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The 2024 Wrap Up – Happy New Year

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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.

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2023 Wrap Up

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2023 has been nothing but a whirlwind of a year. Somehow, it feels like it’s only one year that flew by quickly, and also two separate years. I started 2023 with a Bingo Card and doing a lot of pen and paper journaling where I listed three great things about the day and something I was grateful for, so it seems fitting to give an update on my 2023 Bingo Card and to make a list here of 23 great things about 2023 and 23 things I am grateful for in 2023.

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52 Weeks. 52 Frames.

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It’s the start of the third week in January – 16 days into 2023 to be exact. In the spirit of trying to reclaim my own creativity, which I’ve been trying to do for a while now, and inspired by a friend of mine who has a daily art practice, I’m going to give a photo challenge a try. The premise is easy – take one photo based on the prompt every week. It doesn’t have to be perfect.

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The End of a Year Without Her

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“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with.” – Fredrik Backman, Beartown

A year ago today I dropped everything around 3PM in the afternoon, grabbed my keys and purse, and with my husband in tow, drove as quickly as we could to Baltimore. Specifically to Franklin Square Hospital where my mother had been taken. It didn’t end as we all hoped. We lost her.

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2020: A Year I Could Do Without

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It’s finally here! The end of a year that I thought was supposed to be an amazing one. 2019 set it up to be great. The plants of an epic plotline for 2020 were placed. There were supposed to be big trips, big work events, and more character development! But it only took a few days, six to be exact, for that illusion of a better year to come crashing down. There were five days of happiness, of pure bliss, of spontaneous decisions, and then it became about surviving.

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How I Ended Up a Hockey Fan and How It Doesn’t Feel That Different

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Yep. That’s me. The one in the backward hat taking this photo. I’m sure you’re wondering how I got there…which is the Washington Capitals Stanley Cup Parade and Rally weeks ago and why it’s taken me so long to write this blog.

Why it’s taken so long to write this is the easy answer, so I’ll start there. I’ve been struggling to put into words exactly what I wanted this blog post to really say. I knew it should be something about how I’ve been in many fandoms and how they all feel somewhat similar, but that’s as far as I originally got. As for how I found myself at the parade, well, it’s a funny story really.

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