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Welcome to 2024, may it be filled with wonder and delight in all ways!

My 2024 started with fireworks (very literal and yes, wonderful and delightful). I'm in Riga, Latvia, visiting my girlfriend Christine and her husband Rob, and we went up to the roof of her apartment building to watch 360 degrees of fireworks. She'd told me it would happen but I hadn't quite realized just how _many_ there would be and for how long.

It's been a busy few days. We arrived on 12/27, and have been doing Christmas and New Year stuff the whole time so far, meeting Christine's collection of friends, mostly Indians who live and work in Latvia or Lithuania. Today is quieter so far, doing laundry and putzing on the internet. Starting tomorrow we'll do more tourist stuff.

As I say every year, I want to post more. And if 2023 is any indication, I probably won't. But nonetheless.

Last year fandom round up:

- Podfic: 50 hours 14 minutes, 105 finished works
- Fanfic: 2 ficlets, 2 drabbles, 2615 words
- Art: 1 drawing

My first fanfic exchange(s) ever (I did two: relationshipping and Folgers Flash December). For relationshipping I offered 3 fandoms, podfic for all three and fic for one, and got matched on fic. Folgers Flash is writing only.
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Everyone already knows what a shitty year 2016 was for the US. I feel no need to reiterate that. There are public lists of good things that happened for the world. Here are a couple:

http://helthehatter.tumblr.com/post/152910935316/good-things-that-happened-in-2016
http://www.pressherald.com/2016/12/31/astronaut-chris-hadfield-offers-a-list-of-things-to-be-thankful-for-from-2016/

It sucked in some personal ways, too, and I feel no need to reiterate those, either, so instead I'm going to list some good things that happened to me personally in 2016.

January and continuing:
I joined Charis (the St Louis Women's Chorus)

April:
Charis concert

June:
Family vacation at the Michigan cabin sans Internet and cell service

August:
My sister got married
I reconnected with a very old friend
Rosa and I had a wonderful vacation (San Francisco!)
Christine spent a week with me

October:
I started taking Zoloft and my mood improved almost immediately
I met a New Guy (and we're still dating)

December:
Chris and Tammie and I got engaged!!!! (You heard it here first)

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