Played a million games, pursued all other hobbies, travelled, enjoyed time with my wife, visited hundreds of cultural sites and heavily ranted about inflation, shrinklation and the general shittification of all and everything. T’was a good year 😉
Dabbled into gardening (my partner did most of the work sadly but I’m more interested now than I was before!).
Got into birdwatching so I started exploring nature with a much more different perspective.
Set up a bird feeding station that got really popular among the birds AND the neighbours.
Learned how to crochet.
A combination of the aforementioned things somehow taught me how to manage my depression and anxiety better. I’m in a much better spot now than when I was mostly playing video games.
Been a decent year for my bucket list! I managed to tick off:
get married
go to Eurovision
go on a cruise
Also started work on my first “real” video game, been learning how to make them as a hobby since 2020. Releasing that sometime next year will be another thing ticked off the list!
We have had a lot of crap stuff happen as well though (health stuff and whatnot) and it’s just generally been a very stressful and disrupted year so I’ll be glad to see the back of it despite all the good that happened.
Lucky you going to Eurovision, how did you feel about Sweden getting the win? I know Finland was the fan favourite, and I read that apparently the crowd made that clear on the night
We didn’t get tickets for the actual live final, so had a party house rented a short drive out of Liverpool along with some friends for the Saturday night. Can confirm even the ones that started the night thinking they didn’t care about Eurovision were shocked by the end!
Loreen is a legend but that song was just not great. So many others deserved it over her and it’s a bit depressing that the jury members chosen have such consistently bland tastes every year.
But also, like, it’s a song contest. I may be obsessed, I may have an ever-growing group of US friends I’ve introduced to the spectacle, I may learn all the words to songs in languages I don’t understand and I may have sewn myself a special flag dress for Liverpool. But it’s a song contest, I’m not actually furious about it like some people were 😅
Quit my shitty, low-pay RoR internship just after working for three months, tried learning full-stack development with MERN stack while applying for jobs in parallel, tried to be a smart-ass and learnt a niche, modern framework with no job role available in the market, failed to get a job anywhere, realise that I’ve graduated with a useless paper called degree, wasted an entire year not doing any good project, cried myself to sleep, and finally gave up doing anything productive from the last three months. Also, worsened my rectal prolapse, but I have just ₹8k in my bank account, which I’ve not used since January. 23 and never been in a relationship due to monetary issues, and was single yet again this year, living with parents. Live in a borderline fascist state with brain-dead saffron terrorists. Also, switched from Fedora to NixOS, so that’s something positive, I guess?
Got a job that doesn’t suck and has allowed me to grow as a person. I do wish it’d pay more, but I no longer dread life and actually get excited to go in to the office.
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