2025 Is Going To Be A VERY Interesting Year. We Shall Find Out What Happens In 2025.

Happy New Year, everyone! It's not 2025 for me yet, but China, Australia, and the eastern part of the world have already welcomed in 2025. Considering what's in store for 2025, it's going to be a VERY interesting year!

Here's what 2025 will be like for me:

First year of me being fully 21+ (22 on 12/12/25)

Typical stuff happens for me

Probably more HCC (Holyoke Community College) day trips - some possibilities being Providence RI, the space observatory in Lowell MA, Boston MA day trip (last one was March 2024, and it was COLD!), and a few other candidates!

Probably further on the journey to independence!

I wonder what trips I will go on in summer '25?

More adulthood responsibilities!
First casino visit/first dispensary visit, both 21+ places!

Getting a retake for my ID, my current one sucks! (My hair was a mess and my face too!)

Here's how I ended 2024:

On my 21st birthday (12/12/24), I applied for my 21+ ID, which is horizontal, in comparison to the vertical IDs issued to those under 21. My 21+ ID came in very recently (night of 12/26/24), and I am going to use it for the first time to get into the New Year's Eve show at the Marigold Theater in Easthampton MA, which is 21 and over for obvious reasons, that I paid $15 to get in to. This will be my first "legal" New Year's celebration for me, and I plan to drink champagne at midnight, but only 1 glass, considering I don't like the taste of alcohol that much, but I wish to have my first adult celebration of the New Year.

On 12/29/24, one of my insulin sites was no good, and it caused me to get VERY sick due to having a lack of insulin (I wonder if there's a special word for this) in my body, and I threw up around a half a dozen times. I was flirting with the Grim Reaper due to this, which I should NOT have done. I failed to refrigerate my unopened insulin, which caused this to happen. A HORRIBLE MISTAKE. (However, insulin CAN be unrefrigerated ONCE opened for up to 28 days, which is rather OPPOSITE!)

Before that happened, on 12/27/24, I went to the Water Park of New England in Danvers MA (formerly CoCo Key Water Resort North Shore) as a day trip with my foster parents to celebrate my 21st birthday. I had to celebrate it sober (good decision!) because I didn't have my ID with me when we went, and by the time I asked for it, it was too late to go back to the house. Probably for the best, alcohol sucks anyways!

On 12/12/24 at midnight, I had my first legal drink, being a 24oz Angry Orchard hard cider, with 5% alcohol (I only had half of it, so 1 standard drink of alcohol), and we celebrated while I was at my brother's at midnight to celebrate me turning 21, and I played a special playlist leading up to Break Free by Ariana Grande's beat dropping at precisely midnight so I could "break free" from all the under-21 restrictions I had to deal with from birth until that moment, such as no alcohol, no sports betting/casino gambling, and a few others! Once I was "legal" and celebrated, I got some nice 21 year old gifts: The 24oz Angry Orchard (obviously!), a few keychains from dispensaries (which you can legally go into once you're 21 and have your ID), and I also got a bag of strawberry flavored Betty's Eddies edibles (another thing that becomes legal once you're 21), with 5mg THC per edible. I was fine with 1, and not long after, I tried taking 2, about 5-10 minutes apart, and THAT gave me the effects, which was rather not pleasant, making me feel slightly tired at first followed by being rather angry! At least I know that I don't like that sort of thing!

Before THAT, and my 21st birthday, on 12/7/24, I went on the HCC day trip to New York City with my bio-mom to accompany me. As much as we had a great time, she was in pain the entire day because her back hurt (she turned 63 that day, so she's getting older) but other than that, we had a great time. Maybe we'll take a cab next time!

Anyways, time to talk about 2025!

2025 will be a VERY interesting year, for a multitude of reasons:

The first: 2025 will mark the beginning of Trump 2.0, his 2nd term as President of the United States. This is NOT the outcome that voters like me wanted, but it is the outcome that we got. Hopefully, things don't get as bad as they are predicted to get.

The second: Perfect square root: 2025 is a perfect square root, being 45^2. Rather fitting since 45 (Donald Trump, the 45th POTUS) gets back into office this coming year! The last time this happened was 1936, and the next occurrence will be in 2116, so very likely the only year of our lives that is a perfect square root!

The third: WTF year. 2020 was a CHAOTIC year. The first 3 days of 2020 were a Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, or a WTF year, which happens when the first 3 days of the year are Wed, Thu, and Fri, matching up to WTF (as in what the f*ck). People already think this is a VERY bad sign as to how 2025 will be, but only time will tell!

Hopefully, 2025 isn't as much of a rollercoaster as people think it will be, but whatever happens, buckle up and enjoy the ride! Happy New Year, everyone!