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2024 Wrap-Up

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It's time for the 2024 Wrap-Up post about many of the things I managed to achieve. As I gathered this all together from my weekly blog posts, I began to realize why I was so tired at the end of the year. Overall, I wish I had gotten further on my writing projects, but I found focus and clarity by the end that I hope to carry forward into 2025.

Arts & Crafts

- Completed a lesbian pride scarf
- Completed a fairy garden
- Completed a PWHL scarf with the 6 inaugural team colours
- Made a knit basket
- Sticker bombed my media cabinet's doors
- Improved at crochet
- Improved my knitting
- Crocheted a donut coaster
- Knitted a thin scarf/tie for a wedding outfit
- I made a new patch for my jacket
- I made a holder for my car insurance and ownership documents
- I made a lot of progress on Fairy Cross-Stitch
- I started a summer quilt
- I made progress on my goth quilt
- I added a large decal on my car

Concerts & Plays

- Saw Teagan and Sara live
- Saw Evanescence live
- Saw Danielle Allard perform live
- I went to a Candlelight concert
- Saw Chick 182 live
- Went to Murder She Read

Dating & Sex

- Went to some singles events
- Went on several dates

Decluttering & Minimalism

- Installed new hanging lights in the living room
- Reorganized my kitchen
- Reorganized my bedroom
- Reorganized my living room & reading room
- Reorganized my bookshelves
- Reorganized my storage area
- Joined my Ikea PS cabinets together
- Created a display shelf for my fairy collection
- Fixed a leaking kitchen drain
- Replaced my car

Gaming & Streaming

- Completed Diablo IV
- Started streaming crafts

General & Miscellaneous

- I participated in my Scottish clan parade of colours
- Survived 2024

Health & Fitness

- Finished softball season as Most Improved Peach (Player)
- Met Team Homan
- Met Emerance Maschmeyer, Emily Clark, and Ashton Bell
- Had my tongue tie released
- Learned that ADHD meds are not for me
- Experienced my first bonspiel
- Figured out that dyes are the food item that have been making me ill
- Recovered from a rotator cuff injury
- Did fall ball
- Completed Getting Started League level 1 (Curling)
- At a PWHL game, I was interviewed by CTV
- I took some dance classes
- I participated in Drag 'n' Balls
- I started tap dancing

Movies & Television

- Met Greg Sestero

Music & Songwriting

- I joined a choir
- I tried violin

Reading & Writing

- Attended 2024 Can-Con 
- Attended Coverfly's 2024 Career Lab
- Submitted Sparker to a publisher and was rejected
- Made progress on Sparker
- Began an anthology
- Completed The Chatelaine by Kate Heartfield
- Blogged at least once per week
- Figured out I prefer writing fiction rather than screenplays
- Completed Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- I made progress on a screenplay
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Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada

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