2024
I started the year with a Gastric Sleeve, hit the 3/4 of the year with a hip replacement and ended the year with a run on cold (each time I think I’m just getting over a cold it feels like I catch a new cold.. three times. Hopefully I’m done with that). Everything but the cold was totally worth it. My hip is 90% better than it was and it’s very exciting getting back to life without being mobility challenged.
I also got a steroid injection in my shoulder (which made it feel better for about 2 months.. I’ll have to re-do that in the new year or figure out how to live with a bone spur tearing up my shoulder 
).
SCA wise I’ve decided my weight loss is stalled and I’m going to sally-forth into making fitted garb again. I keep holding it off hoping to get smaller and that’s just not happening so, fuck it, I’m just going to make myself some clothes that fit.
[Edited to add: I also finished 293 books in 2024 in Kindle Unlimited. This is down from the 478 in 2022 but significantly up from the 0 of 1990-2021]
I’m not going to lie. I’m super anxious about the incoming President. Everything I’ve ever seen about him and the people he surrounds himself with tells me they’re there to make a profit for themselves and to take a GIANT shit on anyone who’s not rich, white, male, evangelical Christian. I cannot fathom how 30% of America thought that was a good idea. So for the new year I’m focused on speaking out where I can, saving money, growing my own food, and getting back to canning/preserving. At best I’ll solidify some skills I’ve been neglecting for the past few year. At worst.. well let’s just not go there.
2025 is here. It’ll happen no matter how I feel about it. It is what it is.
