I do enjoy a challenge, shall we begin?

hello and happy 2026 everyone! i disappeared amidst the many happenings of december such as much sewing, many baking orders, and general malaise aka seasonal depression but i am back? anyway i am back at work two days a week completing Project upon Project which is good bc my father suddenly decided i owe him $450 of car insurance, by the end of next month. YAHOO! i was planning on sewing a baby quilt for cousin's new baby but must postpone that until AFTER the baby is born bc i can no longer afford fabric ! again, i say, YAHOO!

anyway! wrapping up 2025- i achieved my goal of reading 30 books by reading a total of 38! and i watch 41 "classic" movies i'd never seen- listed below! classics was loosely defined by me as a movie you hear a lot about or has an iconic line and then the definition was stretched further once my very enthusiastic friends and family got wind of the idea and wanted to introduce me to their classics lmao

41 "classics"

1. My Girl
2. First Knight
3. Child's Play
4. The Terminator
5. Notting Hill
6. Jaws
7. Moulin Rouge
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. No Country for Old Men
10. Saving Private Ryan
11. Erin Brokovitch
12. Signs
13. Cast Away
14. American Psycho
15. The Sixth Sense
16. Glory Road
17. Pulp Fiction
18. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
19. Miracle
20. My Cousin Vinny
21. Steel Magnolias
22. Remember the Titans
23. 2001 A Space Odyssey
24. Mission Impossible
25. Predator
26. Independence Day
27. Runaway Bride
28. The Day the Earth Stood Still
29. I Know What You Did Last Summer
30. Dirty Dancing
31. Rush Hour
32. Evil Dead
33. ET
34. Halloween
35. The Exorcist
36. Poltergeist
37. Nightmare on Elm Street
38. The Shining
39. It's a Wonderful Life
40. The Godfather
41. When Harry Met Sally

fffffff

and, inspired by this idea, here is a list of Katie Classics full of movies that were a very big deal to me at some point in my life. when i was making this list i found that after like...high school there weren't really any movies that stood out in this way to me? which is why most of them are children's movies kjdnfdjnfskd the only two additions from Adult Katie are the Final Destination movies and The Fast and Furious movies. oh and Trolls 2 of course. naturally. i wish i was insightful enough to know Why movies aren't riling me up like they used to but i'm not so here's the list!

katie classics

• Quest for Camelot
• Oliver & Company
• The Chipmunk Adventure
• Scooby Doo on Zombie Island
• A Goofy Movie
• The Goonies
• Ducktales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
• Labyrinth
• Holes
• Spy Kids
• Osmosis Jones
• The Thirteenth Year
• Passport to Paris
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Get Over It
• Bring it On
• Ferngully the Last Rainforest
• Pokemon the First Movie
• Jumanji
• The Brothers Grimm
• Stardust
• Peter Pan 2003
• A Walk to Remember
• 13 Going On 30
• Step Up
• The Fast and the Furious
• School of Rock
• Repo! The Genetic Opera
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Home Alone
• Elmo in Grouchland
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Forrest Gump
• The Princess Bride
• Tangled
• Space Jam
• Sailor Moon R the Movie
• Now You See Me
• Matilda
• What a Girl Wants
• The Rugrats Movie
• Halloweentown
• The Lizzie McGuire Movie
• The Princess Diaries
• Final Destination

my other big goal last year was to get my driver's license which i did! moving on, here are some casual 2026 goals-

• become someone who can emotionally and physically on the highway........... :')
• make a quilt
• read 40 books (i made a list of specific ones i'd like to read on storygraph we'll see if the structure Helps or Chafes horribly <3)
• learn how to do the splits (looking at you RIZ choreo...looking at u....)
• run femslashfeb event PLUS one other event (i extended the deadline on the graphic & the design btw because i want to finish it lmao)
• finish the witcher (i have not played in MONTHS bc i am soooo scared i won't solve the crime in this city. thank you anxiety.)

and even CASUALER things i'd like to do let's not even call them goals 

• make a fanvid (tried to do this one night and became so frustrated i cried <3 and all i was doing was trying to get the CLIPS.)
• make a new twine game
• get my dndplayers OUT OF PHANDALIN. HELP.
• finish gaim + fourze + two other new kamen riders surely this is achievable....on the casualer list just in case