2024: Life projects review

I do love an earnest end-of-year blog post, and I appreciate a quality summary of anything. I don’t have much time this year, and I’m low on energy, so instead here’s an earnest end-of-year list.

I did a light version in 2023, but one of my fleeting YouTube crushes this year extolled the benefits of keeping closer track of projects (so you know what you’ve actually done), and he was right. When I see how much shit I got done while thinking I was procrastinating, I feel a lot better.

Achievements and life events that I put my energy into (in chronological order):

• Started a new job
• Dad’s death and funeral
• Son went to Australia with a working visa
• Dealt with Dad’s estate and finances
• Cleared and sold Dad’s house
• Restarted my Patreon
• Migrated my website from Jekyll to Hugo
• Went to GP/physio for hip problems
• Joined the gym (and still going)
• Started meditating most mornings (and still going)
• Grew as a software engineering Team Leader
• Went on holiday to St Ives
• Wrote a short story and submitted it to Nightjar
• Travelled to Australia and saw my son
• Started practicing guitar with Museo app (and still going)
• Glute work: shock waves on tendons, dry needling into piriformis, rehab/prehab exercises
• Mother-in-law’s unexpected and ongoing illness
• Re-read and sorted through a partial draft of my next novel
• Watched and reviewed all the films of Dario Argento
• 31 horror films in December a.k.a. #31DaysofBlackXmas
• Logged 22 books in StoryGraph
• Logged 137 films in Letterboxd