Hindsight 2025

2025 — MASTER LOG

ART, MODELING & CREATIVE WORK

  • Commissioned Painting

    • Artist: Barbara Yongue

    • Title: Gemini

    • Started: January 2025

    • Included: payment plan, concept development, live modeling

    • Presented: September 1, 2025

  • Professional Art Modeling Sessions

    • February 4, 2025

    • October 21, 2025

    • Ongoing multi-year professional pursuit

  • Writing

    • Wrote 44 pages of a book project

    • Project not intended for completion in its original form

    • Demonstrated ability to complete structured writing beyond personal journals

TRAVEL

  • Russia

    • March–April 2025

    • June–August 2025

  • Biltmore (January 2025)

    • Retreat with mother

  • Orlando (September 2025)

    • Solo inner-child / play-focused trip

    • First time attending Halloween Horror Nights

    • VIP RIP Tour experience

RUSSIA — PROPERTY, STEWARDSHIP & LEGACY

  • Took over ownership and stewardship of grandmother’s:

    • Apartment

    • Dacha

  • Dealt with bureaucracy, red tape, dysfunctional government offices

  • Property transference completed successfully

Major Summer Actions in Russia

  1. Removed two giant containers of broken furniture and hoarded garbage from the dacha

  2. Organized a community river staircase project

    • Largest financial contributor

    • Collected community funds via bank transfers

    • Took on financial and organizational risk

  3. Built a fence around family property

    • Long-standing dream of mother and grandmother

FINANCIAL MILESTONE

  • Collected $10,000 in cash (April–June 2025)

  • Held the full amount physically at once

  • Money used for Russia-related responsibilities

  • First experience of:

    • Earning

    • Holding

    • Retaining

    • Purposefully directing a large sum

HOUSING & HOME LIFE

  • Moved Apartments — April 2025

    • From: Studio, second floor

    • To: One-bedroom, top floor

    • Different building, same complex

  • Firsts:

    • Hired movers

    • Assembled a bed independently

    • Assembled a shoe closet months later

    • First time assembling furniture ever

New Furniture

  • Large fluffy black sectional couch (Midnight Madness color)

  • Large high-top table with four bar stools

Bonus

  • First real living Christmas tree

    • Purchased, installed, and decorated independently

    • Completed before Christmas

PERFORMING ARTS & CULTURE

Charleston — Piccolo Spoleto

  1. Thais (opera) — May 25

  2. The Turn of the Screw (opera) — June 1

  3. Ten Thousand Hours (acrobatic performance) — June 8

Moscow Performances

  1. Anne Boleyn (opera) — June 26

  2. Adler’s Chamber (play) — June 28

  3. Sleeping Beauty (ballet) — July 31

Additional Performance

  • Dracula (ballet) — October 30 (Charleston Music Hall)

PHOTOSHOOTS

  • July 2025 — Moscow

    • Location: Sovietsky Hotel

    • Concept: retro, red, Soviet memorabilia, historic roots, soft femininity vs propaganda aesthetics

  • September 2025 — Orlando

    • Universal Studios / Halloween Horror Nights

    • Concept: playful, pretty, short golden dress

    • Halloween + Harry Potter world themes

SELF-CARE, HEALTH & FIRSTS

  • Tried NAD therapy and IV therapy (positive experience)

  • 30 consecutive days alcohol-free

  • Cut hair into a Long Bob

  • Grooming & beauty firsts:

    • Salon hair coloring

    • Brazilian wax

    • Head spa / hair massage

    • Professional hair styling

    • Professional makeup

    • Eyebrow wax and tint

EDUCATION

  • Applied to college to continue pursuit of Bachelor’s degree

RELATIONSHIPS

Endings

  • Let go of two lifelong close friendships

    • Reason: relationships did not honor self

    • Chose self-alignment over continuation

    • Grieved both relationships deeply

    • Did not re-enter either dynamic

New / Renewed Connections

  • Reconnected deeply with K

    • Childhood dacha acquaintance

    • Close friendship formed through shared time and conversation

  • Connected anew with A

    • Childhood dacha acquaintance

    • Relationship unfolding slowly, primarily online

SPIRITUAL / CEREMONIAL WORK

  • Ayahuasca ceremonies in 2025:

    • March — 31st & 32nd

    • May — 33rd

    • December — 34th & 35th

  • Part of a long-term, ongoing practice spanning many years

GIFTS GIVEN

  • $500 mink-fur Cheburashka gifted to mother

  • Hosted grandmother’s 82nd birthday dinner on a yacht on the Moscow River

IDENTITY & INNER WORK

  • Stopped performing identity publicly online

  • Shifted into private Identity Work

  • Gained access to internal states and functioning previously aspirational

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