Time to reflect on the past year. If for no other reason, to understand where I was and how I got to where I am now. I think I might break this down by month.

• January
  • I was experiencing depression and loneliness.
  • I was doing a lot of work on undoing the damage left by a narcissist ex
  • I noted how important a high step count was to my weight maintenance. I should focus on that again, especially since the weather is nicer right now.
  • I was struggling with my wife’s emotional availability (she had her own challenges).
  • I started talking with H again. They were going through surgery and I wanted to support them as a friend. I had thoughts of Stefy and how important it was to be there for a friend even if there had been romantic feelings in the past.
  • I started scheming on how to bring Actual Cannibal Shia Labeouf into one of my D&D games.
  • I started taking local improv classes (workshop, ~once a month)
  • I think I was already back in the work office. I was dealing with security issues mostly. This was in the old building.
  • I had a covid scare
• February
  • H and I got back together. I think I struggled opening up emotionally for a little while since I had been abandoned before.
  • I think I was actively training in SF and Kenpo
  • I put together my digital map case. I made a fun bridge encounter. The party was body blocked by trolls on one side and ogres on the other. The giants were arguing amongst each other on who owned the toll bridge. Meanwhile, the weight caused the bridge to start collapsing in random chunks. I rolled on a grid axis to determine which board fell. One of them was under a player. They made their dex save to not fall in. Eventually, they convinced the giants to form an LLC and got through.
  • I hit a PR on a 275 lb deadlift.
  • I had a talk with V and broke things off.
• March
  • Things going well between H and I.
  • I think this was when I wrote that big kink negotiation document.
  • I built a pyramid scene using the 5 room model. It was a lot of work but I was proud of it.
  • I had a busy schedule between bootcamp, str training, kenpo, and online improv.
  • I replaced my laptop for a new one.
  • I got a new backpack with straps from REI. It helped quite a bit.
  • I was talking with Mia more.
• April
  • H went on a 3 week cross country tour
  • I spent some time learning how to work with the levels module in Foundryvtt. It was cool but ultimately only useful for online only games. It had a lot of issues working correctly for in-person games.
• May
  • Started on massage sessions
  • Attended wedding for my sis-in-law
  • I had a good connection with a striper. I wrote about the emotional experience in hopes I could write it into a story later.
  • Got together with J unexpectedly. Seems to be a comet situation.
  • Narrowly avoided Covid
  • Got reminded of my ex while browsing through munch meetups. Reminded me how important it is to be careful with the relationships I get into.
• June
  • I was struggling with sleep. I had plans to get my home gym going but it never really happened effectively.
  • It looks like this was my busiest soldierfit month. 16 sessions. This doesn’t include my gold’s sessions. I’d like to see if I can beat that record this month.
• July
  • I started talking with C again and went out on a date (well, hangout…I avoid calling these things dates to avoid implicit expectations)
  • I got surprised by a yard project my wife had gotten a quote for. I was frustrated, but ultimately let it through. It did prompt a financial review. That project ended up being a scam though, and we got conned out of that money. It hurt. My wife learned to always check licenses for contract work in the future.
  • My ex showed up again on a dating app (not her profile, but she was in group photos). It spurred more painful memories. I wrote about it and doubled down on my fitness goals.
  • I think I started experiencing foot pain (later turned out to be a bone spur, requiring orthodontic fitting to help mitigate)
  • I did a good gnoll voice that surprised my wife.
• August
  • I got sick with some kind of flu. It wasn’t covid. The coughing was pretty bad. It came after attending the wedding of a friend.
  • ren faire season began. I didn’t make the weight I wanted to. I was able to still wear the pants at least. My wings never came.
  • I put a post out about accountability buddies for fitness stuff. A few people responded.
• September
  • Took a trip to Ocean City with the wife and her partner N. Things became more physical/romantic with N and I. It was nice.
  • My sister made plans put down her old dog.
  • H attended ren faire with me several times this season. Looking at my writing, I noticed my depression stopped coming up. I still struggled with thoughts of my ex and how I was hurt. But I also finally accepted I was in a good stable relationship with H.
  • With H’s help, I got better with eye make up and tried several different looks through ren faire.
• October
  • I met A at an event at the ren faire. We had met first on an app, and it seemed to be another dead end connection. But they came up to me at the event and apologized about it. We got along pretty well and made tentative plans to meet up again in the future.
  • I had some stress with the office move prep.
  • I went ham on halloween decorations and did a haunted walk through our backyard. I was proud of it.
• November
  • Moved to the new office building. I had to be there the entire week the first week. I ended up catching Covid for the first time after that. It took me about a week to recover. I had the bivalent vaccine a month before and took paxlovid.
  • Before I got sick, I see I had some sort of argument with my wife. I didn’t want to come home as much.
• December.
  • Had a great New Years spent with H and my wife. It was chill
  • I got a lot of DND/writing work done. I started using worldographer and Dungeon Alchemist. I might get back on Dungeon Draft soon too. The world stuff will be useful for my scifi world.

So all in all, I think 2022 went well. Fitness-wise it did not go great. But I have this year for that. I also really want to make progress on a book this year. I tried to make 10k words for the world ember went but did not make it in time. but H pointed out that 10k words is 1/4th of a novel. I had made 4k words with just my short story without realizing it. Writing a novel isn’t as far out of reach as I thought. I have hope for this year.