• finish dopamine menu
• new year's resolutions
• review the year (best books, movies, series and favourite moments)

this year's focus:

• events & experiences = have somethings special planned every weekend! (even if it is small) - see here
• enjoy low-energy hobbies on weekdays (reading, watching tv, playing board games, taking walks, listening to podcasts/music, making lists, researching stuff, working on my website, ...)

— experiences & events

• ✓ go ice skating
• ✓ go swimming
• ✓ go to pride
• ✓ go to the cinema 5 times
• ▨ go to the public library or gaming library 5 times (2/5)
• ✓ go to therme
• ✓ go to a ball or other dancing event (Cosplayball)

in chronological order (more or less)

key:

• * = up to date
• ✓ = completed
• () = only a few episodes / one season of multiple
• ♡ = faves

childhood

• Sandmännchen
• Die Sendung mit der Maus
• Löwenzahn
• Briefe von Felix ✓ ♡
• Winx Club ♡
• Art Attack ♡
• Verliebt in Berlin ✓
• Wissen macht Ah!
• Avatar the last airbender ✓ ♡
• H2O - Just add water ✓ ♡
• (Kim Possible)
• (Blue's Clues)

2024

• Tuntenball (theme: horns & halos)
• queer dancing course
• SUP lake day with my gf
• star gazing with my gf (meteor shower) and discussing our own convention
• full moon night at castle Riegersburg with jousting and sword fights and firework
• 5k City Run with my sis
• pumpkin carving and photoshoot with friends
• ComicCon as Hazbin Hotel characters and getting asked for photos over 30 times
• Rocky Horror Show in Vienna (and the audience participation)
• walking with and talking to one of my best friends for hours (in real life!)

honorable mentions: family day trip to the Motorikpark, FantasyCon, archery course, Cavalluna show with my gf and friend, gf's birthday picnic, Pride, Aurora concer...

2025

• Les Normaux (Janine Janssen)
• The Once and Future Witches (Alix E. Harrow)
• Legends & Lattes (Travis Baldree)
• Schiffbruch mit Tiger (Yann Martel)
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

2024

• Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
• The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich (Deya Muniz)
• Into the Wild (Warrior Cats #1) (Erin Hunter)
• The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
• The Color Purple (Alice Walker)

2023

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Malinda...

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• my gf imitating my toothbrush-speech and me laughing so hard I almost topple over and then both of us having a laughing fit

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• hearing some of the kids in nursery school saying my name for the first time
• having hazbin hotel watchparties at my friend's place and hyping about it together
• sleeping over at my sis' place and seeing Holly's kittens (Itsy, Bitsy, Teenie and Weenie), playing with them and cuddling them - so cute!
• working on my cosplay while listening to the newest hazbin hotel song on repeat
• going to ComicCon again, cosplaying as Vaggie (again) and Zoey from Kpop Demon Hunters and lots of people asking us for pho...

‎ classics

• Siedler von Catan
• Wer ist es?
• Ligretto
• Skip-Bo
• Hanafuda/Koi Koi cards
• Spielkarten (Pride Knights)
• Vier gewinnt
• Quartett (Briefe von Felix)
• Domino mini
• Mühle mini
• 5-in-1 Magnetreisespiele
• Scrabble

reaction/party

• Wanted!
• Tick tack bumm
• Geistesblitz
• Ubongo (mini edition)
• On a Scale from One to T-Rex
• Hokus Pokus Flipibus

♡ = faves

adult

• The House in the Cerulean Sea ♡
• A Man Called Ove ♡
• The Martian
• A Handmaid's Tale
• Dear Doosie (dt./engl.)
• Schiffbruch mit Tiger (dt.)
• Wortschatz 2014/2016 (short stories and poems collection)
• Literaturwettbewerb Feldbach 2018 (short stories collection)
• love (like) us (illustrated poem)
• Glück ist eine Gleichung mit 7
• If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho (poems)
• Liebe ist niemals normal (dt.)

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YA & NA

• Cemetery Boys ♡

~ only movies that I watched for the first time in that year ~

2025

• KPop Demon Hunters
• Conclave
• Thelma & Louise
• Bad Moms
• Wicked - For Good

2024

• Nimona
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Inside Out 2
• Hocus Pocus
• Wicked

2023

• Barbie
• Puss in Boots - The Last Wish
• Wolfwalkers
• Hotel Transylvania

• kiss/hug my girlfriend
• have a long shower
• jump rope
• swing on my swing
• sit in the sun
• hyper-focus on the senses (awareness, being present)
• dance to a high-energy song
• read
• do a breathing exercise
• daydream
• write (just for fun)
• research something interesting and take notes
• make a list
• find a recipe to try
• call my friend
• have a snack and savour it
• stretch/yoga
• do jigsaw puzzle
• quick tidy

~ goal is 30 mins. per week in 30 weeks ~

successful weeks so far (incl. nov): 27

december (?/4)

• (49) ✖
• (50) ✔ - ice skating with gf & sis
• (51) ? do it!!!
• (52) ✖ - (christmas & holidays)
• (52) ? last week come on!!!

november (1/4)

• (45) ✖ - (sleepover with sis)
• (46) ✖ - (working on cosplay)
• (47) ✖ - (ComicCon)
• (48) ✔ - bouldering with gf

october (2/5)

• (40) ✖ - (tired & other plans)
• (41) ✖ - (sick)
• (42) ✖ - (period)
• (43) ✔ - dancing & home workout

~ goal is 3+ times per week ~

november ✖

october

• (40-42) ✖
• (43) ✔ (3 times, 1-3 minutes)
• (44) ✔ (5 times, 3 minutes)

september ✖

august ✖

july ✖

june (1/4)

• (23) ✖
• (24) ✔ (3 times, 5 mins)
• (25) ✖
• (26) ✖

may (2/5)

• (18) ✔ (3 times, 5 mins)
• (19) ✖
• (20) ✔ (3 times, 5 mins)
• (21) ✖

winter delights

• frost crystals are very beautiful
• the first snow of the season is always magical
• it looks cool when you breath out small clouds into the air
• fairy lights and candles everywhere
• advent calenders (a new surprise every day!)
• celebrating christmas! (always a special time)
• Christmas holidays means lots of time with my family
• ice skating is really fun
• no annoying insects around
• sledding and skiing are just really cool and fun and special
• cuddling up with a blanket and a warm drink
• it's the season of cookies and chocolate
• winter sunrises and sunsets are beautiful...

~ only series that I watched for the first time that year ~

2025

• Craig of the Creek
• Anne Shirley
• Helluva Boss
• Frieren - Beyond Journey's End
• The Amazing Digital Circus

2024

• Outlander
• Hazbin Hotel
• Full House
• Bridgerton
• Agatha All Along

2023

• Bluey
• Fleabag
• The Last of Us
• Abbott Elementary