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Hello 2025 + First Day of the Year.

 Hello Loves and a very, very Happy New Year to you 🌟🎊🎉🎀🎉🎊🌟

I hope 2025 treats you & me with kindness and brings us peace and joy. 


My day began with my beautiful planners and journals and I wrote my yearly goals and made some lists (you know that makes me happy!). 
A great way to start my year and a new month. 


Last night we had a chill night in. 
Started the year with some cake and by watching Feluda, the classic Sonar Kella. 
Can't think of a better way to start my year than with Ray. 


My word for the year is Grace. 
I want to give myself so much more Grace and also give Grace to the World and People around me. 


I know it's possibly overrated but I love new beginnings and the promise of a fresh start. 
I love stepping into a new year and starting new planners and journals and setting goals. 
I like doing a reset. 
I love new years. 


Had coffee in a new mug. 
I love my calander for the year. 


And I started my year with a book haul. I wanted my first purchase of the year to be books. And late last night, in the early hours of 2025, I bought myself 4 books. 


Finally added War and Peace to my shelves and I am hoping to read it this year. 
Slowly in tiny installments, I am going to make my way through this magnum opus. 
Wish me luck. 


This is what I wore. 
A matra for the year~ Take it Easy. 

The start to the year was perfect, well nearly perfect. 
I have a swollen gum and am in a world of pain. So I've been gargling with salt water and icing my cheek. Not an ideal situation but..the rest of it was great. I am just hoping this doesn't lead me a dentist. I hope the swelling goes down by itself. 


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