Happy 2018! New Year, New Word

Happy New Year, readers and friends! We survived 2017 and all it tried to bring us after 2016. You survived New Year's Eve. Take a moment to pat yourself on the back.

Not gonna lie, though, 2016 and 2017 have me feeling like the Black Knight here. I'll bleed on ye, 2018!

This year, I would love for things to quiet down a little so I can do some housekeeping and organizing. It's also gearing up to be a big year for me for other reasons: it's mid-term elections back in the US and my first chance to vote as a Swedish citizen. With any luck, I'll also be starting Stockholm University's Kompletterande Pedagogisk Utbildning program, but I don't want to jinx it. Regardless, 2018 will be a year with a lot going on, and in anticipation of that, the word and concept I chose to steer my life towards in 2018 is:

I don't know how much new exciting stuff will be coming to the ol' Etsy in 2018 as a result. Running an Etsy shop is, like, the opposite of calming. I still have backlog from forever ago to list, but there's a reason it's become a backlog: I have other stuff I need to take care of.

Are you going to choose a word for 2018? I'd love for you to tell me about it in the comments or on Twitter.