Inspired by Austin Kleon’s 100 Things That Made My Year, here is my annual wrap up, the top 100 highlights of 2024:
- Started a Master’s degree program
- Rood Food & Pie dates with Sarah
- Root and Wingspan game nights with friends
- Watched Johnny’s progress through puppy classes
- The entire NCAA Women’s Basketball season
- Celebrated International Girls and Women in Sports Day
- Courtside games for Cleveland State University Women’s Basketball, Go Vikes!
- Got a fancy new coffee grinder
- Heart of Gold Wednesday specials
- Mic’s On, WISTA USA Great Lakes Midwest Chapter Book Club
- Reminisced about the last 15 years by merging all digital photo accounts
- VIP access to Ball State at Kent State women’s basketball game
- Johnny and Bro Bro, ever so slowly, became friends
- St. Patty’s Day in Pittsburgh
- PWHL match
- NCAA Women’s Basketball March Madness watch parties at Brewnuts
- Celebrated friend’s 40th birthday at Mahall’s
- Brunch date and Tremont tour with Meagan and Maryanne
- New jacket from Cool Water Dry Goods
- NCAA WBB Final Four games
- The total eclipse!
- Weekly sourdough bread baking schedule
- Started listening through 1,000 Records to Hear Before You Die
- Root beer float from Papa’s local root beer stand
- 100 Sheets
- Topo Chicos
- Papa’s passing
- Panther tattoo in Kenmore safety green
- Hike, dinner, and drinks with friends, Kaiti and Chris
- Guice Mann shirts for me and Paco
- Judith brunches and coffees
- FREE PALESTINE
- WISTA USA AGM in San Diego
- Coyote tattoo
- Coffee Coffee Coffee popup at Beet Jar
- Memorial Day weekend in Indian River, MI
- Johnny off leash
- Pride in CLE
- 1 Year Anniversary with Sarah in Little Italy
- Ohio City Farm CSA
- Mason’s Pup Cups with Johnny and Roscoe
- The Archive dried flowers art exhibit at Cleveland Public Library with Meagan
- Lots of puppy play dates
- The entire WNBA season
- Started cooking with Rancho Gordo beans
- Volunteered at Game On, Corner65‘s summer camp
- Making post-masshole progress with pelvic floor PT, Hinge Health, and yoga
- Collage night with Justin Michael Will and Snakes & Acey’s
- 4th of July in Indian River, MI
- Visited mentor/friend in Marquette
- Hiked in the UP
- Johnny swam in Lake Superior
- Boom’s Birthday Pizza
- Pittsburgh Zoo for Sarah’s birthday
- Solo stove nights
- Guardian’s games
- Treadmill walks at standup desk during work
- New fence siding in backyard
- Johnny Mango walks
- The Olympics
- Marblehead friends weekend
- Brown’s Dairy Dock peach sunday
- Kelsey Plum cigar
- Cordelia and rooftop bar nightcap double date with friends
- Dad’s birthday at Pickle Bill’s
- Glass Animals at Blossom
- Zingerman’s road trip pitstops
- Barred owl sighting on Traverse City walk
- Time spent at Sarah’s family’s cottage
- Hike and swim with Johnny at Boyd Banwell
- Xiao long bao making party
- Ukulele concert in community garden
- Showed off Cleveland during In-laws visits
- Phantom Planet 20 year reunion concert at Grog Shop
- WNBA playoffs
- Career Day at the National Museum of the Great Lakes
- Toledo Zoo day
- Getting back on the bike
- Healthy weight loss
- Puerto Rico honeymoon
- Seeing Osto’s work in real life
- Storm cloud tattoo
- 45 days until Christmas party
- Wednesday Waffles
- Early Christmas in Traverse City
- A great haircut
- Our Christmas tree
- The Feast of the Seven Fish on Christmas Eve
- Our own Christmas morning
- Johnny reuniting with his mom and sister
- Ringing in the New Year with friends
- Maxed out all retirement accounts…again!
- new art
- some new hats
- some (ok, a LOT of) new shoes
- good books
- great coffee
- sunrises and sunsets
- lots and lots and lots of walks, hikes, and rucks
- …and so many more things that could be added to the list if it were longer than 100!