I’m not going to do a wrap-up for 2026 this year. Most of you have all already seen it all anyway and I don’t want to bore anyone. Here, though, is how December 2025 panned out.
December wrap-up!
I only worked for half of December, officially, although I did carry on working on the client edit for the first week of our holiday, finishing at 1am on the Saturday morning.
Saying that, I think I did most of the jobs on my list. The only thing that really fell by the wayside was the blog posts for the in-between time.
Having worked solidly for the first week of our holiday around hospital and other appointments, I was shattered and ready for some time off, even if that did work out at only a few hours per day instead of whole days.
We did try to cancel a dog grooming appointment, but Son #2 ran that particular errand for us.
I ran out of both time and energy to meet the 31 December deadline for a short story. However, I think it may come round again next year, so all is not completely lost.
- create graphic for Hello, December ✅
- create graphic for December wrap-up ✅
- tax return ✅
- newsletter ✅
- (week) daily blog post ✅
- client edit x2 ✅
- write Story 12 for 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS ✅
- publish Words Worth Reading: Issue SIX (out in January) ✅
- share Diane’s gig list every Thursday ✅
- dog grooming appointment ❌
- dental appointment ✅
- weekly diary work ✅
- weekly backup ✅
- weekly finance work ✅
- prep 20,000-word story for 31 December call for submissions ❌
- hair appointment ✅
- begin light treatment therapy (dermatology) ✅
- 3 weeks holiday ❌✅✅
- Christmas ✅
- monthly schedule planning for January ✅
- advance finances for January ✅
- update 36-project spreadsheet (week) daily ✅
I wrote 13,339 new words in December and revised 90 pages for a client edit.
We had 5 for dinner on Christmas Day, and 5 again on Boxing Day after a family walk.
How was your December?
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