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2014 Year in Review
11 years ago
2014 Year in Review
So another year has come to an end. Let's take a look at what happened over the course of the year!
February - Went to Texas Furry Fiesta for the first time ever and LOVED it! It is, thus far, the best con I've ever been to. Gonna take a lot to beat it.
April - This was an interesting month, in 2 ways. 1st, I went to Wild Nights for the 2nd year in a row and brought some friends along. We all had a great time! 2nd, it was a turning point in my relationship with my job. I got written up upon returning from Wild Nights because I wasn't back by 8 AM. I had let them know that I was going to be late due to playing it safe and staying the night with my friends instead of driving back tired from the trip at night. My loyalty was called into question and I decided enough was enough and starting hitting the job market hard.
June - I got my first contact with a potential job that I had applied to. Had a phone interview despite not even completing the application. Later in the month, I got a 2nd phone interview with the same company and they set up a face-to-face interview for the following month.
July - Parents came to visit over the weekend of the 4th and I took them up to Minneapolis. Visited the SPAM Museum in Austin, MN, and in general drove around the area. On July 18th, I had my face-to-face interview and it went extremely well, especially after learning what kind of company it was. This month was also the start of the annual work to be done at the school that my work had contracted out with. This was for their computers, including upgrading some of them. I also received notice of something that happened nearly 4 years prior (not able to go into details on it, sorry!).
August - On my brother's birthday (the 1st) I got offered the job I had interviewed with in June and July. The level of joy and relief I cannot be described with words alone. I took the job and started the moving process. I turned in my 2 weeks notice to my employer and something that surprised me is they didn't even try to offer me something to keep me around. The entire month was chaos. Finding a new place was the hardest of them all, mostly due to the town I was moving to being in a bad housing market. But I managed to find something and sign the lease. On the 22nd, after fighting a cough for the past couple of weeks, I went to the doctor office (still had previous insurance) and discovered that I had "Walking Pneumonia." That was fun (HA!). My parents came up and helped me move to my new apartment, which was also on the 22nd. On the 25th, feeling well enough from the shots a few days prior, I started my first day of work.
September - Not much happened here, except for getting my first paycheck. x3
October - This is normally the month that I would say that I went to Oklacon, but for the first time, I didn't go. Didn't have fun last year and felt a bit burnt out, so thought it best to skip this year. Turns out, I shouldn't have skipped it. xD
November - I got to experience what the company is like the day after Thanksgiving. It's dead. Like I was literally the only person there. I did get a nice bonus from my boss, in the form PTO to attend MFF without worries of not having any money at the next paycheck.
December - This month was a very challenging month for me. Went to Midwest Furfest for the 3rd year in a row and the as my previous journal points out, on Thursday evening of the con, I lost my grandmother. I can tell now that it affected my overall con experience, especially with the idea that I would be missing the funeral. This was also the 2nd time in a row that I couldn't afford to go home for Christmas. As for MFF, it was lots of fun once again!
My goals for 2015 are as follows:
-Actually start losing weight and exercising more. Seriously. There's a gym a couple of blocks from me, so I have no excuse.
-Start drawing again. I stopped several years ago due to not being able to handle criticisms. Need to pick it up again.
-I would love to learn a new language. I'm half Swedish and half German, so I'd love to learn one of those.
-I would like to continue tearing down the walls of my social anxiety. I started to make some real progress at MFF this year, with me not hesitating to start talking with new people.
-A general goal is to further develop my love for video and editing. What's started as a hobby has quickly turned into the desire to turn it into job. Over the past 3 years, I have learned so much, mostly due to influences from Moot, Kiba Wolf, BBF, and others.
Thanks to all my friends, new and old, that have been there for me during the year, thru all my up and downs. <3 <3 <3
So another year has come to an end. Let's take a look at what happened over the course of the year!
February - Went to Texas Furry Fiesta for the first time ever and LOVED it! It is, thus far, the best con I've ever been to. Gonna take a lot to beat it.
April - This was an interesting month, in 2 ways. 1st, I went to Wild Nights for the 2nd year in a row and brought some friends along. We all had a great time! 2nd, it was a turning point in my relationship with my job. I got written up upon returning from Wild Nights because I wasn't back by 8 AM. I had let them know that I was going to be late due to playing it safe and staying the night with my friends instead of driving back tired from the trip at night. My loyalty was called into question and I decided enough was enough and starting hitting the job market hard.
June - I got my first contact with a potential job that I had applied to. Had a phone interview despite not even completing the application. Later in the month, I got a 2nd phone interview with the same company and they set up a face-to-face interview for the following month.
July - Parents came to visit over the weekend of the 4th and I took them up to Minneapolis. Visited the SPAM Museum in Austin, MN, and in general drove around the area. On July 18th, I had my face-to-face interview and it went extremely well, especially after learning what kind of company it was. This month was also the start of the annual work to be done at the school that my work had contracted out with. This was for their computers, including upgrading some of them. I also received notice of something that happened nearly 4 years prior (not able to go into details on it, sorry!).
August - On my brother's birthday (the 1st) I got offered the job I had interviewed with in June and July. The level of joy and relief I cannot be described with words alone. I took the job and started the moving process. I turned in my 2 weeks notice to my employer and something that surprised me is they didn't even try to offer me something to keep me around. The entire month was chaos. Finding a new place was the hardest of them all, mostly due to the town I was moving to being in a bad housing market. But I managed to find something and sign the lease. On the 22nd, after fighting a cough for the past couple of weeks, I went to the doctor office (still had previous insurance) and discovered that I had "Walking Pneumonia." That was fun (HA!). My parents came up and helped me move to my new apartment, which was also on the 22nd. On the 25th, feeling well enough from the shots a few days prior, I started my first day of work.
September - Not much happened here, except for getting my first paycheck. x3
October - This is normally the month that I would say that I went to Oklacon, but for the first time, I didn't go. Didn't have fun last year and felt a bit burnt out, so thought it best to skip this year. Turns out, I shouldn't have skipped it. xD
November - I got to experience what the company is like the day after Thanksgiving. It's dead. Like I was literally the only person there. I did get a nice bonus from my boss, in the form PTO to attend MFF without worries of not having any money at the next paycheck.
December - This month was a very challenging month for me. Went to Midwest Furfest for the 3rd year in a row and the as my previous journal points out, on Thursday evening of the con, I lost my grandmother. I can tell now that it affected my overall con experience, especially with the idea that I would be missing the funeral. This was also the 2nd time in a row that I couldn't afford to go home for Christmas. As for MFF, it was lots of fun once again!
My goals for 2015 are as follows:
-Actually start losing weight and exercising more. Seriously. There's a gym a couple of blocks from me, so I have no excuse.
-Start drawing again. I stopped several years ago due to not being able to handle criticisms. Need to pick it up again.
-I would love to learn a new language. I'm half Swedish and half German, so I'd love to learn one of those.
-I would like to continue tearing down the walls of my social anxiety. I started to make some real progress at MFF this year, with me not hesitating to start talking with new people.
-A general goal is to further develop my love for video and editing. What's started as a hobby has quickly turned into the desire to turn it into job. Over the past 3 years, I have learned so much, mostly due to influences from Moot, Kiba Wolf, BBF, and others.
Thanks to all my friends, new and old, that have been there for me during the year, thru all my up and downs. <3 <3 <3
Let
~let
I hope you achieve all your goals for 2015. ^^
