It's definitely been a year of ups and downs. RL drama has been a real pain with lots of friends and family having health issues causing stress and I've been placed on a bit of a financial pinch due to all of it. Most of this wrecked my plans to get myself into a better career position and I've ended up staying at a job I really dislike for a year longer than I had planned to.

On the brightside, despite all of the setbacks, I've been able to maintain a much more positive attitude about everything and while I'm not exactly in the position I really want to be in my life, I'm still pretty positive I'll get there in the coming year or so.

Creatively, it's been a pretty good year, I got my Top 100 Games list done which was a project I've wanted to do for awhile. I started a novel idea for NaNo that I've been wanting to do for a few years now and it's been helping me work through some personal issues I've been dragging around. I started prep work on another novel idea I've had on the backburner for some time. Got back to my main novel and put in some good refinement there. Came up with a really cool idea for a new story, started a demo tape, and I'm talking with an equally bored and wanting to get out of our boring day job coworker about working on a comic book idea. So yeah, it's been a great year creatively for me, though I now need to see some of these ideas to completion.

I also got to see my favorite movie of all time at the original theater I watched it in for my birthday, so that was a fun coincidence. Also, it's been a pretty good year for games for me which is always nice.