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

[Hades]

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?

 

[Hades]

Got married yesterday so ended on a high.

Congratulations. Yes I have to get high to cope with being married too.