful. But I can't keep adding years to this post because it's already making the typing lag horrifically long.

Unhaul: I read the book and for whatever reason I will not be keeping it.

2021 (51)

1. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (Unhaul)

Plot twist she is not fine.

Trigger warning for depression and ideation. Used the word "f@g" twice for cigarette (I don't care about the context. That's a no for me).

Eleanor is seemingly completely fine. She lives a solitary life of routine and too much vodka. She makes maybe her first friend ever who teaches her what it's like to care and be cared for, but when infatuation for another man goes wrong she spirals into a depressive episode where her friend finds her on the floor and encourages her to seek help. She then confronts a childhood full of trauma she'd kept at bay with denial and alcohol.

This book was a Christmas present and while it was good enough for me to finish I don't love it enough to keep it on my small bookshelf.

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