Here we are again, back at my annual pre-birthday post. TBH I am having a big birthday brunch tomorrow that I really need to finish setting up (and tonight I’m doing Hot Pot in Falls Church) so time is definitely not on my side right now, but I have ink to spill! It’s crazy how much and how little can change in a year. Please refer back last year’s post, because I really feel like I smashed that one out of the park. I’ve been going back and forth on what to write to try to wrap up 12 months of being 27. And I think what the spilled ink is starting to form is: I just really want to stop comparing current me to past me.

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Would you look at that?! Another 1,001 days have come and gone. And what did I accomplish? Not a lot on this list! But that is okay. I would love to spill some ink about how I’m feeling about the last 1,001 days.

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You know I’ve consistently been a bad blogger, when I started writing this post in March 2022, but am just posting it now. I have been saying for almost a year how much of a bad blogger I am, but my friends (who I complain about this to) always say things like: “no, you’re not” or “you’re just really busy” or “wait, you have a blog?”. I was tempted to name this blog after that Kourtney Kardashian quote that was circulating the clock app that goes “I was just out there, living life”, because I truly feel like that is why I have been dropping the ball on posting regular content. But then I thought this may be a good chance to reintroduce myself and the blog, since a lot has changed since I first started this blog in 2017. So hello there! I’m Kim, and I’m a bad blogger.

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I am starting a new thing of quarterly goals. You can read my general intentions for 2023 in this post, but I also wanted to be more specific in my goals and actually motivate myself to get sh*t done in the beginning of the year! So here are some attainable goals I’d like to do in Q1 of 2023 (January-March).

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Happy (almost) New Year Friends! I love a clean slate. And yes, things don’t magically change at the start of a new year, but I am a very goal oriented person. I like making lists and crossing them off. In the past I used to not make resolutions, but I decided to make a bunch this year because I love the feeling of crossing something off a to-do list. I have a list in my phone titled “2023 is the year I…” where I have been writing down random ideas and thoughts since November. So here is that list with a bit more explanation.

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I’m 27 years old. I have no money and no prospects. I’m already a burden to my parents. And I’m frightened.

10 points to whoever can name where that quote is from! I honestly cannot believe another year of my life has passed. It’s like I have no memory of the last 365 days. The only tell-tale sign of anything being different this year is the fact that my hair is SO MUCH LONGER than this time last year. And for that we are thankful.

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“Bad things happen in three’s.”

Am I the only one who believes this? I feel like it’s an old saying that I have definitely heard my mom and my friend’s mom say over and over again. (You may also be thinking ‘when it rains, it pours!’) It’s funny because while I have always been aware of the phrase, I didn’t start to truly believe it until recently. I have been experiencing an insane amount of bad luck since… March? Or at least that is when I started to notice it. The other day I made a list of unfortunate things I was going through and the list looked like this:

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I look in photos vs how I look in the mirror. I know this is not a groundbreaking idea. In this day and age, social media and documenting everything is very mainstream. I like to joke with my friend whenever we take a photo and I don’t feel the need to look at it afterwards that it’s because “I have an entire blog dedicated to how great I look”. But latest I have been looking at photos of myself and I don’t like what I see. So here is some spilled ink about that.

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This tends to be an annual tradition for my birthday. I like to spill some ink on the blog about becoming another year older. “Kim Thoughts”– if you will. So goodbye 25, and hello 26! Here are some random thoughts I have about myself, my life and aging- on this, the last day of me being 25.

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