At the end of every year, I do a year review. I do it with my significant other around the fireplace.

We light the fireplace. We have our, what is it called, Martinelli Sparkling Cider. We sip on that. We have some gingerbread cookies. We do our

year review. But we'll have to find some different questions because I usually ask myself the

questions that I'm going to answer here for you. So I also should mention December is my favorite month.

Absolutely like a landslide win.

I love it.

I play Christmas jazz music every day when I wake up and I'm making my coffee.

I have like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I have seven Christmas

trees, two of them full size. I like, I can't get enough of Christmas and Christmas time and the

spirit of Christmas, like I'm, I'm in, okay, I'm all in. I love December. And then Christmas is over, but then it's not at all sad for me because I get to jump right into my year-end review. So I spend the week after Christmas leading into the new year, just reflecting and thinking about what I liked that happened, what I didn't like, what I'd like to do differently.

Just I do a deep dive.

So I'm excited for this.

I just wanted to give you the full context.

Paint the picture here because it's really one of my favorite things to do.

Okay, I'm jumping in.

What is my proudest achievement? I literally, that's always the first thing I go to is achievement. What did I cheat? That's how I like to find each of my years is through the things that I achieved or accomplished. And now I'm like, I'm looking at these and I'm going, I might need to change my interviewer questions because I don't want that to be the thing that leads me anymore. But my proudest achievement would be probably finishing the first draft of a novel. What or whom are you most thankful for? This is the next question. My significant other

and my home that makes me feel safe and proud and peaceful.

What surprised you most?

Oh boy, the whole year was a surprise. I'll tell you that much.

No, truly, honestly, what surprised me most was that priorities shifted. Who knows? Maybe they'll shift again or shift back. But work was always my number one priority. It's up through most of this year. And then cut to the burnout episode of this podcast, which if you

haven't listened, that'll give some more context. But yeah, my priorities are shifting and it's

bizarre and uncomfortable for me, but I'm working on it and through it. How is your relationship

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