The year filled with so much hope will end in 13 days (how apt). I have 30 hours left of work until I put on that sweet out of office and pour myself an extremely large gin. This year has been fucking awful but I am determined to find some glitter in the grey. So here we go.

• I got a girlfriend
• I got a girlfriend who likes sharing out chores and emotional labour
• My family didn’t abandon me when I told them about aforementioned gf
• I had therapy that helped untangle my issues around dependency
• I made real leaps and bounds in my eating disorder recovery
• I bought more shoes so that I don’t only wear one pair of running shoes all day every day
• I decided I liked marmite after 29 years of thinking I hated it
• I started swimming again in rivers, lakes, lidos and swimming pools
• I got a tattoo!!!!!
• I bought a bike, had cycling lessons and didn’t fall off…yet
• I read a shit ton of books. Currently on #60
• I went in a float tank and it kind of felt like I’d taken mushrooms
• I made a real effort to ditch fast fashion and have massively reduced my spending habits
• I gave lots of time to volunteering
• I learnt how to speak French, 100 day streak on Duolingo baby
• I stood up for myself more
• I think I ate peanut butter every day (potentially fake news)
• I climbed a real actual mountain
• I got to live in 2 v.different parts of the city that I love
• I completed an award winning amount of levels on Candy Crush
• I discovered new nice green spaces to explore
• I fell in love with new music, tv, poems and podcasts
• I am the proud owner of a ladder bookshelf
• I finally found out what is wrong with my feet and how to help them
• I stopped wearing make-up and feel liberated by my fresh face
• I did some half arsed calligraphy
• I got paid to do some writing
• I got paid to do a focus group about vaginas
• I proved I’m an adult by buying a sofa on credit
• I managed to keep my job and business despite having 98541 melt downs
• I managed to get some decent dollar into my savings account
• I connected with new and old friends in meaningful ways
• I kept my sanity during a worldwide pandemic yeaah woooo!

Ok that did actually make me feel a little bit better and I highly suggest you give it a go and tell me in the comments if you want but don’t if it’s going to make me feel bad. Just kidding. Sort of.