In keeping with my annual tradition (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008), this New Year’s Eve I’m reflecting on everything that’s happened this year.
My favorite games of the year were:
By far my favorite visual media of the year was I Saw The TV Glow. I also enjoyed She-Ra, Kevin Can Fuck Himself, Scavengers Reign, and It Follows.
I achieved my Beat Saber goal for the year; I’m now in the top 7000 worldwide!
In February, I went to TX to visit Lyra (my kid), and had a game night with their whole polycule.
In March, I took an online intro to quantum physics course. Here’s my first Feynman diagram (:
p + π+ → Δ++In April, Emma came to visit, and we traded Masterhearts.
In June, a squirrel got into the Love Shack wall and bit/clawed its way out through the drywall! I foamed the shit out of all the places critters could possibly get in, and the Love Shack has since been squirrel-free.
The Squirrels Have Been Sealedhttps://paceheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/the_squirrels_have_been_sealed-1.mp3 In July, I almost got arrested trying to meet up with Kerri while she was doing a motorcycle scavenger hunt. Later, we went on a 4-day romantic getaway to a cabin at the foot of the Cascades (with a hot tub!) and it was absolutely lovely.
In August, I went to Disneyland with Kerri, had an awesome time, and got Covid. I quarantined at her place (she was out of town) to avoid infecting Citadel.
In September, I started looking for a new job. I had planned to go to Florida to see BEAT with Snowcrash and my brother, but it fell through at the last minute.
In October, my new doctor put me on ozempic, which caused some of the worst pain I’ve ever had in my life. I figured out I could avoid it by only drinking 20oz of powerade and eating 1 stack of saltines per day, so I did that for 11 days, and it sucked. It especially sucked that I missed out on Kerri’s 50th birthday extravaganza. I did an escape room for my birthday with Kerri and Kera and Meghan and Aspen, and I had a fabulous birthday party.
In November, I had my first colonoscopy (which I had been procrastinating for 3 years) and they didn’t find anything scary (yay) so I don’t have to do it again for 10 years (yay!)
In December, The divorce was finally finalized. Every divorce comes with a free name change; I am now Pace Muqita Heart. Muqita is my Sufi name, Arabic for “nourish”, and Heart is a variant of a family name. I got unstuck, and released my second album, Catfish Waterslide!
My goal for 2024 was to mindfully and intentionally add awesome people and things to my life, while continuing to say no to everything else. I did a good job of both. My word of the year was PRAMSECTA, and at the beginning of the year I had no earthly idea what that meant. Now… I still don’t, but I think that’s the point. 2024 was a year of limbo, of in between, of not knowing.
But now, my support network, my love life, and my sex life are good enough that I have energy to put toward other things. I intend to put it toward:
My goal for 2025 is to get my life shit togetherer, in a way that’s balanced between my present self and my future self.
My word of the year for 2025 is NOURISH.