2014 round up
My 2014 resolutions were:
- I will not stab anyone in 2014 (just one more year...)
- Get my second degree brown belt and make a run at 1st degree.
- Finish book #2 and write book #3 for NaNoWriMo
I have not stabbed anyone this year, fulfilling my annual resolution. Punching anyone at the karate studio doesn't count because we use control and we spar a lot.
Got my 2nd degree brown belt in June with a new instructor, and I'm in reviews for my 1st degree brown belt. The belt test after that is 1st degree black belt, when I can officially call myself a Shodan.
I wrote book #3 of my multiverse four-part series of novels (there's a part #0 prequel), and wrote the ending scenes. The back end of book #2 remains undone, but writing book #3 gave me an idea how to deal with the monster.
By year end, I will have gifted 18 knitted things. I have worked on 25 projects this year, and finished almost all of them (2 cardigans outstanding right now but one is almost there, a pair of socks in progress).
I was promoted to Director of Quality Advocacy at work, and I have business cards to prove it. I'm running a team of 20 bad-ass diabolically creative software tamperers. I taught a 2-day workshop class solo on Agile software QA, and did a solo Lunch and Learn on Object Oriented Programming basics. Both are scary things off my 2015 work goals list. There's another Lunch and Learn planned for January 7th, probably more Agile QA classes too.
We went to the NaNoWriMo Night of Writing Dangerously for the first time, travelling to San Francisco in November.It was great to meet people in person we've only emailed, and see my writerly tribe on their annual celebration.
It's been a pretty good year.