With Natalie having returned to Brooklyn and then after we went to a party yesterday evening at some neighbors' home, it feels like we are on to 2025 already. I was up at a reasonable hour today and had a decently disciplined morning routine including meditation, sit-ups, push-ups, readings, Duolingo (back to Japanese after a couple of slack weeks in Italian and German, which I really feel like I should replace with Polish for freshness and challenge). And now here I am even blogging.
Perhaps I can even turn the corner on my general feeling of seasonal lethargy. Yesterday afternoon I was sitting there feeling pretty tired and decided to revivify myself through the obvious step of giving myself a haircut and the much less intuitive one of sitting down with my tax planning spreadsheet and doing some year end analysis to see where we stood vis-a-vis the wisdom of itemizing deductions and whether it made sense to pull some additional income into 2024. It actually felt good to do the work.
But in fact there are two days left to get stuff done in 2024. I have some work that has to be done this year but not that much, which leaves time free to take care of year-end organizational kinds of things which will let me start off 2025 in good shape.
I feel not unlike Ebenezer Scrooge, noting that the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future got so much done all in one night.
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