Not sure about you, but I'm glad Lunar New Year gives us the opportunity to start fresh. I got bad career news on January 30, two days into the Lunar New Year, so I'm going to do a Lunar calendar and Gregorian calendar fusion, if you will, and start MY new year today, February 1, 2025.

Happy new year to me! And to you too, honestly. I feel like we can all start new today. Most of my reading about the Year of the Snake suggests that we are supposed to shed all our old skin -- especially if it was bad but even if it was just fine -- and be persistent, careful, determined and ambitious. Now that it's really the new year, especially the Year of the Snake, there are a few plans I'd like to share (perhaps vaguely) with you.

• Getting back to digital minimalism
• Downsizing massively
• Finishing my mom's memoir
• Automating social media posts
• Doing something new with my hair
• Acting like it's 2008
• Spending wisely, saving wiser
• Shooting shots
• Focusing more on my website
• Using all my gifts
• Killing two birds with one stone

Now I could go into detail, and I know that y'all actually read my newsletters, but I'll write actual blog posts about these things once they become transformative enough. For now, just know I'm eagerly figuring it all out!

Not only is the Super Bowl happening here in New Orleans, but it's also Carnival. And we have a long carnival this year. So it's crazy busy in New Orleans right now, even after both a New Year's Eve terrorist attack on Bourbon Street and a 130-year snow storm that shut the city down for about a week.

My calendar gets fuller and fuller by the day. One thing I'm really looking forward to is the Pepsi NOLA Eats Fest! I got to attend a media preview and I learned about all the cool stuff they are doing while in town for the Super Bowl. 

Some stuff is embargoed so I can't go into detail, much like some cool Tostitos events coming up apart from the Tostitos Cantina at the St. Roch Market.

Here's a list of the best of my 2024 that I made on my phone, with plans to post online. "The best laid plans of mice and men oft' go awry," as my Mommy used to say. So. I didn't post. Well I did, but not some end-of-year situation like I planned. You know I'd hit my social media app limit instantly if I did that. However, I plan on going into more detail on my website eventually. ASAPtually, actually.

I love getting your reply emails, so please feel free to reply to my newsletter email if you're so moved! Also, while I have you, please make sure to check out any additions to my portfolio and any new blog posts. In my March newsletter, I'll link any new stuff indiviually. For now, I'm not trying to put a year's worth of links here. HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!

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