Hi everyone, welcome back to Bad on Paper Podcast. I'm Becca Freeman and I'm Olivia

Mentor and it is our inaugural episode of 2023 and one of my favorite episodes of every

year. We're talking about how we did about our 2022 goals and what our 2023 goals are.

Yeah, it's a new year. I'm excited about it. It's not actually a new year. We're recording

this on December 29th. So when I said that I fully believed it was 2023 in that moment,

it's not. It's December 29th. Good for you feeling that energy already. I've left 2022 behind

completely. Okay. Okay. But before we get into it, I missed you. We haven't an episode in two

weeks. I don't think we've talked in two weeks. But tell me you're high. I honestly feel like so much

has happened, but I guess we'll kind of pick up where we left off and my high would be my solo trip

to Edinburgh to Scotland. It was very cold and snowy and rainy, but great. I had an awesome time.

It was kind of different than I expected it to be. In what way? I think I thought I would go and

I would think this is my ideal way to travel now. I love everything about this. I'm having such a

good time. While it was an incredibly empowering experience that I definitely want to do again,

if not make it a yearly thing, it is lonely at times. It's a lot of just being in your own head.

For as many times as I felt invisible in this new city and it felt really incredible,

it also felt really sad sometimes. But I learned a lot about myself and it was beautiful there.

So I can't complain. Overall, it was a high. Okay. What was your high? What is your high? My high

is a preemptive high. So this afternoon, I'm going up to Maine for New Year's and I'm excited

to get out of the city. I think it'll be cozy. Six of my friends from college or I guess three

friends and their partners are going up there. I'm really excited. But probably the reason I'm

most excited is that my friend Molly, whose house it is, they just got a brand new golden retriever

puppy. Oh my gosh. The cutest type of puppy. The cutest type of puppy and she's so floppy.

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