Plans for 2024.

Do you have anything planned for the 2024??? If so, whether it's big or small, please feel free to share your plans here. It might inspire me to do something cool next year rather than just sit here in my anxieties.

My mind is usually racing with so much it's hard to sit down and plan certain things to do. I usually go with the flow, let my mind just take me to A-B, and take the rough with the smooth as it happens. One thing I definitely intend to do is get back to my volunteering, hopefully mid January if possible, but only time will tell if that's actually going to happen. I don't want to let this opportunity escape me so I need to be strong, if possible.
As for the rest of the year I really don't know what I'm going to be doing. Normally I enter the new year thinking oh god here we go again but this time I'm hoping I'll start the new year with a more positive mindset - positive thinking leads to good things, I'm told, so here's hoping this will be the case for me.
Another thing I wouldn't mind improving next year is my anxiety as it will normally be affecting me on a daily basis and that's unpleasant at the best of times. A little less anxiety would be nice...
But that's a tall order, so I won't get my hopes up. I want to try some new meditation, though I'm doing this before the new year. 
First, I need to try and get through Xmas. Tomorrow I've got all the immediate and extended family coming over, yikes it's going to be a long couple of days. Uncle Gene will get drunk as usual, my little cousins will be running around crazily - and loudly! - and the music will be louder than normal.
*sobs*
My parents are so good though, they tell people to be mindful of my autism and not to trigger me which I appreciate on so many levels but most people don't really listen.
Roll on the new year please....
Whoops, oh dear that turned in to another ramble. Sorry!! 
Parents
  • I feel like I don't know what 2024 will bring. Last year was change. I finished a book, I returned to work, I found myself, and this place. 

    Maybe that's enough excitement for now! 

    Avenues appear - 

    My friend from school who brought me a Christmas tree would like to know me better, but, I'm not sure I want people in my life! 

    The dog's parents are having new puppies soon, do I want one, ask the owners? Do I? Thinking

    Am I interested in being involved with an upcoming project? 

    My mind races off down these paths, exploring complex narratives, the purpose of which seems to be to find the worst possible outcomes and fixate on them! 

    Yeah... maybe I'll do nothing! Joy

  • Well done Pegg, you have taken some big steps, personally realising I have been autistic all of my life has changed my perspective of everything. You have made some big changes, you should be proud of yourself.

    Friendships can be daunting, I have 2 friends but often don’t see either of them for months at a time, to be honest, they maintain the friendships.

    If I had the choice of a friend or another dog, I know which way I would go, Dogperhaps though, see how a friendship might also be a good thing, one of my friends I told all about my autism, the reply was, “ I thought you might be autistic,” he always listens and never judges. He knows if I don’t answer texts, I’m not being rude. I sometimes just need space.

    Soon be spring and brighter evenings. Slight smile

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  • Well done Pegg, you have taken some big steps, personally realising I have been autistic all of my life has changed my perspective of everything. You have made some big changes, you should be proud of yourself.

    Friendships can be daunting, I have 2 friends but often don’t see either of them for months at a time, to be honest, they maintain the friendships.

    If I had the choice of a friend or another dog, I know which way I would go, Dogperhaps though, see how a friendship might also be a good thing, one of my friends I told all about my autism, the reply was, “ I thought you might be autistic,” he always listens and never judges. He knows if I don’t answer texts, I’m not being rude. I sometimes just need space.

    Soon be spring and brighter evenings. Slight smile

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  • Well done Pegg, you have taken some big steps, personally realising I have been autistic all of my life has changed my perspective of everything

    Thanks Roy Blush  it has been the same for me, a revelation. I wish you all the best with your assessment.

    If I had the choice of a friend or another dog, I know which way I would go

    Yeah! I might go an see the puppies, when they're born. Just to look... No harm in looking, right? Smile

    My close friend who died last year, the anniversary of their death is in a couple of days. It's a hard loss to bear, and hard to think about friendships, as they so rarely happen, for  me.

    Soon be spring and brighter evenings

    I'm watching the light return to the days, it's lovely.