Buckley
Well-Known Member
Last year: https://forum.ibiza-spotlight.com/threads/hows-your-year-been-2024.81956/
Moi:
I'll add to my review of my year and edit as when I have time, but highlights/lowlights are:
Highs:
Suprise trip to Morroco to see in the Year, having discovered that our planned hotel in Mexico had gone Fyre-Festival, with refurb not finished and families camping in the lobby.
New main client - great Irish family owned contractor
Trips to Tenerife, Ireland, Ibiza, Mexico, Portugal and Majorca (the latter including a great hike with @stivi )
10 years ago my yearly round-up here: http://forum.ibiza-spotlight.com/threads/hows-your-year-been-2013.69979/ included my son's Autism diagnosis. A decade later, he's my hero, the person I wish the rest of the world was more like. I don't know if he'll ever live independently, I don't know if he'll ever hold down a job, but making life better for everyone you ever meet, just by being you, is worth more than that. I just just have to stay alive for as long as possible to look after him.
My younger boy is a real challenge. High IQ plus ADHD is a tricky path to navigate. He finds academic work piss easy, but is easily distracted and we are reguarly puting out fires with the school*, but I love that kid. For all the behavioural problems his lack of impulse control brings, he's funny, witty and loves us openly with all his heart. *Avid readers may recall last year''s update included him getting turfed out of a very good private school.
The first half of the footy season has been great too. Arsenal flying bar a couple of recent blips and the footy club I run is at it's strongest for a few years. Most importantly the 3rd XI I player manage has 8 current six formers from our old school in the squad, included 2 of my mates' sons, playing alongside their Dads. The re-build starts here! Trust the process!
Lows:
Dad's Parkinsons is really taking hold. Took him for his hospital appointment today and the doctor wouldn't sign for driving licence renewal. For the best but he's gutted.
Getting told to sign a permanent contract or f*** off with main client. (Not really a low - had a nice on holiday in Tenerife with the missus and choice of other assigmnents.
Ibiza trip was great, but slightly saddened that the rave is over for me. Had a night out and the truth was staring me in the face - not for me anymore.
August 11th 2025. Might get the date tattooed on me somewhere. 2 decades of @Louise_Sweeney0012 and then she was gone. Like the darkness at dawn. Some say there will be a second coming. It's the hope that kills you.
How was it for you?
E2A: It's all me, me, me isn't, it, my year's round-up? The world's been more and more of a binfire in recent years and I'm not sure my views on bits of it really matter that much. I'll vote when there's that, but I'm not sure me trapping off about really serious things that I don't have the bandwith to deal with in any active sense is anything other than attention seeking/virtue signalling. I try to be decent to people around me, do my but for my community, hopefully bring up kids who do the same. Don't be a twat, that's my activism.
E2A#2: Been off the booze most of the year again. Had a few in Ibiza, didn't feel too bad after but feel I might have had a better time without. Have one booze-event potentially planned next year, but generally don't miss it
Moi:
I'll add to my review of my year and edit as when I have time, but highlights/lowlights are:
Highs:
Suprise trip to Morroco to see in the Year, having discovered that our planned hotel in Mexico had gone Fyre-Festival, with refurb not finished and families camping in the lobby.
New main client - great Irish family owned contractor
Trips to Tenerife, Ireland, Ibiza, Mexico, Portugal and Majorca (the latter including a great hike with @stivi )
10 years ago my yearly round-up here: http://forum.ibiza-spotlight.com/threads/hows-your-year-been-2013.69979/ included my son's Autism diagnosis. A decade later, he's my hero, the person I wish the rest of the world was more like. I don't know if he'll ever live independently, I don't know if he'll ever hold down a job, but making life better for everyone you ever meet, just by being you, is worth more than that. I just just have to stay alive for as long as possible to look after him.
My younger boy is a real challenge. High IQ plus ADHD is a tricky path to navigate. He finds academic work piss easy, but is easily distracted and we are reguarly puting out fires with the school*, but I love that kid. For all the behavioural problems his lack of impulse control brings, he's funny, witty and loves us openly with all his heart. *Avid readers may recall last year''s update included him getting turfed out of a very good private school.
The first half of the footy season has been great too. Arsenal flying bar a couple of recent blips and the footy club I run is at it's strongest for a few years. Most importantly the 3rd XI I player manage has 8 current six formers from our old school in the squad, included 2 of my mates' sons, playing alongside their Dads. The re-build starts here! Trust the process!
Lows:
Dad's Parkinsons is really taking hold. Took him for his hospital appointment today and the doctor wouldn't sign for driving licence renewal. For the best but he's gutted.
Getting told to sign a permanent contract or f*** off with main client. (Not really a low - had a nice on holiday in Tenerife with the missus and choice of other assigmnents.
Ibiza trip was great, but slightly saddened that the rave is over for me. Had a night out and the truth was staring me in the face - not for me anymore.
August 11th 2025. Might get the date tattooed on me somewhere. 2 decades of @Louise_Sweeney0012 and then she was gone. Like the darkness at dawn. Some say there will be a second coming. It's the hope that kills you.
How was it for you?
E2A: It's all me, me, me isn't, it, my year's round-up? The world's been more and more of a binfire in recent years and I'm not sure my views on bits of it really matter that much. I'll vote when there's that, but I'm not sure me trapping off about really serious things that I don't have the bandwith to deal with in any active sense is anything other than attention seeking/virtue signalling. I try to be decent to people around me, do my but for my community, hopefully bring up kids who do the same. Don't be a twat, that's my activism.
E2A#2: Been off the booze most of the year again. Had a few in Ibiza, didn't feel too bad after but feel I might have had a better time without. Have one booze-event potentially planned next year, but generally don't miss it
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and made a few bucks for the holidays. Routine was the theme and so the year flew by.