2022 was a year of friendship, fun, exploration, straying from the formula, hard work, sweat tears and blood but most importantly love and self love. My therapist recommended I keep a diary for 2023 but the techhead in me thinks I'll stick to it if it's digital and the only place I really have to do that is here. I mean, no one wants to be reading my shambles on my company website or even my Crutionix website.

I don't really know what I'm doing so I'm just gonna write a few things that I learned for each month of 2023 to rip the bandaid off so that my first post for 2023 isn't complete garbage. It might still be.

In 2022 I learned

• That covid is an absolute bitch. It should be taken seriously.

• Being in between two friends that are going through a breakup is hard. Especially when one of them won't stop pulling petty bullshit drama.

• My love for Stardew Valley is still roaring in my heart

• Warrnambool is actually a very cute and awesome place.

• I'm think I'm really in love. It's a bit of a problem... I can't see myself with anyone else.

• Building a house is incredibly hard.

• Bottomless mexican brunch is very cool.

• "They're really good/fun to be around sometimes" does not make them worth being in your life.

• Deluded people will continue to be deluded, because that fits their narrative. Some people just aren't capable of looking at themselves. It's either 0 or 100 for them. And that's not okay. I don't need to tolerate it.

• I am frustratingly responsible for everyone and everything - I will spend my whole day stressing and tiring myself out trying to salvage birthday parties that don't belong me. I need to do less of this.

• My mental health is more important than the mental health of those going out of their way to ruin mine.

I hope that 2023 is filled with less antics, drama, stress. I hope that I manage to build my home, my shed, and have a simple life. And above all else I hope that the people I've let go from my life can exit my life peacefully.

Stay tuned.