2026 Resolutions
1- Move
I spent a lot of time and mental energy home shopping, doing spreadsheets and thinking about where to move in 2025. Every day I’d change my mind. Still not sure yet of anything other than I will move in 2026. I have many options and all of them have one massive downside.
2- Take online art classes(s) and draw 365 hours
If you want to get better you need to do focused training, you can’t just put in hours. Hours rapidly become meaningless without structure and they become very productive with guidance. There’s tons of online classes now by people with decades of professional experience and they can critique your work and give guidance so we’ll see what we do! I’ll also put in the time doing life drawing, travel sketchbook, social drawing and classes.
3- Travel Thailand / Taiwan + France
Thailand in Jan-March then France in July-September, hopefully overlapping with a few friends from Victoria! I will try to be more social when traveling, do more activities and spend more money. I have more money than I thought and nobody to spend it on and nothing I care about buying. What a horrible problem to have oh no.
4- Start Soda Dungeon 3
Soda Dungeon 2 came out 5-6 years ago. My partner ( Afro-Ninja ) who coded those games took a break to make another game these last 5 years and hopefully he wraps it up in 2026 and we start on SD3 by year end and make the usual 0-10 000 000$ from game projects.
5- Work on Hunger / Eating Habits
I think I need to work on food habits this year because whatever it is I did resulted in me having 24/7 insatiable hunger and the inability to feel full. Probably takes 4-5 pounds of food to fill me up, so that’s like 30 eggs. Or 2 Costco pumpkin pies ( about 7500 calories ). I already eat a pretty clean diet with no processed foods and high protein and I drink no calories. It’s just that a bag of frozen peas is a snack to me but it’s still 800 calories of peas, it doesn’t fill me up and I will be hungry an hour later.
Anyway. Some starter ideas for the new year:
1- Weigh myself every day. Even if I don’t care about the weight so much anymore I find that this habit just keeps me on track. It snaps me back to reality every day instead of letting my brain take me on a ride for 4-5+ days.
2- Track on myfitnesspal. I never manage to keep it going for long but it really highlights how fast calories go up and how much of a joke 2000 calories is.
3- No more food after 8pm. It messes with my sleep and it’s often just calories above what I should eat for the day anyway.
4- No more food after family diner. I easily eat 4000 calories and still eat more after I come back home especially if there was leftover dessert. Ties into 3
5- Ignore scale / brain / mirror. You have to set a goal deficit and just stick to it, everything else can fluctuate a lot day to day. It’s very easy to get off track after a bunch of good scale readings. Your brain will always attempt to trick you into eating.
6- Find Decent Online Community
Sick of Reddit but was always too lazy to find something else. I can’t say that I’m getting anything out of them at this point since ChatGPT can just scrub Reddit and other places on the web for answers/community stuff that used to be only on Reddit.
7- Get Medical Tests For Funs
This is very hard to do in Canada. I think you can go through a naturopath? In the USA there’s many services where you can just mail in a blood/urine/whatever sample and they mail you back test results. Or you can do it in person for like a 100-200$.
Alright let’s go!