{"id":3077,"date":"2024-12-15T14:41:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T14:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2024-12-15T14:41:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T14:41:17","slug":"end-of-year-review-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/end-of-year-review-6\/","title":{"rendered":"End of year review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to\u00a0Prof. Dr. Molly Steenson<\/a>\u00a0for initiating this habit in 2005.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. What did you do in 2024 that you\u2019d never done before?
    \nI prioritised holidays and therapy<\/li>\n
  2. Did you keep your New Years\u2019 resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
    \nI didn’t make any.<\/li>\n
  3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
    \nYes.<\/li>\n
  4. Did anyone close to you die?
    \n    Yes<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  5. What countries\/cities did you visit?
    \nBy train: Lille, Stuttgart, Amsterdam & Rotterdam
    \nBy airplane: Rome, Athens\/Hydra, Montr\u00e9al, Venice<\/li>\n
  6. What would you like to have in 2025 that you lacked in 2024?
    \nIt was a good year for organising, introspection and reading but I’d like to prioritise physical activity, making and creativity next year.<\/li>\n
  7. What date from 2024 will remain etched upon your memory?
    \nSeptember 3rd.<\/li>\n
  8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
    \nComplete 10 months of talking therapy and doing yoga regularly again.<\/li>\n
  9. What was your biggest failure?
    \nUncontrollable weight gain (due to poor quality of sleep and perimenopause)<\/li>\n
  10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
    \nMy knees aren’t very happy but other than that nothing serious.<\/li>\n
  11. What was the best thing you bought?
    \nMy first piece of haute couture from Issey Miyake for a friend’s wedding.<\/li>\n
  12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
    \nThe women fighting for abortion rights anywhere in the world.<\/li>\n
  13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
    \nPoliticians.<\/li>\n
  14. Where did most of your money go?
    \nProbably     Potter and Reid<\/a> and Rambutan<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
    \nA     Thingscon reunion<\/a> where I saw all my friends.<\/li>\n
  16. What song\/album will always remind you of 2024?
    \n    The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth<\/a> by Headache<\/li>\n
  17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
    \nMore worried but less self pitying.<\/li>\n
  18. What do you wish you\u2019d done more of?
    \nCycling, saving money.<\/li>\n
  19. What do you wish you\u2019d done less of?
    \nSaid ‘yes I can help’ at every opportunity at work.<\/li>\n
  20. How will you be spending Christmas?
    \nI am cooking Christmas Day lunch for my friend J. and his mum.<\/li>\n
  21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
    \nJ.<\/li>\n
  22. Did you fall in love in 2024?
    \nNo.<\/li>\n
  23. What was your favourite TV programme?
    \nNo television series at all.<\/li>\n
  24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn\u2019t hate this time last year?
    \nNo.<\/li>\n
  25. What was the best book(s) you read?
    \nThe     Patrick Melrose novels<\/a>, On Giving Up<\/a>, Why We Sleep<\/a>, The Old Man and the Sea<\/a> were all great.<\/li>\n
  26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
    \nMore recently the triligual rap artist     Saint Levant<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  27. What did you want and get?
    \nA chance to hang out with my niece and nephew who came by with their parents this autumn.<\/li>\n
  28. What did you want and not get?
    \nGreat sleep.<\/li>\n
  29. What were your favourite films of this year?
    \n    The Vanishing<\/a> (1988).<\/li>\n
  30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
    \nIt\u2019s next week. Am working that day but going to Noble Rot with J. for dinner.<\/li>\n
  31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
    \nRomantic love.<\/li>\n
  32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2024?
    \nTrying to keep up while being a silver fox.<\/li>\n
  33. What kept you sane?
    \nConversations with J. (as always).<\/li>\n
  34. Which celebrity\/public figure did you fancy the most?
    \nNo time for that. (same answer for the last 10 years)<\/li>\n
  35. What political issue stirred you the most?
    \nThe UK elections this summer.<\/li>\n
  36. Who did you miss?
    \nM. who died 3 years ago.
    \nDad who died 9 years ago this week.
    \nMum, who is having a shit time with cancer.<\/li>\n
  37. Who was the best new person you met?
    \nS.<\/li>\n
  38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2024.
    \nQui ne risque rien, n’a rien.<\/li>\n
  39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?\n

    It feels like the world’s a dream<\/em>
    \nRight up until I remember <\/em>
    \nthe smell of her hair blowing in the wind<\/em>
    \nYou aimed for my eyes<\/em>
    \nBut you forgot that the heart is where all the action is<\/em>
    \n–     Headache<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Thanks to\u00a0Prof. Dr. Molly Steenson\u00a0for initiating this habit in 2005. What did you do in 2024 that you\u2019d never done before? I prioritised holidays and therapy Did you keep your New Years\u2019 resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I didn’t make any. Did anyone close to you give birth? Yes. Did anyone… Continue reading End of year review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-ND","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}