{"id":6851,"date":"2024-12-31T23:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T07:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/happy-new-year-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T23:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T07:08:17","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/happy-new-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! It&#8217;s a couple hours away, but preemptively speaking, &quot;Happy New Year!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>My New Year&#8217;s Resolution is to not die. Yeah, anybody with any semblance of realism is aware that the next few years are going to be pretty shitty. It&#8217;s like, when a Democrat gets in charge, it&#8217;s same old same old, but when a Republican gets in charge it&#8217;s chaos and misery and years worth of economic clownery.<\/p>\n<p>So like, dudes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t give into the FOMO and take up gambling or cryptocurrency.<\/li>\n<li>Try to eat nutritious and tasty meals, likely cooked at home because it&#8217;s cheaper.<\/li>\n<li>Wear a mask and wash your hands so you don&#8217;t catch COVID, the flu, or norovirus.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t go into debt buying a handbag that will be out of style next year.<\/li>\n<li>Get a good winter coat and some warm jackets.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t drink raw milk.<\/li>\n<li>Wear sunblock even when it&#8217;s &quot;not sunny.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Moisturize your skin, and not just on your face.<\/li>\n<li>Wash your bedding and your pet&#8217;s bedding.<\/li>\n<li>Drink enough water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And above all: Don&#8217;t give into despair.<\/p>\n<p>The news of the world is terrible because news companies make money by only sharing terrible things. There was a whole deal where the Zuck&#8217;s company was sued for purposefully overloading people with negative content because it resulted in more hits. And their reply to people being angry was to shrug, like &quot;We&#8217;re not a news organization even though a large portion of the population trusts us to be their daily news source. Don&#8217;t blame us. We&#8217;re just a little company uwu.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>So no matter how bad things <em>seem<\/em>, we are still alive, and as long as we live there is hope. May the future be brighter than the present and more hopeful than the past.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>I hope to keep being here for you, and I hope that you continue to be there for me to be there for.<\/p>\n<p>Much love,<\/p>\n<p>~Harper Kingsley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/harperkingsley\">https:\/\/paypal.me\/harperkingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/harperkingsley\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/harperkingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/harperwck\">https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/harperwck<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0\">https:\/\/amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\">https:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kimichee.com\">https:\/\/kimichee.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/HarperKingsley\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/HarperKingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.bsky.social\">https:\/\/harperkingsley.bsky.social<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/profile\/view\/HarperKingsley\">https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/profile\/view\/HarperKingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! It&#8217;s a couple hours away, but preemptively speaking, &quot;Happy New Year!&quot; My New Year&#8217;s Resolution is to not die. Yeah, anybody with any semblance of realism is aware that the next few years are going to be pretty shitty. It&#8217;s like, when a Democrat gets in charge, it&#8217;s same old same old,&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/happy-new-year-2\/\" title=\"Happy New Year!\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy New Year!<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1Mv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6924,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/thoughts-things-i-want-i-wish-people-wouldnt-lie-about-being-professionals\/","url_meta":{"origin":6851,"position":0},"title":"Thoughts; Things I want; I wish people wouldn&#8217;t lie about being professionals","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"May 10, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Thoughts Sometimes my brain starts moving fast. 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