How was your 2022 and what are your plans for 2023?

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How did 2022 treat you?
What are your plans for 2023?

My 2022

I'll start as I had quite a mixed year, mostly bad:
  • The year started with great hopes for finally a good year after some quite bad times. The optimism was short lived.
  • March I was knocked off my motorbike, writing it off and resulting in a broken leg, broken hand and nerve issues. I am still pursuing an injury claim.
  • May I had a blood clot on my broken leg under the cast that broke away and travelled to my lung, putting me in intensive care for a risky week.
  • June I returned back to work but was immediately told my job was at risk.
  • August I finally found out I was redundant.
  • December I started a new job. It's lower paid and a smaller company but in a completely different industry and appears to be less stressful.
On the face of it, it was a terrible year. But the positives are that my new job is a much shorter commute and far less stressful. I also got a small payout from the old job and then managed to walk into another. Other positives are helping my daughter revise her A levels even when I was in hospital on whatsapp, her starting university, and only working a total of 6 months despite being paid for 12. Frankly I disliked the old job although the money was good.

Plans For 2023

  1. Make the best I can of the new job. Work hard.
  2. Get fit again. I used to be very fit and strong but after years of no longer going to the gym, lockdown and then having a broken leg, I am frankly a fitness mess. So I will start lifting at the gym again even if it's just light weight to start with.
  3. Start a side hustle. I have a few ideas.

So chaps and chapesses, how did your year go?
 
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Healthwise - generally crap. Three colonoscopies with 14 bowel polyps removed. Preparation for them is horrid (boring diet and Moviprep) Two asthma attacks and two bouts of covid.
Enjoyed my holidays both UK and abroad
My grandmother going downhill both physically and mentally with dementia and fluctuating capacity. Glad she moved into a care home as she could not cope on her own.

Hopes for next year - get the hell out of retail and fingers crossed for a better health. Continue with wombling.
 
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Quit work/retired early on medical advice in February so now living off savings.
Lost two friends who literally dropped dead in March.
Got quite seriously into getting fit and losing some weight, and had a pretty decent year after that, including some cracking weekends with great friends.
The whole family caught covid in October which has knocked me back a lot and I'm still recovering from that.
2023...
Onwards and upwards.
Try to regain my fitness.
Off home to Ireland in June (not been back for several years)
Get back into playing a musical instrument that I was doing pre illness.
Don't drop dead.
 
2022 was a great year from me in terms of job, moving from a second line support to jnr developer to developer. The extra pay has come at just the right time with everything else going to pot.

Health I've made some progress in dealing with my anxiety. Learning to pick my battles better and start prioritizing me over others. Weight has gone up and down like a yo-yo, in line with my general mental health dips.

Hobbies have taken a big hit with the extra brain power used in self teaching code - I have a huge backlog of mini's terrain that have gone unopened in some cases (killteam fomo amirite?).

2023 is going to be more towards looking after me. I'm going to set hobby goals and stick to them (this year I didn't even try that) and start taking meaningful steps towards better health (regular walks etc).
 
2022 was decent enough for me

1. Had our first, and only(!!), child.
2. Cleared a decent chunk of debt - probably to be ruined by said new child.
3. Got a new job last week which I'm due to start in February. Same role, less responsibilities and a substantial pay-rise.

Bad things?

1. My motorbike got stolen

Plans for 2023?

Just see the end of the year, not lose any loved ones and build on what I have.


I hope all of us have a better 2023. You're all a bunch of faceless, nameless and argumentative so-and-so's but I can't imagine spending this much time anywhere else online. You're all alright really. Yes, all of you :D
 
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2022 - Been a fairly below average year.

I've been working hard and made Director at the company I work at. That's great.

Dad seems to be getting older...quicker...various things he is dealing with.

No holidays due to various reasons (work, price of holidays), not even a weekend away :-(

All of December has been wiped out with me bringing COVID into the house...then my lad getting strep.

Been a bit of a crap Christmas.

2023 - whilst promotion will no doubt lead to more stress, I need to grow a bit more in the role and learn how to manage my work load to make sure I can give more time to my family.

Definitely having a holiday this year, maybe two.
 
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2022- slow, got eating better but didn’t get into doing enough exercise. Co-caught a thresher shark, lost the mate as he left his wife and kids.., then caught covid at the end destroying xmas and NYE.
Got a contract and hot back into worl, got a new perm role for alfter the contract.

2023 the emphasis is on making the house more hospitable - a new sofa and do some finishing off of things that have been hanging around outside.
 
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2022 - Alright year. Started off a bit poor. February got rear ended by an Audi driving bint who failed to slow down enough on Snow and I ended up with three broken Metatarsals. Luckily no damage to motorbike.

Mid March Fell ice skating and broke four ribs.

April Covid part 2 plus recovering from Broken ribs stung a bit.

So didn’t really do much mountain biking for first five months.

Plenty of Day trips in the UK, great Summer weather. And another Fantastic three weeks in Rhodes end of August.

Worked Christmas Eve and day but great Boxing Day with Wife, step Daughter, her boyfriend and Mum and soon to be new Step Dad.
Horrible cold/flu like symptoms to end 2022

2023- Mums wedding to look forward to in Edinburgh in February

Hoping to finally get a car again as the broken foot and winter riding is getting tedious now at 37 year old.

Hopefully Mum gets a date to have Brain Tumour removed and hopefully speedy recovery.

Remortgage before end of June and another three weeks in Rhodes, plenty of day trips, new phone upgrade January and lots of Mountain biking.
 
The rollercoaster continues!

Started 2022 living and working away from home and the family in Manchester. Completed a very successful year up there which has allowed me to get to the next level, but extremely tough from a personal and family point of view. Presented at a number of conferences. Returned to Birmingham to finish training and finally got my ticket (only took 20 years!). Started my first consultant job in Bristol where I spent an amazing 6 months (incredible team and place), did some operations wearing the big trousers, and then quite unexpectedly but very happily landed a permanent job in Birmingham starting January 2023.

Welcomed our son into the world in February, everyone got covid in April (yes, we swabbed the baby), managed to get on an aeroplane and go on holiday in May. Enjoyed the long, hot summer. Daughter started school and have had a fantastic stretch of holiday/unemployment time over Christmas to really take it all in.

Roll on 2023!
 
Pretty bad year if you ask me. But I might be more positive after reflection...

Started 2022 waiting on first house purchase. Stressful. Got keys in April.

Did barely anything to renovate for a few months, then nothing for 6 weeks in summer. Got depressed and kicked myself up the arse.

Lots of renovation work done since, including most of a rewire, pinning a wall, and renewing lots of plumbing.

Continued to sink into the idea that I'm not cut out for the role at work despite 2 payrises. Just losing faith in the company and myself.

Relationship hasn't improved at all and we continue to hang on to see if living alone together makes it all better.

2023 I hope to finish ****ing moving house, 9 months is too long to pay rent, mortgage and petrol costs going between 2 houses. Hopefully either step up and get better at my job, or formulate a new role for myself, or **** off to a different company. Sort my relationship out, or get the hell out and see what damage that does to us both.

I'm not hopeful :(
 
I love these threads on GD. They're usually called "a year in review".

The last few years for me were gash. Not just because of the pandemic as it pre-dated that.

2017 was the last really decent year. Sister got married, I was the DJ and got a large collection of club lights to show for it :-)

2018 was also pretty decent, loads of family moved closer to where I live (but not too close!) and I went to Disneyland Paris for my 40th. Then at the end of 2018, Grandad died which started 2019 on a sour note.

So 2019 was the first of the bad years, with pretty poor finances and the DWP removed most of my DLA when it changed to PIP. This begun 3 years of legal proceedings against the DWP.

2020 was the 1st year of the pandemic, so not a lot going on for socialites like myself.

2021 was more of the same, and also lost Dad from an aggressive form of cancer at 72, so another gash year.

So on-topic, here's 2022:

- I finally had my tribunal against the DWP with regards to DLA / PIP. The judge ruled in my favour and put me back onto a similar rate to the old DLA amount and the DWP had to cough up 3 years' worth of the difference in back-pay.

- My step mum, who is survivor from my late Dad gave me a new kitchen and downstairs refurb from Dad's estate.

- My bedroom ceiling caved in due to a water leak from a damaged tank in the loft. In house insurance terms, it was called an "escape of water". My house insurance (Santander, as in the bank), gave me new loft boards, a new bedroom ceiling, new bedroom flooring as that got damaged too, plus a re-paint of my bedroom, which was the kicker as I wasn't expecting that. I was able to choose the floor pattern and the paint colour and was also able to choose the suppliers. The only thing I had to sort out myself was getting the water tank repaired by a plumber and paying the insurance excess.

- In the Summer time, I had cataract surgery in my remaining/only eye. It's normally a standard procedure that takes 30 minutes. For me, it took 2h 50m due to being at the high end of myopia. It back-fired in that I needed 3 more trips to operating theatre. Even worse is that I was under custody of my parents due to having no eyesight. This pretty much wiped out my Summer.

- The Queen kicked the bucket, on my birthday! So my birthday will now be tarnished as the day that she died. Rather like those whose birthdays fall on 9/11.

- October onwards was pretty decent. Back in work following the operations, and I was able to go on city breaks once again, going to Blackpool Illuminations (as I had enough eyesight to see that by then), seeing friends again, having friends staying over at mine etc.

Conclusion of 2022 is that the tribunal result was great but I don't want to repeat the rest of the year except for the recent/Autumn time.

Year ratings:

2017 - 8/10
2018 - 8/10
2019 - 5/10
2020 - 4/10
2021 - 5/10
2022 - 3/10

Next up is 2023, and I think it will be the next decent year. I don't have a reason for this, I just have a thing for years where if 21st September falls on a Thursday (like it did in 1995, 2006 and 2017), then it will be a decent year and 2023 is the next year to do this.
 
2022:

Generally a good year. Did a road trip to Germany and lapped the Nurburgring. My OH accompanied me on a cycling holiday in Holland which she really enjoyed, as did I. It was her 1st cycling trip and she wants to do another, which is great. I completed my first triathlon, but damaged a knee ligament (ACL) 1 week before my 2nd triathlon. It's healing well with physiotherapy, thankfully.

Work-wise I took a 6 month secondment in a different area of the company I work for, at the end of which my team got made redundant. My old job was safe, but rather than going back, I got a new permanent role in a different area of the same company.

2023

I plan to train up for another triathlon, I've registered for one in June but might do one in April too because my knee should be better by then. I've another trip to Germany booked and hope to get round the Ring in under 10 mins. The only time off work I can get that coincides with the OH is a fortnight in late September, so it'll be weekends away only until then and in September we can hopefully go away somewhere hot and sunny. We've not travelled by air since covid.

I really should be planning in some home improvements. I promised the OH a new bathroom at some point but have just earmarked my work bonus for car mods and a holiday!
 
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2022 was good.

Lots of travel, got engaged, then got married (same woman :p) , kept my job after a lot of bs cost cutting. Cat died. Wife's grandma died.

2023

New cat, keep wife, plan some holidays, I have 55 holiday days to use up..... nice.
Paint house. Lay some new floors in house.
hemorrhage cash. Maybe clear the mortgage. Pray for world peace. New opportunities at work! Exciting times.
 
2022 has been such a mixed year.

Good:
-Work was a mixed bag, but I managed to renegotiate my role and that was looking a bit more positive by the end of the year.
-First full year in our new house after moving in late last year. We love it here despite it needing a fair bit more work than we anticipated.
-Getting back out again properly after COVID - gigs, festivals, theatre etc. I missed that a lot.

Bad:
-My wife continues to have a really hard time with her family and her first visit home in many years to NZ was totally ruined by the behaviour of her parents. This was a pretty traumatic time for us both as I was stuck back here and couldn’t help or support how I wanted to. My parents really stepped up to help us here which I’m very grateful for.
-My own extended family continues to row over money and I can see how much this is hurting my mum who isn’t slightly interested in it but can’t avoid it.
-We’ve lost so many of our animals this year but the worst was losing our entire flock of chickens bar one to a stoat attack. Having to deal with all that will stay with me for a long time.
-Two trips to A&E for infected animal bites!
-My own mental health has not been great. Things were looking up in the middle of the year and I came off my medication for the first time in a couple of years after a solid patch despite everything going on. Unfortunately I relapsed pretty badly. I’ve since switched medicine which seems to have helped.

Next year I would just like a bit more stability across the board. I feel like 2022 has just gradually worn down my resilience and resistance to hard times and challenges and left me struggling to deal with them. I need a bit of time to recover that.
 
both my daughters were married this year, i returned to work after 6 months off after losing the plot, ditched the meds now
next year really need to stop isolating myself, the pics i send from rocks is a good indication of what i do, walk to where nobody else is then spend my time alone.
Trouble is i don't want to talk to anybody just feel i should................
 
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