Quickie - Annual Review 2025 and a Brief Look Forward

I get knocked down / But I get up again / But I get knocked down again / But I get up again

• Neil Cicierga, Piss

Reflecting once more.

Let's cut to the chase. 2025 fucking sucked for a lot of people. It sucked slightly less for us, but we've still just felt drained for a large part of the year in a way we don't remember doing in previous years - some personal projects falling by the wayside for months as work (and the general state of the world) took up increasingly more of our mental energy.

I can't entirely say it's been a failure in what we set out to do. 2025 was the Year of New Adventures for us. And we've embraced that spirit when we've been able to, learning about new tools, visiting new places, trying new foods, and seeing friends IRL that we've never had chance to before.

But it is also a year that has often left us exhausted. It is a year where a lot of the coping strategies we've built up... just weren't enough, particularly with starting on a big project at work that disrupted a lot of our normal patterns and things we'd otherwise got away with up until this point.

And that's prompted some research. Some reinvention. An increased amount of trying to find what gets