Is turning out the way you expected it to? When I say that I guess I mean “doing well and making progress vs. not doing so” in a very general sense. I would say it’s 65-35 expect-didn’t expect ratio for me. I’ve gotten the most important things right yet there are also things I have not yet accomplished which are still nagging at the back of my mind.

Especially for the Holidays, much as I like *being* in new places and visiting. Hate the planning, hate packing, hate getting up early, hate the disruption to my normal routine. I know you might respond “well yeah everybody does” but I’d say I do to the extent where it actually makes me want to just stay home. When I was a kid I always wondered why we rarely took vacations and while some of that was definitely money-related, I think my parents genuinely just didn’t want to go anywhere and I inherited that mindset from them.