I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1241 - My January HPUD Powerup Got Another Boost, and the End of the Saturday Savers Club - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, December 20, 2025

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 7 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I have some bitter-sweet news to share with y'all today, one - a wonderful surprise, and two - a sad ending, and since I always like to end on a positive note, I'll share the sad news first. After 5 years of running, it's been announced that the Saturday Savers Club is coming to an end. It's so sad for me because I've consistently and happily participated in this wonderful initiative for more than three years now, so its absence will definitely be felt indeed.

Even though the Saturday Savers Club is ending, I'll continue to publish my 'Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update' posts, since I'm still going to keep setting goals and tracking their progress, and because I've found it to be a very helpful and useful practice over time. I've been doing those posts once a week for more than 3.5 years now, so I certainly have some good momentum with them.

The sweet part of this bittersweet news, which I discovered just before learning about the ending the the SSC, is that I received 500 HIVE from winning one of the year-end Saturday Savers contests, which was a pretty badass surprise indeed! It was a very substantial windfall, and I'm super grateful for it, plus it gave my January HPUD mega-powerup a very respectable boost. I just withdrew 2 HBD more from the Pepe Game this morning, to add to my January-HPUD pot, and my 603.009 HBD in Savings will fully unstake later this evening, so I'll likely be swapping 605+ HBD to HIVE later tonight.

So at the present prices as of this morning, my 605+ HBD would give me 6,850+ HIVE, and added to the now 530+ liquid HIVE sitting in my account, my January HPUD mega-powerup looks like it's going to be in the range of 7,380 HIVE! Even with the HP that I have at this moment, not counting upcoming HP from posts, that would take me clear past 22,500 Hive Power!

The next and last round of interest for HBD in Savings on @aliveandthriving will be claimed tomorrow morning, at which point I'll initiate the 3-day withdrawal of the 80+ HBD, at the completion of which I'll swap it all for HIVE, to then add to the daily ALIVE dividends, and to the payouts for HP delegators, spread out over the coming year. While I had really hoped that it would, the time doesn't look like it's going to work to get the new daily and weekly allotments of HIVE to @borniet (since I don't know the numbers with which we'll working yet), so that he can update the payout scripts, before Christmas, but it will be done as soon as possible regardless. Although Hive is not beginning the new year on a good note, I and the We Are Alive Tribe very much are!

Yesterday, Saturday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by around 11:30AM, I prepared for a session which ended up beginning around 12:30PM. The session went beautifully well, after which I stopped by the Landing to heat myself up some leftover food that I had in the fridge, and to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the same spot, and with those in hands, I returned to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by around 10PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed just about 10:30PM. I woke up by around 5:30AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 12:30PM, so it's a lovely time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, including my once-weekly thorough asset management for the We Are Alive Tribe, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus on some photography for my posts first, on straining and blending coconut kefir, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

2025 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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