My 2024 - Year Review

The last 2024 was an interesting year. Gaby finished her higher education and now both of our children are full time working adults. Meanwhile, a bit on a whim, husband and I enrolled into a professional education program and now both of us are working and studying :) - so the world goes around. Therefore the year was pretty intense and exhausting for me, with lots of work and lectures and exams.

Still, I tried to find some balance and I actually managed to indulge my hobbies - I assembled a puzzle, made a paint by numbers picture, sewed 33 clothing items and even knitted a pair of socks and a hat.

Here is a collage of the more interesting and engaged things I made: the two pairs of jeans, two hoodies, plenty of dresses, some blouses and husband's cargo pants.

Despite being so busy, we also managed to travel a lot. We did our first real climb abroad - Mt. Olympus, we had a sea vacation on the Aegean sea, we travelled to Vienna and in the country, we even added two more peaks to our collection of Vitosha's peaks above the two thousand meter altitude.

So, what comes next? We'll continue with our professional education and I hope we'll be able to pass our exams with flying colors, as we did last year (I've always been a straight A student, I just can't help it :) 

We'll definitely continue with our weekly hikes and our travels in the country and I hope for at least one trip to Vienna and one to the sea-side. Our tent is still unused, so maybe we'll dare overnight in it, just once?

I'll also continue with my German studies and I'm nurturing again the idea of obtaining a certificate, maybe. I am tempted to enroll in a course, but I just don't see a realistic prospect of clearing additional time for a proper course, so in all probability I'll stick to Duolingo and the tiny steps of progress it can provide.

Hobby-wise, I will sew - I am still very passionate about that, probably knit a little from time to time, I have another paint-by-numbers picture to finish and I might do another puzzle. I might start posting more about cooking - although I rarely show my experiments and adventures in the kitchen, I've gradually made cooking one of my major hobbies, to the delight of son and husband :) and I read and interpret recipes from all over the world all the time.

Happy New Year, dear friends and readers of the blog und jetzt geht's los :)