Out with the old...

[selenay]

So, 2022 sure was a year that happened to me and I'm very glad that it's the last day now.

My last post in April (!?) was about the various ways my health kept fucking me over and it continued in that vein. I had covid! Further fibroid adventures! MORE COVID!

From August on, I managed to stay (relatively) healthy, but by then I'd given up on going away for a summer holiday with hockeybosh and I was viewing the big family holiday in October with a degree of scepticism. I did have a lovely visit from hockeybosh in August and we did lots of lovely things that felt almost like having a holiday. In fact, most of the fun things (and relaxing things, and just lovely things) I did this year involved hockeybosh, who has been an amazing friend and kept me sane when I was ready to throw things a few times.

Family holiday went ahead mostly as planned, although my dad decided at the very last minute not to go which meant mum and I had to reorganise some things and do a lot more driving than we'd been prepared for. Despite that, it was a fabulous holiday and I loved getting so much time with my nephew and my sister.

Somehow, the whole of autumn and December raced by, through a combination of being hugely busy at work and over scheduling myself. Many of the fun things I planned ended up being cancelled by rail strikes, including my plans to watch hockeybosh play hockey. My birthday was cancelled due to family illness and a bereavement.

This being the first non-covid Christmas for a while, I ended up with a lot of singing commitments in December, which was lovely but tiring. And then Christmas ended up being delayed for a few days when my brother-in-law's "cold" turned out to be covid. This was unfortunately not discovered until they were packing to come out to us on Christmas Eve, so my nephew was distraught and we all had to do a lot of rejigging of plans and buying food/figuring out how to use extra food. When he was clear (only took three days because he'd unknowingly had it for a few days already), we reworked the plans again so we could do Christmas a few days late. So glad we got to do it at all, but I'm also very tired and peopled out, so I'm glad I still have a couple of quiet days before I go back to work.

All told, 2022 was not the greatest year ever.

The fic I was picking away at in April ended up taking me most of the year to write due to all the times I had no spoons for writing. But I finished it and I'm currently posting it! In the last couple of months, I've had my writing mojo back and I've actually written a fair bit. I've got two WIPs that I'll be taking into next year and I'm hoping that I'll have much more in the way of spoons for fun things like writing and going on adventures.

The RSN embroidery course I'd planned to do in May was one of the casualties of the family covid outbreak (mum was the only person who escaped it) but I finally got to do a version of it in December. Going to Hampton Court and being instructed in silk shading by a brilliant tutor was an amazing experience. I plan to do more RSN courses next year.

I think the highlights of this year are going to be the week with hockeybosh in August, the week I had friends to visit from Canada, and my RSN class. The rest of the year was a disaster, but I've got those things out of it.

So that was 2022. I've cleaned the house so I can enter the new year feeling clean, tidy, and prepared. Plans for the rest of the day involve stitching, telly, and nice food.

I'll do my new year post tomorrow.

Comments

[celli]

Ah, that RSN course sounds like a dream!

[selenay]

It was! Had an amazing tutor and she had so many useful tips for stitching better and making our work look more finished, not just the specifics of silk shading. I can already see the difference it's made in what I do.