January 1, 2025 - First Day of the Rest of My Life

Happy New Year, Diary!

I know it's so cliché to start the new year with a list of resolutions -- resolutions that typically go unfulfilled -- I've been there, done that, and quite frankly, it is cliché.

But I'm also a firm believer in superstitious fresh starts, and what better fresh start than a whole brand new fresh year?

Not only that, but by the end of 2024 I came to the realization that I simply can not carry on another year, month, week or day living the way I do --- fat and broke.

I'm absolutely exhausted stressing about money and how I'll pay the next bills, and I'm physically exhausted and sore from all the added weight I'm carrying around.

Ha. I guess one could say I'm carrying around extra, extra weight! Literal body mass AND the weight of a crap economy on my shoulders.

I need a way..... I need a  ...