The 2024 Wrap Up – Happy New Year

| Directed By Bex

I can’t believe that it’s 2025. Wow. It’s been a year since I’ve posted anything here and honestly, I’ve been a bit sparse on all my social media in 2024. I’ve been struggling more than I want to admit with my mental health and my personal life. I wanted 2024 to be a year of so much growth, of so much adventure, and the reality is that it was more about learning to live while grieving and learning to be as compassionate to myself as I am to others.

As has become the new tradition, I created a Bingo Card for myself to give myself some cool challenges and things to do. (See below). And while I didn’t get to check everything off the list, I did do a fair amount. I also did a lot of things that aren’t on this list that make 2024 very memorable.

[IMAGE] Image of a Bingo Card with boxes reading Take a Camping Trip By Myself, Run in the Baltimore Running Festival, Read 12 Books, Skate in a New City, Finish Writing "The Beer League", Learn to Play and Sing 1 Song on Guitar, Finish My Flute/Piccolo Repair, See 1 Professional Theater Production, Try 1 New Art Medium, Do a Draft Hockey Tournament, Volunteer with an Organization, Go Dancing, Free Space, Complete the 30 Days of Yoga Challenge, Make 1 New Piece of Clothing, Attempt the Silver MITF Test Again, Complete the 52 Frames Photo Project, Buy a New-to-Me Dresser, Visit a State I've Never Been To, Attempt the CMP Exam Again, Ride 1 New Roller Coaster, Finish Revamping the WFSC Website, Make a Set of Drinking Glasses, Refinish and Repair My Vanity, Try 1 New Cuisine. Several are checked off.

Here are the Top 24 Things I did in 2024 that made it memorable (for good or bad):

  1. Took a pond hockey trip with no pond hockey – sadly the lake didn’t freeze…we tried to make the best of it
  2. Went to the Lunar New Year celebration at the Walters Art Gallery
  3. Moved into my own apartment and started living by myself for the first time
  4. Refinished some old and vintage furniture for my house
  5. Took a trip to Asheville with some friends
  6. Became the Baltimore 48 Hour Film Project City Producer and pulled that festival off
  7. Got back to figure skating competitions and placed 2nd in my first competition back
  8. Did a lot of training and started volunteering with RAINN
  9. Took a day trip to Hershey Park and rode a rollercoaster I’ve really wanted to
  10. Quit my “corporate” job and went back to working conventions
  11. Passed my Adult Silver Skating Skills test (attempt 4 for the win!)
  12. Visited a friend in Salem, Massachusetts during spooky season
  13. Went to the Caps Fight Cancer Hockey Game AND the Hershey Bears Fight Cancer Hockey Game
  14. Saw some live theater for the first time in years
  15. Took a woodworking class
  16. Finalized my divorce
  17. Adopted a new cat
  18. Landed my loop jump after several years of attempts
  19. Took a trip to Puerto Rico
  20. Kayaked in a bioluminescent bay
  21. Played in some hockey scrimmages around the holidays
  22. Spent a lot of time with my nephews
  23. Made some friends and lost some friends
  24. Spent time working on me both physically (finding a new gym) and mentally (finding a new therapist)

2025 is here and it’s full of new possibilities. I’ve started another Bingo Card as is tradition. I’m hoping that the year brings growth and change that leads to more happiness and contentment. I’m hoping my creativity flourishes and that I’m able to have a bunch of new, fun experiences. So let’s fucking go 2025! Bring it on!

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