Hey there. I'm Hannah Branigan, and welcome back to drinking from the toilet. As I'm

recording this episode, we are winding down those last few days of 2017.

We just finished up Christmas and we're in that kind of weird in-between time where you don't

really know what day it is or if it's time to have a cocktail or if you really need to wait.

It's kind of confusing.

But I think having that little kind of gap space lends itself really nicely

to a little bit of reflection and review and a little bit of thinking ahead to the next year.

And as I'm doing that, you know, I'm definitely doing that with my training, but I also doing it

with this podcast. And I just want to thank you, all of you guys, for sticking it out with me this

year. This was my first year with this

big new experiment of doing a podcast. And when I started this experiment in the beginning of 2017,

not quite a year, I thought, well, maybe I'll do 10 episodes and just see how I feel about it,

see if it's something that's going to work for me. And holy cow,

look at us now. If I counted correctly, and I never do, this should be episode number 42,

which happens to be the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.

Coincidence? I think not. So I actually completely shocked myself by sticking with

this whole podcasting project for the better part of an entire year. And that's thanks in no small

part to the insanely generous positive reinforcement that I have received from you guys. You guys

listening right now, all 22 of you, right?

I know actually that there are probably a few more of you,

or you're all going online and making duplicate accounts on the internet

because I just counted right as I started recording and noticed that we have a whopping, unbelievable,

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