What Are You Proudest Of In 2024?

You're awesome, so brag on yourself! What did you do/make/accomplish/achieve/win this year that makes you feel good? This thread is a NO NEGATIVITY ZONE. Cheer for yourself, cheer for others.

started couples counseling
started neuro-feedback therapy

both are great

I published a fucking good book this year — the best book I've ever written. I didn't have any money to hire a publicist, so In The Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor will not be appearing on any "Best Books of 2024" lists, but I don't care. I worked really hard on it and if you have any interest at all in Cecil Taylor's music, you should read it.

I also bought a new car this year, and became a pretty good driver after not having driven for 30 years.

This made my year, maybe my decade.

Wonderful collection of music from 1947.
for anyone needing respite from all the horror.

1947 Part Two - Boptamism https://t.co/7fOYQkFPMT via @Centuries_Sound

— MsAlfieB 🇵🇸 #StopThe Genocide#BDS#ItWasAScam (@duduschka) April 20, 2024

I just played a couple of months then my speaker ran out of juice, so waiting to charge it, as laptop speaker so anaemic. He's not well, very weak, and it's hard to find stuff to cheer him up... he loves it, and me too. So many wonderful people we never heard of....

— MsAlfieB 🇵🇸 #StopThe Genocide#BDS#ItWasAScam (@duduschka) April 20, 2024

Sorry, bit opaque, that's Alfreda Benge, "he" is Robert Wyatt.

that sounds great, ty

I got out of a toxic work environment with grace and dignity.

*applause*

Not many years where I'll be able to provide such an impressive an answer to this question, so: completing my PhD.

i made an album with my band and it’s very good. also i’m making an end-of-year list zine which is starting to take shape and it’s really exciting. i finally got over my various writing anxieties by figuring out a routine that really works for me, and i’ve been writing more than… ever. it’s been a good year, personally

I expanded my club night to a bigger venue and monthly events
I survived yet another round of redundancies at work
I painted and decorated a room by myself for the first time

completing my PhD

(Aimless whistles, stomps, stands and applauds) I hope it serves you well in the future.

This has been a fairly sedate year in terms of proud accomplishments, but I spent more than 30 nights sleeping in a tent this past summer. I've walked/hiked 1000 miles so far. My average weight this year has been about 3 lbs below recent years - around 155 lbs, all of which is mildly gratifying.

Made an album with my first drum teacher, put it out on one of my favorite labels, and started performing it live together (which is the part I didn't expect). It's been a great way to reconnect and play together after 20+ years.

i got help for my mentals. bad depression. it took me so long to do. so, i'm happy and proud of myself that i finally reached out. i did it on my own. next step is therapy. that will be for 2025. i wrote for the first time in years. was published in a cool magazine. first time in print in years. i worked really hard this year even though it was really friggin' hard because i just wanted to be at home. i went out and saw music and friends. that was huge. hadn't done that in years. had a party for our store's 15th anniversary this summer in a big public spot which is so not me in any way and it was embarrassing to feel like i was patting myself on the back but i was proud of how maria and i have been working together every day and keeping everything together and a cool safe space open on main street in a small kinda forgotten town. i was more honest this year. in real life. here. especially here. i owe you guys a lot. i try not to be too annoying here. i know that i can be. i just said fuck it and decided to be more honest in general about my life and how i've been feeling. it hasn't been easy. but it gets easier! i just really want to be myself with people now. and still manage to be polite and respectful. i can be kinda blunt. i'm not always happy with how i handle living with my dad and showing patience with him while also making sure that maria gets what she needs and respect her feelings about living with someone else's dad(!!). it's a juggling act. but i feel like we are doing the right thing and i am proud with how we have been able to manage it. its been a long long year. but it is certainly ending way better than how it started.

Congrats y’all!

bravo, scott

bravo everyone

I got a promotion and finished a novel.

i got quoted on the GB News website

(a work slack thread got leaked)

Def looking forward to reading more new writing from y'all!

On that note, do we have any kind of thread devoted to alerting each other to our latest publications? I realize this might violate the relative anonymity that some of us enjoy here, but it would be cool nonetheless.

"...and finished a novel."

Wow! I eagerly await The Negroni Conundrum.

Thought that was Robert Ludlum

20 year anniversary at work is tomorrow. I managed to do one thing right!

my proudest 2024 accomplishment is scolding neanderthal for '20 year anniversary' being redundant

not a great year

proud of loving two men so well and keeping the fire burning while one of us is across the country.

proud of finally finding a answer to 'what should i do instead of my current line of work which i don't like,' and i'm halfway through the certification i need to begin.

very proud of starting a meditation practice a little over a month ago and of pushing through fear into a very spiritually nourishing place, just in the last two weeks. i'm seeing all kinds of healing in and around me and now i can't live without it.

inlaws thanksgiving was grear - we were joined by an old family friend & her new boyfriend, I hadn’t seen her in 15 years - so it kind of added a new spice to our regular mix of family,. Lots of good food, booze, impromptu singing -all in all, good times had by all

ugh wrong thread sry

not a great year

Decided to change my whole life overnight and got two medical school offers on my first try! Moved out of the sticks to the big smoke. Moved on from my decade long job. It's been a very good year.

Congrats to all. Books, phds, music, careers, mental health, wrong thread thanksgivings, etc.
All wonderful things

agreed

https://i.imgur.com/xXl1M7x.jpg

Extremely premature but this morning my partner's pregnancy test showed a + sign. So I'll tell you in early 2025 if 29.11 was the day that changed our lives the most.

(Pre-mature) Congratulations!

The rent is still being paid on time.

*Looks back at admin log* not a single one week ban from ilx! Despite a UK and US elections!!

My boss’ boss told me “You are the best!”on a few occasions over Slack

Managed to get migrated onto Universal Credit without a major crisis other than been rather skint for 5 weeks and accruing 2 weeks of rent arrears.

Managed to fuck off my nicotine addiction, throwing out all my stinky vaping paraphernalia was such a great feeling.

i got a medical restriction so i can't be forced to work overtime, and haven't once felt guilty about it

I fully enjoyed Halloween for the first time in years. I also performed for campers at the camp where I volunteer and invited all the campers onstage for a group jam, and we made a LOT of noise and it was really fun. This was the year I managed to have fun again.

I would not say that I am "proud" of this but it was a positive and needed development.

*Looks back at admin log* not a single one week ban from ilx! Despite a UK and US elections!!

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 November 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Spoke too soon..

But there's milk in the fridge.

Genuinely shocked you only copped one ban in 2024, feels like it was more, but looking back you “only” got banned once a year in each of 22-24 inclusive? We used to be a society.

So yeah looks like 2021 should've been my year of celebration.

12 days of 2024 left yet, mind

I trapped an injured feral cat; took her to the vet and had her examined, spayed, and treated; found out she is blind in one eye; planned to release her when she recovered and that was three weeks ago. Now I am trying to keep her indoors if she will let me (she just drew blood the other day so this is very hard). I've never even had a pet of my own before.

Made a database at work that won the directors award for innovation, but most proud of the couple songs I finished

xpost at first when I read that my brain reversed the words and thought you said you injured a trapped feral cat and I was like 'damn this the nihilism thread'....

Super proud of my spaniel, he is so happy and thriving and has come such a long way from when my mother in law found him on the streets last year. I feel I am giving him a good life.

On a heavier note, navigated through multiple family crises thoughtfully and successfully + provided comfort and stability to my wife during the worst year of her life.

Well, so far I've survived 2024, which I had serious doubts about many times throughout the year. And it has been pointed out to me by a couple of people how dismissive I've been about the fact that I effectively beat cancer by going into remission as of March (last all clear took place in September, though) and just shrugging it off as if it was another errand I ran. I even got some shocked pikachu reacts from people about how I didn't spend the night at the hospital after the major surgery I underwent in February because apparently most people who undergo that kind of surgery stay at the hospital for a day or two before being discharged for home, so apparently my ability to return home that evening shows my toughness or something along those lines. But at least I now have something in common with my late father.