Hey there guys, it´s Jake Lioner here!

I hope that you had wonderful and peaceful Christmas with your family and loved ones ^^ I personally had peaceful Christmas at home and it was good chance to relax bit more.
I appreciate a lot for close people who I talked with on Telegram and specially for my dear wolf  hornetv2 who always knows how to make me smile and lift up my mood ^^
No wonder we have been 8 years and one week together as a couple as Christmas Eve was our 8th anniversary

Well I´m gonna list up some great and bad stuff I had during 2017 as well as what I hope and plan for 2018:

Great stuff:
- This year was my very first time that I was able to travel into Sweden, as Nordicfuzzcon 2017 was my first Swedish fur con and Furry Cruise 2017 was my first chance to walk little bit around Stockholm
- BLFC 2017 was great and it was also great to see my wolf and his sweet doggo Charlie in their new home (as my last visit in USA was 2015)
- Got a good and positive feedback from trainee period(or in other words: internship) place
- My art style got some improvements throughout the year
- Had some great times with local furs, also got to meet some new furs and catch up with things with old fur friends
- This year was also 100th year of Finland´s Independence
- I lost over 36 kilograms since January making me weight 101,9 kilograms (originally I was 136,6 kilograms in January)
Side note: Christmas time did make me gain a bit as today I´m 110,1 kilograms.. but this is just great to keep up with good progress with weight loss during 2018 ^^
- I started to get bit more active with walking around Tampere (that´s my neighbor city) and even this week I have done 1,5 hour walks couple of times
- 8th year with my lovely  hornetv2

Bad stuff:
- Even with positive feedbacks, I wasn´t able to get more than just internship job again
- I let the current life situation with not getting work effect on my mindset negatively throughout the year
- Another anniversary was this year as this year was 20 years from my dad´s passing away

For upcoming 2018, I wish/ I try to improve:
- To finally get something good for work life or at least some good direction (whether is it stable job with current occupations I already have or as study for new occupation which would have a better chances to get hired)
- Enjoy for the life even more as life is too short to worry about things
- Hopefully improve with social skills even more
- To get lots of improvements with my art style
- Lose weight from 110,1 kilograms to 91 kilograms (and even more is a huge plus) so I could focus on gaining muscle and hopefully to get back in gym workouts

So there you have it, little summary of my 2017 and also little hopes for upcoming 2018
I wish you all my friends and everyone a wonderful start of 2018!
Remember to take care of your friends and even your fluffy friends as well :3

See you all in 2018!!
Your friendly lion,
Jake Lioner