{"id":21568,"date":"2025-12-29T23:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21568"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:32:10","slug":"2025_in_review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/12\/29\/2025_in_review\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 in review"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first year after the divorce<\/a>. That deserves a post of its own, so I’ll leave it at that for now.<\/p>\n

Adrian and Ingrid are here every other week. The move on Sunday evenings is a bit of a hassle for everyone, but in general I think we’ve all settled in well into the new routines.<\/p>\n

The divorce was a trigger to cleaning out stuff in all kinds of corners of the house, from old CDs<\/a> to decades-old phone bills<\/a>. Cleaning out the basement came with bonus infestation of mice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2025 was also my first year at Active Solution, after seven years at tretton37, which imploded spectacularly, ending in a bankruptcy<\/a> last January. Active Solution as employer is as similar to tretton37 as I could find, and I brought Sortera with me as a client, so the change was much smaller than it could have been. Since I don’t actually work with any of my colleagues, it’s taking time for me to get to know them and feel like I’m part of the gang. <\/p>\n

The two company conferences have been most beneficial in that aspect: actually spending time together, talking about coding, getting to know each other. First an amazing trip to Monte Isola in April (day 1<\/a>, day 2<\/a>, day 3<\/a>), and in the autumn a weekend sailing<\/a> to an island in the archipelago<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Other travels included the usual trip to Estonia, which was as it always is: meeting friends and family, having fun. New for this year was my first ever time on a SUP board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In August Ingrid and I had a long weekend in the Stockholm archipelago (day 1<\/a>, day 2<\/a>, day 3<\/a>, day 4<\/a>). The archipelago is almost too close to home – I’ve never spent any significant time there. This was a great introduction and I plan to do more of it in the future.<\/p>\n

During autumn break, Adrian and I went to London. It’s important to me, one of my favourite places in the world, and I have so many memories from there, that I wanted to share it with Adrian. (day 1<\/a>, day 2<\/a>, day 3<\/a>, day 4<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I also did two four-day hikes on the S\u00f6rmlandsleden trail, one from H\u00e4lleforsn\u00e4s to Katrineholm (stages 23 to 27) and the other from Kolm\u00e5rden to Katrineholm (32 to 27). I think I’ve done about half of the entire trail now. Might be done before retirement if I continue at this pace, haha.<\/p>\n

Other hobbies were mostly craftsy. Mostly I knitted a lot, unsurprisingly. The larger projects this year were one orange sweater<\/a>, one red cardigan<\/a>, and one white dress<\/a> (of which I haven’t been able to post a final photo because of my broken laptop). In between there were socks and hats and such, as well as a pair of slippers<\/a> (notable because they were my first intentionally felted item).<\/p>\n

At my embroidery club, the highlights include me finishing the Stockholm scene<\/a> as well as our textile printing workshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I baked more than I’ve ever done before. Bread, karask<\/i>, cakes, buns, Christmas goodies. Eric was always the baker in our house – he was both more interested and (as a result) more experienced. I am not willing to go without all the good stuff so I’ve learned. Cakes are not a challenge – just follow a recipe and you’ll be good. But breads and buns require technique and timing and experience. Mine have all come out OK, most even really good, with one or two notable exceptions<\/a>. I don’t feel confident about my bread-baking skills at all, so every success feels like a major win.<\/p>\n

In the garden, I finished planting the area in the front corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other news, I switched to stronger glasses<\/a> – and should probably upgrade again, I suspect.<\/p>\n

Of the wider world, the one thing worth mentioning is the proliferation of AI everywhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ingrid got her driver’s license and finished gymnasium<\/a> and celebrated it with garden party<\/a>. She’ll be doing military service starting in March and filled in most of the gap with a 4-month paid internship at Transdev.<\/p>\n

Adrian did a week-long work experience “thing” at a pizzeria<\/a> and started his last year of primary school. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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