1.What did you do in 2024 that you’d never done before?
Travelled to Lapland and rode in a sled with huskies.
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Ish. Very ish. And always it keeps me focused.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No
4. Did anyone close to you die?
My Aunty Susan died in September. It was all really sad.
5. What countries did you visit?
Finland! (Historically Lapland)
6. What would you like to have in 2025 that you lacked in 2024?
A job that I can rely on to pay me consistently.
7. What date from 2024 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
September 8th, the date my aunt died.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Had my passport ready to go to Finland
9. What was your biggest failure?
Did not get a job I can rely on
10. Were you seriously ill during 2024?
Chronically with some interesting health scares but not seriously.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My 50th Anniversary Hello Kitty
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
The Jellicle, always
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Trump supporters.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills and LARP
15. What did you get excited about?
Going to Finland and meeting Father Christmas
16. What song will always remind you of 2024?
Weirdly enough Market Street by The Reytons
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?
About the same
ii. thinner or fatter?
Fatter
iii. richer or poorer?
Poorer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Writing, travel, earning money
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Worrying
20. How will you be spending/did you spend Christmas?
I spent Christmas on my own watching movies with great food and drink. (I started the day with the Prosecco Beautiful Lute got for saying yes to the dress).
21. How many one night stands?
None
22. Did you fall in love in 2024?
No
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No, life’s too short to waste on hate
24. What was your favorite TV programme?
HOLY SHIT KAOS was AMAZING. Wow that was good, that was so queer and so full on and so very, very Greek and just YES. Give me more.
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I was a bit late to the party but I’m pretty fond of Chappelle Roan
26. What was the best book you read?
I did a lot of comfort reading this year, joined the Fable App and realised quite how much comfort reading I’d done! So Beach Music – again!
27. Are you happy with your lot?
I have a lot to be happy about but honestly I keep trying to change it and failing, mostly down to my ill health and it’s frustrating.
28. What did you want and get?
To go see Father Christmas in Lapland.
29. What did you want and NOT get?
A job with a regular income.
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Honestly I really enjoyed Furiosa.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I had my birthday party at M-I-L and FJ’s place, in attendance were Chibi Laura, DS Luke, Weasel, The Teenage Boy and the Girl with the Golden Hair. We wore dressing gowns, had towels and played Jackbox Games. Imp and Jellicle were too ill to come which I was sad about. I was 42 – hence the theme.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A reliable income
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2024?
Can I fit into it?
34. What kept you sane?
Honestly since the year of the mental break I think this has been my least sane year, I’m having genuinely quite a difficult time remembering that I exist as a real person. Kudos to the Jellicle Cat.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Nicole Coenen still chopping those trees, oh my lords so hot.
In a completely different direction Stephen Dillane as Prometheus
Oh sweet lords am I crushing on Niecy Nash as Simone Clark in The Rookie.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Palestine… but it’s a narrow one between that and the fascists in the UK
37. Who did you miss?
My Dad quite a lot, all the usual suspects. The Fae Ref for chatting with, especially after Hades.
38. Who were the best new people you met?
Lady K in Hades was an excellent new person and as ever I met her through LARP.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2024:
My brain is still broken, I need to really double down on trying to mend it. The lesson is that when brains break you can’t just keep on as normal and not every therapy is created equal.
40. Was 2024 a good year?
Overall it was ok, not spectacular but ok.
41. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Watch this be the wrong thing
Classic
God, I’m jumping in the deep end
It’s more fun to swim in
Heard the risk is drownin’, but I’m gonna take it
I’m gonna take it
Heard the risk is drownin’, but I’m gonna take it
Too soon to tell you “I love you”
Too soon to tell you “I love you”
Too soon to tell you “I love you”
You’re the risk, I’m gonna take it