Stephen Hanrahan

It is fair to say that 2017 was a challenging year… for everybody.  Watching American politics is like watching a soap opera set entirely in a car crash. I am kind of just glad I could be her watching from the outside.  so while that’s going on I have been here living my life. so seen as its Christmas and a new year is approaching I thought I would look at what I did this year.

Achievements

• I beat cancer.  going through chemotherapy and radiotherapy was an exhausting and emotionally draining process. I am glad I beat cancer obviously. It would have been better not to get it in the first place but that can’t be helped.
• Finishing German Duolingo. this is something iv have been working on for a good three years and I had to do a lot of extra lessons to complete it. I am proud of this one because I was never good at languages in school, also keeping up the practice of it as well so bonus points there.
• I hit the 100,000-word mark in my fantasy novel. again a lot of work went into this especially this month.  I’m still working to finish the story itself so the book is officially over 10000 words.
• Completing a music composition course on udemy.  yay, I have only written one or two music pieces since but it was on the back burner. I look forward to working on more in the new year.
• finding a productivity method that works for me.  that is the bullet journal.
• I kept my job. This one is big. My current role is officially the longest full-time role I have worked in. (during college I worked in boots part time for 6 years but this is my) longest full-time role.  that I think is worth celebrating

Disappointments

Of course, there are disappointments. They are part of life, there are only two real disappointments that i can think of.

• putting on weight. When I was given diagnosed I started to comfort eat. My comfort food of choice is raison danishes. I don’t even have the excuse that the treatment made me fat. my consultant was very surprised that my weight went up.
• the other disappointment is having to reschedule m wedding. I wanted to be able to enjoy the night and try to get back to a more reasonable weight post-diagnosis. I still have a long way to go. not to mention that December is always a roadblock for me in weight loss.

Plans for the future

Next year a big year between the rescheduled wedding, exploring the relatively unknown world of editing my book so that it becomes worth reading, and a trip to New Zealand as part of my honeymoon. next ar is going to be interesting.  I am in the process of figuring out what side projects I want to do. Especially in the month, I am going to let my book lie fallow. I am thinking of writing a comic script…

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