2025 went by fast. Not that it was a better or worse year than other years; it just seemed to whiz by. I began the year wondering whether I'd survive it; I seem to have done so (knock on wood; it's around 12:45 p.m. as I write this, so who knows). With 2026 on my doorstep, I get to start that process all over again.
Today's agenda is, well, not much. Buy some salads and some alcohol-free champagne from the downstairs Paris Baguette, plus maybe some chicken breasts; fish out a fallen item from behind my toilet*; generate more Substack content; video tonight's Lotte World Tower fireworks display, as I try to do every year. And that's about it. Wake up on January 1 and take a walk in what promises to be below-freezing temperatures all day.
What will you be doing for the new year?
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*A package of ChapSticks fell out of my bathroom's medicine cabinet, hit my hand, bounced off a wall, went behind the toilet, and seemingly disappeared. I looked and looked but couldn't find it anywhere. I think it may have bounced inside the toilet. My toilet is open in the back, by which I mean the support below the bowl and tank. This seems like just the sort of stupid, highly improbable, Murphy's-Law thing that would happen to me.
UPDATE: I found the Chapstick package, which hadn't fallen behind the toilet at all: it had instead nestled itself flush against the side of the toilet closest to the wall, making it almost impossible to find. Lucky for me, I raked over every inch of the toilet with my phone's video camera, and that's how I spotted the ChapStick. Amazing. I'd been ready to give up. And now, for some weird reason, I feel like celebrating. I mean, think about it: if I had given up, and the ChapStick had sat somewhere for months, it could have gotten covered in mold, which in turn could have proven toxic to my lungs. Yum, right? So—disaster averted. Maybe that's why I feel like celebrating. And another thing: the video showed that my toilet isn't open in the back. I'm no longer sure where I got that idea from.
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