Today is a bit of a choose your own adventure: write (paint, draw, photograph, record, etc.) about your best experience this year. If that’s not your cup of joe, write about your worst experience. Feeling chatty? Share both your best and worst moments.

I’ve worked really hard over the past couple of years not to have too many high/low moments. I have a tendency to do rapid mood swings and major drama and I don’t like it. So I’ve been working on keeping myself on an even keel. The best and worst moments in any life tend to be mixed though so some small good things have been bordered by horrible stuff, so lots of the best moments happened when I was looking for work and was trying not to be miserable.

However, best moments have been the holiday in Northumberland (4 castles, 1 ruined priory, top holiday!), spending time with Max and Murphy and finally getting a job (the relief of knowing that I was going to be paying my bills was overwhelmingly good!).

The worst, watching Ben and Lu go through something terrible and not being able to do a thing about it except pray, losing the job at Peabody, having to sign on at the job centre.