Summary of 2024 and goals for 2025

As the new year approaches I always try to make a summary of my achievements and a plan for the next year. It helps me stay on course and it also helps me realize that despite it often feeling that way, I am moving forward, not standing in place or running in circles.

Sometime around 7-8 months ago my husband fijnally quit his job that he has loathed for years now. There was so much to do and take care of, like looking after the children, selling our car, fixing things at home and putting it up for sale, he ended up never having the time to look for a new one, which made me become the sole breadwinner in my family for 8 months now and going. On top of this, some 4-5 months ago I have finally mustered the courage and will to get back to working on my comic, which I had to ditch ever since my second son has been born, due to obviously lack of time and different priorities. I had to focus on commissions to make up for the income that was no longer coming from my husband and look after my baby at the same time being a nursing mother.

And I did a pretty insane thing and not only I've gotten back to working on the comic, but also I decided to push for completing 1 page every week, which is more than I ever did before. The best I did when working on chapter 1 was 2-3 pages a month.

We have sold our house and baught a new one. Thank goodness my husband stayed on top of everything and he took care of all the legal aspects as well as started packing our things and basically just do everything around the kids and the house (along with my mom who is here to help us too most of the time). I have been basically just working or taking care of the children all the time. No breaks, no vacations, so sick leaves this year either. I might collapse once I try and take a breather.

We are moving currently and we have the deadline of the 10th of January to leave the house. It's pretty intense and stressful but I am positive this will be a great start for 2025 in a new bigger house where I will finally have my own space for my office. My very own room for my stuff where kids are off limits! Yay.

All in all it has been a hyper busy year for me. I have completed over 200 artworks + done tons of sketches. Completed 25 pages of the comic I came back to around 4 months ago. Managed to almost hit 80k followers on Twitter that coincided with everyone fleeting the platform, leaving me utterly demotivated to start anew on a different one... I really don't like social media. I like working with people and drawing stuff. But I can't stress enough how much I despise building a following on social media and the entire concept of these platforms. It's depressing to me and it never made me feel anything positive. It's either anger, sadness or the feelings of being utterly inadequate and alienated. Bluesky doesn't feel any different to me in this regard, sadly.

My sons have grown, my older son is soon finishing kindergarden, so this is huge for me. And in 2025 my younger son will begin kindergarden as my older son goes to school.

I also managed to lose a lot of weight! Somehow... Not really sure how, cause I don't have time to do anything. But I guess I eat less when stressed. But at least I am back to feeling relatively comfortable with my body at the weight of 58 kg (I'm 158cm tall) so that is also an achievement!

Goals for 2025

Now fot he goals for 2025...

• get back to drawing daily sketches (personal stuff: SFW, slice of life, erotic or explicit) and share with you guys. Since I am going to make the comic public, I will post these daily sketches as early access/exclusive content for the Pandamic+ tiers as a replacement for the early access comic reward ❤

• improve on rendering, backgrounds and generally continue to strive to be better in what I do. Make another 200 artworks happen in 2025!

• Continue making at least a page of my comic weekly. I say at least, because I'm insane. I kind of wish I could do 2 weekly... But I don't think this is possible with 2 small children and as long as my husband is jobless.

• try to go on either keto or carnivore diet for at least 4-5 months to restart my metabolism. My homornes are absolutely screwed and I need to eat healthier and getting rid of carbs was the only thing that ever helped me

• moving to our new house and slowly spare funds to decorate it to look cozy and making it a home! I wish my tastes were cheaper, but I always seem to pick the most expensive shit even when I don't look at the prices :D

• finally go for a proper holiday with my family. Like going abroad somewhere, visit a new place and just try to enjoy it.

• go on dates with my husband regularly. We've been so busy this past year we have barely had time to enjoy our mutual company and it sucks so bad.

• baby 3...? I believe I also planned for it last year, but welp. No luck so far.

So here it is! That is a lot of goals actually... But I think I have a clear direction in life and that feels good.

Do you have any new year resolutions? :D Anything you are proud of achieving in 2024 that you want to share? ❤ I'd love to hear of it!

xxx Lana